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How will Salisu’s debut go?  

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  1. 1. How will Salisu’s debut go?

    • Clean sheet
      21
    • Concedes penalty
      16
    • Scores the winner
      8
    • Own goal
      6
    • Hat trick
      5
    • Injured in the warm up
      16
    • Subbed off after 20 minutes, Dia style
      6
    • Sent off
      8
    • Another own goal
      4
    • False teeth fall out screaming for a handball against Patricio
      5
    • Meteorite hits Shropshire. Match abandoned
      12

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John Boy Saint

John Boy Saint

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11 minutes ago, trousers said:

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Was that him thumbing for a lift outside Staplewood?

Pilchards you buffoon! No wonder he was looking pissed off if you just ignored his international "give us a lift mush" signal...........I don't know ;-)

Pilchards

Pilchards

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Posted
17 minutes ago, John Boy Saint said:

Was that him thumbing for a lift outside Staplewood?

Pilchards you buffoon! No wonder he was looking pissed off if you just ignored his international "give us a lift mush" signal...........I don't know 😉

He had his brown face mask on so I should of asked him to pop into my passenger seat.

SaveloyMush

SaveloyMush

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Pilchards said:

He’s a big fucker, was waiting outside staplewood for his lift this afternoon.

Looked fed up so maybe he’s been sent home early :)

Yes, he looks a proper unit.

Will get bigger as he ages too.

Badger

Badger

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Posted
On 08/09/2020 at 18:02, Matthew Le God said:

First footage of him training with Saints...

 

Looks like Kelvin's in charge of cones and Dave Watson collecting balls this season.

Badger

Badger

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, SaveloyMush said:

Yes, he looks a proper unit.

Will get bigger as he ages too.

Providing we sell him before he reaches Neil Ruddock proportions that's fine.

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trousers

trousers

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, LeG said:

Yes it is. The injuries that he had we signed him are seemingly not as bad as we first thought. He will need time to get up to speed though. He also came out of his quarantine a lot later than was reported. 

Cheers @LeG. Really appreciate your insights 👍

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

Posted
Posted
14 hours ago, LeG said:

Yes it is. The injuries that he had we signed him are seemingly not as bad as we first thought. He will need time to get up to speed though. He also came out of his quarantine a lot later than was reported. 

I was told October. Would you agree with that?

Toadhall Saint

Toadhall Saint

Posted
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34 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

hmm he doesn't look too great in the video snippets seen so far. Don't think he is EPL material. Ship him out on loan get someone proven in.

And that is based on 30 seconds? Really?

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JibMcdo

JibMcdo

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26 minutes ago, Toadhall Saint said:

And that is based on 30 seconds? Really?

Incredible that you can’t see he’s being sarcastic. Almost worrying in fact.

WALK DMC

WALK DMC

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Posted
2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Just getting in early before everyone else after his first 45mins.

Some of us got in several months ago to write him off .....  I posted this video when we were first linked with him .....

The 2nd goal conceded was bad, but goals 3 & 4 are awful. Bring back Vestergaard ....  (ps only joking, I'm sure that it was just an off day !) 

 

Giuseppe9!

Giuseppe9!

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Posted

https://theathletic.com/2049395/2020/09/08/explained-left-foot-centre-back-ake-laporte?source=user-shared-article

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Southampton are one such club that won’t be worrying about a lack of balance at the back.

Although they’re hardly a possession-heavy team, their signing of 21-year-old Mohammed Salisu for £10.9 million from Real Valladolid could be quite the coup.

Given how much teams value “Premier League experience”, there’s a very good chance you will see Southampton’s new left-footed centre-back linked with all manner of top teams if he starts regularly for them and accrues good minutes.

That’s a sentiment shared by those within the game too, with one data scout at a European club noting, “Come the end of the season, if he’s got 2,000 minutes in the league, he’s a £20 million player minimum, likely verging on £25 million-£30 million.”

 Interesting bit on Salisu and the importance of left-footed cb in the athletic 

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CamSaint

CamSaint

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Posted

Someone - @LeG or maybe @Dan Sheldon - said that, given his injury (unspecified), he could be available mid-October - so probably after the next international break, if selected. Didn't see any signs of him in this week's training pics.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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14 minutes ago, CamSaint said:

Someone - @LeG or maybe @Dan Sheldon - said that, given his injury (unspecified), he could be available mid-October - so probably after the next international break, if selected. Didn't see any signs of him in this week's training pics.

I said it. 

SuperSAINT

SuperSAINT

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19 minutes ago, CamSaint said:

Someone - @LeG or maybe @Dan Sheldon - said that, given his injury (unspecified), he could be available mid-October - so probably after the next international break, if selected. Didn't see any signs of him in this week's training pics.

Pretty sure he was in the training pics.

Convict Colony

Convict Colony

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Posted

Have to say a couple of things.

A)Is the getting up to speed fitness based or tactical, if its fitness then ok and also after last display not super urgent to rush him.

B)If its tactical what is the point of the iBook, surely he could of been reading that in his down time to get up to speed (like an american football playbook)

C)How hard is our system to understand if it takes over a month to learn it, will Diallo be playing before November ? will we start to buy players in Jan to be ready for pre-season ?

