Sport Republic

[benjii]

On 21/01/2026 at 22:04, Weston Super Saint said:

Not at all.

Solak is sole shareholder of the company at the top of the pyramid.  That company has voting rights over ALL the other companies.  Ergo, Solak has the ability to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, if he wants.

The shareholding is very transparent and easy to follow.

I don't think this is correct. 

[capitalsaint]

On 26/01/2026 at 19:24, trousers said:

 

deleted. Joke was funnier in my head.

Edited yesterday at 08:23 by capitalsaint

[Weston Super Saint]

4 hours ago, benjii said:

I don't think this is correct. 

Southampton Football club limited - Person with significant control (75% or more of the shares) = St Mary's football group limited : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00053301/persons-with-significant-control

St Mary's football group limited - Person with significant control (75% or more of the shares) = Sport Republic limited : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06951765/persons-with-significant-control

Sport Republic limited - Person with significant control (75% or more of the shares) = Sport Republic holding limited : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13790702/persons-with-significant-control

Sport Republic holding limited - Person with significant control (75% or more of the shares, 75% or more of the voting rights) = Dragan Solak : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13789278/persons-with-significant-control

 

Dragan has control over everything.  He controls Sport Republic holding limited which has control over all the other companies in the pyramid.  The trail stops at him on company's house and the buck stops with him for SFC.  Ankerson is listed as an 'officer' on all those companies but Dragan has the voting rights, no one else (if he chooses to implement all policies from the top down).

[benjii]

Yes, he has a big majority of the shares but that doesn't necessarily mean he can do what he wants. There will be agreements in place between him and the other Sport Republic investors (Wankerson, Kraft etc) that deal with sale of shares and which probably give those guys more rights than a typical minority shareholder.

 

[BarberSaint]

Worrying quote from Anker's son:

 

‘We redesigned the club based on a question: what would a football club look like if it had no human eye and ear?

 

He must have ignored the fact that the fans have eyes and ears and the former are quite integral to watching the footy.

[AlexLaw76]

43 minutes ago, BarberSaint said:

Worrying quote from Anker's son:

 

‘We redesigned the club based on a question: what would a football club look like if it had no human eye and ear?

 

He must have ignored the fact that the fans have eyes and ears and the former are quite integral to watching the footy.

We are so relegated forever under these poisonous clowns 

[Willo of Whiteley]

It didn’t need redesigning.

Just a bit of investment and enhancement.

State of these morons.

[trousers]

5 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

Worrying quote from Anker's son:

 

‘We redesigned the club based on a question: what would a football club look like if it had no human eye and ear?

 

He must have ignored the fact that the fans have eyes and ears and the former are quite integral to watching the footy.

As close to confirmation as possible that they're using this football club a guinea pig for their warped philosophies and 'research'. How this level of self-indulgent risk taking is allowable under the football authorities 'fit and proper' ownership criteria is baffling....

Surely, at best, this is utter contempt for us HUMANS that support the club and, at worst, it's gross negligence....?

 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

As close to confirmation as possible that they're using this football club a guinea pig for their warped philosophies and 'research'. How this level of self-indulgent risk taking is allowable under the football authorities 'fit and proper' ownership criteria is baffling....

Surely, at best, this is utter contempt for us HUMANS that support the club and, at worst, it's gross negligence....?

 

In the interest of fairness, it's worth pointing out that this quote was actually in reference to his time at Midtjilland.

But I don't think it's an unreasonable stretch to assume that the same philosophy applies to his interest in Saints. 

[trousers]

14 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

In the interest of fairness, it's worth pointing out that this quote was actually in reference to his time at Midtjilland.

But I don't think it's an unreasonable stretch to assume that the same philosophy applies to his interest in Saints. 

Ah, ok... I took BarberSaint's post at face value and naturally assumed it was a recent quote. 

But, yes, I agree, it still resonates with other snippets of info about how the club is being run (e.g. scouts not needing to actually watch players play).

Maybe the hierarchy could enlighten us on their ownership philosophy if they're not still using this Midtjilland model... But I guess that's unlikely given it would entail communicating with the fans openly on a regular basis...

