Day 30 ! Saints Fans Not Happy
With £75 million in the kitty on January 1st Saints supporters were hoping for a lot more movement in the January transfer window, can Les Reed pull out a last day surprise !
There are many who accuse liverpool of trying to turn themselves into Saints with their constant raiding of St Mary's in the January transfer window, but it seems that we are now trying to turn ourselves into Liverpool or more accurately Jurgen Klopp as we seem to be only persuing attacking players and ignoring that our real problem is in the centre of defence.
Whilst everyone appreciates that the January window is a difficult one to make signings and that very few are done till the last few days, the fact that we have money in the bank and that we have had months to identify our targets should have meant we have got more than one over the line so far.
In truth I'm not that bothered about Quincy Promes, I don't think that scoring goals would be a problem if the manager played to the squads strengths, instead of trying to force players out of position in order to play a formation he favours.
The real problem is conceding goals, teams that keep it tight and don't concede find it easier to score goals in that the opposition has to push on to them and leave themselves open at the back, for us this season the reverse has often been the case.
That is why I constantly harp on that we need a central defender, whilst I would love to see us sign Promes, if we only bring one more in during this window I would rather it be a central defender than anything else.
I think that even under this manager we have the squad to get out of the relegation zone, it will just be in spite of him not because of him, sadly though whoever we sign I think he showed on Saturday with yet more bizarre substitutions that he is still very much part of the problem, not part of the solution.
But Saints fans need a bit of feel good factor befoe the window shuts, they have seen a manager who is tactically inept, they have seen a club that no matter how hard it tries lurches from one PR disaster to another, it is time for the talking to stop and the action to start.
That means at least one more new signing ideally two and it means results on the field, this is a big big week and something has to change, it is either two more players into the squad, or it is the manager, by the end of Wednesday evening we will have a big clue, by the end of Saturday night we will know for sure.
So Les Reed needs to not only take pressure off his own job, no matter what people say, his record over the past four years stands up to scrutiny both in terms of players bought and League position, but in football you are only as good as your last game and for Les Reed that is very much this week.
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