Delboy Dave Posted 4 April, 2018 Share Posted 4 April, 2018 £50k a week? Really? I mean REALLY?!! £2.6m a year for Jack ****îng Stephens? That is absolutely mental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimatt Posted 4 April, 2018 Share Posted 4 April, 2018 Worst quality imo is he constantly steps out leaving huge holes in behind that are easy to exploit. He could maybe get away with that in a back 3 but not when he has the slower Hoedt beside him. Wouldn't be getting in the side if he wasn't English aka £££ sale value. It's ironic that we have defenders like Stephens that are good on the ball but can't defend and attackers like Long that defend well but can't score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Saint Posted 4 April, 2018 Share Posted 4 April, 2018 And we signed Caceres, played him once and then released him. Tidy enough for Lazio, but surplus to requirements here. Go figure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team-saint Posted 5 April, 2018 Share Posted 5 April, 2018 Last summer a lot of experts on here decided that Stephens was better than Yoshida! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVER THE HILL Posted 5 April, 2018 Share Posted 5 April, 2018 And we signed Caceres, played him once and then released him. Tidy enough for Lazio, but surplus to requirements here. Go figure.... If you ever bothered to watch Lazio you would have seen he plays at right back and he's not that good anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 5 April, 2018 Share Posted 5 April, 2018 Last summer a lot of experts on here decided that Stephens was better than Yoshida! None of our centre backs are good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 5 April, 2018 Share Posted 5 April, 2018 Last summer a lot of experts on here decided that Stephens was better than Yoshida! Who?! He's ****e. He came in and did a half decent job given the situation in the second half of last season, but thats probably because the team only went to the half way line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangelyBrown Posted 5 April, 2018 Share Posted 5 April, 2018 None of our centre backs are good enough.Completely agree with this. None are good enough and yet we have been a defensive side for the last 2 years... It defies all sense Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Saint Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 If you ever bothered to watch Lazio you would have seen he plays at right back and he's not that good anymore. He covers the entire back line, not that we ever got to see it. With 70+ caps for Uruguay, I'd still maintain he'd've been better than what we've currently got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 None of our centre backs are good enough. Given how impotent our front line are, well attack in general, even with an unlimited budget you could fill our back line with the best defenders on the planet and they would still probably struggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Uwe Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 With Cedric presumably on his way this summer, don't be surprised if we end up playing him at RB next season (if he's still here of course!). Could see him doing a job there in future for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simo Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 None of our centre backs are good enough. None of our team have been good enough tbf and the majority of them we know that can be ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 On the topic of right-backs, was going to say 'What's Jason McCarthy up to now?' Only to see he's been moved on to Barnsley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 And we signed Caceres, played him once and then released him. Tidy enough for Lazio, but surplus to requirements here. Go figure.... He has only played once in serie a for Lazio since moving.... He will never get ahead of De Vrij, Radu, Lulic, Bastos etc. Even the youngsters Felipe, Patric and Wallace get games ahead of him. We may have a lot of problems here but Caceres was only signed as a back up and will probably be released at the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVER THE HILL Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 He covers the entire back line, not that we ever got to see it. With 70+ caps for Uruguay, I'd still maintain he'd've been better than what we've currently got Nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IFHP Posted 6 April, 2018 Share Posted 6 April, 2018 Having players like Stephens and Redmond is one of the reasons why we are in the **** - Players in our 1st team who are not premiership quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry12 Posted 7 April, 2018 Share Posted 7 April, 2018 £50k a week? Really? I mean REALLY?!! £2.6m a year for Jack ****îng Stephens? That is absolutely mental Thank Il Duce. I hear that Austin is on £80K and dog knows what Treetrunk is on! And there's H Reed and Plug(Fulham), etc on dog knows what. Does anybody know if there are Rupert Lowe type Relegation clauses in those 2016 contract extension disasters? If not, Saints would be in SERIOUS financial trouble. Les Reed then just goes away without a care in the world. Lovely man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Saint Posted 7 April, 2018 Share Posted 7 April, 2018 Nonsense. Said with overwhelming certainty based on what exactly?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obelisk Posted 8 April, 2018 Share Posted 8 April, 2018 Not very good in the air which is important given where he plays. I think he'd make a decent right back or part of a 3 man centre. He might even do a job in midfield given how much better he is on the floor than the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 8 April, 2018 Share Posted 8 April, 2018 tough job playing centre half in this day and age, but the very first thing you need to be able to do is dominate in the air. He doesn't. All the other facets to his game, such as being decent on the ball, become unimportant if you cant do that basic thing. Get a dominant centre half and you can build from there. Saints have, by and large, put out a decent side with half a chance of winning games when they have had a ball winner like Richards, Svensson, Jahdi, Fonte, Lovren, Toby and VVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 9 May, 2018 Share Posted 9 May, 2018 Shout out for jack tonight. Gets a lot of clog on here, but did a really good job stepping in tonight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyell Posted 9 May, 2018 Share Posted 9 May, 2018 Started very nervously, but definitely did well as the game wore on. I still think he could do Romeu's role and that's a better position for him, but he's a decent footballer all in all. (He's got to stop getting preoccupied with playing the man and letting the ball bounce when it's there to be headed clear, though.) Great interview with him and Adam Blackmore post match - didn't shy away from the team's individual and collective shortcomings over the course of the season. Certainly seemed to care about the club. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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