BERMUDASAINT

Come back home JWP, bring that lad Downes with ya. At 30 yrs old, he is on his last few years in the EPL, still got a great engine/ stamina. Should NOT cost too much, or a loan. I know he gives everything on the pitch for saints and knows this club inside out. He is capable of magical free kicks and would love to see him break Becks record here.

Who was the short kid near the end of the trophy cerimony? Third from last, on the left, standing next to Beds and Sully?

I like Master Bates, always worth it, happy at the end of it. Seriously like your player and youth game updates.

How about your managers opinion of Mara.... He is a really good footballer, a good technician, and a brilliant athlete. I really liked his performance against Walsall. “I really rate Sekou and he has not had a huge amount of minutes, but he is coming more to the fore now and forcing his way into reckoning.

Not quite 6 foot, our scouts are slipping 🙃 MB do u have a master list of players that have been scouted?

Looking at this transfer thread, Master bates and a few others have been very active in adding scouting reports on here over the past couple of months, prob due to Mowbrays findings. Typical names we do not know, a bunch of teens around 19ish who could be the next top or flop. A few 24-25 old players with a bit of experience, but almost all were over 6 ft, so it seems we are looking for bigger playrers. We had a good look at the champ players and to pinch a few for the right price would be wise. The PL relegated teams have some good players we could use. Chelsea is supposed to have another firesale to improve FFP finances. LOTS of chioices out there, lets hope we get most of them right.

Luton Town - £12.2m Back in 2020/21, the Premier League new boys spent precisely zero pounds on transfers and earned exactly nothing in return. Proper old-fashioned Football League stuff by a club that resolutely refuse to move with the times in many respects. The £22.8m spent this season, obviously much less than most clubs, is nevertheless their biggest summer outlay by a country mile. I find Luton approach to Epl very interesting. Very diff from NF huge spend on PL promo. I assume they are saving the Pl monies to strengthen their club finacially. Sensibly realised that you could spend +100 mil and still be relegated from PL. Why not take that PL money and take it back down with you to the the championship. With parachute payments, Luton will have a HUGE cash injection to finacially stabalise ther club and be a force in the transfer market with there new PL $$$$$. They can start buying better young talent and build a stronger team for another promo. I am toying with this idea for SFC. SFC fans are loving the championship, but to stay here we will cause financial ruin and degrdation of talent. But if we get promo to PL and dont buy a buch of expensive players , sell players that are wanted and turn a profit and give it a go with our mainly young raw talent? If we get relegated, we are in a strong financial postition to buy the best young talent and loans to prep for another exciting season fighting for the championship title, heck we might even win one? We are known for our youth academy and have a first rate training grounds. Brought a lot of young talent recently and looking to buy more. We are no longer looking at PL ready players ( +20 mil) to fill out our squad. As we saw last season, a bunch of young raw talent in the PL will not do well. But in the champ they can improve and develope into great assets. So.....could we adopt a PL and Champ relegation/promo stratagy that will allow us to stay finacially strong. Aquire the best young talent and loans to push for champ promo, which is so much fun compared to trying to stay in PL and trying to avoid relgation.

Sully is a strange one, so strange that RM admitted hes has never played with or coached a player like him. I am sure he is a player with pace and skill to beat any player, even a whole team at times. Stand and watch as he tries this over and over....this is the problem, the TEAM stops when Sully is on the ball, no point in moving in for a pass, a one- two.. he rarely passes. The single mindness to beat his winger and drive to the box leaves no room for variations. The thought of playing triangles up the field is lost on him. Thus RM is perplexed on how to play him as he is so single minded in charging forward on his own. Sully is brilliant at beating a player, i noticed how our players are looking to get the ball to him as much as possible, sometimes forcing the pass and bypassing the triagle we work on to move the ball up the field. I think they see him in training and know he can beat players for fun with his pace and skill. BUT as others have said he is playing for himself, not as a team. Hopefully he can show he can be a team player, looking for the pass, looking to defend and looking to score from a team effort!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/11/samuel-iling-junior-the-young-englishman-on-the-rise-at-juventus Another young Juve target in th 30 mil range, along with the Soule rumor it is very exciting......but realistc?? Charlie is on loan there, a realtionship is building with Juve, lets hope it benifits SFC.

https://punditarena.com/football/kyle-houlihan/analysis-ireland-underage-star-romeo-akachukwu-in-the-first-division-play-offs/ Good article on this young player.

The whole ficking club was a shambles, but it was the individual player that took the wrath of "you are shite" from so called supporters. Guess we have to buy a whole new team around KWP as he is the only one deemed good enough for the EPL. I thought our new players are playing to their strenghths and improving now that we have a better manager and defined system.

Another maligned player by the geniuses on the first page, some familiar fans with their wonderful player judgments, so glad we have thier valuable insite. 😵‍💫 Again, last years new players are not the shite some think they were. We were a team with no direction, style, confidence or togetherness. Now with a solid team effort we can see the quailty the new playes posses. We can rely on the clubs judgment of a good player, and give the player the time to show why the club track and pay millions for these tallented footballers.

