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  • Birthday 05/02/1986

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  1. It’s incredible how far we’ve come in 15 months. Both teams were at a relatively similar level in 2016 but with a bit of luck and a decent goalscorer Leicester took the league. Fast forward to October 2019 and the gulf was huge (not in the result but just where we were in the league). Tonight though, with a fair few players out we look organised, strong, cohesive and are arguably the better side. Well done Southampton FC!
  2. Is it better to have had than to have had not! 6th, 7th, 8th finish in the premier league, League Cup Final, FA Cup semi final, trophy winners at Wembley, back to back promotions, beating the likes of Inter Milan in a non pre season friendly, winning back to back games at old Trafford, the list goes on. (With an added bonus of seeing England in a World Cup semi too) Ok ownership changes and Les’ ineptitude to deliver promises means we start this season with a little uncertainty but we’ve come a long way in 9 years!
  3. We have benefited on many levels from Bertrand not going. 1. He’s not spending 6 weeks being tapped up by City/Spurs/Everton players to move away from Saints and 2. He gets a rest, has gone on the team bonding trip to China and will be ready to go against Burnley in 29 days time! Personally I thought Young did a good job especially from set pieces but think Bertrand would have provided more balance and more in terms of crosses into the box.
  4. I for one am delighted with the appointment, passion, experience and a big European name. Koeman was a similar appointment when he joined given his ‘steady’ cv as a manager. In a time when Premier League Managers are hard to come by we’ve gone with the man who kept us up as a manager and contributed as a player. My only gripe is that we are no longer appear to be this slick PR machine that Cortese created, but let’s see our overall transfer activity before passing judgement.
  5. Brave, gutsy, United. Regardless of time added on we were robbed but Hughes has completely changed this team. If we are relegated next Sunday it is purely Les’s fault.
  6. For the second league game in a row our central midfielders gave the ball away which proved costly. I’m sure Hughes main point before kick off would have been do not concede early in the match...which we did. Two upfront only works away from home if there is cover for the midfield so Romeu has to play in that formation. Unfortunately I feel we are rapidly running out of games with the Swansea game perhaps coming too late to salvage any Premier League status. The only reason we are still in it at the moment is the lack of quality above us.
  7. Every single player ‘and he’s not scored for xx games’
  8. This is the best piece of business we have done so far fact. Last summer was a disaster, we need to maintain our business mode of being a shop window for players otherwise they have nothing to work towards. £75m (less 10%) means we have money to spend and are losing a player that didn’t want to be here anyway. If Liverpool had a better scouting network rather than running fight club they would be buying these players in/breeding them from the academy for peanuts. Next steps We have to reinvest though. CF of dembele or the like. Again it would be a short term transfer but we would hopefully double whatever we spend and see goals. Get Jack Stephens playing centre back again. Keep the cortese dream of academy players alive. Expand the stadium and improve the surrounding area. We now have serious money let’s build the infrastructure at the ground having improved the training facility to world class. This will attract further talent and help build a bigger fan base. Reward the fans. Time to give the season ticket holders a free game for all the **** football they’ve seen this season. At £75m (less 10%) ticket prices are now a drop in the ocean. Reward the fans!!!!
  9. Bournemouth's midfield is woeful. Last season they had the benefit of Jack Wilshere bringing some premier league quality but the number of times they gave the ball away last night was shocking. We really shouldn't count our chickens but it's fair to say that there are at least 6 teams worse than us in this league so let's stop this talk of struggling this season and get behind the team.
  10. Les Reed needs to remain accountable until the end of the transfer window when it's back to the football and we have to work with what we've got. He is more than willing to come out with statements that everything is rosey but has not spoken up once since Koeman left when all the fans wanted were reassurances. In reality if it was all in hand the Koeman saga would have been resolved by the last game of the season giving us further options with regards to Rafa and Rodgers. That being said we've improved year on year for 7 years now so let's just sit back and let him do his job, he has earned the right for fans trust.
  11. SaintDan

    Pelle

    We have to keep the old lambert song going, it gets the fans going and so many fans join in, here's my effort.... He stands at round about 6ft 5, Pelle, Pelle. He's kept our Europe hopes alive, Pelle, Pelle. He's the new don from Italy, we love him more coz he hates Pompey Gra-zi-ano Southampton's goal machine!
  12. At present we seem to be building a team around 'The Southampton Way' including youngsters from the academy who have been with the club 5+ years. To me 'The Southampton Way' is all about playing attractive football whilst closing down the opposition and stopping them from playing, thus dictating games. In order to improve as a team we have to attract big names and sign 'Marquee players'. Gaston was this marquee signing last summer and had a steady first season but not a £12m first season. If you don't sign these Marquee signings then progression wont be made as other players will opt for Liverpool/Everton/Swansea who I currently see as the teams we are attempting to emulate/finish above in the league. I would say having 2 10m+ signings certainly played a factor in Osvaldo joining us. Once again he has not had a proper pre season therefore he is behind the rest of the team in regards to ethos, fitness and game time. He was signed based on his potential from what he showed for Bologna and in the Olympics therefore I would say stick with him, the guy is in his early 20s and from what we saw of him last season he shows flashes of brilliance. As we sign more and more top quality players in the Osvaldo, Morgan, Lovren, Clyne and even perhaps Shaw and Ward Prowse elk he will show how good a player he really is for us.
  13. I think Lampard and Lambert should be first names on the plane to Brazil (if we get there). They shouldn't necessary start but to have them on the bench to take penalties and to benefit from the experience of Lampard and the ability to hold the ball up of SRL they would be the sensible subs this summer. Although saying that getting past the group stage could be tricky this summer relying on the likes of Welbeck, Cleverly and an ageing Gerrard.
  14. Is it time to change the line in the Lambert song from He took us to the Premier League to He scored a goal at Wembley... ....I know he'd already scored in the JPT final but we weren't in the Prem then and also Wembley rhymes better with three than league.
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