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Comment | The Good The Bad And The Ugly
at 11:27:48
Agree with much of this apart from some of the squad suggestions.
Right back should remain - can't talk up the need for a squad and then ask one of them to be moved.
Also, Davis is our most consistent player - always willing to run and make space for others. I doubt Lallana will have too many doing that up north.
JWP is also a first team player...
Will be interesting to see if Koeman makes us play with three center backs - would need at least two signings to pull it off, but exciting nonetheless.
All this talk of a tidal wave of signings is dangerous... Too many will destabilize the club (further). this is how I see it.
Adam - Tadic
Lambert - Pelle - although a proven striker is needed and I would like to see one 'massive' buy for this... Someone with PL exp...
Luke - Targett (needs cover, possibly a first teamer to be understudy to)
You rightly pointed out that we had a short squad last season.
New first team Keeper (who can kick - good observation)
New CB to accompany Fonte - who is a good shout for captain along with Spider IMO
Morgan will stay (for now at least), and Lovren will either go or come out and blame his agent. In which case a new top-drawer CB will be needed.
That's possibly 7 new names, although in reality not all of them are automatic first choices.
7 is dangerous already, personally I think RK will sign less and promote a couple of others in addition to Targett... Leaving a bit of dosh for repairs in Jan.
All in all, good, prudent business while making the squad more competitive.
What lies in store for Sharp and Mayuka though... |
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Comment | The Club Is Bigger Than One Man !
at 15:39:51
Montecristo and others, I agree with you here.
Shame, as I normally find The Ugly Inside to be pretty good on many fronts (need an editor though, typos etc in every article!).
Yes, one man doesn't make a club, but the whole reasoning behind him (and Cortese's in the past) leaving is this criminal lack of ambition.
Yes, it is a huge ask to break into the CL, and yes, we can't assume that we could get there and couldn't even put a figure on that.
The point is that we have an exceptional squad of players, many of whom know that, given a couple of seasons will be well capable of playing at the top of the English game and probably chancing it in Europe too. You only need top look at the calibre of clubs chasing OVER HALF OF OUR STARTING 11 to see that we indeed have an unprecedented chance of breaking the establishment of the greatest league in the world...
Now, brick by brick all of the pain and suffering, and the hard work and the rebuilding looks likely to have led us to an inevitable ceiling... That's what hurts the most - 80 odd clubs in the UK alone would kill for the chance we currently have, and we are going to let it pass because we're scared to improve.
While I'm hugely greatful for this run we've been on, and the massive (relative) investment behind it, to be told that we couldn't and shouldn't be pressing on is just too much of a kick in the teeth.
To be happy with mediocrity and never having a chance of winning major trophies kind of makes a mockery of the whole point of competitive sport.
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Comment | Saints Should Not Fear Losing Luke Shaw
at 12:23:08
I agree. Shaw, thought good, is only currently an extremely talented kid. We could replace him with some equally, if not more, competent than him and allow us to grow another one...
Personally, I think we could replace him with someone a bit older who is currently better than Shaw - what we would miss is being able to say: 'this kid WILL be amazing in a few years.
£30m - that would break the world record transfer fee for a fullback - which would actually help our prestige.
The only concern I have is that if he goes, one or two others could start to have their heads turned. Adam Lallana is crucial to our growth, as is Schneiderlin and Lovren. All of these need to stay or we rist stagnating, or worse. |
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Comment | Saints Lack Cutting Edge Says Pochettino
at 12:18:18
Good article, although we have scored goals we have been extremely wasteful and lost more points from winning positions than any other team in the league.
Signings are definitely needed - but most importantly we need to keep what we have.
Imagine if Rickie had been sold to West Ham like we are told he was hours away from? |
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