Gloucester Saint

Even our placid away fans are turning rapidly. If we aren’t looking a lot more energetic and competitive in the first few games next season and top 6, watch out SR. Fernandes wasn’t well apparently but bringing on Smallbone to give some energy 😂🤣😆

Alan Nixon saying we are looking at Anthony Patterson if Sunderland don’t go up. Mix of views on their forum, in summary very good shot stopper, less good off his line and communication not great. But at 25 those could be fixed. Some slight concerns about weight control/fitness as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Patterson Can’t see us paying what they might want but positive to see another goalkeeper link as Bazanu’s Belgian stint finally brought the club into reality.

Maybe they are more the fish finger type?

Trouble is, I agree but Dragan is already going to be writing off a lot of wages and fees season. Bazanu will be on heavily subsidised loans for his last couple of years as clearly is nowhere near a Champ goalkeeper as his wretched Belgian stint further underlined as if it needed to, Larios probably most of his wages when he goes back to the Spanish semi-pro leagues, Smallbone they won’t get the £7-8m Sheff Utd offered in 2023. ABK - who knows?! Ditto Taylor.

There’s going to need to be a fair degree of writing off from Martin and Rasmus’s mistakes. Bazanu will be a heavily subsidised loan to L1 next season or two, Smallbone cannot press at all so low fee/free so another club offers him a longer contract. Stephens probably back-up, Manning not the worst at Champ level and Onachu has interest from Turkey. Larios back to Spain with some of his contract remaining paid on the difference. Stewart they might as well keep for his final year as an impact player as no-one is taking a risk with his record.

And not just Leavers, true of Remainers as well. The whole thing was far too complex to be decided in/out which is why no-one has got what they thought they were going to out of it.

It’d have to be later in the window to shift some PSR lumber and even then, can’t see how they’d get close to what the club would want. Ipswich is the most likely.

With most of this lot minus Ramsdale, Fernandes and KWP, avoiding a Luton would be LMA nomination worthy. The only hope is that Dragan is up for backing Spors to perform a total overhaul and/or part-subsidise loans out for the trash the club can’t sell eg Stephens, Smallbone.

He’s certainly more Herpes than Hyppia

Possession is clearly nine-tenths of the Lego brick…

We’ll be paying the bulk of the wages but yes, seems an obvious move, good for Jack to be near family and yes, League 1 about his level these days.

Good to hear, in the absence of any leadership whatsoever in the technical area, training ground, in the senior players and worst of all boardroom, we will need to educate the younger players on what it means to play for the club and the standards expected. Learning by praise and criticism.

£18m for Downes wasn’t it? Cannot see anyone wanting to pay anywhere near that, maybe £10-12m from Ipswich if McKenna stays there and still interested.

Probably less ‘who would we like’ and more ‘who is willing to do it who isn’t a Russell Martin/Ivan Juric disaster area.

Agree but who wants him/can afford him? Argyle would but we’d have to pay 80% of his wages. That is one of the worst individual top flight outfield Saints performances I’ve ever seen from a player. A fan from the away end would have been a huge improvement. He’s nowhere near even being Champ quality now. I say outfield as Bazanu is a category of toilet all on his own in goal.

Only because Argyle or Truro can’t afford his wages.

Even he admits they’ve basically thrown the game from kick off and not tried a leg. Cheats, spivs and wage thieves.

As his name suggests, he is best feeding the young.

Sounds like a Tofu substitute to me.

Rasmus

Smallbone is only a Champ player in a central 3, he’s nowhere near Champ level in a 2. Downes is Champ but can he do it outside Martin-ball? Questionable. Stephens I think has regressed to top half League 1. BBD has been poor on loan at Sheff Utd and can’t get a start now. Stewart has only played 11 Champ games so certainly league 1. Bazanu - worst keeper in the Champ 23/24, error prone for Pompey in L1, there’s another. I’m not even sure Sulemana is a professional footballer. Runs fast, but so can Usain Bolt. Less end product than Evri. Larios - not suited to English football at any level. Manning wasn’t particularly good last season, actually bit better this, Nathan Wood lower Champ at most, probably closer to league 1. Not convinced about Sugawara defensively in the Champ, might be an Otsemobor.

I think people were saying more that for what was a mid-lower Championship fee at the time 200 appearances and umpteen Poland caps isn’t the worst transfer we’ve done post-Koeman, one of the better ones. The fact Les Reed and Wilson were so seemingly so shitfaced that they paid £18m for Vestergaard and £17m for Wesley Hoedt 😂 underlines it.

Even the 08/09 side was better and that was a squad of kids in administration. At least they ran, competed as best they could and tried even though they were even more out of their depth. With the exceptions of Fernandes, Ramsdale and KWP, these players do not deserve to play for Southampton Football Club, the club, fanbase and stadium are far too big for them to handle. They need to move to easier leagues or League 1 and below more suited to their abilities and fitness.

2.5 years, Gloucester Rugby doing well this season, and the infamous Coopers Hill (very steep for those who haven’t seen it). Takes place at the second May B/H. TBH, I much prefer watching League 2 Cheltenham, Gloucester City or Bishop’s Cleeve than Saints. If I wasn’t originally from Southampton, I wouldn’t bother. Not been since Pellegrino and unless there’s a new keeper to replace Ramsdale when he goes and a whole spine to the team with a manager that I believe will secure automatic promotion it would be a waste of petrol.

Possibly, could be environmental toxins but more likely that women and girls have traditionally masked ASD better than boys/men. If we make small adjustments in education and work, it need not be as big a deal as it is, and it shouldn’t be a culture war issue for politicians.