Think Joseph is going to be a cracking player. Bear in mind it is his first proper season where he is getting starts.

Ideally, he would have been out on loan to cut his teeth and get experience before taking up the reins at ER.

Definitely not helped by the fact that Bambi is injured most of the time and Piroe doesn?t necessarily suit Farke?s system as an out and out 9. He is therefore being expected to perform when he might not be fully ready.

I definitely don?t think our youth to first team pathway is very structured any more and think Farke just concentrates on the here and now and less so on young player development.

I feel sorry for Meslier as he has been in the front line for 5 seasons and probably needed periods where he was taken out of the front line but there was no realistic good option.

However, he is now 24 and is prone to making howlers and wonder if the back four have lost faith in him.

I am sure Farke will point to Archie Gray and possibly Rutter as young talent he developed but both were obviously talented and took their chances straightaway.

In the ledger on the other side there are so many players who don?t seem to be getting chances and game time Cresswell last year, Joffy, Crew, Debayo, Gyabi (who is doing well at Plymouth), Greenwood, Chambers and Max Dean (now ripping it up elsewhere) to name but a few.

If he can?t trust youth then we need to spend a bit more of the cash we brought in over the summer and last year (about 140-150m with Sinisterra and Adams fees added in).

They also need to get Bamford?s wages off the books - since PL season one he hasn?t really cut it - either missing big chances or just being injured/unfit.

Ramsdale doesn?t seem to be playing at Soton so surely a loan to buy deal for him would be good. Not sure there is anyone available as a striker who is better than what we have (maybe a loan deal from the bigger clubs) and no obvious number 10 available bar possibly Hamer but his is more of an 8.

Farke has occasionally suggested Rothwell could play there but with half the season gone hasn?t happened yet. Similarly, Gnonto and Solomon could play there (Gnonto has even played up front for Italy) and yet again it?s not been tried.

Farke is a decent manager at this level but no more than that. He also seems very poor at using young talent which given we supposedly have a lot of that coming through makes him a poor fit for us.

His pre match and post match interview are also being more and more tedious.