Willo of Whiteley

Saints probably trying to call ABK’s bluff. How desperate does he want to leave? Not enough as long as he’s picking up massive wages. He’ll be released on deadline day, they’ll come to a compromise. Would be even funnier to see him sulk for four months. 🤣

Dibling will still be a Southampton player at the end of the window. Clubs aren’t paying more than £30m for him, and that’s only cos he’s English so there’s a tax increase on him of about £20m.

There’s nothing particularly significant in the squad that’s been taken to Spain, only that a number of the players left out have picked up knocks or are injured.

I’m guessing some people on this thread have missed the fact that a number of the excluded players are injured. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣 The panic in some people.

Man United to still be negotiating for Bryan Mbuemo the week of the first Premier League game.

BBD was a way better player when he was younger, as soon as he became a Chilean international and added “Diaz” to his name he became poor. You simply cannot call him prolific in the Championship because quite simply he hasn’t done it for years. Adam Armstrong is a much better player than BBD. BBD has done nothing to even warrant that he is a footballer let alone a Championship level player. The risk you run is selling him to another Championship rival, because he certainly isn’t good enough for the Premier League, and he seemingly won’t be moving abroad any time soon. (Recently became a father and only lasted six months in Spain with Villarreal).

Ramsdale will go, Fernandes and Dibling I’m 50/50 about. Fernandes lit up the league more than Dibling did, take out the fact that TD is English and he had a couple of flashes of brilliance but not much more.

The home kit has grown on me in recent days, but not massively. You’d have to put these sets alongside the ones of the 22-23 season - and they were poor.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Wan Bissaka back at Crystal Palace in a year or two. Munoz will move on. I had a bet with someone that KWP would move to one of two London clubs, Fulham or Palace. 🤣

Absolute non-post really 😂

I’d like to have been a fly on the wall when the likes of Brereton, Harwood-Bellis and Archer said to Will Still in their first meeting that they want to leave and WS being like “you’re an absolutely shit player, you’ve had a piss poor season - you’re lucky we aren’t kicking you out”. 🤣

Heard the same thing. There is no word in the world that rhymes with “orange”. Mad right!

No qualms with him wanting to stick around, I didn’t think he’d want to. With a stronger squad around him and at this level, he could learn a lot and really flourish. A back four of Sugawara/Bree, THB/Stephens/Edwards/Wood/Quarshie/Bednarek, Manning isn’t terrible for the Championship. But I fully expect two or three of those CBs to go and maybe a full back to come in. Maybe Andre Garcia from Reading, lots of potential there.

Watford signing Nestory Irankunda from Bayern is a coup. The type of player we should’ve been all over, this guy is so quick and technically good. He’ll walk the Championship and go on to bigger things.

I think it would just be nice to consider buying players of decent quality that you know are going to be dependable for a fight out this league. You have to hope also that the likes of Brereton Diaz will be on their way, absolutely no benefit of having someone like him who doesn’t want to be here and certainly hasn’t got the ability. People can say “he’s done it in the Championship”, seemingly he didn’t do it for Sheffield United for five months; and prior to leaving on loan he did nothing to shower that he was even remotely close to being a footballer. This is just one example of many, but I’m sure they’ll still be a clear out.

Just would’ve been nice to have a bit of red on our kit than it being 80% white like three years ago. 🤣

I find it bizarre, you’d think if a club was serious about going back up you’d be going for players that are fringe Premier League or high Championship etc. Look at Leeds with Dan James, Ethan Ampadu, Joe Roden etc. Saints being linked with pretty much every player that no ones heard of. Of course some of it will be paper talk, but who really knew who Quarshie or Downs were six weeks ago? It feels a little bit like trying to be clever again. We have all seen how that turned out.

Some people believe that real like is like a computer game. 🤣

Play FIFA and you’ll be able to do so within ten minutes. 👍🏻

Possibly the worst, most uninteresting, and most prolonged kit announcements in history. 🤣

It looks crap. It looks like the kit we got relegated in two years ago. Full white down the back. Take the nostalgia out of the equation and it simply isn’t a good kit.

Ramsdale, Bednarek, Brereton, Aribo, Bella-Kotchap, maybe Archer? They’re my guesses anyway.

This is funny 🤣

Danny Rohl seemed a bit poisonous just from the last few months of the season alone

You can’t fault Jack Stephens love for the club, nothing wrong with that, the problem is the ability to step up as a leader. He is too easily riled up and prone to errors. He can’t pin that on his former managers. Club captain, fine. But being on the pitch, no.