BRING BACK NICK CORTESE & FAST

You guys sounded as perplexed and exasperated as everyone else about last night. Not a good start for our new head coach, who seems to have misjudged the whole shebang and left us with more question marks than answers heading into next week.

Not a good way to settle fans nerves ahead of the new season.

When we're buying players the calibre of Bednarek and Hojbjerg and managers of the calibre of Puel and Pellegrino, new players and managers aren't going to improve things anyway. We need to upgrade our current recruitment team before letting them loose in the transfer market with any money.

Tha man we need to bring back is our former head of recruitment, Paul Mitchell to replace Reed.

Just when you think things couldn't get any worse........the Echo is reporting that Eisner has completed his takeover of the Skates.

Ths post by 'Dusic' on Saintsweb shows what's going wrong. Since our Head of Recruitment, Paul Mitchell left andReed eplaced him with Ross Wilson, we have been utterly clueless in the transfer market and, to make things worse, have made mediocre managerial and coaching appointments:

Last 10 Signings

Bednarek
Hassen
Caceres
Gabbiadini
Boufal
Hojbjerg
Redmond
McCarthy
Pied
Taylor

If that doesn't sum up where we are(and the direction we are going) then what does?

Max of three of those make our best XI.

Only one good, young British player. Too many obvious squad fillers.

Out of interest, last 10 sales for a fee are:

Jay Rod
Mane
Pelle
Wanyama
Fonte
Juanmi
Schneiderlin
Clyne
Cork

Was it Paul Mitchell personally dirk_doone or was he just lucky to have good scouts around Europe who themselves might have been poached in the meantime?

A chain is only as strong as one link, to change the metaphor.

I doubt many clubs gave any credence to the Black Box bull shine anyway and if Les really did believe his own rhetoric then he was even more deluded than many of us thought.

Who decides if Les is doing a good enough job or not at recruitment?

whilst on the subject of signings.we now hear that Poch wants to buy Gazzaninga (!)

For someone who (IMHO) was a poor substitute buy when we couldn't sign Jack Butland , PG's career with Saints almost falls into the Tommy Forecast category.
If true (?)... and he goes to Spurs , then perhaps it'll be some form of " payback" .

@underweststand. Gazzaniga has improved since he escaped from the coaching of Dave Watson, who seems to be able to ruin even the best goalkeepers's careers. Look waht he did to Joe Hart, Forster and the rest of our club's goalkeepers.