Sport Republic

[BarberSaint]

2 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

Sports Republic no intention of selling Saints then, well not this year anyway……maybe next summer…! So where would that leave Sports Republic with just Goztepe and Valenciennes……?

Better off?

[davefizzy14]

Looking forward to hearing Adam and Alfies interview with Dragan tomorrow 😊 In my opinion he has clearly got good intentions for the club and stepped in and made changes to the football structure side. He has invested a lot of money into the club.

[Badger]

Just found this, no idea if any implications for us but sounds like some shenanigans going on at United Group.

Probably a load of bollocks, so have taken it down rather than waste anyone’s time.

Not particularly interesting but helps cure insomnia 

Edited Wednesday at 22:20 by Badger

[Suhari]

21 minutes ago, davefizzy14 said:

Looking forward to hearing Adam and Alfies interview with Dragan tomorrow 😊 In my opinion he has clearly got good intentions for the club and stepped in and made changes to the football structure side. He has invested a lot of money into the club.

SR get a lot of stick, and rightly so for some of the fuck-stoopid decisions they've made.

However, Dragan has stumped up some pretty considerable £££, WITHOUT being the one making the decisions and signing the cheques. He must be pissed off as fuck. I reckon he has something to prove.

And I think we'll see him improve things massively, without vaping, slender-jean wearers around the place.

Looking forward to hearing the interview.

[manji]

2 hours ago, Suhari said:

SR get a lot of stick, and rightly so for some of the fuck-stoopid decisions they've made.

However, Dragan has stumped up some pretty considerable £££, WITHOUT being the one making the decisions and signing the cheques. He must be pissed off as fuck. I reckon he has something to prove.

And I think we'll see him improve things massively, without vaping, slender-jean wearers around the place.

Looking forward to hearing the interview.

He is very much pissed off I think the kicking chairs round hospitality proves that I mentioned the incident soon after it happened it finally made into an Athetic article recently. I know Rasmus makes a good scapegoat but the situation wasn’t his fault. 
it all started to go wrong when Wilcox fucked off at the beginning of the season. Rasmus stepped in ( big mistake) and copped all the stick. Dragon assumed his cohorts had everything under control.

i said it loads of times as well Solak was pissed off we didn’t go up via the autos but he was talked into giving Russell Martin an insanely good new contract. I bet he’s angry he took the wrong advice bearing in how much money he has put into the club.

lots of mistakes but he’s assumed full responsibility. There’s a lot of changes back stage . Spors knows what he is doing. There’s a bit of a risk appointing Stil but infitely better than a dumb choice like Dyche. 
a new dawn and again absolutely no reason why we can’t go straight back up and plenty of time to prep for the following season in the PL., if not we go up the following season.

im fucking looking forward to it . 

[AlexLaw76]

2 hours ago, manji said:

He is very much pissed off I think the kicking chairs round hospitality proves that I mentioned the incident soon after it happened it finally made into an Athetic article recently. I know Rasmus makes a good scapegoat but the situation wasn’t his fault. 
it all started to go wrong when Wilcox fucked off at the beginning of the season. Rasmus stepped in ( big mistake) and copped all the stick. Dragon assumed his cohorts had everything under control.

i said it loads of times as well Solak was pissed off we didn’t go up via the autos but he was talked into giving Russell Martin an insanely good new contract. I bet he’s angry he took the wrong advice bearing in how much money he has put into the club.

lots of mistakes but he’s assumed full responsibility. There’s a lot of changes back stage . Spors knows what he is doing. There’s a bit of a risk appointing Stil but infitely better than a dumb choice like Dyche. 
a new dawn and again absolutely no reason why we can’t go straight back up and plenty of time to prep for the following season in the PL., if not we go up the following season.

im fucking looking forward to it . 

Why would Dyche be a “dumb choice”?

[SouSaint]

3 hours ago, manji said:

He is very much pissed off I think the kicking chairs round hospitality proves that I mentioned the incident soon after it happened it finally made into an Athetic article recently. I know Rasmus makes a good scapegoat but the situation wasn’t his fault. 
it all started to go wrong when Wilcox fucked off at the beginning of the season. Rasmus stepped in ( big mistake) and copped all the stick. Dragon assumed his cohorts had everything under control.

i said it loads of times as well Solak was pissed off we didn’t go up via the autos but he was talked into giving Russell Martin an insanely good new contract. I bet he’s angry he took the wrong advice bearing in how much money he has put into the club.

lots of mistakes but he’s assumed full responsibility. There’s a lot of changes back stage . Spors knows what he is doing. There’s a bit of a risk appointing Stil but infitely better than a dumb choice like Dyche. 
a new dawn and again absolutely no reason why we can’t go straight back up and plenty of time to prep for the following season in the PL., if not we go up the following season.

im fucking looking forward to it . 

Wilcox left us in April last year. SR had time to replace him but instead tried to be clever and that led to the worst season in the clubs history. 

