SuperSAINT

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2019-06-28/pro-contract-benni-smales-braithwaite-june-2022

Jake Vokins

https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2019/06/28/aston-villa-set-to-launch-formal-bid-for-southamptons-matt-targett/ Pinch of salt required, unless this gets backed up by better sources.

Celtic sign rumoured annual saints target Christopher Jullien.

Technical director isn’t he?

Roll-on to when the friendlies start & we can speculate why certain players aren’t playing...

Wouldn’t surprise me if you’re correct.

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2019/06/27/serie-a-side-working-overtime-to-see-off-southampton-in-chase-for-serie-b-star/426211/

* Double-post

Probably this. Reminds me of their “Paul Hart to become next Southampton manager” story from a few years ago.

Sky Sources (when they haven’t copied somebody else) are iffy at best.

SSN linking Sheff Utd... I’d be surprised at that fee and his wages.

Yeah. Hardly an exclusive from McGrath. He’s been the 2nd most mentioned striker behind Adams online.

I imagine had we ever sold Berty for £30m to City, Tierney would have been top of the list to replace him.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/06/25/brendan-rodgers-expected-make-first-signing-luton-defender-james/

We've been linked with surprisingly few centre-backs considering it's high on our list.

Which people forget is LOTS of money.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/06/25/arsenal-make-improved-18m-bid-celtic-defenderkieran-tierney/

https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/604498/article/2019-06-25/mercato-yon-vraiment-un-oeil-sur-thiago-mendes Defensive midfielder (yay!) 27 years old (boo!)

But the point is we literally cannot shift a lot of those players.

It could also be that we are desperate to offload players to bring in funds & he’s one of the very few that has interest.

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Assuming Ralph doesn’t want him & assuming there are no any bidders, take the cash & put on a big 30% sell-on clause.

Club trying to ‘considerably’ lower Southampton demands – Prospect of doing so ‘isn’t bad’ Source: http://sportwitness.co.uk/club-trying-considerably-lower-southampton-demands-player-prospect-isnt-bad/

“Frank Lampard’s Derby County” about to re-brand back to just “Derby County”.