Just making sure i got an idea of what the real football telent spotters think of young Mara. Thanks SAINTS SUPPORTERS for your valuable insite.

Our Manager is getting more fame, seems to be the man everyone is talking about. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/02/12/russell-martin-broke-cycle-domestic-violence-southampton/

What a goal!!! What an impact!! We heard he was good, hoped he was good and what a time to deliver? A game that looked like we would loose, turned on its head by a goal of the season strike, and a cool second goal. You could see it lift the whole team and confidence returned to regain a winning mentality. Shout out to Brooks, classy player and another sigh that our scouting/recruitment team does have a good eye for great talent. Our loans have been excellent ( Mason only exception) and the new signings since the new magment team are proving to be good players. This give me confidence when they buy the next young players i have never heard of and I will give them time to see what the management sees as they have spent millions of $ and month/years tracking the next super stars in the making. To judge a player after a few cameos would be foolish on my part, a quick judgment will not take into account all the time the club has put into recruiting these kids.

Great to see twinkle toes back. So good with the ball at his feet, can beat a player at will, and do it again for fun. Got a few goals and shows confidence in himself. We have another great youth sighning working his way to great football career.

Are we getting another few pages of "I was so wrong about Mara". I hope so, if you could hand out the shite, surely you can eat it when so wrong on players abilities. How about the early Mara haters reflect on their abilty to judge a football players ability and realise they should just shut the fuck up!

So not so far fetched we could see Soule at SFC! This Charlie deal is very interesting, a young raw Argie that cannot get into our team can be swept away to a mega club like Juv for big loan and possible big fee. Juv were reported interested in him before we snatched him up, another obscure buy from our scouts, but obvioulsy well known to the intl scouts as a player with huge potential. Add this to the attempt to buy Gakpo we seem to be interested in some of the worlds best young break out players. With Sully, Abk and a few others that could have a very high ceiling in world football, we are certainly look like a club that still shoots for the "stars"...." future stars".

So say you.........he is our young player that needs game time, one that has show more promise than KD. " never amount to anything"? what the fuck has he done to you? Why such the hate?

Are they players getting game time? YES........whats your point? Young raw players getting game time to improve to become experienced players seem the norm to me. SAA had a couple of appreance in the 1st team, he did do well and not so well, go figure, raw kid not quire ready, but not forgotten......Should he leave too?

So KD thinks he will get game in a PL team with very good PL players @ Brighton vs championship Saints, yeah not logical. We are playing young kids, baz, edoz, charles, charly etc so we play them IF they are good enough! Is KD good enough. Did Rm not see him as ready ( boy thinks he is, but coaches managers dont?). His mates are getting game time, why wouldnt he think his was coming soon, IF he was ready. I dont wish him good luck or bad luck, seems like he is willing to try somewhere else. He was ready to be a possitive asset to us after years of youth scolarships with us, but decided to leave. Maybe he didnt see a pathway forward, could not see himself displacing what we got? So Brighton will be easier because they have worse players than us?........$$$$$$$$$$ come to mind$$$$$$$$$$$

$$$$BROGA ALERT$$$$ https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13051042/armando-broja-chelsea-willing-to-sell-striker-for-50m-with-fulham-and-wolves-interested-in-albanian He is in the shop window! would you still want him? 50 mil ??? Last week 35mil this week. Seems Chelsea want rid! Chelsea have reduced the price of Armando Broja. The Blues wanted £50million for the Albanian striker. However, they have reportedly knocked off £15million and will accept £35million. The deal for any potential suitors is a loan until the end of the campaign with an obligation to buy in the summer. We are prob not in the convo with PL teams interested , but with Poch still interested in KWP, would you want to swap BRO for KWP? Loan Broga to buy next year for 20-30 mil when we go back up? Broja has an Estimated Transfer Value (ETV) of €20m, and the article below argues Chelsea asking price is too high. https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/transfer-news/uk-premier-league/2024/01/chelsea-transfer-news-openda-gimenez-and-six-forwards-better-value-than-rip-off-broja Prior to his knee injury, Broja impressed on loan at Southampton in the 2021/22 season, hitting nine goals in 38 matches in all competitions. He has 2 in 17 appearances for Chelsea.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/southampton-target-juventus-star-in-big-money-move/ Southampton FC weigh up big money move for Juventus star BYHAMISH WOODWARD PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO Southampton are reportedly interested in a big money move for Juventus star Matias Soulé in the January transfer window.

Ryan Manning has averaged the most chances created per 90 among the Southampton squad this season (1.9), just ahead of Stuart Armstrong (1.8), Not so useless after all. Who is the next whipping boy? Some of ya gotta have one!

Well said, just have to listen to what RM has been saying to find the truth.