He knows the way back here is to score a load of goals and bag some assists, and who knows, even brings Danny Ings back.
Can he do it?
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He knows the way back here is to score a load of goals and bag some assists, and who knows, even brings Danny Ings back.
Can he do it?
I feel sorry for him. It wasn't as if we bought him on a whim - he'd been scouted, we knew exactly what kind of player he was, and yet it was if he was tried in role after role in the hope that something would suddenly click. Fingers crossed he regains his confidence under cry baby's supervision.
I liked him as he has never got injured, hopefully with a run of games he can fulfil his potential and do what he was purchased to do, and that is sell merch in Japan
Next match.
Haha! Really?! Oh I really do like the Nihon-Jin. I would fucking love it if he stepped up against City. Or anyone for that matter. Can you imagine the meltdown over at fume? Good luck to him.
Their next games are
Man U
Newcastle
Wolves
Chelsea
Everton
Man U
Newcastle
Wolves
Chelsea
Everton
Dead rubbers
They'll win all of them.
I hope so. With mini hat tricks in them all.
Yep. He needed to be sacrificed to stop the sudden deaths
He is confusing them with UTD
That's the next match.. They don't play City till the end of April.. Title run in..1st of their last 6 games
Hopefully he builds up some form in time for that game and Southampton smash them..
Medal at stake for him... He is eligible..
Nah hot the ground running and continue form all the way so we have next Ronaldo in our grasp, rather than Mark Gonzolez
[article]“Yeah, of course, having options makes it the only chance that you can give a player to another club,” Klopp told reporters.
“But we were active in this situation a little; Southampton asked and it was not that we said, ‘No, no, no, no chance.’ We thought about it.
“Takumi is an incredibly good player and we didn’t give him enough chances, that’s the truth. That’s for different reasons. Sometimes it was just the size; because of our problems in defence we were not tall enough and then Takumi on the pitch you think, ‘OK, how can we do that then?’ Defending set-pieces is a very important part. It’s for the player not too interesting and for journalists probably not too interesting, but in some moments even these kind of things make the difference why one player is playing and the other not.
“Southampton came up and there were not a lot of clubs where I thought it really makes sense to let him go, but Southampton makes a lot of sense. He is there for 17 games now and in the situation Southampton is, if Takumi stays fit he has a good chance to play 17 games, which helps everybody. It helps Southampton and helps us, because the only thing Takumi was lacking was a couple of games in a row. And it was a difficult year.
“I would have loved to keep him, just to have the option and stuff like this, but in the end because Takumi is a long-term project and always was – we see really a lot of potential in Takumi – it makes absolute sense that he gets now the chance to play maybe 17 games, Premier League games, and then comes back in a completely different mindset, confidence level, all these kind of things.
“I hope it’s a win-win situation.”
Klopp was subsequently quizzed on what he would like to see from Minamino during his spell with Ralph Hasenhuttl’s Saints side.
“He just has to enjoy football again there,” he said. “He’s an outstanding professional, really a top talent, really, really good player, so it’s all good.
“But then we have a really good squad and we struggled a lot, but never in the offensive part, not really in the offensive part of the pitch. And my job is to make decisions based on what I imagine could be the outcome in the game. So, for example, the people fighting with him for the place were in really good shape; [Xherdan] Shaqiri when he came back showed up extremely, then with Divock [Origi] we all know what Divock did for us in the past.
“Sometimes it’s just the size, how I said before, it can make a difference. These kind of things. It worked not often enough out for Taki that he could start a game or come on, and that’s 100 per cent my fault as well.
“But we both think now, Taki and I, that we can sort that by playing him 17 times if possible in the Premier League.
“He doesn’t have to change anything, he doesn’t have to improve in anything. He just has to play football, to gain rhythm and confidence in that moment, and then he will be fine.”
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No we can’t have that. We need them to lose tonight to keep Ole at the wheel.
[article]Ralph Hasenhuttl has backed Takumi Minamino to have a big impact at Southampton having belatedly brought the forward to St. Mary’s.
The Japan international joined the Saints on loan for the rest of the season on deadline day and is in line to make his debut for the club away at Newcastle United on Saturday, having been spared duty in their 9-0 defeat to Manchester United in midweek having not been registered in time.
And having missed out on Minamino to Liverpool in January 2020, the Southampton boss is delighted to finally have landed his signature - even if it is only on a temporary basis.
“Last winter I was really disappointed we could not get a player like him in, because he was coming from Salzburg and he went to Liverpool,” Hasenhuttl said. “I understand he played fantastic games against them in the Champions League.
“I am sure he will fit to our game, because he knows all the habits we need, and that means we need to bring him to the position where he can help us the most and he must help us then with good decision-making, with good passes, with good dribbling and hopefully he scores a few goals for us, that would be helpful.”
He continued: “It should be possible (that he starts against Newcastle). I know he didn't play so much in the past, but he's fit. He knows a little bit about the pressing football we want to play.
“It's good that he understands everything I want to tell him, not only because he is also speaking German – and I think at the moment his German is better than his English – but it is also helpful for me because I can explain to him everything.
“He is a good guy, and you see immediately the quality he has on the ball. I don't expect now for him to decide the game on the weekend for us immediately.
“I think when he plays a proper game and helps us in every part of the game then we are more successful I think with him.”
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The Japan international joined the Saints on loan for the rest of the season on deadline day and is in line to make his debut for the club away at Newcastle United on Saturday, having been spared duty in their 9-0 defeat to Manchester United in midweek having not been registered in time.
And having missed out on Minamino to Liverpool in January 2020, the Southampton boss is delighted to finally have landed his signature - even if it is only on a temporary basis.
“Last winter I was really disappointed we could not get a player like him in, because he was coming from Salzburg and he went to Liverpool,” Hasenhuttl said. “I understand he played fantastic games against them in the Champions League.
“I am sure he will fit to our game, because he knows all the habits we need, and that means we need to bring him to the position where he can help us the most and he must help us then with good decision-making, with good passes, with good dribbling and hopefully he scores a few goals for us, that would be helpful.”
He continued: “It should be possible (that he starts against Newcastle). I know he didn't play so much in the past, but he's fit. He knows a little bit about the pressing football we want to play.
“It's good that he understands everything I want to tell him, not only because he is also speaking German – and I think at the moment his German is better than his English – but it is also helpful for me because I can explain to him everything.
“He is a good guy, and you see immediately the quality he has on the ball. I don't expect now for him to decide the game on the weekend for us immediately.
“I think when he plays a proper game and helps us in every part of the game then we are more successful I think with him.”
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Brilliant goal for Mini! Amazing first touch to take it past the defender and blasted it short side into the top corner.
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