Dan

All efforts should go into forcing them out. Nothing else.

This.

Never hated a player more than Soumare. Anyone who rates him genuinely should be sectioned

Worse than van Nistelrooy. Incredible.

Sell up you piece of shit

Club's in total freefall.

What the actual ****

At this point you'd take it

Yeah but "building" and "stability"

The boos at their 2nd will be something.

Thickest squad in the world

Course not. If he went tomorrow he'd be a pub quiz question.

Garbage

Add in the same on Souttar who has played what, 10 games for us? £8mil or so on Coady. Can be easy to exaggerate how bad it is at times but I think you would do well to find such consistently dire recruitment in one position as ours at centre half since we signed Fofana.

Explain to me how they've rigged the 3rd round to get European clubs avoiding each other but managed a scenario where if the conference league side makes the last 8 they have a clash what a joke.

To me it's just another set of data to inform an opinion on but I find plenty misinterpret. You are correct in that X player will be better at finishing than Y player but that's practically what it measures. Southampton are an interesting case this season. They've been bad but they've underperformed their attacking numbers by an extraordinary amount - I'm unsure it can continue. I really don't know how I'd be reacting if we were having their season because everything about them tells you they'll pick wins up soon, but they're in such a losing mindset as a club it's unreal. I wonder if this has lowered the level of finishers in general because the emphasis is far more on players getting chances rather than finishing them. This does seem to have created some extreme examples like Darwin Nunez.

He will get in somewhere that are on the up. Though do wonder if clubs are smart enough to see through it now.

I assumed people were joking and don't think they are. His performance in 2022/23 was as bad as anything I've seen relative to what he had. Van Nistelrooy maybe pushed it close although had a crap squad. To take that squad down was barely believable.

You've no idea how much I hate Southampton for this.

Especially if your name is 'Valerien Ismael'

To me though that's where it is kind of useful - taking the average I would just simply use these numbers to conclude that X player is above or below average a finisher. Haaland will always score exceptionally on this as he's the best finisher on the planet.

Really does speak volumes about our recruitment.

Think he'll drop Thomas, a change so obvious but it will still qualify as 'progress', despite a reintroduction of Soumare and Faes. Reckon Daka wins the striker lucky dip. 0-1 defeat.

This isn't a given mind.

I'm the same, a classic one that often seems to happen with England is X player can play a nice diagonal so must be a midfielder (Rooney, Trent) but Faes is so poor defensively and actually quite a capable footballer (sometimes). There's a world where I read this in a few months and piss myself laughing though.