16-19. There's bound to be at least one team that's miles worse than we are. It wouldn't take a huge amount of imagination to see that squad go down though. Worrying times. Even a couple of decent loans could be the difference between staying up and dropping.
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…I would love a chillax season of mid-table mediocracy, but doubt that squad is good enough for that.
I’m as nervous as Keane.
I’m as nervous as Keane.
I'd say the first 11 is good enough to stay out of trouble but the squad as a whole is awful. We need serious improvements before the season starts or we're in big trouble.
I think we have a squad that should be comfortably mid table.
We have the basis of a very decent team in Pickford, Tarkowski,Godfrey, Mykolenko,Doucoure,Gordon and DCL. I assume Mina will leave.
We have Dele but at the moment we don't know what that means and at the moment the same applies to Patterson.
We have Keane, Holgate,Coleman, Allan, Gray and Iwobi as cover and some of their performances can vary from excellent to AWFUL.
The addition of three more players will make us a very decent team.
A defensive central midfielder.
An attacking wide player to replace Richarlison.
A decent back up for DCL.
I think a player like Walker Peters that could play left or right back would also be welcome but I think the other positions are priority.
We have the basis of a very decent team in Pickford, Tarkowski,Godfrey, Mykolenko,Doucoure,Gordon and DCL. I assume Mina will leave.
We have Dele but at the moment we don't know what that means and at the moment the same applies to Patterson.
We have Keane, Holgate,Coleman, Allan, Gray and Iwobi as cover and some of their performances can vary from excellent to AWFUL.
The addition of three more players will make us a very decent team.
A defensive central midfielder.
An attacking wide player to replace Richarlison.
A decent back up for DCL.
I think a player like Walker Peters that could play left or right back would also be welcome but I think the other positions are priority.
OneTrueLegend
Player Valuation: £35m
Me too, hopefully we have 40 points in February and dont have to worry about much for the last 3 months of the season.
greener
Player Valuation: £1m
Saints have 'lost' Broja without replacing him. They have recruited "for the future" so far this window. They are stuffed.
Everton should replace them as the 'should have enough to stay safe' imo. Stirs the old blood really.
Deckard2049
Player Valuation: £15m
The midfield is relegation material. The defence ON PAPER is bottom half, but combined with the GK our best back 5 is not really a big issue. We have one forward who is top ten material and then no backup, and similarly we have one promising winger who is top 10 material with others who can occasionally show something but aren't consistent enough.
Balancing all that out we're a bottom half side. Probably around 15th/16th again but if certain players are fit all year we could probably bump up a few places and be more comfortable.
Balancing all that out we're a bottom half side. Probably around 15th/16th again but if certain players are fit all year we could probably bump up a few places and be more comfortable.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
So the thing for me is Saints have a real PL midfield with defined roles and players who fit those roles. And although I don't rate Ward-Prowse or the rest hardly at all that should be enough to keep them up. I can't say that about Everton yet.
Summed that up perfectly
I think a huge amount depends on how Tarkowski beds in.
I think last season, the wheels started to come off when the opposition realized that our center backs couldn't connect with our midfield. Keane and Allan were two huge culprits. I think by playing 3 at the back we can give one of the CB's license to carry the ball a bit further out of defense and just hope that we either buy a holding midfielder or hope that we can coach the existing ones to pick up the ball and get up the pitch.
Either way, we cant be any worse at this than we were last season.
I think Dele will slot in well behind DCL and we'll likely see Iwobi and Myko at wing back.
I'd say Mina might be moved on so I'd expect a starting line up from the existing squad to be something like
-----------------Pickford
------Holgate, Tarkowski, Godfrey
Iwobi-------Allan-----Doucoure-----Myko
-----------Gordon---Dele--
----------------DCL
If that team could stay fit and hit a bit of form, no reason they couldn't be comfortably mid table.
Need a Gareth Barry type desperately tho.
I think last season, the wheels started to come off when the opposition realized that our center backs couldn't connect with our midfield. Keane and Allan were two huge culprits. I think by playing 3 at the back we can give one of the CB's license to carry the ball a bit further out of defense and just hope that we either buy a holding midfielder or hope that we can coach the existing ones to pick up the ball and get up the pitch.
Either way, we cant be any worse at this than we were last season.
I think Dele will slot in well behind DCL and we'll likely see Iwobi and Myko at wing back.
I'd say Mina might be moved on so I'd expect a starting line up from the existing squad to be something like
-----------------Pickford
------Holgate, Tarkowski, Godfrey
Iwobi-------Allan-----Doucoure-----Myko
-----------Gordon---Dele--
----------------DCL
If that team could stay fit and hit a bit of form, no reason they couldn't be comfortably mid table.
Need a Gareth Barry type desperately tho.
Without Richarlison it's 17th at the very best.
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