That is a bit like getting a lady back to your place for a bit of romance and then you canāt cum as you taken too much ale, you then expect her to be satisfied as you tried, I donāt think that would workā¦
Sadly itās worked for me a few times.
4 Likes
Indeed Barry, thereās a fine line between effective beer goggles and drink-induced impotence. To labour the analogy further, Saints in the transfer market are like a bloke in a nightclub. We canāt cop off with the stunners, but we can afford just enough beer to make whatās left look attractive. Unfortunately, weāve no cash left for the Viagra needed to carry it through.
2 Likes
And when we mount the lucky lady we fart and follow through the biryaniā¦
2 Likes
Fucking hell 
BUTā¦ because we donāt have the same financial power as a lot of the other teams we need to operate with a smaller squad because of wages and also deploy a way of playing that makes up for a relative lack of quality by ensuring that we are super fit and run a hell of a lot. We cannot really control how good players we can afford are but we can control how fit they are through training and conditioning. It becomes about percentage points.
Other teams donāt have to rely on their recovery facilities to the same extent as we do. The big ones also have much larger and deeper squads than us. So they can afford to rest players but we canāt. Even the commentators yesterday commented on how OGS usually makes 4-5 changes each game. We rarely make one.
We didnāt have these injuries last season when facilities were available soā¦
1 Like
A lot of teams havenāt wasted money thatās why.
3 first team goalkeepers and 2 arenāt what we need and the other is a good stand in.
These two articles sum up the position pretty clearly Baz (sorry, I mean Mr Sanchez!). One says Utd were āinactiveā in the transfer market due to the pandemic.
The second one informs us that āinactivityā for Man Utd means only spending Ā£37.5m on an 18 year old.
Saints have never spent more than Ā£20m on a single player.
Yes nobody is saying we havenāt wasted money but the top clubs buy flops all the time, it just doesnāt hamstring them as much as it does for us because they just go out and spend more money.
That just shows a lack on ambition then doesnāt it?
There are about 5 clubs I can name the same size or smaller than us that have spent more, irrespective weāve spent poorly.
Depends if you equate total spend with quality of incoming.
As an opening bid, Iāll give you Carillo.
2 Likes
Or you could cite what a similar club gets if they have real ambition and push the spending up to Ā£40m.
Joelinton.
1 Like
I have the ambition to own an Aston Martin but can only drive a Honda CR-V because that is what I can afford.
2 Likes
Go on then.
Just for completeness mind
Liverpool Reserves
Man City Reserves
Man Untd Reserves
Arsenal Ladies
Chelsea Reserves
2 Likes
Just been looking up clubs record transfers and it says on Talksport website that Jannik Vestergaard cost us Ā£22m 
I think Baz is right though, there are a few clubs of our āilkā that have spent more than us, below are just the clubs that are currently in the prem, not sure on the accuracy of the fees but there you go.
Villa - 23m on Wesley
Palace - 28m on Benteke
Fulham - 27m on Seri
Leeds - 27m on Rodrigo
Leicester 40m on Tielemans
Newcastle 40m on Joelinton
West Ham 44m on Haller
Wolves 30m on Jiminez
Of those Iād say Jiminez is far and away the best of the bunch followed by Tielemans. Make what you will of the others.
2 Likes
Big balls to gamble Ā£40m on one player. Great if you get a Tielemans (good player but even heās overpriced at 40m). Not so great if you get a Joelinton.
1 Like
But even if they spunk Ā£40m on a dud, at least they have the Ambition, which counts a fuckton.
1 Like
Championship clubs nowā¦
Watford - 40m Sarr
Bournemouth - 25m Lerma
Stoke - 22m Imbula
1 Like
Man Utd v Southampton 
(Live on 
sport)West Ham cut their losses and Sold Haller for Ā£20m after 18 months.
With the exception of Tielemans and Jimenez (and I canāt comment on the Leeds mush) the rest have flopped.
1 Like