Edited yesterday at 16:20 by trousers

[benjii]

Action is needed.

[benjii]

6 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

Worrying quote from Anker's son:

 

‘We redesigned the club based on a question: what would a football club look like if it had no human eye and ear?

 

He must have ignored the fact that the fans have eyes and ears and the former are quite integral to watching the footy.

Where is this quote from? Cheers.

[danjosaint]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

Where is this quote from? Cheers.

It's from the correspondent article Frannies tache posted about 2 wks ago. It was about Mityjland not us but a good insight to RA 

[Midfield_General]

8 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

‘We redesigned the club based on a question: what would a football club look like if it had no human eye and ear?

The answer to that question being ‘fucking shit’

Cretin

Edit: Rasmus, not BarberSaint

Edited yesterday at 18:45 by Midfield_General

[Willo of Whiteley]

Jack Stephens quotes this evening saying they’re still eyeing the play offs.

If they lose the next couple pressure is going to ramp up again.

[Osvaldorama]

40 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Jack Stephens quotes this evening saying they’re still eyeing the play offs.

If they lose the next couple pressure is going to ramp up again.

Im still eyeing Sydney Sweeney 

 

Similar chances of success 

[Willo of Whiteley]

33 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Im still eyeing Sydney Sweeney 

 

Similar chances of success 

I’d move on. She’s overrated. 😂

A bit like most of the Saints squad.

[sockeye]

Deaf and blind FC.

We march on (the wrong way down the table)

[tdmickey3]

11 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Jack Stephens quotes this evening saying they’re still eyeing the play offs.

If they lose the next couple pressure is going to ramp up again.

L1 next year?

[coalman]

12 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Jack Stephens quotes this evening saying they’re still eyeing the play offs.

If they lose the next couple pressure is going to ramp up again.

Proper captain's performance. Representing the team in a positive light to the press. I can see why Spors was so keen to extend his contract.

[SaintNewForest]

I mean, in fairness to Stephens; he can't win here. 

 

He says we're still targeting the play-offs, and he gets criticized for being unrealistic. 

If he come out and said they're no longer targeting the play-offs, he'd get criticized for giving up and having no ambition. 

[tdmickey3]

36 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

I mean, in fairness to Stephens; he can't win here. 

 

He says we're still targeting the play-offs, and he gets criticized for being unrealistic. 

If he come out and said they're no longer targeting the play-offs, he'd get criticized for giving up and having no ambition. 

All of them should STFU and let the action on the pitch do the talking, nothing else matters

[SaintNewForest]

7 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

All of them should STFU and let the action on the pitch do the talking, nothing else matters

On that I agree, but unfortunately, they are obliged to do these media soundbites. 

[tdmickey3]

5 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

On that I agree, but unfortunately, they are obliged to do these media soundbites. 

Only the managers I think

[Turkish]

On 29/01/2026 at 11:09, AlexLaw76 said:

We are so relegated forever under these poisonous clowns 

We’re going to be down here a long time. The premier league brand isnt interested in clubs like us. It was the Wrexham fairly tale which will appeal to The US. It wants woke shithouse clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton. Even if we go go up it’s totally rigged against us, PSR means you can’t spend, VAR despite being brought in to supposedly make it fair still appears to favour the big clubs. It isn’t all SRs fault the rot started years before they arrived but they’ve simple accelerated it

if we don’t go up this or next year we’re going to become a club like Coventry, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday or until recently Forest where people remember they used to be a premier league club once. The fact we are so far behind clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton is pretty tragic really but it’s a classic example of poor ownership and in our case arrogance that we could beat the system 

[Miltonaggro]

54 minutes ago, Turkish said:

We’re going to be down here a long time. The premier league brand isnt interested in clubs like us. It was the Wrexham fairly tale which will appeal to The US. It wants woke shithouse clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton. Even if we go go up it’s totally rigged against us, PSR means you can’t spend, VAR despite being brought in to supposedly make it fair still appears to favour the big clubs. It isn’t all SRs fault the rot started years before they arrived but they’ve simple accelerated it

if we don’t go up this or next year we’re going to become a club like Coventry, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday or until recently Forest where people remember they used to be a premier league club once. The fact we are so far behind clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton is pretty tragic really but it’s a classic example of poor ownership and in our case arrogance that we could beat the system 

Nail on the head.

