Matthew Le God

Perhaps. That is why I only used maybe. As it is unclear what that post means.

Hard to deny Rasmus Ankersen getting a deal rising to £58m for Lavia looks good on the face of it, without knowing the full structure. Maybe Ankersen has a flair for selling players, but not buying them. Spors is now in charge of the latter.

Maybe a Monday evening kit reveal. Saints player Rachel Brown posted this...

https://share.google/hkxZLBgfKVftY0Z1e

The article is 12 years old 😉

From SEGA this week...

Aarons joining up with Russell Martin, so won't be the Walker-Peters replacement...

They'd be daft to stop their 8 year olds joining Saints academy if offered a place regardless of club rivalry.

The argument for having the Bath setup of being on the coast is daft, a large number of British clubs are near or on the coast. Not at all unique for us. Plus there are 140,000 people to the South of Southampton on the Isle of Wight.

I'd be surprised if there weren't ways to make it workable and spread the load so it works, as it is now over a quarter of a century later. A lot may have changed as to what is possible in construction in 2025 vs the late 1990s when St Mary’s was being designed and constructed started.

Infrastructure costs are exempt from the financial rules. The revenue generated by them increase the amount the club can use on transfers and wages.

Atalanta are significantly better than us. They came 3rd in Serie A and are in the Champions League. If Sulemana is wanted by them... perhaps he isn't as bad as you think!

For making a loss on players he signed himself? I don't think that deserves any credit.

I've criticised them on multiple occasions.

Only for a while. Will need to see some good evidence of things moving forward on it. Hopefully the council continue to be cooperative.

He said in the Daily Echo interview this week the intention is to spend "hundreds of millions" on "changes on the capacity of the stadium and facilities around". https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25246799.dragan-solak-interview-southampton-owner-opens-sale-rumours/

Yep, it won't just be the stadium expansion for hundreds of millions. It is part of a bigger plan for the surrounding area.

Yes, "hundreds of millions" on "changes on the capacity of the stadium and facilities around" are quotes from the Echo article.

The purpose of it is as Solak states to increase revenues so the club aren't as reliant on things like TV money. It isn't one or the other, it is a case of infrastructure helping the other things by raising our income. Especially as incoming financial rules limit spending on transfers and wage to a % of income. Plus infrastructure spending is exempt from the spending rules, so the "hundreds of millions" he talks about doesn't impact megatively on the ability to spend on transfers and wages.

https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11688/13163353/efl-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-for-championship-league-one-and-league-two?postid=9761071#liveblog-body

Bit extreme to nail the hard hat on!

Someone you quoted, so I then saw still isn't able to grasp "soon" meant given the apparent conditions at the time. Things then changed and we became aware Gao didn't have a pot to piss in. Still recycling the debunked nonsense I see!

They are both 20 years old. Damion Downs is older than Evan Ferguson by a few months.