 

Talk is cheap, the only way SR make up for last seasons shambles is by delivering a league winning season this coming season imo. Can't say I'm confident. 

 

[ChristopheVAFC]

11 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

Sports Republic no intention of selling Saints then, well not this year anyway……maybe next summer…! So where would that leave Sports Republic with just Goztepe and Valenciennes……?

When SR joined us in the summer of 2023, they made it clear that they were in it for the medium-long term and that he wouldn't be leaving overnight.

And recently, the owner (I'm thinking of Dragan), would have said that he was getting impatient and that he wanted results soon. That's why we're going through a lot of changes at the moment, and I think it'll be the same for you this year.

I really don't think that SR is going to leave any time soon, from any of the 3 clubs, I think it's still early days for them.

[CB Fry]

4 hours ago, manji said:

He is very much pissed off I think the kicking chairs round hospitality proves that I mentioned the incident soon after it happened it finally made into an Athetic article recently. I know Rasmus makes a good scapegoat but the situation wasn’t his fault. 
it all started to go wrong when Wilcox fucked off at the beginning of the season. Rasmus stepped in ( big mistake) and copped all the stick. Dragon assumed his cohorts had everything under control.

i said it loads of times as well Solak was pissed off we didn’t go up via the autos but he was talked into giving Russell Martin an insanely good new contract. I bet he’s angry he took the wrong advice bearing in how much money he has put into the club.

lots of mistakes but he’s assumed full responsibility. There’s a lot of changes back stage . Spors knows what he is doing. There’s a bit of a risk appointing Stil but infitely better than a dumb choice like Dyche. 
a new dawn and again absolutely no reason why we can’t go straight back up and plenty of time to prep for the following season in the PL., if not we go up the following season.

im fucking looking forward to it . 

Did Russell Martin get an "insanely good new contract" or just the kind of deal triggered by achieving promotion? Like him or not he would/did deserve that.

Will Still will have the same kind of thing regardless of us winning the league on 100 points or scraping up at Wembley. Promotion is promotion.

[Dman]

29 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Did Russell Martin get an "insanely good new contract" or just the kind of deal triggered by achieving promotion? Like him or not he would/did deserve that.

Will Still will have the same kind of thing regardless of us winning the league on 100 points or scraping up at Wembley. Promotion is promotion.

Mental Manji chatting utter nonsense... who'd have thought it. 

He spuouts the same crap every summer. 

[Weston Super Saint]

13 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

The whole Sport Republuc project falls apart without a keystone club. So little incentive to sell Saints at a point when their value is lower than they've spent on it.

Why the assumption that we are the 'keystone club'?

Goztepe have a far better chance to gain Champions league football....

[Matthew Le God]

13 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

The whole Sport Republic project falls apart without a keystone club. So little incentive to sell Saints at a point when their value is lower than they've spent on it.

Not that we didn't know already, as Saints even in the Championship have a significantly larger income and fanbase than the other Sport Republic clubs, but Dragan Solak states in the BBC Radio Solent interview Saints are the "main club" in the Sport Republic group. Even if one of the others made the Champions League Saints as a Premier League team would have a bigger income.

He also states the intention to spend hundreds of millions on the development surrounding St Mary's & stadium capacity increase.

Edited Thursday at 07:36 by Matthew Le God

[Holmes_and_Watson]

13 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

Sports Republic no intention of selling Saints then, well not this year anyway……maybe next summer…! So where would that leave Sports Republic with just Goztepe and Valenciennes……?

Goztepe would be needing another English feeder club. 🙂

[Saint86]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25246799.dragan-solak-interview-southampton-owner-opens-sale-rumours/

Comes across really well in the interview - decent, passionate, speaks about his naivitiy and growing experience, calls Martin "cocky", has a joke about VAR last season, and makes it clear that he's now running the show with regards to saints - as essentially an authoriser for Spors, and the football team he's put in place. Its a very good PR piece 😋 

Also says we will be signing a striker and creative midfielder before any outgoings.

Edited Thursday at 08:23 by Saint86

[AlexLaw76]

On 19/06/2025 at 04:55, AlexLaw76 said:

Why would Dyche be a “dumb choice”?

Nothing heard

Booooooo

[S-Clarke]

On 19/06/2025 at 02:13, manji said:

it all started to go wrong when Wilcox fucked off at the beginning of the season. Rasmus stepped in ( big mistake) and copped all the stick. Dragon assumed his cohorts had everything under control.

I take issue with that bit, it went wrong long before Wilcox was involved. Remember the summer window of 2022, and the winter Window of 2023? They were amongst the worst we'd ever had, set us back years, and that was primarily on Rasmus. Wilcox wasn't even a glint in peoples eyes back then.

The issue with not replacing Wilcox last summer was a genuine one, but let's not ignore the fact that things were pretty horrific long before Wilcox was involved.

People like Rasmus will rightfully cop the stick when he releases books that are titled ''If it's not broken, break it', and then subsequently gets his hands involved in us and breaks our club.

Edited Friday at 08:32 by S-Clarke