Matthew Le God

Why are you comparing 18 year old Alfie Jones with 23 year old Ben Gibson? They are both at very different stages of their career.

What goals can you list where he was at fault? Its not going to be a big list. He did little wrong and I'd be happy with him as backup to Forster again next season.

Long term English football contract are generally until 30th June of a year. It isn't set to coincide with the same date the player signed.

I don't know why so many Saints fans think it is the club's business plan to sell their best players. If given the choice I doubt they would, but they know if a player isn't going to sign a new deal, or will be a disruptive influence if unhappy for a prolonged period then they have to be sold. Its not a long term "plan" to sell them, they are sold to the club to its credit of having a lot of players who can attract interest from clubs with bigger wages and Champions League football on offer. Unless he signs a new contract in 2 years time he will be worth £0, not £40m, as his contract will expire.

Mata is currently paid £150,000 per week. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/26/manchester-united-midfielder-juan-matas-salary-may-be-obscene-bu/

The club have shown they are more than capable of replacing them and improving the squad. We've finished in a higher league place each season for the last 7 years! How many clubs manage that over a sustained period? The club is in a very good place in terms of its structures and systems to deal with things like this which are products of success, not failure. I expect some important players will leave this summer, but I have confidence in the recruitment department to be able to find very good replacements. They have a strong track record over many seasons. The time to worry is when we don't have players the really rich clubs want, as that would indicate we've had a drop in player quality. We are a long way from that happening. Anyway... here is every league goal from this record breaking season after yet another summer of "meltdown". Finishing 6th and beating Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Spurs in the same season is an odd "meltdown". Clearly it is possible to stop the rot...

It seems you are not aware that since Tadic joined Saints only Fabregas & Ozil have more assists than him in the Premier League! He has been superb for us.

Enjoy

You could have saved yourself the trouble by putting "Jay Rodriguez new contract" into Google. 12th May 2015 - Jay Rodriguez signs 4-year contract which take him to 30th June 2019 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150512-jay-rodriguez-contract-2453247.aspx

Theo Janssen is a retired former Vitesse midfielder, I guess you mean Vincent Janssen the AZ striker.

I doubt it, when fully fit Koeman's first choice has been Wanyama and Clasie. Romeu has been useful this season but its a drop in quality to go from Wanyama to Romeu. I think they'll look to sign someone to be first choice and Romeu will still get a decent amount of game-time filling in when needed.

Not if he just googled before hand "companies from Baltimore".

Three of the four managers in the Liebherr era at St Mary's last night for Kelvin Davis' testimonial... Saints under the Liebherr's... Pardew 2009/10 = 51st Adkins 2010/11 = 46th 2011/12 = 22nd Adkins/Pochettino 12/13 = 14th Pochettino 2013/14 = 8th Koeman 2014/15 = 7th 2015/16 = 6th It really is impressive stuff when you look at it like that.

- 2015/16 was the first time since 1994/95 Southampton finished above Chelsea - 2015/16 was the first time EVER Southampton have finished above Liverpool

Everton's squad is already some distance behind Southampton in terms of quality, despite Everton fans making out that it is all down to Martinez. There really is little incentive for Koeman to move to a club that has a weaker squad than he currently has at Saints and no European football. Even if Everton give him a big budget, he would be playing catch up to get the squad to Saints' level, let alone overtake them. Everton fans also overlook with the Liebherr family we also have a billionaire owner, a more modern stadium than Goodison, an extremely good academy and have spent £40m improving the training ground. Koeman has ruled out leaving this summer so Everton won't be getting him. When Koeman leaves it'll be to a Champions League side. He probably has eyes on the Arsenal job when Wenger's contract expires or his old club Barcelona. History and "bigger" club is irrelevant. Koeman is managing in 2016 not the past and there is little incentive to leave Saints for Everton in 2016.

The vast majority of those players highlight that you significantly underestimate the quality level required to be good enough for Southampton's squad. Every year we get similar threads about Saints going for player from relegated teams. Yes, they may have the occasional good player but I don't really see how most of the players you listed improve on a Saints squad that just finished at least 6th (possibly 5th dependant on how Man Utd do tonight).

Are you sure you were watching Juanmi? He is extremely quick and had a decent scoring record in La Liga last season. He struggled with the physicality of the Premier League, but I can't see how anyone could think he wasn't quick. Especially the winning goal in this video vs Barcelona...

I agree its bigger, but its no where near 30,000 bigger than ours. They have been selling £99 season tickets to under 16's and adult ones for £289. If we did the same we'd shift a lot more, but our prices are significantly higher.

I did infer it was St Mary's at the end of my post... "If we built that, St Mary's would no longer be viewed as an identikit stadium". If we moved, it wouldn't be St Mary's. West Ham have sold 10,000 under 16 year old tickets for £99. If a decent % of those kids get hooked and become season ticket holders when they become adults you sell them adult season tickets for a higher price. It helps build the fanbase in the long term. Plus a bigger stadium raises the profile of the club, makes us look more ambitious to players and sponsors and more fans at games = more from additional revenue streams, food, programmes, megastore etc.

The pictures I posted above are of a redeveloped St Mary's stadium. Not a stadium relocation.

Putting aside the attendance issue, I do think like others in this thread have said that West Ham style reduction of tickets and we'd sell 40k+ for a lot of games). £99 ST tickets for under 16's for example. There is a perception issue of being in an identikit 32k stadium means Saints are viewed at a level below where on the pitch we have been for the last 3 seasons in the top 7/8. This doesn't sole need to be about ticket income (which is a shrinking % of PL club income with the TV deal), a bigger stadium raises our profile and may generate more income from other advertising streams. If the club followed through on something like what they commissioned AFL architects to do it would raise the profile of the club and allow us to increase the matching fanbase... If we built that, St Mary's would no longer be viewed as an identikit with Coventry, Middlesbrough, Leicester, Derby etc. It would change perceptions of the club along with what we've already done at Staplewood.

Its not an accurate article as it says he "missed the 2-1 win over Tottenham".

Are you confident enough to have put a bet on it? If so can you screenshot the betslip?