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Understandable, but up to Still to decide if he can coax the ability out of him more, which he clearly does have. BBD looked rank there second half of the season so not sure the Blades environment was the best with all of the owner politics and AI scouting in the background.

Then, tired and unsteady, he’d drop Nate after the effects of a Friday night in the pubs of Greenwich, in a replay of Tony Adams’s holding aloft and dropping winning goal scorer Steve Morrow at Wembley and putting him out for the rest of the season.

Although would Boro let Hackney and Azaz go in one week?

We’d be paying a% of the wages which SR will hate but it’s the only option to get his career going again and his chin off the floor. PNE and Blackburn more likely I’d have thought but if Jones gets him scoring 15 goals this season, win win, he’s then an asset again to sell.

Ben, it’s the one illuminated in green with ‘Exit’ above it…

Your autocorrect is coming up with some crackers. If BBD was in an office, I wouldn’t trust him to work the photocopier.

His signing on fee deterred Everton and West Ham. Given they’ve both made signings since in that area that ship sailed but I reckon Brum after the window,

How’s Brexit worked out? Nigel very quiet on that these days 🤥 Any suggestions in todays speech about how to regain the 6% of the economy a hard Brexit lost?

And/or injured long-term.

If it doesn’t work out for him in Bremen and returning to Saints doesn’t appeal, Handball is Germany’s second most favourite sport and Volleyball has over seventy professional clubs. Lots of chances to get ‘hands on’ and become a Japanese international at something new.

BBD would probably cost less now than the £10m option they had at the end of his loan.

Forgot that Les Reed would have signed Will Smallbone as an academy player so probably kept an eye on him and been a suggestion to Parkinson if they came up.

Handball!

Sadly you are probably right, the Branfoot and Lowe days are in the history books. More likely is what I described around falling gates and Dragan not wanting to write ever larger cheques post-parachute payments. That’s why Short got rid of Sunderland in the end, just hope Dragan leaves it debt free when he does the same so someone with the right focus and finances can have a proper go again.

I think it’s because his agent is an even bigger day dreamer than Joe Aribo’s, with links made to Napoli and even PSG (?!) which you’d have to be on LSD to take seriously. Rasmus and Martin swallowed it though Quelle surprise

I think thats what happened last summer though between Martin and Ankerson albeit with the latter supplying lists of players linked to the Ankerson transfer tavern where they could take a cut. Still no excuse for the McCarthy contract though and AA extension. If the manager is Ronald Koeman, Pochettino, Alan Pardew, Strachan or peak Lawrie, absolutely agree.

Crash two major football clubs for the price of one. The football industry is astonishing in terms of how many abject failures like him keep on getting gigs.

Already known about on the player’s thread to Bremen and the poorly-timed and tacky Long announcement overshadowed it. SR have bought so many 🍋 they should open a sherbet factory. Sounds like he’s only a stop gap and they are another club in large decline. So he should fit in well.

This is the crux of why it won’t work between our fanbase and SR. We might make the odd decent signing and scrape a win over Pompey to paper the cracks but ultimately what both parties want and see as success is totally different. Whether business or personal, that only ever ends one way.

Spot on and Semmens with his lucky to be here crap at forums. Upwardly mobile Southampton FC is not. You’re right about name managers. We’ve always been far better with them on the whole - Koeman, Poch to an extent, Adkins was an ambitious hire for L1, Pards, WGS. Souness was tactically iffy but bought in some cracking players.

And injured players too. Started with Boufal who Reed bought for Puel to liven up the drab football Claude deployed but he was already out until October and bar the odd spectacular goal never got going. Equivalent fee of £30-35m today. Stewart was an even worse risk - they were very lucky Adams’s proposed move to Wolves didn’t materialise that day. Previously fit and well players can develop niggles, it happens in sport, but to sign a player who is already scheduled to miss a third of a season at very best and an uncertain prognosis…and Stewart was out of contract at the end of that season too! There’s also tunnel vision, Les, Hughes and Bowen identified correctly that the defence lacked height (correctly). So Vestergaard was identified by Reed and Wilson as top pick. There’s a TalkSPORT clip with Bowen where he said him and Mark Hughes said to Reed ‘you’ve got to be kidding Les, he can’t run at all!’. Both went on holiday thinking no more of it, they come back and signing happened, OS pictures with Les and the watch. So they went with the tallest defender and overlooked all other attributes. What Leicester were thinking later on giving us our money back…the mind boggles. Hence both clubs in a dreadful mess.

Agree @Saint86 and I think the penny has dropped with the overwhelming majority of the fanbase because what’s on here lampoons them as inept clowns, what’s online more broadly SFC-related is far more vicious and hostile towards SR. Announcing Long with another poxy marketing video on the day they sold our best academy product for years, albeit the best they could do in the contract situation, is yet another example of simply not reading the room. It’s going to boil over on national TV against the skates unless we win that game well and SR are on as sticky a wicket as Martin is up there. Dragan can say he’s going nowhere but when there’s protests and the gates fall from 31k, to 25, to 20, to 15, the underwriting cheques get bigger each season. Just ask Ellis Short.

Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General and one of the country’s finest legal minds on the reality of what Farage is proposing https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-immigration-deportation-reform-law-b2813624.html So if he’s right, I suspect he is, even suspending EHCR membership isn’t a panacea. Better to update it and make it more specific in interpretation.

Yeah, Downs is medium-upper Champ price these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Guðmundsson_(footballer,_born_1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Frendrup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Retegui At a level we couldn’t attract now under SR but used to be in the Liebherr days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_Drăgușin