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Sulemana had to pass. He's playing for himself for his move.

He absolutely was to blame. Suicidal football gifting chances.

Whisper it. Only 7 points from safety.

Token stupid yellow for Dibling for a shirt pull after fluffing an attacking move 😄

Ref has already decided the winner here.

Most obvious one I can think of (because of the ralph connection) is ralf rangnick 🤷. Also, Klopp is essentially DoF for the redbull group, "global head of football" to be exact... I would guess that prominant top level managers (who are by inspection near the top of their game) tend to stay as managers as it's what makes them successful and is their bread and butter livelihood etc. Whilst less known managers probably slip under the radar (as do most DoF in fairness). Edit... An obvious one who I refuse to give any credit to. Les Reed.

Rumours circulating now that we've "recalled him", because Sheffield United want him 😂

Filling in the blanks. I can see that that would piss off the Wednesday Chairman... 😂 Recall him at the last minute, ending their playoff hopes, and then giving him to their bitter rivals. Not sure why we'd want to put ourselves into the middle of that particular rivalry though - even if we are pissed off with their chairman!

Yeah, he had a pretty serious case of Nostrikeritis during his last 18months with us.

Yeah, i have nothing but time for Souness tbh, even if he can be a cantankerous old bar steward with the best of them when he wants to. Sadly i don't think he would be well suited to the game these days, and in particular some of the "modern footballers".

https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/336175-chansiri-declares-war-on-southampton/#comments Pretty f'kn hard to damage us more than SR have this season 😄. I wonder if this is somehow related to future moves for Rohl? Also, what a thing to say about Shea Charles... (if indeed he did say it).

What kind of argument are you trying to make. The reason he did nothing for us is because we farmed him out on loan and then got rid of him... In the meantime we spent £160M on shit (that we're repeatedly struggling to shift or use) whilst tella remains a very promising and effective young player. The star of the championship in Burnley's title winning season, and now a Bundesliga winner...

This has just popped up or me... Seems topical given certain posters' concerns over talksport interviews. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DT2NZRnRx/ Quite liked semmens tbh. Performed well with Ralph given the limited funds. Highlighted really by the total mess we've seen since despite all the money spent.

Was a dumb decision to let him go. Just another youngster we've pissed away so we could sign the likes of Mara and Edozie 🤣

Doesn't surprise me that no one has been charged. But it is very frustrating that we've jumped through various hoops to comply with it (upon relegation and this past summer window) only for Leicester to seemingly ignore it entirely.

I fully agree with you (I imagine the overwhelming majority do at this point). It doesn't have to be Chris Wood, but there are/were proven players that could/would've suit(ed) whatever system we've been after. But sadly rather than buying quality, we've spent over 200million scatter gunning on fluff for the squad in the hope that we'd uncover gems or get players for the future (with not enough thought on the here and now). We've also switched styles quite extremely over that period.

In fairness, its also about styles of play. He was never a "Martin" style signing. But agree otherwise - he is showing that there is still a place for good old fashioned centre forwards, and i personally love to see it. Reminds me of the way Lambert was unfancied by a lot of teams but became a real fan favourite at saints and was an absolute weapon for us and was integral to our system. Edit - thinking about it, was fairly astute by Cortese at the time that he picked Poch as the manager, someone who favoured the use of high energy attacking players (for the press) focussed around a target man centre forward who could hold the ball up and link play. He suited the players we had very well for a relatively unknown manager, and obviously went on to execute that with even better players at Spurs. Sports Republic could learn a thing or 2 about footballing styles, and matching it up with suitable manager and player recruitment.

Why are you fearful?

The mistake was sacking Ralph (currently 6th in Budesliga with a transfer profit of 10M euros this season) and spunking £100M to deliver him forward line additions of Mara, Edozie. 6Months of a slow motion car crash.

Time to put a bet on us getting pumped, and to transfer in loads of United players and captain Bruno / Hojland / Onana etc etc., (basically anyone you think might get goals/assists/clean sheet points) - Do your part for the team saints fans, its the only way we sneak out of there with a 1-0 smash and grab win.

Overseeing back to back promotions, a cup win, and establishing us in the premier league with a momentum (curve) that continued to carry us into the top half and eventually into europe and a cup final? I am confused how you're equating the Cortese era to the current lot. Especially as we managed a fairly modest net transfer spend all in for League 1 and the championship - all things considered and compared to some of the budgets we were up against.

I am struggling to work out, how out of Rasmus and Kraft, its Kraft who's kopped the bullet here...🤣 So, has it in fact not been Rasmus that's overseen some of the prominent cock ups under SR (that Jan window in 2023 being the most prominent one I can think of)? In which case, has he actually been the fall guy with the fans? Maybe this is the start of Rasmus' recovery arc, after he's been wronged by the fanbase massive and blamed for Kraft's lack of footballing knowledge/ability? Maybe, just maybe, Rasmus really was the mastermind behind Brentford's rise all along.... Do we all own him a massive apology?!?!?! Lets think about this for a moment...

Its £5M of Southampton's money as far as our books and PSR are concerned.

In the grand schemes of unsavoury owners, any club could do far worse than Musk. Gao is rumoured to have effectively been a crook at had blood on his hands via some turncoat testimonies etc. There have certainly been some real bits of work in football ownership over the years, not to mention the being owned by human rights abusing regimes. But Musk would be something though... could it happen? We're a commercial port with decent links for shipping, have historic connections to America and former colonies like SA, plus there is a history of manufacturing local to the area with Ford and Spitfires in the war etc.. Sadly he's been strongly linked to the victims hasn't he? . But still... just imagine being sponsored by Space X as we "rocket" our way back up the leagues 😛, not to mention the commercial income we could expect to reasonably add through the likes of Tesla, Starlink, etc - let alone the exposure globally he would bring or via X etc... One thing looks fairly certain - Whoever Musk ultimately buys is going to easily be one of the commercially richest clubs in football at any rate.

😴😴😴Players work their way back to fitness by playing limited minutes in the reserves - this is pretty standard and has always been this way. Automatically equating "a player coming back from injury playing 45min in the reserves", to, "he's shit and isn't good enough for the first team" is just a ludicrous take. He may well not be good enough for the prem - who of us knows at the moment? But that will ultimately be irrespective of whether he's coming back from injury and needs some easy minutes to get his fitness back up - lets judge him when/if he plays?!?!