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In the Orange Man’s mind at least. Less so in Dr Evil’s judging by his response so far on Ukraine.

Leggie all-rounder - interesting. Whether that’s more of a Liam Livingstone or Will Jacks all-round I guess we will find out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewald_Brevis With Brett Hampton, my concern was that he’d reached 33 with no international honours in a country when the national team has had a great few years but the talent pool quite small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Hampton

Shorter, quicker, in at the ribs. Line and length isn’t working where conditions are drying out.

Freedom of speech only when MAGA agrees with it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20xq5nd8jeo Hopefully the UK can hoover up some of the overseas students headed for the Ivy League and get them spending in our cities and economies instead by unwinding Braverman’s crap.

Could be dangerous/messy for Mrs SNSUN if you fart afterwards.

Aribo has suitors, he’s in the 2026 expiry cohort, one of the big Turkish clubs, probably a £5-8m fee and one of our bigger earners. Similar for Onachu. Bazanu is a quandary as 2027, hasn’t pulled up any trees at Standard. If Rohl does the obvious thing and replaces Ramsdale, he is probably looking at another loan out as McCarthy inexcusably got a 2 year deal last summer and he will understandably see it through. If Baz had only one year left a mutual termination would have made sense to get a new club without them risking a fee and stay in RoI contention. Stewart might as well treat as a bonus David Connolly style (although yet to see any evidence Ross is anywhere near David’s calibre as a forward). Edozie is trickier to predict - year left, as with Bazanu not pulled up the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Did alright last time in the Champ but might be happier moving to another Champ club, or Old Firm, on a 3 year deal if the fee is fairly low. Smallbone is another who had some success last time, but can only function and compete as most advanced in a central three. See below on Charlie Taylor if that doesn’t suit Rohl or whoever it is, or Bree if it does. Bree will stay with a 12 month extension I reckon, Taylor who knows? Maybe a free with Saints paying a % of wages. Full list https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-southampton/vertragsende/verein/180/vertragsendeJahr/2026

Unless they do what Man City did, but very unlikely. Even less likely we score the last goal there and keep a clean sheet, as Michael Svensson accomplished.

We need a Danny on the Mike video to complete the PE teacher vibe ‘Wonderbar! Schon! Was fur ein schoner Morgen wir haben werden’

You pick other posters for that kind of thing all of the time - no way out on that one MLG 😀

Seems unlikely Wilder will buy him even if they win the play offs. Pity for all parties. However, part of me would like to see him in the Champ for Saints under a manager who uses him properly, although £10m to part re-invest in an actual centre forward which the club are so allergic to buying would be the best of all.

Absolutely what I expect, given we spent a lot on him by Champ standards and he’s done well at Weds, unless we appoint another SR tosspot who plays him out of position due to their ‘philosophy’, or there’s a buyer from the PL for Shea who will offer SR enough profit (unlikely yet to be regarded as another James Garner/Morgan Gibbs-White). If Rohl gets the gig, 100% he starts in August as DMC if fit.

and that’s where the odd one might happen if a player actually wants to be in and around the first team, is in their national squad, and the new manager makes it clear they are unlikely to be in the first team picture. If you’re confident you’ve got takers at a similar level on a free, but that club might struggle with the fees and wages, and Saints new manager wants more headroom, it’s possible. Unlikely but possible.

Yeah, but citing X is like saying voters in some American states know anything about politics - ‘eg voting Trump because he’s going to make my supermarket shopping cheaper or because I care about the environment’.

Here’s the contract law https://www.easportslaw.com/news/terminating-a-contract-between-football-club-and-a-player Probably the only circumstances where it’s going to happen other than a club effectively going pop, eg Steven Davis and Rangers, is a mutual agreement where the player either has personal circumstances - partner given birth at the other end of the UK or overseas, terminally ill relative, combined with being unsettled/not needed at the current club, with some confidence that another club would want them as a free agent. The club has done it with Carrillo and Osvaldo before, so not totally unheard of, and there might be an instance where a player who has just broken back into their national team after injury gets displaced by a new first choice signing and would rather seek first team football at a similar level to stay in the national team picture. Their contract would need to be in the final year or so to make it with it both ways though.

We’ll junk the Equality Act 2010 if America junks the right to bear arms segment of the second amendment. Fair’s fair.

Hope so, one less ricket for SR to pay off.

Looks like it. When you’ve overpaid hideously for one Conference North calibre young Irish keeper, the SR way would naturally be to double down https://saintsmarching.com/shea-charles-could-complete-another-historic-transfer-move-involving-southampton https://www.skysports.com/football/video/30998/13351199/a-freak-goal-pierce-charles-howler-leads-to-ben-wilmot-goal

The obsession to find the next Livramento or Lavia has destroyed the club as a competitive entity, at least at PL level.

Not just us that aren’t convinced https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/southampton-urged-to-find-goalkeeper-replacement-in-summer/

He was shit on the X Factor as well.

Really good post. GK first choice is essential, and Ross Stewart can only be regarded as a bonus/impact player eg don’t count on him in planning at all, and if he manages say 10 starts, another dozen off the bench and half-a-dozen goals, that’s a real result. AMC is probably the only area we disagree on, and wide areas depends on who leaves.

Agree, has to be to do with aesthetics or that he already said no because based on what the club needs he is the blatantly obvious candidate. Him #1 choice, Rohl #2. Happy with either, not sure beyond that.

I remember the Scottish prisons case which IIRC had a trans rapist - there we go, that was it https://news.sky.com/story/isla-bryson-transgender-double-rapist-complains-of-transphobic-abuse-in-prison-12913882 In some sports it’s been an issue and I can see how there could be a significant physical advantage. Either way, it should bring some clarity now which has got to be an improvement. I’m fine with the judgement.

I just struggle to shake off my apathy about this particular issue tbh! But it got out of hand and the behaviour towards Kathleen Stock at Sussex University by trans activists was very unacceptable and dangerous. That couldve happened to a lot of people in their workplace. I’m sure that’s had a factor in today’s judgement.

Our grandparents generation didn’t trust banks after the Great Depression of the 1930s. Maybe the Banking Crisis of 2008 had a similar impact on MLG?