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Think it's quite possible given KWP has just 1yr on deal and I find it hard to believe anyone is paying over £20m for a guy with one year left, who spent last season in the Championship and the year before that getting relegated and turns 28 during the season. Downes is three years younger and Saints clearly desperate for him + West Ham have him locked into a longer contract, so it gives them more negotiating room.

Reported from Poland that Jakub Moder will go from Brighton to Leicester, with Kieran Dewsbury-Hall going the other way

One thing that seems to get overlooked with Romano is that it's obviously completely unrealistic that any journalist has enough contacts all over the world to know about all of this stuff and all of these transfers, managerial appointments and executive moves - all happening at the same time. If you look at who he follows on social media, he follows tonnes of other journalists (who aren't mainstream/visible to most football fans) and then rewords and amplifies their info. Like with this Brazilian journalist who has been in the lead on the Lyanco stuff. Most people won't ever spot/care about that, but given the amount of time and effort that goes into building relationships with people in football, there's no way one journalist can ever have this many contacts. It's why when you see Romano and the likes of David Ornstein or John Percy contradicting each other, you can assume that Romano is wrong. As with the Steve Cooper stuff and a couple of other things this summer so far. You're right though that now his audience has grown so large, agents and clubs will leak info to him when it suits them. Definitely lots of feeding going on. He also has a very busy agent of his own, who is making sure to maximise his earnings while he has online fame. So on one hand, fair play to him but on the other hand, you're totally right that it's a false economy and there's lots of nonsense going on now.

Friday, July 19: Eastleigh v Saints Wednesday, July 24: Bordeaux v Saints Saturday, July 27: Montpellier v Saints Bordeaux and Montpellier games to be played behind closed doors during a week-long training camp in Spain. https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-start-pre-season-against-spitfires-before-trip-to-spain

Could be wrong, but think I read a segment in the planning application document on the topic of disabled parking spaces at SMS and how they're very rarely all used/close to being all used, which the club was presenting as justification for reallocation.

If we win the group, we go into the side of the draw with Italy/Switzerland/Austria/Netherlands/Turkey etc etc Other side of the draw is France/Germany/Spain/Portugal

So now there's three No 10s playing in behind a striker who always likes to drop into the space where the No 10s play?

How does he set his corners up? Zonal or man Marxing?

talkSPORT are suggesting this is Saints

Wilson is on well over £100k per week (signed a £100k deal in 2019/20 and has signed two more since) so I don’t see how he can be a target whatsoever. Even at 50% of that he’d be one of the very highest earners at Saints - perhaps the highest?

Hummel stuff now £1 in the club shop apparently, with the contract ending after this week

Japanese media reporting that we are in advanced talks with AZ Alkmaar to sign Yukinari Sugawara

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13560327/Liverpool-place-20m-price-tag-midfielder-Tyler-Morton-amid-RB-Leipzig-Bournemouth-Southampton-Ipswich-Town.html

And they were right

Makes sense that a lot of these earlier links are frees with experience too, given these deals need to be tied up first due to their contracts expiring in nine days time and it then means the recruitment team know exactly what still needs adding and how much budget they can spend in fees to get it all done.

Couple of other pieces in that article from Jack Rosser: - Saints (and Martin especially) were very keen on Callum O'Hare, reportedly approached weeks ago but feeling is it's unlikely to happen - Pursuing alternatives as a result, one who they think fits well is Bobby Decordova-Reid at Fulham - out of contract, considering new 2yr offer from Fulham - Saints also interested in Brereton Diaz, seems Villarreal may be open to loaning if there is an option to buy in 2025 - He was on loan at Sheffield United for the second half of last season, scoring 6 goals in 14 PL games

John Percy and Sam Wallace at the Telegraph both saying Leicester are in advanced talks with Steve Cooper instead

True but also, look at that injury history... that's five hamstring injuries, a couple of thigh injuries and a couple of surgeries. He's lost hundreds and hundreds of days to hamstring injuries - if Ross Stewart was a risk, this would be madness https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ryan-sessegnon/verletzungen/spieler/392775

Fuck me, what a goal from Guler for Turkiye