Saint_clark

IIRC they signed a few players in January that all spoke genuinely about wanting to finish in the top 4 and that's when they fell away. It went from a fun ride while it lasts to genuinely trying to do something impossible.

It won't be the drubbing people are predicting but it will be comfortable for Newcastle, 2 or 3-0 with us barely threatening.

That 1-1 comparison depends heavily on how Suga adapts to the Prem to be fair. I think Taylor is an improvement on Manning and BBD an improvement on Che.

Welcome to Southampton! If you aren't a top Prem player by the time you're 21 we'll ditch you.

Agreed, but what's the alternative? We can do a Pompey?

This is the level of spending the Premier League is at for decent midtable players. This is why we sign younger players and why we have to give them a few years before we write them off.

Yeah we'd probably do well to get £40-45 million out of that lot right now.

I was just using that figure as an example. Obviously we should try to negotiate down but if we can't afford the full amount up front I don't see anything wrong with splitting it that way, decent chunk up front with the majority of it at the end of the loan.

Surely loan with mandatory to buy clause would be doable. £7.5million loan fee and £20million next summer.

Most of our best signings in the past have been towards the end of the window to be fair.

And Leno available for £4million.

Please get Ramsdale on loan. Please god.

When someone posts incorrect information on here do you get notified with the QI klaxon sound going off? Anyway I think the pink kit looks alright, probably the best of the three, but I still wouldn't wear it.

Must be some history from last season when he was at Juventus surely. I forgot Nathan wood existed I must admit.

@Master Batesany chance of some footage of the fight? 😂

Eh?

I certainly wouldn't be brave enough to shout it at the women's game, even if I usually am thinking it.

I'd be disappointed if there isn't a way back for him here to be honest, considering we look happy to play Jack Stephens as first choice.

Indeed but the other differences are that the money we spent was raised through sales, 22/23 we didn't raise anything. And also the price inflation makes a huge difference. The players we signed in 14/15 would have cost us probably twice that now, maybe even more.

Martin loves his cheeky lads with beards to have mad bants with.

Anyone else think they might have designed this shirt purely so the logo goes with it, with the yellow badges etc?

Wait, really? That's genuinely better than our current kit as wacky as it is.

We spent more in 14/15 although I'll admit that was with a lot of outgoings. But again, those players were signed with a deliberate long term strategy in mind. Only one of those players is no longer here and he made most of that money back himself.

Yes, and those are already good enough. But we don't have the funds to buy an entire team (squad) of ready made players. I'll say it now, unless we sell KWP I can almost guarantee we don't spend more than £15million on another player.

But we're not spending relatively big money on them. Relatively big money would be £20-30million each. We spend in the £6-15million region.