The Kraken

😆🤪 The realism of Danny Ings being on £120k a week and having two years of his contract remaining.

IG certainly comes in handy for a gentle bit of stalking 😉

😆 now there’s a blast from the past!

Well I’ve not seen him say that, but if he did he’s off beam. I don’t know if there’s been a club in history who have been relegated from the PL and kicked off the next season with a stronger squad.

Sorry, just to get some measure of expectation here…..despite relegation, you’re expecting Saints to have a stronger squad this season compared to last season?

If that boat ain’t broke, you should consider breaking it.

I thought Leeds was quite nice! Fuck knows what he’d think if he got given a tour of Southampton’s suburbs…

I thought I’d read before that Drameh was a bit more of a long term prospect rather than this season, and we were happy to wait for him until January or next summer. Think I read that somewhere. Edit: here it is, supposedly from Fabrizio Romano, says Drameh is out of contract next year and we may be happy to wait. https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/cody-drameh-news-daniel-farke-on-players-future-at-leeds-united-southampton-interest-emerges/

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FFP can only be amortised over 5 years, that particular loophole was closed fairly recently (after Chelsea started giving out hyper extended contracts).

Just been looking at it, confirmed my memory that (last season aside) Saints haven’t been very big at all in January window incomings. Last season saw the Tall Pall fiasco et al but then you’re back to the Guido Carillo debacle for much else before that. Then going backwards Manillo Gabbiadini (good), Charlie Austin (meh), Ryan Bertrand (very decent), and Vegard Forren (anonymous) are the main signings we’ve made since promotion to the PL in 2012. So, a mixed bag, I’d say punctuated by how few players we brought in especially the 4 years post 2017-18 when we brought nobody of note in.

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I think we all know this. Including the manager, who has said that he wants to keep Che, but if he leaves he will be replaced. I’d say pessimism comes from stating as fact/expectation that a replacement will not be up to scratch, or that the performances of the newbies so far haven’t been that good. As egg points out, the players in so far have all made a very positive impression so far. Signings so far have been very good and very promising, it’s early days of course but a world away from last season where we started with a whimper and just fizzled out from there.

Yesterday’s news pal, he was on the bench for them today. Square of trust indeed….

Danny “3 goals in 14 appearances, Liverpool legend” Ings.

Being as he’s apparently gone to Qatar…ITK status denied.

The translation in the Twitter post only says “The Brazilian 🇧🇷 Lianco arrives in Doha in preparation for joining our first team”

Perhaps not the one who said a few months back that he hasn’t been for ages and won’t go again while SR are in control. So It’ll need to be a different one to him.

All I can see is blue skies over St Mary’s, the sun is shining on us.

And the award for the “most middle aged post of the tread” goes to….! 😉

Mate. I think you *might* just be taking this all a bit too seriously…..

Burnley’s loan list from last season (they played the loan market very well).

Everton paying £35k is what I’ve read, no idea if true.

Unsurprising, especially with Fraser coming in. Disappointing but we’re of for numbers there, tghe others have got to step and get the goals and assists that Tella would have.

Pretty unlikely, Martin said earlier today that the offer is still on the table and he hopes Che will take the time to think it over properly.