Matthew Le God

Not really. Strikers aren't Everton's problem, Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin scored 30 Premier League goals between them.

Only 3 teams had a striker who scored 20 or more Premier League goals last season. Arsenal, Leicester and Saints - none of which qualified for the Champions League. Liverpool won the league without a 20 goal striker and Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea qualified for the Champions League without a 20 goal striker.

Harsh on Djenepo

Harrison Reed not given a number.

1. Alex McCarthy2. Kyle Walker-Peters3. Ryan Bertrand4. Jannik Vestergaard5. Jack Stephens6. Oriol Romeu7. Shane Long8. James Ward-Prowse9. Danny Ings10. Ché Adams11. Nathan Redmond12. Moussa Djenepo14. Michael Obafemi17. Stuart Armstrong18. Yan Valery19. Sofiane Boufal20. Will Smallbone22. Mohammed Salisu28. Angus Gunn29. Jake Vokins35. Jan Bednarek41. Harry Lewis44. Fraser Forster https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-08-25/southampton-football-club-mens-first-team-squad-numbers-202021

Fraser looks notably greyer since living in Scotland...

Obafemi, Djenepo, Gunn & Forster all seen for the first time. Looks like it is Redmond self isolating then.

Still at least it looks better than the LD sports logo.

You can see LD Sports on the player shirts on all the club media covering the player awards. The individual awards have different minor sponsors, the same happens every year.

Saints won the game vs Bristol City

1) Saying "and" vs saying "or" makes a significant difference to the meaning of your statement. 2) No real need for 5 centre backs so the position does matter and isn't irrelevant. The position Hojbjerg leaving opens up is central midfield, hence the apparent interest in McKennie.

Jisheng Gao or Billy Beane...

1) If not the big six then who? Saints are one of the few clubs known to be for sale. 2) Who knows what they'd do. They could use it on Saints or use it on something else. Perhaps build up a network of clubs like the City Group, with a PL side, Toulouse and others.

You said they wouldn't need another centre back "unless we finally get shot of Hoedt or Vestergaard". But if Hoedt is sold it doesn't open up a spot in the 1st team squad because he was already surplus to the squad. It would need Hoedt and Vestergaard to leave for a new centre back to be needed.

Hoedt wasn't in the squad last season, so doesn't need replacing if sold.

Bale and Walcott both had a season in the Championship. Oxlade-Chamberlain had a season in Legue One. It is only Shaw from your list who had no 1st team experience before playing in the Premier League.

@tajjuk Newcastle's bigger ground doesn't make a huge difference in matchday income compared to Saints. Our ticket prices are higher so it is a relatively small gap in matchday income between the two despite them having a 20k bigger stadium. Plus match day income for all Premier League clubs is a relatively small proportion of total income.

More expensive and weaker academy. Saints are more moneyball than them.

Raising £440m doesn't mean £440m is solely on purchase price. Leftovers could be spent on other things. Plus all of the big 6 would cost more than £440m.

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Sorry to go all MLG on you, but McCarthy and Højbjerg 😉 aren't either.

Some action at last! Boufal is training...

Says the Wizard of Oz