Matthew Le God

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If you are trying to visit them all over many seasons then who exactly are "the 92"? Because it changes every year with relegation and promotion into the Football League.

Lemina pulled his hamstring in the Everton game, attempted to play on until halftime and then be subbed at halftime? Hard to see it as anything other than a genuine injury. Mark Hughes has stated Boufal was training with the under 23 and for a few days he was ill. That doesn't require a cover up, the club have confirmed Boufal is involved in a discipline issue.

Well Sky love their stats... they could at least get them correct!

Sky Sports can't do maths. They say a Saints victory would mean Swansea need at least an 8 goal swing. It is currently 7 goals difference but as the teams play each, any 1 goal margin victory changes the difference to 9 not 8 http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11363644/premier-league-permutations-what-huddersfield-southampton-swansea-west-brom-need-to-survive

Would they lose a lot of business? Championship teams and Championship away fans still need places to stay. 23 Championship games vs 19 Premier League games in Swansea for the 2018/19 season. If anything they'd have more business if Swansea went down with 4 extra league fixtures!

No computer algorithm required for this, it is just common sense. Can you outline how losing £100m+ from your revenue allows you to rebuild and turf out deadwood easier than if the revenue remains at current levels?

As I said earlier... Why do you have an issue with that? Would you prefer Saints to only sign players Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool and Tottenham will never want to sign? Because that is the only way Saints won't sell their best players to them. It is better to have the likes of van Dijk, Wanyama, Mane etc for 2 years than not at all.

Until the selling of van Dijk it had been. We spent more on players incoming than sales until very recently. And that money could yet still be spent... we just don't know yet.

Gabbiadini is the alternative (technically so is Carrillo ) How have you determined that? The following clubs have not scored more Premier League goals this season than Southampton... Burnley Newcastle Watford Brighton Huddersfield Swansea West Brom Stoke City Perhaps they haven't 'forgotten it'... because it is blatantly obvious.

Why do you have an issue with that? Would you prefer Saints to only sign players Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool and Tottenham will never want to sign? Because that is the only way Saints won't sell their best players to them. It is better to have the likes of van Dijk, Wanyama, Mane etc for 2 years than not at all.

That is a line that is often used by football fans, but I don't see how it works in practice. How does relegation help that more than staying up? It is easier to revitalise the squad when you have the Premier League money to aid a rebuild.

Exactly!

Of course, but it is generally better to have money than not have it. Going from 2005 to 2012 without Premier League income runs into many hundreds of millions of missed revenue. Plus... we didn't exactly do well from 2005 to 2009 with a lack of money either!

What have I said in this thread that could meet the definition of pompous?

Says the man that stalks me on an internet forum! Are you denying the club would have benefitted had it not been relegated in 2005?

The club would be in a better place now if those lower league years were spent in the Premier League, benefitting from the hundreds of millions of missed TV money.

You think I don't offer opinions on Saints? I have made more publicly available opinions on Southampton FC than any other person on the planet. The 2007 to 2018 editions of the FM database have hundreds of thousands of data entry fields which are my opinions on the club and its players.

It does highlight how out of touch you are with football, Bony last played a game for Swansea over 3 months ago on 3rd February!

We currently are not in the relegation zone and if we still aren't after 38 games then we deserve to stay up. It is a disaster to get relegated, it isn't good for the club in any way to go down. The gap between 6th and 7th is currently only 6 points. As recently as 2016 Saints were 6th, yes we ****ed up this season but the gap is not insurmountable.

Swansea to Cardiff = 42 miles Southampton to Bournemouth = 33 miles

If we draw vs Swansea then it isn't impossible to see Stoke getting a draw or victory vs Swansea. In which case we wouldn't need to beat Man City, we could lose or get a draw like Huddersfield just got and still stay up.

That would by a large distance be the biggest number of players sold by a relegated Premier League club for many, many years (if ever). Departures of contracted players in that number hasn't really happened before.

A draw keeps us above Swansea and out of the relegation zone. How is that "no good"? I know we have a more difficult final game than them... but it still isn't a season ending disaster to draw.