SuperSAINT

Good player, but I think we are at a point with him where if somebody wants to actually pay us money for him AND take on all his wages, we will probably be very happy.

Newcastle & West Ham supposedly interested. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/29/west-ham-and-newcastle-interested-in-signing-southamptons-mario-lemina

This is very true. Gao has no interest in selling to the right people — just whoever pays him.

I'd forgotten about that. Great player. Nice bloke by all accounts. Can't deny it makes him look like a bit of a tool with stuff like the above, though.

Not been keeping tabs on the B-team results?

We’ve badly missed him.

Youth target moves to Chelsea (shocker) https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/04/28/reported-west-ham-and-southampton-youth-target-allegedly-joining-premier-league-rivals/

Is he basically Cortese? Puts in a great infrastructure, but not his money. All goes Pete Tong when the money dries up.

Can he bring the Lille scouting department with him?

Someone who would def know

Yeah I saw that too. I suppose they are just assuming because the news hasn’t been reported anywhere.

I was told Hardyman left in January.

THE UNDER 18's WON! They just beat Reading U18's 4-3 away. Scored 4 goals from 5 shots on target too. Nice work lads.

Love Jose, but he’s 37 years old.

2022. https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2017-07-19/fraser-forster-new-southampton-five-year-contract-announcement

Expires 2022.

Pretty outstanding set of results for Newcastle, really. Always we’re going to have a chance when their forwards returned for injury.

Indeed.

It most definitely can.

Couldn’t blame him if he left.

There was an article in The Athletic talking about the race to sign the best players from the french market this summer.

Nice to get a non-snarky comment back. I largely agree, mate. I just look at the thread title and have I nervously looked at the table in the last few months? Yes! It's remarkable that we needed Champions League form for half the season to stay up! Only Saints could feature in 2 Sky articles within 2 months of each other with us featuring in the run for the title AND the run-in for relegation . What scares me is how we need to do a fair bit of strengthening, but without a proverbial pot.

Maybe we should change more than a “striker dropping deeper” then.