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Is a new manager by itself enough? Someone with experience in EFL investments said this week that there was no reason to expect all EFL clubs not to be owned by American investments. With that, and the excitement of @Turkish and @gio1saints soccerball and global superpower posts... Rebrand club as Southampton Saints Change Badge to just football under a halo Play above for all it's worth to US conservative audiences. Shirt becomes variation of '80's Ajax one, linking us with Total Football for hipster value. Get massive injection of funds by US investors Hire Thierry Henry as coach. Arrange US tours along with Rooney's Plymouth, Lampard's Coventry and Reynold's Wrexham. Keep Rasmus as Southampton Saints brand ambassador and send him on tour of US media, with his supply of soundbites. Follow SR model by taking over/ partnering a much smaller US team. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cd9n5v3vz42o Here's US based Adrian Forbes. A manager without players. Ex Norwich player for Martin links, Ex Luton coach for Nathan links and left field for Rasmus links. Have Dream Academy Netflix programme building US side from scratch with progression to Southampton Saints squad. Zlatan has arrived! New coach demanding high standards joins Southampton Saints, just in time for Netflix show. Henry and Zlatan with big US soccerball profiles. RussBall theory and it's extreme Pep approach wows audiences. But with the hype, exposure and investment we can hire players to our roster to make it work. Sure, we have the issues facing Forest, Newcastle and Villa. But financial rules are under a lot of pressure and we'll be well placed to take further advantage. Finally with players to make it work, RussBall becomes envy of other clubs. Russ' story, lifestyle and principles inspires nations, as he and Lucy become the new Beckhams. We've a good infrastructure for a soon to be EFL club. Hopefully we can take full advantage of that. We just have to dare to dream. 🙂

An unusual amendment to the bill, to watch out for. 🙂

Pros No plan B Higher risk Stubble Cons No pullover Hairstyle could be better Lack of previous failure At a high profile club, so not left field enough. Not hugging and having a laugh with player in photo

You stay strong Gio. The forum is at it's best with different views. It can take a little while, but inevitably others post supporting every view. #daretodream

Pace Finishing Striker As much use to RussBall as Holgate. 🙂

Stoked to the max! It could only be more awesome if I could then relive the game with a never ending Netflix series.

I was wondering if I had fast forwarded through the Stephens and Martin scene. But then I remembered that they starred in another horror movie: Possession: Unassuming average player taken over by deranged supernatural force bent on world football domination, and the disciples he attracts.

SR make error during split on Chapman or Shankly for boss. Independent consultants appointed. "You can't forge a left field, post mortal, global superpower, without being prepared to have the occasional wasteland of screaming souls," said SR spokesperson R Anderson, wiping marshmallow from his face.

Herbert Chapman open to Southampton job through spiritual medium, if they sack Russell Martin - Football Insider

#globalsuperpower #gioisright

Happy to find out by putting them both in a far away field. 🙂

He's preparing them the same way as for every game. If that doesn't calm any nerves. I don't know what will.

After a few choice tackles, no one is coming within 30 yards of him. Job done. 🙂

Dave's wife and daughter on 5 live in an open discussion on the impact of heading, Dave as dad and husband, and the changes. A really good listen. Oh, and the presenter said Rotherham, Sunderland and City and missed us out. Yeah, he did get more games for them but a cracking player for us.

Well said. The future is Charles Hughes.

Some nice person put up some highlights of us against Liverpool. On one of them Klopp is having a warm chat with Koeman. Clearly Klopp has tons of respect for him and his achievements. Quite a switch to a manager who bursts into tears and his successors. Martin did play for Scotland, but doesn't have that reputational clout.

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"Don't tell him, whelk!"

Nice to see our bastion of free speech continue his crusade. Wanting to jail posters who criticise you (and it's never been the subject) is a bit of mask slipping.

Martin has to portray a massive amount of self belief. His absolute commitment to his style helps a lot there. That self belief, and the ego that goes with it, has to carry everyone at the club in the same direction. Hopefully his staff are equally committed, sharing and promoting that. We get to see the cringy things, where the club are wanting to show their togetherness. But there's a lot more interaction that we don't see. Martin's well aware of the criticism, from fans, internally and pundits. But the results shape everything. He's having to defend the basics of what he's hinged his career on. That's going to direct those interviews. And there's a load of them, where he's being asked the same things. If we were winning, we'd be seeing him keeping the ego in check, being glowing about others while waiting for a bigger job offer. Instead, we're bound to get prickly answers considering where we are. I saw Martin do post match interviews as a Norwich player. They were full of clichéd nonsense, and I remember being happy he wasn't spouting that rubbish at my club, after a resounding defeat. He's now having to own what's going on, and we'll see that pressure on his answers.

You've clearly managed to get over that Branfoot Twerking video, having dropped MLT, more quickly than I have. 🙂

I don't follow anyone's social media, but it doesn't seem unusual for someone to put up a holiday pic?

A reminder for anyone ordering a mug, that delivery is 2 weeks.

Barb

On day 1 if he had bought a ping pong table, only to burn it in front of them, we would have done better. More so, if we added in radical mood shifts. 🙂