Ex Lion Tamer

The trick is that you buy the Tinos but have last year's Tinos coming to fruition as well, then this year's Tinos can flourish next year, at which point you buy more Tinos

Bednarek and Stephens are 26 and 28. We only had £7m to spend and I don't see how we could have got better for that amount

The way I see it, Ralph's system requires 110% effort to work. When the pressure is on and there is mental and physical energy in the squad, it allows the team to play well above its ability. But when those factors aren't there it all collapses

These are the limited snippets we currently have available to predict the club's spending power now: https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/semmens-sport-republic-southampton-transfers-6661251https://www.givemesport.com/1828492-southampton-transfer-news-exciting-update-emerges-on-saints-spending-power-this-month

Ralph is a disciplinarian

Because Gao wanted to sell and there was no one else offering anything better? SR at least seem to have a plan, although I think a lot of people are seriously overestimating the impact they are going to make

Haven't they made it pretty clear that there won't be extra money to spend, just a bit of extra liquidity to allow us to buy earlier?

Let's see how Brentford do next season. They might get found out in their second season just like Leeds, Sheffield United and many others

Training? One to one meetings with players, staff etc?

I could well imagine that Ralph prefers Long's pressing to Broja's and AA's, and that is his top priority

It should be possible for him to take a pay cut if he won't get more elsewhere

The problem is they all want to maintain their access to the club. Without that they've got nothing. None of them are really powerful enough, with a strong enough audience, to be able to go rogue and threaten the club with negative press. The Echo in particular got totally screwed by Cortese when they "stepped out of line"

Will we even have a bit more money? I read it as no more money but we can buy earlier in the window

This place is always worst when there's not a lot going on. Fact is that we're comfortably midtable, the manager's job is pretty safe, we're a way off the next transfer window and we've just had a takeover, so not much proper stuff to discuss

Your outlook is correct, but you can just accept it and enjoy supporting the club

I'd be interested to hear from older posters about who was better between Niemi and Flowers

OK he's more of a cult hero but don't tell me you didn't love Kelvin by the end

Are centre partings back in fashion now then? It's like the 90s never ended

Well if he said it on a conspiracy theorist podcast then it must be true! Why were Thompson and Nicholas sacked at the same time?

The keeper has narrowed the angle far, far better here than in the other one

37,395 posts on an internet forum, and counting

I was excited when David Speedie joined. I thought Perry Groves might be good for us.

I honestly can't think of a player who's had a stranger development. Glad he's doing better now though