Matthew Le God

All we need is a blowtorch...

Nice setting for a pre-season friendly...

Livramento is not on loan, Saints bought him for £5m.

How sober were you after that?

Hat

Reassignment

A higher wage and potentially step closer to returning to Liverpool as 1st team assistant manager.

He is a bit out of shape for a PL footballer...

If you wish to use the definition you earlier quoted, the word competitive is redundant as you say it applies to every league/competition. Do you think a one horse league is 'competitive'?

So when you said... 'let him test himself in a competitive league' it was meaningless to use competitive... because that term could be applied to him being loaned to literally any league he is eligible to play in! Including playing as an overage player in our under 23 team. 🙄

How does one example of a superb player coming from that league support the claim that the league is 'competitive'?

Is it though? The French top flight isn't particularly competitive, let alone the 2nd tier.

Easy to get the blessing of your sponsor... when the sponsor is owned by the same family who own the club! 😉

They know that will be the case at every club and that it will soon be a market they don't even have for adult shirts. If Saints gave the option for no sponsor it is hard to see nany if any replica shirts being sold at all. Of course the main benefit to a sponsor is having their logo on player shirts during games on TV across the world, but the replica shirt market opens it up for many thousands of mini billboards for them for brand exposure.

Finding a sponsor willing to accept their logo would not be featuring on a large % of replica shirts would be a very hard task for the club’s commercial department!

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