Sport Republic

[Turkish]

30 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

Sports Repulic need to change and realise their mistakes or sell up and feck off. I would say the latter would be more likely though, which is a shame as they have monetary back we require. 

They are fecking weird peeing their money up the wall time and time again and watching something clearly that does not work! 

The first sentence is the problem, they won’t. You’ve got a guy at the top who probably wanks in the mirror then a loaf of yes men under him. They’ve made the same mistakes over and over again. Nothing suggest they’re going to learn does it

[Football Special]

4 hours ago, Badger said:

Alfie clearly going all out to be barred from the club, and take on martyr status with the fans.

Or has another job lined up. 

He spends time talking to fans so has a good idea what the actual fanbase feels and I don't mean the FAB types but actual match going regulars 

[Football Special]

5 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The first sentence is the problem, they won’t. You’ve got a guy at the top who probably wanks in the mirror then a loaf of yes men under him. They’ve made the same mistakes over and over again. Nothing suggest they’re going to learn does it

Is it like the emperors new clothes? He's convinced all is great and no one else is prepared to tell him the truth ? 

[Master Bates]

21 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Isn’t there someone rich and famous whose relatives were on the titanic and they can return to their family roots by investing in this magnificent football club 

Fulthorpe was talking 2yrs ago, didn't put his money where his mouth is though.

[Turkish]

11 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Is it like the emperors new clothes? He's convinced all is great and no one else is prepared to tell him the truth ? 

Certain seems that way 

[Dark Munster]

5 hours ago, trousers said:

Alfie going all guns blazing... Shame it's taken so long for a journo to hold these reckless owners to account...

 

 

Good to hear him laying into SR. Shame though he couldn’t specifically call out the root of the disease, Rasmus Ankersen, although he does hint at it. 

[SWLondon Saint]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

Is it like the emperors new clothes? He's convinced all is great and no one else is prepared to tell him the truth ? 

I can't believe Solak is happy with the former best asset of the group being run into the ground like this. Even Wankersen can't spin the fact that literally every decision made at Saints the last few years has been complete and utter shit. I live in hope he realises enough is enough and fires the twat and anyone else who has had any responsibility in the manager farce of the last 3 years.

[Gloucester Saint]

50 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Good to hear him laying into SR. Shame though he couldn’t specifically call out the root of the disease, Rasmus Ankersen, although he does hint at it. 

‘Putting Egos aside’ - about as obvious a reference to Rasmus Ankerson as you could get.

[pimpin4rizeal]

On 17/01/2026 at 18:49, S-Clarke said:

But how is any of that going to happen without SR going?

They're done. They're finished. There is no way back for them here, the damage they've done is irreversible at this stage and the trust is gone.

They have proven time and time and time and time again - they cannot make the right decisions. They are incapable.

If I had any power I'd ensure they'd never be able to make a decision again, but sadly they will probably do so in the coming months. 

They need to go. It doesn't get better when they are still hanging around. Dragan needs to honour his words and fall on his sword within the next few months.

Spors was meant to be dragons attempt to clean up the mess from previous mistakes but his head should be rolling already. So many idiotic decisions that just don’t make sense, there’s chatter about the ex Martin players being toxic yet the first thing he dioes is reward jack with a new contract, the others are still played regularly by tonda so nothing being done about that 

The manager choices have been a absolute mess and after already making one bad appointment with will still why would you go and take a crazy gamble on a manager with zero experience ? This really isn’t the fucking time to mess about with experiments these decisions needed to be correct it doesn’t seem to matter how sports republic shuffle the boardroom deckchairs the decisions remain consistently terrible 

 

[Miltonaggro]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

Isn’t there someone rich and famous whose relatives were on the titanic and they can return to their family roots by investing in this magnificent football club 

A romantic thought. We are more likely to get someone who went down on Osama Bin-Laden. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

4 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

New buyer would end up being someone like Ryan Reynolds or Tom Brady, only we'd end up with a Temu version and it'd be the guy who plays Roy in Coronation Street.

