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Even still, their highest ever transfer in seems to be about €21m. I can’t see them spending more than twice that on Dibling.

Does anyone know whether Martin and Juric both getting new jobs is likely to have saved us any money? Not really sure how it works when a club sacks a manager- are we still paying them?

Obligatory Youtube compilation:

Linked with Strum Graz attacker William Boving, albeit by Football Insider: https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-southampton-want-to-sign-title-winning-forward-william-boving/

That is hideous. Looks like it’s been done in MS paint.

Beating Ipswich with a late winner was a nice little bit of revenge, even though it ultimately didn’t mean much.

First game at St Mary’s and he’s got to put up with Rishi Sunak asking for a selfie with his Mrs.

That might depend on whether or not they get a points deduction and whether they’re able to spend any money this summer.

Only 2 teams (PSG and Lille) have conceded fewer goals than Still’s Lens in the league this season so he can obviously coach a defence, which is something we desperately need.

That quote is discussed!

Talking of ex-managers, this is a great listen with WGS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-be-having-you-the-00s-football-podcast/id1746684824?i=1000705473210 There’s a first part too but this is the one he talks about his time at Saints. He discusses that he just wanted to win games and didn’t care about sticking to a particular style. That’s what I’d like in a new manager.

It hasn't been called the Premiership since 2007 so I actually think our Premiership home record is probably not that bad.

I agree, but we’ve got to try to avoid having to spend the majority of our transfer budget to sign them when we hopefully go up. Spending £40m to keep Downes and THB and not improving the team was a killer this summer.

Pep has managed Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. Not sure he's ever had to prove he can improve cheap players!

Someone with substance over style who can adapt his style to the players rather than the other way around.

I think in terms of actual date Derby were relegated earlier but if we go down tomorrow it’ll be the earliest in terms of matches played. They were in ‘match week 32’ when they went down I believe and we’re in 31.

Classic bit of Kelvin Davis goalkeeping for their second goal!

Ah not just mine then. Every channel has gone down. Anyone got a link for another stream?

Think the word team should also be in inverted commas too.

Was it ever confirmed whether there was a 6 month break clause in his contract? It was reported there was for ages, then I think Alfie House said that wasn’t true after he signed? As others have said, it’s very hard to judge Juric with this squad but either way I don’t think he’s the answer next season. Hope we can get rid of him without it costing us anything.

We haven’t done that once this season so I somehow delighted. I’m all for being optimistic but we are so shit that to suggest we would’ve got anything from that is deluded. No offence!

Do you honestly think we would’ve held on to that lead if the pen wasn’t given? Newcastle passed through us with ease and clearly took their foot of the gas second half. They also hit the post twice. There was absolutely no scenario where we were not losing that.

No. As for this game, it’ll be another chance for us to see how far off our players are in terms of pace, power and athleticism. Unfortunately Juric’s system is set up to play 1v1 across the pitch and our players are inferior in nearly every position. 0-1

Does anyone actually think there’s any point in us spending any money this window? Last relegation season the January window was a shitshow and we’re still paying for it now. Trim the squad, save the money for the summer and give us a chance to compete within PSR if we do come back up by keeping our outgoings down.

I think I read that Jurić’s teams usually put in a high number of crosses? If he’s going to do the same here we might need a left footer at LWB.