Daft Kerplunk

Renegade Master by Wildchild is the track by the Southampton artist. The original is a great tune, afatboh slim remix is alright but doesn’t have the same driving beats. Would be very good and relevant to the city.

Fantastic. Appreciate there are multiple meanings. The aircraft black box was a device for a semi comedic (interpretation will dictate your view) comment on how the date therein is used after a crash, which is kind of what the transfers have been the last two years when we didn’t have a high profile manager to help attract players or autocratic, some may say overly ambitious or crazy business leader telling players we were headed to the Champions League.

The ‘black box’ was never a great analogy seeing as a black box contains the flight data that’s useful for understanding the reasons why a plane crashed or exploded. Saying that, opening the black box now might explain why the transfers over the last few years have been well under par!

I’d say 12th for us, and seeing the way opposition teams have sliced our defence like a hot knife through warm butter in pre-season and the official SFC video had an attacking player getting in a forward position that resulted in an easy clearance listed as a ‘chance’ this might be optimistic.

That’s because Les and Martin Hunter have got rid of, or let all the people go who actually were good at finding and developing players, and critically in the case of Jason Dodd, knew what it took to be a premier league player and what it means to play for Saints. From what I understand, it will be awhile before the academy performs as well as it once did, and maybe not until Les departs and takes Martin Hunter and their people with them.

Karma will come in his next life, the misunderstanding of karma continues. As a player, I’d have him back. As a man, he can do one.

Makes perfect sense, the idea of team spirit was the foundation of Fergie’s success. Lost on some though.

Not all of them (almost half) came through our actual academy to this stage so recruitment at the younger ages is still off form. Apparently most of the decent young kids from Southampton end up at Chelsea as we prefer nice kids instead of taking a chance on the kids from Southampton’s inner city.

A decent/really good centre forward and a starting centre back (Vestergaard if he is coming) and losing FF and Boufal would be decent business. Then there are those not good enough for the squad (most of the players who have come through of late) who need to go out on loan or be sold.

Agree on the dislike for the player but that’s a peculiar point of view given the impact Carrillo had on games we saw him in compared to Long.

It’s an Under Armour thing. It’s for athletes who want to push themselves to the limit, not regular fans. Until they get that Adidas and Nike make stuff for people with no interest in being athletes they’ll continue this way. Anyway, you can still easily buy a rain jacket for £800 if you can afford it so £120 is not as expensive as some.

Is it still a rule that homegrown players don’t need to be included in that number? If so, that’s a chunk of players removed from the 29 listed

The latest Norweigian to join the ranks? Looking likely according to sky sources

Good signing and should be hungry to prove his value, which is a plus for a side where that has been lacking considerably. Welcome to the latest Saint Armstrong

All these BBC pundits suggesting Shaqiri is a good player. Absolutely no idea what they’re talking about compared with the Saintsweb experts

Heard that other clubs are just able and willing to pay more than we are so it might be a difficult summer, especially when it comes to signing English players. International players might be easier as premier league clubs can pay more but sounded like we wouldn’t or couldn’t compete with other PL clubs.

The wonderful Marian Pahars aka the ‘Latvian Michael Owen’ was pretty good although obviously Iniesta would be too short for the premier league

Good: Cup final Bad: selling so many players and not replacing with decent quality/the decline of the academy Ugly: people using the word ‘recycle’ when referring to patterns of play in football by some on this forum. No football people use this, it is from rugby and is ugly as fug

Maybe he got it in Hong Kong then travelled home to Australia. Pretty easy to do in 2018

Matt Holland. 6th June

Lawyers have to take more time than needed. It’s how they make their money!

Confirmed to me that zero money will be coming in from the new ownership for football matters here at Southampton FC. Every bit of football and stadium/training ground investment will need to come from player trading and increased revenue. Essentially, the Gao family have bought into football credibility and history for use in Chinese projects that will use football as part of investment projects (the government is still favourable to football and wants the country to have sport cities across the country) and the owners also have staff here at Southampton - the more commercial directors - who can use the political power of being a regional football club to lobby on their behalf for construction projects (housing) in England, especially Southampton. This last. It is probably pretty minor compared to the potential income in China. Nothing terribly scary but certainly not with a primary objective of taking the football club to the next level, whatever that actually is anyway.

Happy to leave for Olympique Marseille according to a French TV show with him speaking on it

Mark Higehes needs to be announced in the next few days. The players have responded. The club needs consistency. Gone are any European football aspirations for now. Let’s get a manager in who has got the respect of players, knows the league, has an affinity with the club and can settle things for the beginning of the summer. SFC board, this will be the easiest appointment you’ll have made in your tenure so annnouce it in the next week if Hughes is keen.

But VVD left, eventually, but left all the same. Paper talk is what it is but it is almost never smoke without some of fire, even if a mov doesn’t eventually happen. Let’s hope McArthy doesn’t go but nothing is unexpected after a season of major underachievement against expectations.