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Quick scan says we have 5 spaces (even allowing for Ollie Lancashire) sure this isn't an issue.

Because Tella didn't want to come back (allegedly) and on a season long loan that is his perogative.

Thought Moffi was going to Nice. I wouldn't take Ings back in a heartbeat, he isn't the player he was the season before he left, 13 PL goals in 1.5 seasons with Villa even if not injured is not exactly scintillating. Always liked Ings but players do actually get worse towards the end of their career.

Not sure I agree but at least use a decent song 🙂

Thank goodness for that, not sure we have the spare capacity in the treatment room. Ings is well past it, we did well to get shotn of him when we did. He has been brilliant the season before.

What sort of dictionary are you using? Perfectly common word, primarily in accounting but in general in English.

It really means from outside the capital (London) but more broadly in football it refers to clubs outside the main football cities, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Brum.

Top of the League on GD, though Leeds do have a game in hand.

Groin. His legs have not gone.

Looked very happy with being at Saints last night, interaction with JWP and NJ). There will always be speculation about our best players but there does not seem to be much evidence that KWP wants out.

Jake Vokins back at Southampton, loan at Woking cancelled.

What sort of a Saints fan manages Skates Reserves? 😉

Possibly because he is injured. Reported as like Tino some way off returning before the Lincoln tie. Thought Larios looked more than decent before his injury, if a little lightweight.

You're crazy. People who judge players on lack of assists really have no idea. You can't get an assist unless someone scores, we don't score goals (from open play), hence no assists. KWP is arguably our best player, losing him would be a serious problem, but to be honest who can really blame him if he wants to go.

Season will be nearly over before he starts, given he is probably on 3 months notice.

Maybe even the Skates. It's funny, I know it is but I never really think of Southampton as really being on the South Coast. Something to do with Southampton Water I suppose.

So they are at Boscombe or Brighton, or maybe one at each.

Or maybe he is having a follow up scan, perhaps the first one was inconclusive (it happens, scans don't always work perfectly) or maybe they needed any swelling to reduce before they could get an accurate picture of the damage.

Guly

He wasn't slow and ponderous for most of the season. Yes we needed an upgrade, one to take us forward, but that doesn't mean we needed to ship him out, it meant we needed both for a season, we always needed an extra DM than what we had, Diallo was not the answer. No one thinks Romeu was world class, but he forged a very effective partnership with JWP, and it is clear from his performances in La Liga that he was nowhere near finished, he still had a role to play alongside Lavia and JWP, or filling in for Lavia when he was not available through injury. Free transfer at the end of 2022/23 was the sensible way to reward OR for his services over the years. Yes he wanted to go, but only after the Chairman of his home town club made a cheeky bid for him and Saints did not immediately knock it back as said Chairman expected. If you feel that you are not wanted you would look at your options. Terrible piece of business by Saints whatever way you look at it.

My point really was that you wonder what people expect, a winger scoring 8 goals in a top of the league side but apparently not ripping it up. WTF. Really we should never have let Tella go in the first place but it has worked out very well for the lad, not sure that bringing him back would neccessarily work, he seems to be loving his time up there and it might not suit him to swap a high flying championship team for a struggling PL team even if we do "own" him. If Kompany is to be believed we did have an agreement in place that he was there for the season. May seem like a no-brainer to get him back, but it really might be counter-productive in the long run.

Not sure what you would expect, or what "setting the world alight" means in your eyes. Quote from FLW (following his latest goal after missing the previous game through illness): "Tella’s goal was his eighth of what has been an incredibly successful season and the on-loan Southampton man has also contributed one assist. He has become a firm fans favourite during his spell in Lancashire and shared his reaction to their latest maximum on social media."

Lawro has 1-1, I didn't know he still did predictions, but it's on Paddy power.

Are you sure?

Kickoff in Birmingham. https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1603706754487013378?t=jdi7kKqPVap48NYgUJUWkw&s=19