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Thomas will go on to make a packet in that baller league as a set piece specialist

35% possession at home and we’re not even trying to play on the counter

Mental that we’ve had to do it twice already… but nice to see us actually committing a few professional fouls!

Hackney is so good but we spent 24m on Skipp….

Trading standards would have a field day with “bonus”

Excuse me?

Is it worth £800 by any chance?

I mean I was clearly making an easy joke…

Shut up Ric! The only natural solution to our current left back problem is a right sided attacking midfielder who has had no imact at U21 level or in League 1!!!!

be chucked out in minutes... but yes

I noticed they're even flogging Walkers Hall and Keith Weller on gen sale for £50 tonight!

I like it though, last time we went Brazilian we got some fraud with a fake passport and a make a wish dream Now we've gone back and found the most German sounding mother****er so no one will question it if he's shit!

****ing hell I wondered where that was going for a minute

And about 5000 miles out of our scouting range

Average wage of £32k a week across a 25 man squad.....

Yeah sorry wasn't disagreeing with you

The problem isn't the system it's the style of play You can't have 3 of the back and still play safe slow possession football. You can still pass it around and make it look pretty but it HAS TO BE quick and it has to make the most of counter attacks. If he's literally just changed the shape but not the style, nothing will change, in fact it'll likely be even worse.

What do you mean you don't want to see a right sided attacking midfielder playing left wing back?!?!

The alternative to that is ignore that direction.... potentially win a few games, then when he gets sacked for not following orders we will all know exactly what is going on and he gets a nice pay off!

Yep, one pissed off left back who has had a right sided attacking midfielder picked in his place

I probably should have added to my post a bit. Not what i'm saying at all, but when a manager is so set on a system and style... them straying away from that is usually a sign that they're panicking and the players are questioning their methods. It's also not just about Nelson coming in, we don't particularly have the players for a 3 to work well. That's not his fault but it just smacks of panic. Nelson could still come in to a 4.

So if the line-up rumours are true Marti is activating 3 at the back. He switched to it with QPR after the honeymoon period ended there, still couldn't buy a win so reverted to type. This is Marti's panic button, tried it with Aalborg too and it didn't work there either. Beginning of the end for me.

Saints re-signing Romeu, still got plenty to offer at this level.