[sockeye]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

We’re going to be down here a long time. The premier league brand isnt interested in clubs like us. It was the Wrexham fairly tale which will appeal to The US. It wants woke shithouse clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton. Even if we go go up it’s totally rigged against us, PSR means you can’t spend, VAR despite being brought in to supposedly make it fair still appears to favour the big clubs. It isn’t all SRs fault the rot started years before they arrived but they’ve simple accelerated it

if we don’t go up this or next year we’re going to become a club like Coventry, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday or until recently Forest where people remember they used to be a premier league club once. The fact we are so far behind clubs like Bournemouth and Brighton is pretty tragic really but it’s a classic example of poor ownership and in our case arrogance that we could beat the system 

It's just horrible isn't it. And you know they will finally discard us after 2027-28 when the parachute payments are gone and we finish in the bottom half of the table, with no assets left for us to fund a promotion push

Edited 5 hours ago by sockeye

[Turkish]

32 minutes ago, sockeye said:

It's just horrible isn't it. And you know they will finally discard us after 2027-28 when the parachute payments are gone and we finish in the bottom half of the table, with no assets left for us to fund a promotion push

It’s horrible in as much as our decline is self inflicted, trying to be smarter than everyone else, the arrogance that we knew better. In many ways it’s worse than what happened to Pompey and Leeds as they chased a dream and had some success we’ve had a nothing.

as for the premier league I’m really not arsed about being in it, I know the quality of football/I want to be entertained brigade do but It so rigged that it does feel almost pointless being in it. When you do build a competitive team it’s ripped apart before they’ve even got a chance to get a sustained success. 

[SuperSAINT]

 

[SaintsLoyal]

Phil Parsons good for a freebie ticket,  but has done nothing of note despite all the bragging he did early on.

But then he was a hoover salesman and had zero knowledge of being a football CEO, kept afloat by others when he turned up.

Then he crashed and burned and has been a joke within the club ever since.

 

He sums up the perfect example of Dragan Solak and co not having a clue how to run a football club

 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

11 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Sport Republic masterclass.

Another multi-club model benefit?

[SaintNewForest]

Anyone still defending these clowns? Anyone still happy clapping about their ownership? 

 

If you are, you're a fucking moron. They're clueless, and they're bad news.

[Turkish]

16 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Guess we’ll be buying another player for 5 times more than they’re worth soon then 

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Guess we’ll be buying another player for 5 times more than they’re worth soon then 

Tonda has a very rough set of floorboards - probably needs a Sanda to sort it out.

[Toadhall Saint]

Is there any link to dragan from/to Milan mandric? 

[benali-shorts]

More fool Dragan for letting them waste and disrespect his money. He needs to get a grip. 

[Turkish]

Anyone know how the Turkish lot are doing?

[trousers]

25 minutes ago, Toadhall Saint said:

Is there any link to dragan from/to Milan mandric? 

Oi! Get your own conspiracy theory... That one's mine! 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Anyone have Dragan Solak’s email address?

I’m guessing he is beyond too blind to see this. 😂

[trousers]

5 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Anyone have Dragan Solak’s email address?

inmate253@broadmoor.com

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Is this one of those multi club benefits MLG tells us about?

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Is this one of those multi club benefits MLG tells us about?

Good question. Can anyone list them yet? Apparently there are many. 

[AlexLaw76]

We are (hopefully) entering the final act of their disgraceful ownership of our club.

With the French club blowing up, pathetic record at saints, should mean they will want to tap-out when are finish about 15th this season whilst giving the child a new deal as manager/head coach.

Solak and co are fucking terrible owners

[madge]

One word to describe SR - cun&s

[EBS1980]

And yet we as fans just carry on as normal rather than voicing our opinions 

[Doctoroncall]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

Anyone know how the Turkish lot are doing?

4th in the league. Money wise, no idea.