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Yes, but at least they can't confused valery and tella anymore. They also said we had a midfielder at left back straight after saying about JWP playing at right back. Terrible

good man!

Basically full strength today vs Cambridge - absolute shambles and they lost. Final shot of the game by Almiron, and he shanked it from just outside the D to almost hit the corner flag. Absolutely beautiful result. Surely going to make players think twice about joining them when they can't even beat Cambridge (60th in the football league) with the squad they had today. Shelvey, almiron, joelinton, ASM, Willock, fraser, trippier, ritchie, schar, and Dubravka.... Embarrassing for them!

Turkish and co surely tier 1 or 2 for the recent takeover news? That would drag our average up?

He makes a point of wearing plain black old school boots 😅 Also what should have really given it away that it wasn't bale was that the foreground player was shorter than the guy behind, and bale is a giant. We are not signing Bale. People need to stop with this now 😅

I would say we owe Kat a significant amount for allowing Semmens to find the right buyer tbh. I know she gets a lot of stick - but ultimately she's done the right thing for us here. Makes up for Gao. Telling that she's handed over her veto as part of the takeover as well.

He's an infectious character for sure, and a good talent on the pitch. He's got a lot of ability when carrying the ball and driving at defenders. Could see him developing into a zaha sort of player.

in FM terms, we are secure.

He's a great poacher tbh. I'll always have a bit of a soft spot for him and its good to see him doing well. Nice little Southampton celebration there with yoshida.

I assume you meant to quote my other post about the bale rumours (not this one about JWP's quotes) 😅🤔

In his interview last season, he stated that his dream was for his kids to seem him lift a trophy with Southampton. Now... I mean make of that what you will 😅🤣

Just seen a hilarious rumour linking us with Bale. Honestly, one measly takeover and the rumour mill really does go crazy 🤣

Hi Alex. Thanks for sharing. I watched one of his interviews after reading some of the terrible rumours about him after the takeover. Was extremely impressed by him and what he advocated. Any doubts i had were over in minutes!

Hi Sheaf, that was me. It was based on this analysis here (below), but it only covered 2014-18. Obviously beyond the period covered they continued to sit at the top of the championship table before getting promoted and getting the new stadium. This is several years of success back to back. Very different to the Reed/Kruger era with the "Black Box" model of selling players Koeman signed and then spending the money on utter garbage (simplifying 😅). Consider that Brentford made a comparable profit (from the championship - to our sales on just VVD and Mane) whilst selling more of their best players than we did, and then managing to reinvest it year after year. Rasmus has a very good track record and its exciting to see if he can help improve us (although we've been doing that much better ourselves in recent windows). Worth noting as well, then when Brentford arrived in the Championship in 2014 - they had the smallest playing budget. Is it too much to dream of that being scaled up to Southampton? 😆 I'll say one thing for Gao chairmanship - he got rid of Reed, Krueger etc. and got us running with Semmens, Ralph, Crocker etc. Plus he's left us with what looks to be an exciting future.

I have tried to calmly reflect on the takeover, take in as much of the information and snippets that are out there, and to reach a level headed perspective on it all. I am buzzing. Rasmus got brentford to run a circa £140m profit at brentford between 2014-2018, identifying such talent as jota, maupay, watkins etc on the cheap, and selling them year after year to improve. This isn't like the cancer (Reed) spunking circa £110m from VVD and Mane on the likes of Hoedt, Lemina, Boufal, Carillo etc. These guys did it year after year, and rather than spending their way out of the championship they turned a huge profit on player sales, stuck at the top end every season despite player turn over, and funded a new stadium. Plus ofc his other club dumped us out of the Europa league under Koeman https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34056532. This is an exciting new period for the club.

I would imagine that any prospect of signing Broja has taken a serious dent with this takeover. Depends if he buys into the bitter Albanian / Serbian hatred.

Its going to take some to beat this post to the title of most like post of 2022 - You've got in early 🤣

Haha, i will eat it 🤷‍♂️ 😄 - i did put that comment about FT fully hoping to get egg on my face 😅

I think we all know that FT really does talk bollocks 😅

Its so incredibly cruel and sad for the guy. We all know that young players get injured at academy level and never make it - and thats bad enough. But to achieve what he did, to taste the premier league and playing against world class players - all for his boyhood club, and then to have it taken away at such a young age. That is tough. The guy has his dreams ripped away from him. Yeah i know there are worse tragedies in life, but still horrible to see. I guess he's probably still earnt a fair wage from the years he's had, and he must have developed some incredible mental toughness in that time (we can only hope anyway), but hopefully he manages to land on his feet in the end. I wouldn't be surprised to see him involved in some kind of backroom role in the future - perhaps coaching (not necessarily football). Just wish him the best. Hopefully Smallbone gets more luck - at least he seems to have made it back from his knee injury without any lasting niggles (touch wood).

Wow, at 21:15 on NYE that is incredibly brave/bold of you 😆

The person you were responding to never made the point you argued against. They were simply saying they were waiting for longer term study data on the side effects. Not data on long term side effects. 🙄

Long term safety data isn't long term side effects fyi 👍

The guys who came up with this rumour have sure had a good laugh this time 🤣

This is destined to be all to accurate I fear (I.e. He hasn't tweeted 😢)