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davecg69 said:
I’m worried, though ...... what if Liverhampton come in with a big offer for James in the summer and offer to treble his wages? How could we get him to stay? PEH too, if he gets on their radar.

Similar with Valery, Sims and possibly Obafemi in the next couple of years.

We need to be able to somehow limit the asset stripping of these clubs ......
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It’s never happened before. Why would it happen now? <whistle><whistle>
 
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davecg69 said:
I’m worried, though ...... what if Liverhampton come in with a big offer for James in the summer and offer to treble his wages? How could we get him to stay? PEH too, if he gets on their radar.

Similar with Valery, Sims and possibly Obafemi in the next couple of years.

We need to be able to somehow limit the asset stripping of these clubs ......
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Meh ... it's part of who we are. We're never going to keep them, my advice is to simply accept it, and move forward.
 
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SaintJabie said:
McQueen is injured. I think he deserves a genuine chance once he's back.

Highlights are:

* We have a decent manager who is getting the best out of a team that lacks a proven goal-scorer.
* Our manager isn't afraid to change the team around if things aren't working (See Tottenham game.)
* Our football is often entertaining even when we lose (See Man U game)
* Academy players finally getting a chance.
* Our fate is in our hands, and our run-in is better than our relegation rivals.
* James Ward Prowse is developing into the player we always hoped he'd become.
* Yan Vallery turning out to be a revelation.
* Hoedt is no longer in our defence.
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Maybe this is a controversial view, but I am not convinced yet that Valery has been a 'revelation'.

For me he's been a reasonably solid 6/10 player most games he's played; generally good defensive positions, gets into good attacking positions but then often looks ponderous on the ball, unsure whether to take the defender on or cut back and ends up often stopping completely.

A wonder goal and a mis-hit aside, I've not seen anything more from him than e.g. Targett did on the left.
 
davecg69 said:
I’m worried, though ...... what if Liverhampton come in with a big offer for James in the summer and offer to treble his wages? How could we get him to stay? PEH too, if he gets on their radar.

Similar with Valery, Sims and possibly Obafemi in the next couple of years.

We need to be able to somehow limit the asset stripping of these clubs ......
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Could just say no?

We won't but we could.
 
SaintinNZ said:
Far more optimistic than at any point since Koeman moved on. I'd expect to see us comfortably midtable next season based purely on the results Ralph has achieved with this current squad.

However - the squad is still rubbish and Ralph deserves better. Our recruitment needs to improves DRAMATICALLY before we can feel safe moving forward. The club needs to back Ralph and give him the players he needs if they want to hold onto him. We need to dump a bunch of regular first team players - Long, Austin, MoEl, Stephens, even Yoshida and probably Lemina will go IMO. There is a list of juniors who can't possibly all make it plus Cedric, Hoedt, Reed, Clasie, Boufal, McQueen and Carillo need to be moved on or re-integrated depending on what Ralph wants to do with them. Thats around 15 players, just writing that out re-inforced the scale of the rebuild we are currently undergoing. Its massive but it needs to happen sooner rather than later. Ralph is too promising to have him scraping by with ad hoc temporary squads and that lot has to be worth 100m+.

The highlights for me has been the resurgence of youth and a return to exciting football. To feel like I actually want to watch us play. Its just brilliant again and sad to think the opposite has been true for the best part of two years.
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For the players you have listed? How do you move players on who are big contracts and do not want to be sliding down the leagues. That is a conundrum. Lemina Will go rather cheaply, maybe to a lower La Liga side. Carillo and Boufal likewise. You will be lucky to get a combined 5 million for that trio as La Liga sides will buy on their terms, or maybe do another cheap loan.
 
The Ides of March said:
For the players you have listed? How do you move players on who are big contracts and do not want to be sliding down the leagues. That is a conundrum. Lemina Will go rather cheaply, maybe to a lower La Liga side. Carillo and Boufal likewise. You will be lucky to get a combined 5 million for that trio as La Liga sides will buy on their terms, or maybe do another cheap loan.
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I swear you live in about 1998 in your transfer fees Ides.

We paid about £50m for that lot.
 
Wasn't there some other guy in between MP and Ralph? Or are we just pretending that didn't happen now.
 
I’m pretty confident if we stay up, we won’t lose any players Ralph wants to keep.
He may cash in on Lemina, but everyone else has not done enough to earn a too good to turn down offer.

I have a feeling a lot of players may well stay until Ralph goes.
Then we may see a Pochettino style exodus when he does - something to look forward too.
 
Paddy Podped said:
Maybe this is a controversial view, but I am not convinced yet that Valery has been a 'revelation'.

For me he's been a reasonably solid 6/10 player most games he's played; generally good defensive positions, gets into good attacking positions but then often looks ponderous on the ball, unsure whether to take the defender on or cut back and ends up often stopping completely.

A wonder goal and a mis-hit aside, I've not seen anything more from him than e.g. Targett did on the left.
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Nope. Same as my view. He does however have alot of potential and will progress alot i think
 
We’ll never be a solid premier league team if we don’t build an infrastructure with new recruitment and scouting staff and a director of football.

Having our status in the balance of “Will Ralph stay?” is flawed as he won’t stay forever, and instead we need to have staff in place who can oversee the selling of players for the highest prices (and only when we want to), replacing them with the best talent we can get, and to implement a style and culture in the club that is beyond one manager.
 
Piri Weepu said:
We’ll never be a solid premier league team if we don’t build an infrastructure with new recruitment and scouting staff and a director of football.

Having our status in the balance of “Will Ralph stay?” is flawed as he won’t stay forever, and instead we need to have staff in place who can oversee the selling of players for the highest prices (and only when we want to), replacing them with the best talent we can get, and to implement a style and culture in the club that is beyond one manager.
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If only we could find another Paul Mitchell....
 
Saints_Alive said:
I fully agree that we have to sort the wheat from the chaff and streamline the overall squad to become more cash efficient but only Maya and Chaz from the players you listed started the last match (I expect Danny to be back in for Chaz against Brighton).

BTW I think that Maya is a perfectly adequate squad back up and Shane has qualities that are useful at certain times during a match and the season.

Would like to see Boufal given another chance next season too.
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I agree, I love Maya and I think he's been a big part of our stability. I should have said I don't want to see him go or Lemina, but I think there's a strong possibility they will.
 
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