beatlesaint

they were there - "legs have gone, too slow, not what he was last season" etc etc etc

Fantastic for him, and a three year deal as well. Yeah, all the experts who kept insisting his legs were gone, time to get rid etc etc. Pity Barcelona didnt give them a call and save themselves some money ! 🙄

well we cant, this is one of the reasons i firmly believe that automatic promotion this season is virtually out of the question.

i dont think we should give them anymore than a million for taking him 😁

I think you’ll be one of many after that news.

Surely RM has sussed out already that we need a bloody striker or two cos this lot are shit hasn't he ?

Cant believe anyone thinks we should keep him !

You miss the word US rather than the word HIM did you ?

says a lot about us that the current player worth most is barely 20 and had one injury hit season here.

If Fulham lose Mitrovic and replace him with Che Adams their fans are in for a real treat !

England duty wasnt it?

It’s absolute bollocks this “over valuing their players” stuff. If the club don’t want to sell a particular player and, more importantly don’t need to cos unlike last time the club aren’t scrabbling around for money, then meet the valuation (or very close to it at worst case) or fuck off. It’s really not difficult to understand is it?

Biggest victim this summer will be Fareham James when JWP goes. 😞

Well if they've got any sense they will just add whatever they think we've fiddled them out of to the players asking price 😁

Maybe word has spread about his attitude and nobody is willing to pay what we want?

Puel wouldnt play him, it was totally on him. Dont you remember he left him out of European games that season and it all came to a head, in public at least, with a very frank discussion on the pitch at Dean Court when he left him out against the Cherry pips. I'm not sure he played for us after that (but i may be remembering that bit wrongly)

Claude Puel.

Sorry but you’ve lost me on this “weird” relationship with Man City. Like Chelsea they have more good youth players than they know what to do with. So after having the former City man Joe Shields employed by the club for a few weeks followed by their former youth DOF Jason Wilcox then surely going back to City for their available young players is a good thing no? But wait, under Martin we are going to be playing heavy possession based football, moving the ball quickly, sucking the opponents in and waiting for those openings to attack with purpose……….so why the hell would we possibly go for players who have been schooled in precisely that style by the current best team in the country? Crazy, haven’t Crystal Palace got any players we could have? 🙄

Only Mark Hughes didnt think he was good enough if I remember rightly. Oh and some experts on here reckoned his legs had gone......maybe they should get on the blower and let Barcelona know 🙄

Well apparently a lot of people see him as captain next season 🤷🏻‍♂️ Nope, me niether!

Absolutely, it was an Uncle that steered me towards Saints.

as an "out of city folk" supporter I see no issue......you should think yourself bloody lucky we picked Southampton to support 🤣

Not really. As soon as we got relegated the media lost interest. They’ve got the 20 teams they want to gossip about, we ain’t one of them anymore.

also their manager is totally unproven in the Championship, i doubt he knows much about it even, whilst we have gone for a proven mid-table manager with experience of barely two years in the league 👍

Very true. He's one of those where if he stays I would be ok with it but if he left I would be fine with that as well.