Its called caring, southerners have a distinct lack of passion towards their football teams, maybe you carried that up here? Maybe its all about driveways and house pricesā¦
No, itās called whinging. And if we see through that, which we do, you assume we have a lack of passion? Truly, Bazza, you are the whopper.
Even relegation is a tough ask at this point
It is called whinging, but it is substantiated by the fact our owner hasnāt set out his plans and goals, we did fuck all to strengthen our defence and we just lost 9-0 for the 2nd season running, a feat never before done.
You donāt know what was being done behind the scenes so you canāt say that with any degree of certaintyā¦
No but I can see the results of behind the scenes in the front shop, the sq sum of fuck all.
Thatās just the end product, you canāt say they didnāt do anythingā¦
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.
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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.
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And when we mount the lucky lady we fart and follow through the biryaniā¦
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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¦
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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.
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Or you could cite what a similar club gets if they have real ambition and push the spending up to Ā£40m.
Joelinton.
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I have the ambition to own an Aston Martin but can only drive a Honda CR-V because that is what I can afford.
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Go on then.
Just for completeness mind