Nothing like moaning about SR "doing their normal clever thing" when we're signing Azaz today either...
And likewise you could have SR put Ali Dia back in the team and you’d have your usuals saying “he just needs to be given time”. I’m happy with the potential signing of Azaz, this guy I don’t know too much about beyond basic stats you can find online which don’t scream bargain, but hopefully it signifies a turning point in our usual godawful recruitment which we really need. You cannot blame fans of this club to be pessimistic about incoming transfers with our transfer record, they’ve given us excellent reason to doubt.
I am not wedded to this one. Azaz looks fantastic. This guy seems ok, but there are definitely wingers out there I would prefer!
I think people forget at times, that we are not a world class team, so the likelihood of us signing a world class player (or even a player that can perform well in the Premier League as some posters seem to expect) is slim. If we can get a winger that puts an attackable cross in 60% of the time and has ability/belief to take his player on, we will have done well.
That is very much the impression I get from lots of posts across various saints message boards we didn’t even have a significant pull or (especially) retention power back then
We haven’t had any pull since Koeman left. It was down to him that we recruited the likes of Mané, Pellè, Tadic, and VVD.
Not sure if already been said but their manager said in a press conference that he hasn’t been involved as he’s definitely leaving
Serious question, when was our last decent signing as a player vs Lavia e.g investment. I am struggling.
We're a Championship team. We're a big (ish) fish in a small pond at this moment in time. We're still doing similar to what we did during our most successful time i.e. buying young players from big teams, developing them, and selling them if our valuations are met etc. Not every one of our signings under Cortese/Reed were a hit. That's football.
All im saying is our recruitment as a whole has been utter **** the last many seasons. Please like look through the list of our transfers and see how many successes compared to failures we have. I didn’t realise I was saying anything controversial, it seemed pretty unanimous that our recruitment has been pretty shoddy, I mean we are the second worst PL team ever. You’re acting like just because I’m saying our recruitment is poor I’m acting like we are in a Europa League spot and are too privileged, as if there is absolutely no middle ground between those two options. I would have liked us to not have so many complete duds for transfers? Is that so harsh considering our form the last few years? No not every signing under Cortese was a hit but how the hell does that defend the consistently awful transfers of the last 5 years or so?
