Reasons for sacking Pellegrino... He still doesn't know his best team. he has changed the team more often than any other club in the PL bar one. he persisted with Redmond on the left, Tadic on the right and Shane up top on his own for too long. he took too long to drop the woefully out of form, Forster. he doesn't know how to exploit the talents of our best Striker he took too long to start Austin, Boufal, JWP and Pierre. he has dropped too many points from winning positions by negative tactics, poor substitutions and poor game management. WE HAVE WON JUST FIVE GAMES ALL SEASON. Edit: we basically have a better squad of players available than that finished 8th last season.
Anyway, the sacking boat has sailed. They do it after Brighton, there will be no bounce. Palace was the game, stick or twist. We stuck, firmly.
We haven't. Club obviously were hoping he will be able to turn things around, but if we lose heavily on Sunday I think he is gone. If he isn't gone by the Brighton game and we lose that, I think we will go down.
That wasnt that bad considering we were newly promoted and had one of the lowest budgets in the league.
Well, that's wasted 15 minutes of my life. At my age I can't afford to do this. So the promised "two by the end of the week" has become that we are about to sign a crap Argentinian and talk about talking to a Dutch lad from Russia (but he's too rich for our tastes). Oh joy. Where's the whisky?
Locadia to Brighton for £14M. Not a bad deal, big and strong with a good eye for a goal... young too...
They did, and it needs to be remembered that the level of Premier League experience in that team was very limited. They looked like they should be relegation fodder. Let's face it, most promoted teams are (didn't champions Reading go straight back down?) and the stats show that they were only 5 points above the relegation zone at the end of the season. I don't recall feeling too worried, even after Arsenal took us apart at their place. Would worry lines have appeared had Adkins stayed on? No-one can say for sure, but given what we have seen Poch do since his time here it was an inspired decision to risk the wrath of the fans. I'm happy to credit Poch with turning Saints into a decent PL team. It's bizarre that this time the board seem reluctant to make a decision that would have us dancing in the streets. Mind you, that decision would involve a) admitting that the managerial swap last summer was a **** up and b) a number finding swords on which to fall.
