Shearergol

Yeah, out for 5 weeks

Longstaff clearly not one of “hOwES FaVRiTeS” anymore

I'd genuinely rather sell Pope at the moment

He looked good in a poor league. Wasn't elite at anything he did and Man United paid about £60m too much for him.

He's shite though. Even ignoring his attitude. Shite and slow.

I'm hoping you're celebrating the number of bites you got with this tbh.

Are 2 year obligation loans a thing in the PL? Like spurs did with kulu? obviously not a great deal for Southampton like

I’d explode.

You know what I meant. There must be loads of examples where a manager took the only striker off and put a midfielder up top, I guess? Because I have loads of examples where managers swapped a striker for another striker, but you said it’s not tactically common. I even think he got the subs right, I’m just wondering where your assertion on this is from. Any other teams today do it? I haven’t checked.

Is it tactically common to play with none up front? I don’t know the stats on it.

Saudi for about £50m I reckon

Ahh, that makes more sense

What’s going on in this thread?

Just no.

It went to the left. Pope would have left it afraid of hurting himself. none of our keepers are good enough for a top 4 team. Pope’s been absolutely class since we signed him but he’s a shadow of his former self and his distribution is one of the poorest in the league. His injury has ruined him.

He’s been ill* *shit

They do. Rumour that it’s as low as £20m

He’s also a massive reason why we’re 5th and not 10th though

Oh my god, they’re all gonna leave

Brilliantly managed performance. We’re clicking.

Even @Rod might have enjoyed that tackle

Burn or Hall

Agree, he’s been superb. Kelly though, not so much.

We tend to look worse when we make changes.