It's not the Roy of the Rovers I was after. But it would still be an improvement. 🙂

[Billy the Kidd]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

The first sentence is the problem, they won’t. You’ve got a guy at the top who probably wanks in the mirror then a loaf of yes men under him. They’ve made the same mistakes over and over again. Nothing suggest they’re going to learn does it

And those people are likely under him whilst he is wanking in the mirror, trying to catch some drips of greatness. 

[Mboto Gorge]

Great work lads

[Football Special]

21 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

Great work lads

Obviously awful,  but need to show net spend as well 

[FredVaFC59100]

Dragan is not a philanthropist, at the end of the day it is just business; He will keep on funding SR as long as he sees return on investment.

Right now SR seems to only bleed money with VA FC; it is largely being offset by SFC and Gotzepe.

No change in sight I'm afraid.

 

[Weston Super Saint]

3 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Dragan is not a philanthropist, at the end of the day it is just business; He will keep on funding SR as long as he sees return on investment.

Right now SR seems to only bleed money with VA FC; it is largely being offset by SFC and Gotzepe.

No change in sight I'm afraid.

 

In the grand scheme of things, VA FC 'bleeding money' is like your kid losing their pocket money.

[Dr Who?]

Just goes to show that in a lot of cases (not all) it is how the club is managed. But probably a bit of both. It does show that our club are managed terribly 

Edited 8 hours ago by Dr Who?

[S-Clarke]

12 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

Just goes to show that in a lot of cases (not all) it is how the club is managed. But probably a bit of both. It does show that our club are managed terribly 

Another two of the clubs in that list - Sheffield United and Norwich have spent a lot. They both have silly bollocks approaches too.

Sheffield United went all data analyst driven in the summer with the Ruben Selles appointment. That worked well.

Norwich went all clever bollocks shit with German scouts and data analysts etc and spent loads on shite, that also worked well.

The common theme is - proper football people, proper football management, spend some money and let football people manage them = decent outcome. Anything else is clever bollocks shit which does not have any place in football.

The argument that these data morons have is that it gives us the 'extra % to compete' - we've spent £55-59m and we can't compete, so the data bollocks approach has made us worse off.

Edited 8 hours ago by S-Clarke

[Lee On Solent Saint]

16 hours ago, SWLondon Saint said:

I can't believe Solak is happy with the former best asset of the group being run into the ground like this. Even Wankersen can't spin the fact that literally every decision made at Saints the last few years has been complete and utter shit. I live in hope he realises enough is enough and fires the twat and anyone else who has had any responsibility in the manager farce of the last 3 years.

Solak is as much to blame for this as the others. Nobody involved with SR should be absorbed of any culpability. None of them have a fuckin clue what they are doing. Stumbling from one ludicrous decision to another. They have managed to completely ruin what was once a stable and proud football club. The damage they have caused will take a long time to repair. 

[St Louis]

17 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

Good to hear him laying into SR. Shame though he couldn’t specifically call out the root of the disease, Rasmus Ankersen, although he does hint at it. 

Genuine question, how do you know Rasmus Ankersen is the main problem (there a lot of chefs)? I thought he had little involvement with us now, since he'd relocated to Turkey and taken over as chairman at Goztepe? I appreciate he's an easy target as has spouted a lot of business textbook BS over the years, but do we actually know that he is the root of the disease?

[Dman]

16 hours ago, SWLondon Saint said:

I can't believe Solak is happy with the former best asset of the group being run into the ground like this. Even Wankersen can't spin the fact that literally every decision made at Saints the last few years has been complete and utter shit. I live in hope he realises enough is enough and fires the twat and anyone else who has had any responsibility in the manager farce of the last 3 years.

I'm a little torn with Solak. Generally speaking I quite like him and I think he means well. He's not been afraid to put money in and from a non footballing perspectve I like the direction that the club are heading. 

My concern is that despite how they spin that Ankerson is no longer involved in the day to day running Saints, I fear that he has Solak's ear. 

I'm not convinced that Solak is a strong enough leader or ruthless enough for us to move forward with him.

Without Solak's money, there is no SR. I'm not sure the multi-club model has benefited us in any way, shape or form to date and given the clubs they're looking at buying, i'm not convinced it ever will. 

Henrik Kraft was the fall guy last time, things haven't improved. Unless Solak can bring someone into SR who will challenge Ankerson and has experience at running a football club before, I think we're at a point where he needs to fall on his sword and sell the club. 

