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It's a bit different as it has nothing to do with profit and loss, rather it's focused on connecting your football expenditure to the overall revenue of the club PSR worked on the basis of a club being permitted a maximum amount of allowed losses over a 3yr period of time SCR works on a maximum of 85% of your club's annual revenue being allowed to be spent on footballing costs (manager's salary, transfer fees, player wages and agent fees). Owners are allowed to top up annually with a c. £10m cash injection. An owner would be allowed to put that money in up front or later in the reporting period to alleviate the possibility of their club narrowly failing the SCR rules (by less than £10m), but the money must be a no-strings cash injection and not a loan

Daily Mail: Leeds United have submitted a second bid for Southampton's Shea Charles, worth £25m

PSR has been abolished as of this season, replaced by SCR (Squad Cost Ratio) rules

Jander is a true box to box midfielder, does his best work winning the ball higher and running at opponents. Downes looks at his best in deeper areas, breaking up the play. Neil also looks good in deeper areas, but has a better passing range than Downes and is more of a playmaker. Based on what we've seen with Tonda, he sees Bragg as a defensive midfielder who sits in front of the defence and holds his position rather than marauding forward like Jander If you want to try and get through a whole season with only Flynn Downes as your only Championship-proven DM when he is liable to sudden bouts of sickness and shitting his guts out at a moment's notice, then I'd suggest signing another known quality, good Championship midfielder is a pretty sensible way of giving yourself some insurance against those periods where Downes looks out of sorts and is ill (or suspended)

You'd hope and think so, but preseason is a week out now and still no indication... although the FA's disciplinary process did issue a ban to an ex-Watford player today for racism incidents last season, so it seems they're back from their holidays and are actually dealing with their in-tray now

He's a holding midfielder mate I'm not sure how overwhelming it could be, tbh

No YouTube yet?

Guy who sits just across from me in the office is a Sunderland fan, his response was: Dan Neil can be a Rolls Royce. Will help you win the Championship, classy on the ball, great passer, rarely loses it under pressure and keeps the team ticking over from deep. Knows his role and delivers. Think he’s got it in him to be Prem quality but just wouldn’t get in our team anymore over Xhaka He said that Neil was the hometown hero and Sunderland captain before they signed Granit Xhaka and promised him the captaincy. That experience seemed to have knocked Neil's confidence a bit, so probably just needs some building back up

Somehow I think not

Sulemana's been anonymous so far, surprisingly

That was a lovely move

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Renewals

Season tickets now on sale: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/2026-27-mens-season-tickets - As with many clubs and businesses, we continue to face rapidly rising operating costs across a number of areas. In the year ahead, increases in the National Minimum Wage, supplier pricing, energy costs, policing and the ongoing maintenance required at St Mary’s are expected to add around £1m to the club’s cost base, with further uncertainty expected. We have worked hard to absorb these increases as much as possible to protect supporters and will continue to do so wherever we can. However, to ensure we can maintain standards across the club and continue investing in the team and supporter experience, a modest increase in Season Ticket prices is unfortunately unavoidable this year. Renewal prices will increase on average by £1.23 per game for adults and 81p per game for Under 18s. Even with this adjustment, Season Tickets continue to offer strong value, with adult prices starting from £478, working out at just over £20 per match, while Under 14 prices start from £75 and Parent & Child packages from £624, or just over £27 per match. We remain committed to taking a measured and responsible approach to pricing. In recent seasons, we have taken steps to support supporters wherever possible with price freezes and reductions in three of the last four years.

Last night Messi (38, 39 next Wednesday) also took the record of oldest hat-trick scorer at a World Cup off of Cristiano Ronaldo (33 when he did it)

Tunisia manager Sabri Lamouchi sacked after losing 5-1 to Sweden in the opening group game. Apparently had a big row with the players and then a fight at the team hotel when they arrived back from the game

Yeah, he was one of the starting CBs for Monaco right the way up to January, when he did his ACL

Cyle Larin now replaces Mohammed Salisu (Ghana, 2022) as the most recent Saints player to score at a World Cup 🇨🇦

Yeah, I just saw the teaser video from the club because I have notifications on

Basically the only good thing that came of Mad Nate's mini-era. Probably the only signing he actually chose, as well...

We also could've triggered his option sooner if we wanted to be loyal with him, even if we were a PL club and didn't really have much use for him in 2026/27. We were hedging our bets and our safety net fell through Good post, it is what it is and it's fine for things to not be right for either party to sign something

Official: Signed a new deal that keeps him at the club until 2029