| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 08:48 - May 29 with 1446 views | SonicBoom |
Definitely agree we should take all the gossip with a large pinch of salt.
However we do need to see a better strategy than last time. SR right got credit for overseeing our promotion but they also were largely to blame for our relegation through their frankly catastrophic decision making last season.
We all know how hard it's going to be and I think we are realistic enough these days that we don't expect to finish top 6 or sign players for 100 million.
But we would like to see that the club have learned their lessons. To be honest most fans could have told them that signing all those youngsters and players without any premier league experience was a recipe for disaster and we don't have the black box or any technology!
I completely agree that we need a mix of experience, youth and a core of players in their prime. Lallana is an odd one. He is 36 and a bit part player from Brighton. If he was 32 I'd be more enthusiastic but it feels more like a PR exercise that they think will please the fans. Similar to Walcott. He did ok at times but cost an awful lot of money and was supposed to be a role model and help the youngsters, and we still got relegated.
As you say though, it's going to be silly season for the next few months and there is no point us all getting bent out of shape every time we see a fresh rumour as most of them are nonsense. Let's see what happens. |  | |  |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 09:00 - May 29 with 1433 views | saintwizzler |
It’s up to Lallana really.
If the multi millionaire takes the piss and wants stupid money then no.
If he wants to come back to the club that made him and get a foot in the coaching door for a wage that reflects his age, then yes. |  |
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It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 09:01 - May 29 with 1432 views | SaintNick |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 08:48 - May 29 by SonicBoom |
Definitely agree we should take all the gossip with a large pinch of salt.
However we do need to see a better strategy than last time. SR right got credit for overseeing our promotion but they also were largely to blame for our relegation through their frankly catastrophic decision making last season.
We all know how hard it's going to be and I think we are realistic enough these days that we don't expect to finish top 6 or sign players for 100 million.
But we would like to see that the club have learned their lessons. To be honest most fans could have told them that signing all those youngsters and players without any premier league experience was a recipe for disaster and we don't have the black box or any technology!
I completely agree that we need a mix of experience, youth and a core of players in their prime. Lallana is an odd one. He is 36 and a bit part player from Brighton. If he was 32 I'd be more enthusiastic but it feels more like a PR exercise that they think will please the fans. Similar to Walcott. He did ok at times but cost an awful lot of money and was supposed to be a role model and help the youngsters, and we still got relegated.
As you say though, it's going to be silly season for the next few months and there is no point us all getting bent out of shape every time we see a fresh rumour as most of them are nonsense. Let's see what happens. |
Sport Republic got the decisions wrong in terms of managers and it is an easy claim to say that signing all these youngsters cost us dearly, but the truth was that the likes of Lavia, Alcaraz and to a lesser degree Bella Kotchap did well, it was the so called experienced signings that let us down.
Joe Aribo, Caleta Car, Orsic, Bree, Onauchu, Maitland Niles were not successes as we had all hoped, add to that the number of senior players already at the club who were poor and the issue was not that we signed youngsters, but we our experienced players fell apart |  |
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:17 - May 29 with 1359 views | MytchettSaint |
That Rasmus fella, whatever happened to him? |  |
| Sports Republic; owned by idiots, run by idiots. |
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:25 - May 29 with 1348 views | PatfromPoole |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 09:01 - May 29 by SaintNick |
Sport Republic got the decisions wrong in terms of managers and it is an easy claim to say that signing all these youngsters cost us dearly, but the truth was that the likes of Lavia, Alcaraz and to a lesser degree Bella Kotchap did well, it was the so called experienced signings that let us down.
Joe Aribo, Caleta Car, Orsic, Bree, Onauchu, Maitland Niles were not successes as we had all hoped, add to that the number of senior players already at the club who were poor and the issue was not that we signed youngsters, but we our experienced players fell apart |
Was Bella Kotchap more of a success than Aribo?
Not sure there would be much clamour for Bella Kotchap to return, in truth. |  |
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:48 - May 29 with 1315 views | SaintNick |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:25 - May 29 by PatfromPoole |
Was Bella Kotchap more of a success than Aribo?
Not sure there would be much clamour for Bella Kotchap to return, in truth. |
Im not either, but he has the ability, sometimes players don't make instant impacts, but then come good as things progress.
That could be said about several players Larios, Edozie even Bazunu, they all have ability but not yet flourished | |
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:55 - May 29 with 1288 views | Butty101 |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 10:48 - May 29 by SaintNick |
Im not either, but he has the ability, sometimes players don't make instant impacts, but then come good as things progress.
That could be said about several players Larios, Edozie even Bazunu, they all have ability but not yet flourished |
Bella Kotcha is made of glass. His loan has been a disaster. He played 4 games for PSV then got bombed out to their 2md team where he played 3 games.
Most of the experience came in the winter window when we were already in trouble. I still think had we had a decent experienced keeper we would have stayed up. As i remember there were plenty of options that summer.
about 40mill wasted on Mara, Baz Larios (is he any good never seen him play in 2 years?) , Charles and Edozie are not good enough for the champoinship. Bar Larios all of had a lot of chances and need shipping [Post edited 29 May 2024 10:58]
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| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 14:21 - May 29 with 1171 views | SFC_Referee |
| Saints Can Now Start Planning Their Transfer Strategy For The Premier League on 09:01 - May 29 by SaintNick |
Sport Republic got the decisions wrong in terms of managers and it is an easy claim to say that signing all these youngsters cost us dearly, but the truth was that the likes of Lavia, Alcaraz and to a lesser degree Bella Kotchap did well, it was the so called experienced signings that let us down.
Joe Aribo, Caleta Car, Orsic, Bree, Onauchu, Maitland Niles were not successes as we had all hoped, add to that the number of senior players already at the club who were poor and the issue was not that we signed youngsters, but we our experienced players fell apart |
Ok but there have also been many young players we’ve signed that we’re also rubbish, such as Mara, Holgate, Maitkand-Niles and even the likes of Charles and Edozie, as they’ve all been pretty poor as well.
As really just a majority of our signings in general have been poor, both the young and the old. |  |
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