Matthew Le God

An interesting podcast and article some of you may enjoy...

He is probably content with the PL contract Saints have given him, rather than dropping down a league to being on Championship wages.

Who do you think he meant by the 'Chuckle brothers'?

I'm heading there now...

Neither David Watson or Kelvin Davis were the Southampton 1st team keeper coach. The 1st team keeper coach is Andrew Sparkes.

The article is essentially random musings. They are plucking numbers of ins and outs from the air and haven't a clue what the club will do this Summer.

Take it as a compliment!

He isn't better than Ward-Prowse or Romeu. So spending a club record fee and huge wages on a back-up player isn't a great use of resources compared to other areas of the squad that require major improvement this summer.

Throwing flares at the players and staff of the team you support like this is possibly something new...

The new Hitman level looks controversial...

Are you being serious?

Good enough for what?

Elyounoussi remains out of his depth in this league, Redmond is just frustratingly inconsistent but sometimes very effective.

Will Smallbone linked to Nottingham Forest... https://strettynews.com/2022/05/30/exclusive-garner-handed-man-united-boost-after-forest-discuss-saints-midfielder/

I didn't say he did. But there was a Leeds report where the author was suggesting Leeds should go for Adams having previously been linked with him over a year ago. That doesn't constitute a transfer rumour. Other articles have now sprung up based on that article and fans are now thinking it is a rumour rather than the random musing that it actually is!

They aren't really 'new' reports linking him, they are suggestions on who Leeds should buy based on Adams previously being linked quite a while ago.

Saints probably should be looking to offload him and upgrade him. He is an upper Championship quality player really.

You get two types of backroom staff appointments. Some backroom staff stay at the club regardless of what happens to the manager, they are club appointments and might be put on rolling contracts. Then you have the ones that come and go with the manager (often his assistant and maybe one or two others like for example Koeman had with his brother and fitness coach) and they have the same length of deal as the manager so a club can more easily get rid of them all at once.