What should Southampton's 2025 resolution be?
We asked what Southampton's New Year resolutions should be.
Here are some of your replies:
Gavin: Saints need to hit the ground running in the Championship next season. Start preparing for that immediately.
Simon H: To accept we've failed this year and commit now to building for the long term. Get behind Juric and make sure he stays for a while, I've got a good feeling about the man and reckon he could put a good team together if properly supported.
Lee: Simply to offload some players who have underperformed or are simply not good enough in the transfer window and perhaps get a striker. As for the remaining games, some wins and performances that'll put some confidence back into the team and us fans in preparation for another Championship campaign.
Simon W: We have now 18 months to build a team capable of competing in the Premier League (while getting promoted from the Championship). That means settling on a way of playing that is effective and realistic, and base the recruitment around that, which means moving on from Bednarek, Stephens, Armstrong, Aribo, etc, who have been proved to ultimately not be good enough for the Premier League.
Tom: There's no way we will stay up, I'm just hoping we can at least go down with a bit of dignity and fight. Then a proper rebuild is in order, the board surely must have learnt by now they can't keep going on like this.
Matt: To beat Derby's record low tally of 11 points. We're not a terrible team. It's the fact the Premier League is so very strong and our recruitment has again been poor. I wish we would invest a lot more on recruitment as our black box has been broken. A new strategy towards recruitment is desperately needed to get an edge on other teams. Perhaps the Championship is the best place to work on that as we have to be stronger when we return to the Premier League.