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Jesus, saw she’d had encephalitis too. Awful and understandable he’d want to come back here from France after finishing up with Lens

Exclusive interview with TNT https://www.tntsports.co.uk/football/premier-league/2024-2025/tyler-dibling-jurgen-klopp-football-new-manager-search-southampton-planning-relegation-johannes-spors_sto23183150/story.shtml

From the Sky Sports website: Saints interested in CL right-back Latest from Sky Sports News' Anthony Joseph: Southampton are interested in Sturm Graz right-back Max Johnston. It’s understood that Saints have been watching the Scotland international very closely in the last couple of months. Several clubs from the Premier League, Championship and across Europe are monitoring Johnston’s situation, after impressive performances this season in the Champions League and Austrian Bundesliga. The 21-year-old has two years left on his contract with Sturm Graz and he is on the brink of winning a second successive league title with the club, since joining from Motherwell in July 2023. Sky Sports News understands Sturm Graz value the player at around £3m. Atalanta, Augsburg and Hamburg are among the interested clubs across Europe. Johnston has one goal and six assists this season and made his Scotland senior debut in March.

He actually was.... albeit very briefly. He broke his ankle while playing as a trialist for our academy years ago. He got turned down by us, Norwich and Reading, if I remember rightly (I might have the other two teams wrong) and then ended up rehabbing and fighting his way back in at Arsenal and getting a pro deal

Have two adult tickets in the Kingsland for today's game if anyone wants them, free to a good home (don't all rush at once... yes this is a sanity test)

Yep, mine arrived this morning too

How come? Game is still 10 days away

Don't worry, everyone

Vardy to score and game to end as a draw is 8/1

Except that isn't true. Nisotaki's appointment was reported about three weeks ago: https://trainingground.guru/nisotaki-leaving-norwich-to-join-sport-republic/

Nikola Ladan, the new head of international scouting, is a Swede and ex-Genoa, so at least now we know Spors is inclined to hire people he's worked with before...

Fair enough. Really wouldn't mind freshening up the CB positions, we're overloaded with players in that position and it feels like we've been turning out Bednarek and Stephens forever and a day now. Creates room for Edwards, would need to add another if/when THB goes and then Stephens and Wood can be the backups Bednarek is a good Championship player but we're probably overdue for a parting of the ways there

When I spoke to the ticket office on the phone they said emails would go out by end of day on Friday, May 2 and if you don't hear anything from the club then you can work on the basis that your ticket will be arriving via the post and will not require collection at Goodison

QPR boss Marti Cifuentes put on gardening leave for unauthorised talks with WBA over their vacant manager's job

Really? He chats crap on radio all day every day for a living now, I don't doubt that he heard it from someone but I wouldn't be certain that it's gospel / fully accurate

Pretty sure this is nonsense. Wouldn't be surprised if we're open to an additional investor but selling at this point makes little sense Solak three months ago: "I feel completely at home here and I'm as passionate as ever to make this successful, I will do everything possible. That's why I decided to assume the chairmanship, I show everybody that I'm going nowhere and will do everything to make it work." As Saint Mikey said above though, everything is for sale at the right price and if someone really wanted us and made Dragan a great offer then he'd give it serious thought

Equally, could've heard it from his other TS colleague Alex Crook...

Because Spors said it himself in his only interview since joining Saints? "A very intense style of football is something that fits here. This leads to my scouting processes. I think players need to be physically strong. They need to be fast. They need to have some aggressiveness in their mentality. If you just give these headlines to a scouting department there is already a clear profile. Then we will go into much more detail with our data analytics and traditional scouting."

Liam Rosenior signs new three-year deal with Strasbourg, so you can chalk him off if you thought he was a potential option

Hamer plays for Sheffield United and could end up in the Premier League. Agree on Sainz, he has impressed when I've seen him