Obviously we've done all we can to get at least some of their wages off the books and get them out of Ralphs hair, but this is the problem that isn't going to go away any time soon.
Imps will be happy and he'll learn a lot from the excellent Manager there, but I guess that means that he will probably never make here as a first teamer.
Looks as thought all the unwanted players have been sold or loaned - good news all round. Not only will they not stay here and disrupt but some of them will hopefully impress whilst on loan and be candidates for actual sales in the summer. We should also be a saving a decent amount to put toward wages/transfers going forward.
Sad when young players with so much early promise get their careers curtailed by injuries. Hopefully he can stay fit, have a good season for the Imps and reignite his career.
A lot of the huge amount of money that we pulled in through sales has been simply pissed away on relatively expensive tat from abroad. The black box in that period needed rebooting, or maybe just booting!
Although I know fairly little about the Lemina subject, I think it goes a bit deeper than that. Before Ralph appeared on the scene Lemina was already disenchanted with SFC for some reason.
With the greatest respect, he is a professional footballer being paid very handsomely by the club. He should've been giving his all out on the pitch and trying to live up to his considerable transfer fee not going around thinking that he is somehow too good for us (which I don't think he is myself). If he really wanted to impress suitors in the big shop window of the PL he certainly went about it the wrong way.
I think he thought he was joining a team on the up and wasn't hugely up for relegation battles. He also always intended on leaving this Summer.
That's quite possibly true. And of course, he should have been joining a team that was on the up. Instead of which, Saints fell back into survival-in-the-PL mode, when we ought to have been competing with Leicester City.
Being disappointed can hit different people in various ways. Look at Boufal - bought, but not given a real chance to shine. Passionate, skilful, misunderstood? Now back in the fold. Professional footballers can't just turn on their best performances like a tap. They're not plumbers or electricians. The conditions have to favour them. They deliver in the right environment.
People know my opinion of him, I think that he flatters to decieve as a midfielder, he's a bit like the icing without the cake in that he looks good going past a few players but rarely dominates a match through ball winning and passing IMO.
Yes that's my opinion and he has never done anything on the pitch to change it in all his time here, but i'm as open minded as the next person as you well know TSS.
