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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by SaintsForTheWin, May 9, 2018.

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  1. I Sorry I Ruined The Party

    I Sorry I Ruined The Party Well-Known Member

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    JWP is worth way more than 10m. However, if we needed the 10m to bring in the attacking target we need and that's the offer we have out there, then I'd sell him.

    We brought in Armstrong to play AMC. If he is hurt, we still have Davis, Romeu, Hojbjerg, and Lemina. You could probably play Redmond or Gabbiadini in a more withdrawn striker-ish/AMC role. I'm not saying I would prefer those options to JWP, just that they are half-decent options.

    In the meantime, there's no place for JWP to play. You could play him on the right, but would you honestly rather have JWP played on the right, or a real right winger?

    I don't want to see JWP go, but a season of him getting 15 games isn't helping him or us. If that's how it's going to be, it would be better for both sides if he leaves.
     
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  2. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    I want to know when our new ****ing striker will be unveiled.
     
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  3. Brixham Saint

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    January 2019
     
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  4. SaintinNZ

    SaintinNZ Well-Known Member

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    JWP stepped up big time for us in the relegation scrap when some of our 'big' players were nowhere to be seen. He and Stephens.
     
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  5. Saints Fan4Life

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    to be sold Summer 2019
     
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  6. ihatemyselfandwanttodie

    ihatemyselfandwanttodie Well-Known Member

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    Loaned summer 19.
     
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  7. saintrichie123

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    They said no :(

     
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    More like...............

    Yay we bid some monies! :)
     
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  9. Libby

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    Who?
     
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  10. Libby

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    So did Tadic and we sold him.
     
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  11. Libby

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    I'm happy for him to keep doing what he's doing until he either forces his way in or we go down.
     
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  12. Saintmagic

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    Centre mid, like a box to box type. Obviously our biggest position of need
     
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  13. Libby

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    Prowsey replacement then?
     
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  14. Saintmagic

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    Probably, he is off to Watford for £10m afterall.

    Then Drinkwater in on loan to replace Lemina
     
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  15. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Except that there is, literally, no other player in our squad who can deliver a set-piece ball half as well as JWP can. If he did nothing else that would justify his inclusion in the side, but his overall game last season was getting to be an important factor as well. The consensus on this forum was that our play improved considerably when he came on against BMG, so I would argue that letting him go would be a catastrophic, criminal piece of blundering ineptitude.

    I disagree with your post more than simple words on a page can express.
     
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  16. Saintmagic

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    Well what if we look at it a different (probably hugely hypothetical) way. If we have no money and the only way to get that creative mid/striker that most people seem to want is to sell, would you sell JWP if we would invest the money in that player? There are less than 2 days left of the window and IF we do have to sell to buy it doesn't seem like we have lots of teams queuing up for any of our other players.
     
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  17. SaintinNZ

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    I sometimes think we have seperate recruitment departments for defence midfield and attack. Attacks office has a chimpanzee with an abacus in it while the midfield office has 15 people with ADD.
     
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  18. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    We don’t have to sell to buy. We have loads of the Virgil money left, and all we really need to do is let Fraser go to Turkey to free up a squad place.
     
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  19. Schad

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    I'm not JWP's biggest backer by any stretch, but we could be quite reliant on set pieces this year for goals. We already were last season (only West Brom, naturally, scored a lower percentage of their goals from open play), and we've added little up front while signing a noted set piece threat in Vestergaard. We also sold our other frequent set piece taker in Tadic. He'd be an odd one to let go at the moment.
     
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  20. SaintinNZ

    SaintinNZ Well-Known Member

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    I'd not be surprised if there are deals on the table for players but we're not letting them go without replacements. Why the hell bid for Lobotka otherwise.
     
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