SR selling worries me. I'm not convinced its a great market for perspective buyers of a football club and I don't think we would be seen as great value for money. Sometimies its better the devil you know, but things cannot continue as they are.   

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, St Louis said:

Genuine question, how do you know Rasmus Ankersen is the main problem (there a lot of chefs)? I thought he had little involvement with us now, since he'd relocated to Turkey and taken over as chairman at Goztepe? I appreciate he's an easy target as has spouted a lot of business textbook BS over the years, but do we actually know that he is the root of the disease?

Ben Garner for a start, digging shows clear links between him, Right to Dream Academy in Ghana, and Ankerson. There was a more detailed piece of research done on the Ben Garner thread which made it crystal clear. Sulemana graduated from it as well. 

[Football Special]

19 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Ben Garner for a start, digging shows clear links between him, Right to Dream Academy in Ghana, and Ankerson. There was a more detailed piece of research done on the Ben Garner thread which made it crystal clear. Sulemana graduated from it as well. 

Yep plus when Still was sacked Ankerson was at next couple of games, Alfie has confirmed RASMUS is football advisor for Solak 

[saintant]

1 hour ago, Dman said:

I'm a little torn with Solak. Generally speaking I quite like him and I think he means well. He's not been afraid to put money in and from a non footballing perspectve I like the direction that the club are heading. 

My concern is that despite how they spin that Ankerson is no longer involved in the day to day running Saints, I fear that he has Solak's ear. 

I'm not convinced that Solak is a strong enough leader or ruthless enough for us to move forward with him.

Without Solak's money, there is no SR. I'm not sure the multi-club model has benefited us in any way, shape or form to date and given the clubs they're looking at buying, i'm not convinced it ever will. 

Henrik Kraft was the fall guy last time, things haven't improved. Unless Solak can bring someone into SR who will challenge Ankerson and has experience at running a football club before, I think we're at a point where he needs to fall on his sword and sell the club. 

SR selling worries me. I'm not convinced its a great market for perspective buyers of a football club and I don't think we would be seen as great value for money. Sometimies its better the devil you know, but things cannot continue as they are.   

Unfortunately we are a football club 🙂

[tdmickey3]

23 minutes ago, saintant said:

Unfortunately we are a football club 🙂

Well! we used to be

[Dman]

I just want to go back to a time where we had @manji claiming we're entering the best period of our lives under SR.

[FredVaFC59100]

3 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

Just goes to show that in a lot of cases (not all) it is how the club is managed. But probably a bit of both. It does show that our club are managed terribly 

We have a similar looking table for VA FC: First budget in National, spending like crazy to redo the squad every 6 months and we are sitting 15th in the table. coincidence? 

[Mboto Gorge]

2 hours ago, St Louis said:

Genuine question, how do you know Rasmus Ankersen is the main problem (there a lot of chefs)? I thought he had little involvement with us now, since he'd relocated to Turkey and taken over as chairman at Goztepe? I appreciate he's an easy target as has spouted a lot of business textbook BS over the years, but do we actually know that he is the root of the disease?

Yes , we do. People in scouting networks who deal with saints have to go through him and it has to ratified by him via his data analysis.

[tdmickey3]

22 minutes ago, Dman said:

I just want to go back to a time where we had @manji claiming we're entering the best period of our lives under SR.

Give it time, wont be long now surely 🙄

[S-Clarke]

23 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

We have a similar looking table for VA FC: First budget in National, spending like crazy to redo the squad every 6 months and we are sitting 15th in the table. coincidence? 

Not at all, I think the fact it's happening across both clubs is pretty glaring on SR's ability to run professional sports outfits.

You've got protests happening against them your side, much more vigorous to be fair. If we ramp it up, then maybe we can get them to sod off and just keep their hands on Gotzepe.

[Toussaint]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25775197.southampton-fc-add-former-hannover-analyst-eckerts-backroom-staff/?ref=cprfa&__vfz=medium%3Dtray_notification#vf-6c78c3f8-ad98-46bb-9a1d-5e3a24a5be37

 

Successor is in place. We are going to rocket up the league now.