honeybradger

People would seriously take Josh Brownhill and Che Adams? Che Adams is NOT rated by Southampton fans in the slightest, why do our fans think they know him better? He's also 29 and going to be looking for moderately high wages, we need to learn our lesson on these players. Josh Brownhill is the same, 29 and looking for one last big contract. Do our fans not see the ability the likes of Monga, Page and Alves have? All who are looking to break through in Brownhill's position, imagine we lose out on the opportunity to develop some of England's best talents (yes you heard that correctly, Page and Monga are undeniably two of England's biggest talents) for Josh Brownhill. It's almost like half the posters on here are Rudkin in disguise. Coady, Winks, Corodva Reid, Ayew were all touted as 'sensible' transfers on here not long ago, now we cant wait to see the back of them. We need to be draining the swamp to give a pathway to our academy talents, not filling it up. Also Brownhill is nowhere near the level of KDH, who still got pelters on here in the 23/24 season for his inconsistent touch. KDH is a far better ball carrier and passer, I think our fans will be surprised by how limited Brownhill is in comparison.

It's pretty typical in workplaces in general that people who arent good at their role look to fill others as well. If someone thinks it's acceptable to do a surface level job then it's easier to cover a lot of surfaces whereas someone who is thorough is constantly analysing what they can improve on in their current role wouldnt even think of picking up extra work elsewhere.

This, we're at a point where we're better off not making any signings. Would rather just use the summer budget getting rid of Faes, Coady, Winks, Ayew, Cordova Reid, Kristiansen etc.

I am absolutely dreading Ayew and Cordova Reid coming back into the mix. They have no place in this squad of exciting high energy wingers, much rather even our B tier academy wingers like Joseph, Wanya or even Josh King get minutes instead. Not to mention the horrors of them stealing minutes from our best talents like Monga, Evans and Alves purely on the basis of 'experience'. Same goes for Skipp and Winks (and sadly Ndidi) vs Page or even Baybrooke and Cartwright who didn't play the other day.

10 is supposed to be an attacking midfielder i think. 9 would be a striker.

Played striker today. Personally see that being his position long term.

Evans is a really good prospect for a striker.

OK, he's going nowhere? Fine he can go nowhere whilst sitting at home. It's a sunk cost fallacy to put him on the pitch again for us at this point, he is so far below the level we need. Again he is very much akin to Ward where even though he cost us a wedge it only hurts us more to play him. Im not judging him off last season either, it was common knowledge amongst Spurs fans that Skipp lost a lot of his footballing ability following his injuries yet we still went out and bought him for a hefty fee.

Good shout on Rangers, he is the quintessential Russel Martin player.

There is a very good reason and it's the fact that he's had injuries since that loan that he never recovered from. If you think Skipp can do a job for us you are in cuckoo land! Use you eyes rather than basing your opinion off a loan 5 years ago, he is nowhere near the level of the rest of our players. It's almost Danny Ward-esque how he isn't fit to be on the pitch.

He was terrible at the end of the 23/24 season and was honking against QPR last season despite our 6-2 win. There is no guarantee he will have a good spell in the championship for us again. Winks has been awful for us for too long for us to just assume he will recreate his early form with us. Compared to his overall time here he has only been good for a short window of it.

Fully agree! Sadly as you can see by the reaction to Winks's performance today some of our fans praise the ground he walks on for barely doing the basics. Simply put, he he is nowhere near good enough.

They are both shite! But somehow Winks keeps on getting free passes and Soumare gets piled on. It doesnt make sense to me

How Winks is worshipped by our fanbase and Soumare is hounded never ceases to amaze me. Simply just because of a decent spell in the championship people are blinded to the fact Soumare is the superior footballer (and im not even a fan of Soumare). Winks is actually a poor player if he was looked at in the same lens that Soumare is.

Winks was good for the first 2/3 of the season under Maresca but let's not forget how bad he was at the end of it. He was honking in the Prem last season as well. Skipp is a write off plain and simple, the only reason he's been given so many chances is because of his price tag. He shouldn't get minutes for us again. Compare him to someone like Page, who is only 16 btw, and it's chalk and cheese.

Winks ffs, there's a reason the ball didn't progress throught midfield when he was on. He's been terrible for us for over a season now.

The difference in class between Winks, Skipp, Golding and Soumare (yes soumare), Page and Alves is astonishing. Absolutely night and day yet you will still have people claiming that Winks and Skipp arent horrible.

Actually just dont bother with transfers this season. We have enough talent in our academy, our transfer department isn't good enough to improve on them. Also we have way too many centrebacks, dont need any more.

Wow monga

Skipp consistently failing to impress may still give baybrooke a chance. I think baybrooke would have done much better in the positions skipp was in.

He's short but he's a man strength wise, he was able to compete in the duels he had.

Trust me his ability to run in behind is also good, we just haven't seen that since we cant play down the middle with this dogshit midfield. He will be more than good enough as a lone striker.

Thought Evans looked tidy. Don't know why one of the best goalscorers in the reserves is being written off as a goalscorer based off 45 mins in preseason. Stick some creativity behind him like El Khannous or fatawu and he will score.

Im very excited to see Evans making runs in behind only for Skipp and Winks to 'control the tempo' and lay it off to each other only to later lose it in our own half

Him, Coady, Faes and Vestergaard need to be the first ones to go. I know bad 'uns when I see them and these players have the complete wrong mentality for the club in their own ways.