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You have been given the green-light to bring in one more player obviously keep the signing realistic who would you add? Me Personally I would go for Charlie Austin Reasons: more firepower up top has a record of scoring in the Prem and takes the pressure off Pelle..... Who would you boys buy?

1) Relocate Stadium to Fords Factory Site. Including complex of hotel, pubs, restaurants including the Saints Arms or something. 2) Revert Away kit to Yellow and Blue 3) Inside fan waiting areas during half time have some form of entertainment? i.e Saints museum tv's showing highlights of classic games, Consoles with FIFA 4) Friendly against Pompey every pre season

Should of kept the intensity of the United 1st half. Should of buried them first half.

Bunch of wet tarts on here! at least give the new boys time to adjust / bed in. 1st half performance against United was fantastic, we played them off the field if our finishing was a bit more clinical could of easily of been 4-0 before the half time oranges came out. I think we will be fine this season, I also belive Juanmi will do a good job for us in good time probably just needs time to adjust / pick up the lingo. Also looking at the bigger picture throw bertrand and clasie into the mix happy days. Jan transfer market or next season, Sam Byram, Mowatt, Dennis Praet, Witsel, Vilhena, Charlie Austin We can dream

I'd keep him as a impact sub / play cup games and tell him to work on finishing

I think the Koeman way is to play defensibly sound football after all take Liverpool for instance you can have all the attacking talent in the world and throw the cheque book at numerous carlos kick a balls however what is the point if your back four is weaker than a granny doing dead-lifts...... Take a look at the last few games with Southampton and you will see what I mean after leaking quite a few goals early season you can see that Koeman is trying to build the spine at the back after the loss of Toby, Clyne and Morgan. The attacking part will gradually get better but you can see that the mans main focus is to stop us shipping to many goals. Possession football is nice however you can chain as many passes together as you want but what is the point if you lack the capabilities to whack the ball in the back of the net? that's the problem opposition teams will sit-back wait for the sloppy pass and get you on the counter.... I think we need to take more risks, shoot more / test the keeper more, stop relying on hoofing the ball up to Pelle and actually get somebody who is willing to take players on and can finish. Currently maybe this is a Dutch philosophy or way of playing same as United, we tend to play neat tidy / intricate football which is not the most exciting to watch. Recently though I have noticed that Koeman is lacking urgency and isn't willing to change things and is reluctant to go for the jugular and play for a win. Take west Brom now I am not a football manager and won't claim to be however 2nd half 60 minutes are approaching I would of shook things up and threw on Long, Mane and Jumanji and would of played with 2 up top and went for the kill...

I think the Koeman way is to play defensibly sound football after all take Liverpool for instance you can have all the attacking talent in the world and throw the cheque book at numerous carlos kick a balls however what is the point if your back four is weaker than a granny doing dead-lifts...... Take a look at the last few games with Southampton and you will see what I mean after leaking quite a few goals early season you can see that Koeman is trying to build the spine at the back after the loss of Toby, Clyne and Morgan. The attacking part will gradually get better but you can see that the mans main focus is to stop us shipping to many goals. Possession football is nice however you can chain as many passes together as you want but what is the point if you lack the capabilities to whack the ball in the back of the net? that's the problem opposition teams will sit-back wait for the sloppy pass and get you on the counter.... I think we need to take more risks, shoot more / test the keeper more, stop relying on hoofing the ball up to Pelle and actually get somebody who is willing to take players on and can finish.

Why are managers scared to take risks though? what I mean by this come 60 minutes of the 2nd half after witnessing the stalemate I would of chucked on Juanmi and Long and Ramirez, Surely management would notice how ineffective our attacking / potentially they could of livened it up a bit unleashed a different approach maybe have Rodriguez play up top with Pelle. Just doesn't seem to be any urgency like we are happy to sit back and accept boring performances......

Thought we were solid at the back, Thought we were slow at moving the ball around in midfield and massively lacked creativity. Going to chuck this one out there but having somebody like Gaston Ramirez on the bench would of been a good option to bring on 60 minute mark for someone like Davis. I don't understand why Ramirez isn't getting a run out the frustrating thing is he is capable of producing a killer ball and unlocking the opposition. I feel that upfront Pelle is often to isolated.

He really needs to work on finishing, from what I saw at West Brom it was dreadful.....

Prowse your not playing american football jesus

Get Juanmi and Mane on now!

anyone got one? thanks

couldn't give two s**ts to be honest cross that bridge when we come to it.......

Going off topic here but I don't understand why we didn't go in for Nathan Dyer on loan, decent pace, scores the old goal ex saints.......

Why live in the past? the man threw his toys out the pram acted like bobby big balls when he was called up to England and what has he done since? apart from appear in Nivea adverts.... Can't stand the blokes ego personally we march on without him!

Dennis Praet decent attacking mid

why 23 pages on this thread just sell the p**k already and get somebody else in! we march on!

Should be given a run out has the ability to play killer balls

Anybody got a stream for today?

Mane and Wanyama will both be off next season if not sooner! people need to realize this. Put yourself in there shoes your witnessing decent players leaving for bigger clubs playing alongside better players and the ultimate pull of triple your wages it's a no brainer! The questions I would ask this board: The thing that has annoyed me a bit this season is we are bringing in a decent amount of income through player sales but have chosen to replace players like Clyne with cheap alternatives why the hell have we signed this cuco lad? Why have we signed juanmi? if we are not even going to give him a run out? Why do we continue to field Ward-Prowse / Davis you win matches by goals when was the last time these two hit the back off the net? Why are we playing this long ball hoof it up front to Pelle nonsense? it's obviously we need another striker! we rely on him far to much didn't we realize this last season? As a team we are massively lacking creativity at the moment, We have a player capable of adding a killer ball, now a few of you may shoot me down for this, but I think he should be given a few games that player is Gaston Ramirez. He is capable of moments of magic however nobody seems to give the man a decent run out? Can't we put Seager up top for a cup game? see how he performs?

£25 Million let him go! whats the point in hanging on to a player who does not want to be here? he obviously is going to continue to throw toys out of the pram / put in half baked performances. Get him out and get somebody in who wants to play. Put in a bid for that Lars Bender lad!

Heavily rumored it's going to be Ethel she has alot of experience and knows how to handle the balls

That's our style of play, lump it up top and hope for the best........

It's simple we have no ambition, We need to stop selling quality stop letting players dictate that they want to leave! need to take a much more firm stance! ok so you do not want to play for Saints go and train with the under 21's!!! and lastly stop replacing quality with cheap dross! Start realizing players like Ward Prowse are Toilet! get some players capable of hitting the back of the net once in a while, When was the last time Prowse / Davis scored when dinosaurs roamed the planet? Get a decent striker! £15 - £20 million we have the money! get it done