CB Fry

I think most good sources regarding Saints transfer activity are based in sub-Saharan Africa these days.

The Brazilian defence has so many holes in it it's like that cheese you get with all the holes in it.

Yeah, the thing is, we don't pay £350m a week.

Yes we would, otherwise why bid for Messi?

Personally will be amazed if we win a bidding war like this. The entire ethos of the club is designed to not win them and then smugly pat ourselves on the back for "doing things differently". Les and Ralph will take not signing him as a badge of honour.

Your three "Obviously" ones weren't signed as the best Championship players.

If they've accepted the offer then we need to get it wrapped up quickly - Leicester/Everton/anyone else that want him can also come in with £20m. Or, maybe we've blown everyone else out of the water and those other clubs don't think he's worth that.

I wish we were West Ham.

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CB Fry.

Even if you didn't know, the fact is we play a second tier/decent European team every single season the weekend before the season starts. Every single season. Why on earth did you think we wouldn't this summer?

Brighton are playing AFC Wimbledon away. We're playing Celta Vigo and Borossia Mönchengladbach at home. That puts things into perspective. Easy, ain't it?

To be honest I think the joke is the reference in the video to the leak rather than the leak itself being the joke. As this exchange has shown, it's far to risky to try and carry off.

Er, that's just happened already.

No, because then you've got a story you can't control. That would make the tabloids - saints new Chinese owners enrage fans with blue kit shock etc etc. Even the club saying "no it's just a joke" would be met with cynicism.

If it's all a trick then fair play to the club. The Australian photo could easily be staged, as could the link up on the site. As Garrevito says, no one seems to have actually bought it. Let's see.

Didn't see that coming.

Bloody good job they have a world class manager then.

Sorry, we have utterly fu cked up three, some say four, consecutive transfer windows, with even the manager saying we were too slow to react and land our targets last January. Last January, last summer and the January before that were total car crashes. The summer before that, yes we made signings but of players that markedly did not improve the squad. Missed targets, panic buys, awful selections, boneheaded contract extensions. At points last season we had a subs bench crammed with £10-£20m signings which was farcical. We are not "pretty good at quietly going about our business" we are utterly hopeless at player recruitment these days.

There will be a Group P for eff's sake.

16 groups of 3 teams? Jesus wept.

When does the Rhodesia vs Ottoman Empire match kick off?

They would have got one at the start of the following season, had they held on to their jobs. That's all it is. Here's Koeman being interviewed ahead of his second season. https://southamptonfc.com/news/2015-06-30/koeman-looking-forward-to-pre-season-reunions

He has a flawless record which I have no doubt will continue long into the future.