Matthew Le God

Nope, contracted until 30th June 2026

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That isn't why he left Chelsea. He was 16/17 when he joined them, he wasn't in the first team squad. He joined them to initially be a youth team player in the under 18s, not a first team player. He left Chelsea because he couldn't settle in their academy.

A league we are no longer in! He may well go this summer, but if he were to stay, he'd be a handful at Championship level.

No need, I am no longer engaging with him and can't see his posts.

RC Lens put the most crosses into the box of any team in the French top league this season. Isn't that an aspect of Still's style of play Onuachu could be useful for?

1st team, under 21s and under 18s (not including incoming loans)... we have 89 players! A nightmare to keep track of for the FM26 database. Staff list is huge as well.

That isn't naive. I did not say the club isn't for sale, I said someone wanting something does not mean it is for sale. That is demonstrably factual.

Which is why I included this bit... "Giving things a year or two to see if we get promoted would return club value back up so they dont make a big loss" They wouldn't need to invest any money and they'd have a decent chance of promotion in the next two years with parachute payments and a few player sales. They might as well wait one/two years to see if they get back up and see a big rise in value and then sell. But selling also destroys the whole idea of the group of clubs. As Saints are the keystone club. So it would be a pretty significant move for SR.

Doesn't relegation make Sport Republic less likely to sell? The price would be lower, meaning they'd be making a loss on the money spent purchasing the club plus all the extra money they have put into it. Giving things a year or two to see if we get promoted would return club value back up so they dont make a big loss. Plus Saints are the keystone club to the whole SR group, without Saints the whole project falls apart unless they are sold as a group or they find a new keystone club but they might as well stick with the one they have.

If that were true... he wouldn't be getting paid. I think the real reason we haven't seen him, is we have a very bloated squad and can only have 20 players in a matchday squad and he no longer had his mate as manager.

No. Someone possibly wanting something does not mean the owners of that thing have put it up for sale.

They are not awards decided by Gary Neville. They are joke tongue in cheek awards by a Telegraph journalist and he named them the Gary Neville Awards. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/05/27/my-premier-league-alternative-awards/#:~:text=The Gary Neville award for,Football than managing football teams&text=Gary O'Neil.,being cast aside by Bournemouth.

Sure, they've fucked up. But the key issue they've fucked on is recruitment, they've recently had a recruitment department overhaul that we've yet to see if it works as the window isn't open. A lack of investment is not the issue. We've spent huge amounts. £260m+ in the last two PL seasons. Issue was it was spent badly. What makes Turki Alalshikh better? Hard to make a case Sport Republic don't have good intentions for the club, or money. They've been incompetent on recruitment and have tried to correct it. A new owner coming in would raise questions not only over recruitment, but also funding and intent.

Try answering the questions.

What makes him better? What current issue that they haven't recently tried to resolve makes SR "appalling"?

What makes you think this guy is better?

There is a huge difference in price to buy Millwall vs Saints. Although Millwall have a London premium, Saints have a bigger stadium, parachute payments, better training ground, significantly larger fanbase and income.

The current recruitment team haven't had a window yet. Harsh to judge them on the mistakes of others.

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Only to those I've put on ze list (ignore).