Chez

Chez

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Posted
On 02/10/2020 at 13:51, SuperSAINT said:

 

 

has he been ill? I don't see any other reason why he wouldn't have got back to full fitness by now. 

Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chez said:

has he been ill? I don't see any other reason why he wouldn't have got back to full fitness by now. 

He has been in training for weeks, as shown by appearing in multiple training photo galleries and videos. What takes time is getting used to a new system, it is a risk to drop a new centre back straight into a team. Less risky with wingers/strikers.

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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20 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

He has been in training for weeks, as shown by appearing in multiple training photo galleries and videos. What takes time is getting used to a new system, it is a risk to drop a new centre back straight into a team. Less risky with wingers/strikers.

Ruben Dias didn't do to badly yesterday. And Gabriel Magalhaes has settled straight in.

Llorente (Leeds new CB) straight onto the bench. 

We've obviously signed Salisu with an injury, which kind of explains LeGod's comments a few weeks back. (We may be forced back into the market for another etc)

Why our club is so secretive though is beyond me, absolutely does my head in.

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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Posted (edited)

I said when we got him that it would be mid October probably after the break. He's had some injury issues which is why we got him for the price we did but it isn't as bad as was initially feared. It takes a while to get up to speed with things. 

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Turkish

Turkish

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3 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I said when we got him that it would be mid October probably after the break. He's had some injury issues which is why we got him for the price we did but it isn't as bad as was initially feared. It takes a while to get up to speed with things. 

I thought we got him for the price we did as that was his release clause.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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1 minute ago, Turkish said:

I thought we got him for the price we did as that was his release clause.

TBF you may be right. The fact he came to us though and not a higher profile club is due to the aforementioned issues. 

Toadhall Saint

Toadhall Saint

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6 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I said when we got him that it would be mid October probably after the break. He's had some injury issues which is why we got him for the price we did but it isn't as bad as was initially feared. It takes a while to get up to speed with things. 

He wasn’t  picked for the internationals as was told that he wouldn’t be ready until the timescales you mention. I’m more than happy to give him the time esp as he is not the most experienced of CB’s.

saint97

saint97

Posted
Posted

Ralph said about a month ago he'd be in the side after the October international break. 

No point chucking him in before he's not ready 

 

Chez

Chez

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35 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

He has been in training for weeks, as shown by appearing in multiple training photo galleries and videos. What takes time is getting used to a new system, it is a risk to drop a new centre back straight into a team. Less risky with wingers/strikers.

he's been training for weeks? I didn't know that. How long does it take a CB to learn the `system'? 

Chez

Chez

Posted
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18 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

TBF you may be right. The fact he came to us though and not a higher profile club is due to the aforementioned issues. 

or that higher profile clubs didn't rate him as much as we do.

Turkish

Turkish

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Chez said:

he's been training for weeks? I didn't know that. How long does it take a CB to learn the `system'? 

Seemingly Quite a while as none of our current ones have worked it out yet.

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Chez

Chez

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Seemingly Quite a while as none of our current ones have worked it out yet.

Very good.

VVD played 11 days after we signed him. Was he just a quick learner?

Good players are selected whether they have the intricacies of a system down or not.

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SuperSAINT

SuperSAINT

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51 minutes ago, trousers said:

Is that Salisu that flashed by in today's Theo training footage? Match ready...?

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It is.  Lots more pics in the training gallery:

 

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saint1977

saint1977

Posted
Posted

Bizarre that not in the bench at least today. Something not right - Forren Mk2? But has faced Messi, Dracula, Hazard and co last season. This is getting like Clyne not playing for Liverpool which was also mysterious. Media - do your job and start asking SFC some searching and persistent Qs. With a poverty owner, spending £11m on someone who can’t get past Bednarek today wasn’t a good use of funds at all.

The Cat

The Cat

Posted
Posted

Ralph said yesterday that he's 1-2 weeks away from playing. It was linked on here somewhere.

Clyne disappearing for Liverpool isn't mysterious, I thought was pretty common knowledge why he wasn't playing.

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trousers

trousers

Posted
Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, The Cat said:

Ralph said yesterday that he's 1-2 weeks away from playing. 

Ralph also said a while back that Salisu would be available after the first international break (ok, so that could have meant weeks/months after said break, but the implication was that he would be in contention by now)

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SuperSAINT

SuperSAINT

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, LeG said:

Calm down everyone. Its best to not speculate. Close the thread and move on. He will be back soon enough. A tough time to be Salisu. 

Not the comment to stop speculation :) 

S-Clarke

S-Clarke

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, LeG said:

Calm down everyone. Its best to not speculate. Close the thread and move on. He will be back soon enough. A tough time to be Salisu. 

All that's going to do is add to the speculation.

trousers

trousers

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Posted
3 hours ago, LeG said:

Calm down everyone. Its best to not speculate. Close the thread and move on. He will be back soon enough. A tough time to be Salisu. 

Why is it "best not to speculate"? Such a comment only leads to... erm... Speculation 

And why is it a "tough time" for him? Again, all you're doing is fueling the speculation rather than quelling it...

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