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Detailed negotiations with Perth club owner, Geoff Brown, are progressing well – so much so that the Scottish Football Association has now been notified about the potential for foreign investment at McDiarmid Park.
An agreement over a sale could even be reached before the end of the season.
The US investor, who has a legal background, was a guest of Saints earlier this month and, along with an associate, attended the Premiership matches against Ross County and Hearts during a week-long stay in Scotland.
Having been involved in talks for several months before then, he liked what he saw and discussions have advanced significantly since the trip.
The number of parties interested in a takeover has run into double figures but no others have got anywhere near to this stage.
Brown has previously admitted that the vast amount of prime site land at McDiarmid has proved to be problematic in terms of finding a suitable buyer.
For any deal to get completed, legal guarantees would be put in place on that front.
Saints will also be provided with proof of funding that underpins the bid and the future running of the club.
It is understood the prospective buyer assessed the landscape in leagues across England and Europe before setting his sights on St Johnstone.
A deal being completed over the next few months is looking increasingly possible, meaning Saints could be foreign-owned for the first time in their 140-year history.

I get lots wrong, and remain confused why people think its amazing when it happens.

@Cagey As @blueheaven says I am still loitering in at various times, just a bit busy these days so don't post  

Wonder if anyone has offered him their free Livi ticket.

Scott Brown should have been on from the start instead of Byrne who is poor.
Mclelland also on bench .
Remember when teams were full of ex OF players.

Going forward in last 10 mins.

What is interesting with Bair is someone at Motherwell clearly saw something that no Saints fan saw on the pitch and the management team never saw in training, Motherwell couldn't have seen that? He was always praised for his work at training and being an incredible athlete.

In interviews he has said that not playing enough for Saints was a huge issue and perhaps he wasn't getting the guidance: 
"it's the whole reason I came to Motherwell in the first place, the gaffer told me what he was going to do and and he's doing it so the least I could do is repay him with a couple goals, so I'm happy that I'm getting to do that as well."
He has also mentioned working in depth with the video team at Motherwell.
When all things are considered he was scouted by someone for Saints who saw potential. Motherwell have also done the same so the only thing it can point to was the management set up at the time of Davidson and Macca.

You need to be careful, people might take that as a positive post 

Callum Davidson doing well with a team someone else built again 🤣

Nope. Davie totally let trying to nullify Shaun Rooney get into his head for the cup final and it backfired big time.

Take out Kerr Smith 😅

There nobody I dislike enough to drag them along to this.
 

Thought we did well in the first half but rode our luck a wee bit. Pitch seemed to be a problem for us as well  was fairly fast-moving and we struggled/overhit passes.
2nd half started ok - Adamas overhead effort and Considine hitting the bar.  I had no problem with CL taking Benji off if he was tiring but he should have put on an out and out striker instead of one of Max/Connor. Our shape after that caused us all sorts of problems and we sat too deep - Robinson needed to get forward more. 
Havent seen the pen back but while we can all complain about how soft these are until we get more streetwise in the box - both defensively cutting out the Gordon-type challenges or up front being a bit more aggressive in forcing defenders to come in on us we're going to suffer at the hands of VAR. Would be good to see the club come out and highlight when VAR isn't favouring us as well a lot more. 
2nd goal was a bad one to lose. As for the challenge on Mellon it looked like a 50-50 but David Munro should never referee again after waiving play on with 2 players flat out - the fact the Dundee physio came on while the ball was in play showed how serious it was.
In terms of the team - Matty looked good, Benji and Adama showed in places that they will be effective. Kerr Smith had a decent game but struggled to link with Olufunwa. Thought Keltjens especially though looked a bit lost - both him and Sprangler when he came on seemed to be well off the pace. 

Callum Davidson doing well with a team someone else built again 🤣

Maybe it is working:
Steven Naismith “And they’ve changed quite a few times in the systems they play and, actually, the way they’ve played in games recently. Against us, it might be different. We’ve got an idea of how they’ll play."

I think Macca made some decent signings too, and was quite sharp on spotting a player. 

It really is a chore going to watch us at the moment. Very little entertainment, the spontaneity of a game removed by VAR and the ever increasing costs involved in watching football at this level all contribute to making watching football less and less enjoyable.
I don't like talking down Scottish football, but the standard in the Premiership has been dire this season. Fair play to Hearts, they have secured third place and have a quality striker in Shankland, but in years gone by there is no way they would be in the position they are now. Our 2013/14 team under Tommy Wright would have comfortably beaten that Hearts team last night. I cant remember coming away from a game this season thinking an opposition team really impressed me. 
I am not sure if it is fitness, lack of confidence or instructions from the manager, but we just seem to lack any ability to demonstrate any type of aggressive attacking football. I dont want to be too harsh on Franczak or Olunfunwa as they are both young players, but we had numerous opportunities in the first half last night to attack them, but both just seemed to lack the belief to take their man on or do anything creative.  Interestingly I watched Andy Kirk going absolutely mental in the dugout when we were passing the ball backwards so often, so it cant be an instruction from the coaching team.
We all want Max to do well, but it just isn't working for him and the longer Levein persists in playing him, the the more damage it is likely to do to him. Fans are starting to get on his back, he needs a spell on the bench for a few games. Phillips and Matty Smith were a big miss last night. Phillips gives us physicality in the middle of the pitch and both are able to dictate the play and retain possession better than Max, Connor Smith or Fran.
Kimpioka reminds me of Tade. Technically he is not the greatest, but his pace, power and unpredictable nature will cause defences problems. I would like to see him upfront with Clark or Sidibeh or Sunday. I still think that May or Kane have something to offer us as well. Would have preferred to have seen one of them come on ahead of DJ last night.
A win on Sunday and we could be sitting in the top 6 ahead of big spending Aberdeen, Dundee and Hibs which is probably a reflection on how poor the league actually is this season.

We're just incredibly frustrating to watch. I think we have the potential to be a decent team but we show our opponents so much respect and fear that it's damaging our chances of getting anything out of games. I get that Hearts are third in the league but they're not exactly world-beaters and I think we all saw last night that with a bit more ambition we could have taken something from them, just as we have many times in the past.
Yet again we didn't really try to have a go until the last 15-20 minutes and when we did we were actually pretty good at it. We created chances, we got the ball into their box and we forced the Hearts defence into making mistakes. But surely we need to be ambitious enough to try that earlier in the game? I get that defence is going to be a priority under Levein but there still needs to be some sort of plan to actually win games.
When Hearts had the ball they played it in our half, and when they didn't they pressed us so we couldn't get forward. When we had the ball we kept it around our own half, and when we didn't have it we barely pressed them at all. Whatever happened to the high pressing game we used in the second half of our Double-winning season to such great effect? Why are we not capable of doing that any more? Is it a fitness issue?
What I did like last night was seeing Carey getting onto his teammates several times for continually passing the ball backwards and not being positive enough. He was being used in a very weird position, but he was at least trying to move the team forward and get us onto the front foot. Sprangler made a difference when he came on and needs to be starting. I thought Kimpioka had a pretty good game with a difficult task, and Clark and Sidibeh both looked lively when they came on too. We're so, so weak in wide areas though, and at the moment I'm not seeing much from Max or Connor Smith to suggest they should be starting games. Frankly, if Cammy MacPherson was fit I'd be playing him ahead of either of them. The sooner we get Phillips and Matt Smith back, the better.
What I find kind of hilarious after the last two or three years is that there were actually people on here who used to complain about Tommy Wright's football being negative or bad to watch. What I wouldn't give right now to go back to the intelligent, adaptable and effective football Wright had us playing. He was just miles ahead of any of the managers we've had since.