Summer Transfer Window 2026

[Badger]

Update on the Ratkov situation:

https://onefootball.com/en/news/lotito-to-want-ratkov-to-start-as-gattuso-pushes-back-43313334
 

In short - manager doesn’t want him. Owner wants to keep faith in the player.

Hope we’re not hanging on for this one. We love a summer soap opera at Saints don’t we ? Last year Spertsynation Street, now this. 

[Miltonaggro]

6 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Would go completely against Solak's words though.

But at least we would then know that a few million profit on a 24 year old England international is enough to make him 'fall out of bed'...

[ChrisPY]

21 minutes ago, Badger said:

Update on the Ratkov situation:

https://onefootball.com/en/news/lotito-to-want-ratkov-to-start-as-gattuso-pushes-back-43313334
 

In short - manager doesn’t want him. Owner wants to keep faith in the player.

Hope we’re not hanging on for this one. We love a summer soap opera at Saints don’t we ? Last year Spertsynation Street, now this. 

Laziome and Away?

[Hamilton Saint]

6 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

There's no guarantee that if I throw an apple in the air in my kitchen that it will fall to the ground but given that that has happened every other time you'd be a bit of a fool if you said you weren't sure that it would happen the next time.

You've been reading David Hume, haven't you. The Scottish philosopher called this kind of thinking "inductive reasoning"--as opposed to its opposite, "deductive reasoning". I knew my Philosophy degree would come in handy some day!

[hypochondriac]

8 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

You've been reading David Hume, haven't you. The Scottish philosopher called this kind of thinking "inductive reasoning"--as opposed to its opposite, "deductive reasoning". I knew my Philosophy degree would come in handy some day!

Quite — but Hume doesn’t mean we should treat every possible outcome as equally likely. There’s a difference between “not certain” and “no reasonable basis for prediction”.

The best mention of Hume is in the philosopher song.

[goodymatt]

 

[Lard]

I’ll be honest I’ve just reached 60, I can’t be arsed with this anymore 
lost my dad in January both of us sitting in the Itchen together. Christ we loved it at the Dell. 
watching Arsenal right now,a club like ours is not going to compete even if we were promoted. 
we can’t even compete in this league by the looks of it. 
oh fuck off….im that age and you fucking nippers are all doom and gloom. 
we are Southampton. …grow a pair you fucking twats. 
ok we will lose THB…its a blow. 
but fuck me. 
It’s not the end of the world. 

[goodymatt]

THB replacement?

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

THB replacement?

Left footed not right footed so seems unlikely to me but you never know.

[Willo of Whiteley]

6 minutes ago, Lard said:

I’ll be honest I’ve just reached 60, I can’t be arsed with this anymore 
lost my dad in January both of us sitting in the Itchen together. Christ we loved it at the Dell. 
watching Arsenal right now,a club like ours is not going to compete even if we were promoted. 
we can’t even compete in this league by the looks of it. 
oh fuck off….im that age and you fucking nippers are all doom and gloom. 
we are Southampton. …grow a pair you fucking twats. 
ok we will lose THB…its a blow. 
but fuck me. 
It’s not the end of the world. 

Hit the nail on the head there.

I’ve said before too there is more to life than some overpaid halfwits kicking a ball about.

Great post 👏🏻

[Saint_lambden]

17 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

Ah, there's the bi-monthly story to the German media from his agent.