Saint86

Nonsense, we're winning the last competitive game at Goodison - It is written 😇

Re grumbling about price freezes. Surely getting more football/saints per pound spent is a cost saving and a good thing? 😅 Particularly as so many of our fans are adamant that the championship is a better league? 😀🙃

What i would say, is that at least this gives us something unexpected to talk about this summer... as opposed to which players are leaving, kit mock ups, followed by when the actual kit reveal will be and how many stripes will we have on the shirt, where we rank in the UK's worst seaside B&Bs, or how Wrexham/Ipswich/Birmingham/Leicester are having better transfer windows than us... Silver linings and all that.

Putting politics to one side (which should always be the case in football frankly) - I could see him as owner, and actually would be quite happy if it happened tbh. At the end of the day he's from the city, clearly a fan of the club (which would make a change), his wife's family are loaded, and he's got a lot of connections internationally as a former PM and Chancellor - particularly from his role with the Ukraine conflict. He's also not a Chinese criminal or an arrogant hipster Dane who gives Teds talks about how much smarter than everyone else he is... All in all, an improvement on the past few years...

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8402353.southampton-lawyer-jonathan-fulthorpe-order-to-pay-after-employment-tribunal/

Appoint a pressing manager and watch us crush the hell out of Leicester next year...

Agreed. What the club needs this summer is some positivity and getting some momentum going. Exciting/solid signings (with some strategy behind it), clearing out deadwood from the squad, a good manager appointment etc. Rather than focusing on what should be a strong season in the champ, this has introduced a large wedge of uncertainty into the fanbase and club. And the state of the club and its ambitions / ownership commitment will certainly factor on the minds of players considering potential contract renewals or players signing.

I think the fact they kept it quiet means there is probably something in it. If it was false, the club wouldn't care overly about it being put out there and then make a big deal of rejecting it as part of a summer momentum drive. Its a bad time for a sale frankly - we have a massive rebuild on the cards and players (both existing and signings) will want confidence in where the club is headed.

But would you take 17th place if offered it right now? 🤔

I don't think its definite that they'll all leave. Long contracts in most cases and saints should be in a reasonably strong financial position this time around. At the very least, we can play a game of "put up or shut up" with regards to transfer fees for all of them - so if we do sell THB, Ramsdale etc at a profit then happy days frankly. The exception is dibling, where we will largely be forced to sell under any decent offer due to his contract. I think relegation wage clauses, last season's profit, 2 years now of paying down that loan substantially, and this season's access to the enhanced tv monies, should all stand us in a far better stead than after the 22-23 relegation at any rate. Pretty comfortable that we'll get decent money for our better players - it will just come down to how well we reinvest it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14647067/Wrexham-Premier-League-Nathan-Jones-Phil-Parkinson.html 'We'll finish, we'll debrief, we'll breathe a little bit and then we'll move forward with Wrexham. 'It's a bumper game, we have to go to the circus and see what we can get.' Parkinson responded by accusing the former Stoke manager of being disrespectful towards his side. 'It is a lack of respect to our owners, the team, the staff, the supporters and the heritage of Wrexham Football Club. 'But we will just concentrate on what we've got to do.' Jones has since tried to defuse the row and claimed his comments were 'misunderstood'.

https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/338649-danny-röhl-thank-you/#comments

Portsmouth vs Hull for the last game of the season. Suspect that is Hull relegated. In other news, Nathan Jones doing his best to give Wrexham a precession to play us next season - and not looking to happy about it on sky either 😂

That was inevitable. Absolutely shocking for almost the entire match. No plan or idea, other than to park the bus and try to kill the game. And to think, people want rusk to get the job 😂

Yeah, that goal isn't on bednarek, THB and Fernandes like little lost lemmings that both stood in nomansland.

Absolute joke defensively there. Fernandes absolutely no idea where Smith Rowe was.

Archer pulled back as he was shooting there....

Only a matter of time...

Carry on with current intensity and i can only see another loss.

No way? I had Glasgow down as Heisenberg and "love and light" 😅

Would love to see him being given a chance alongside THB next season. Chances are that bednarek is going to leave given rumoured interests - a shame as ability wise I'd rather we kept bednarek out of Stephens and him. ABK still kicking around but will surely be gone this summer? We've got woods and that young french kid as additional squad depth as well, so not too shabby at CB. Full/wing back wise, we've got bree, sugawara, wellington, Taylor, and manning. Not setting the world alight, but also good enough for most championship teams - so defensively we look okay without too much major work to be done?

If he doesn't sign a new contract the club will pretty much have to sell this summer to maximise value. Similarly there isn't much point developing him for a year only for him to leave in the cheap next summer.

And who can blame him. A huge part of their fanbase are now mobilised against "the despot" chansiri, the players aren't getting payed on time reliably, and the chairman behaves like he's unstable (blaming fans, the manager, and "declaring war" on saints... In a forum that was called last minute and went on past midnight 😅). Big fan protest planned for them this weekend I believe, and Simon Jordan is pimping them out to potential foreign owners... A good reminder actually - as shit as things can be as saints, we don't have the Wednesday chairman for an owner 🥳

I haven't given up home that we keep ramsdale. As mad as it sounds, I think financially we aren't too badly off re relegation. Profit last season, likely a profit this season. And a rebalanced squad with almost certain relegation wage clauses in them. Surely the only way we sell ramsdale is if it's considered to be worth it by the club? Which means we get a good slab of profit, and we have a goalkeeper considered both good enough for the champ and who can step up to the prem.

Based on the Wednesday presser. Rohl is deffo the hell out of there 😅