The Championship News 2026

[skintsaint]

Its PL related but amusing...in a way.

 

[Saint NL]

Explanation of the new rules for the new Championship season

 

 

[HarvSFC]

When the new Boro signing has to try and deflect from calling the transfer a "stepping stone".

 

 

Edited August 9 by HarvSFC

[goodymatt]

 

[markr27]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

 

Very good under the radar signing for them.

[Football Special]

12 hours ago, HarvSFC said:

When the new Boro signing has to try and deflect from calling the transfer a "stepping stone".

 

 

He's a very good signing for Boro though, was excellent at Bristol City last season 

[goodymatt]

 

Edited August 10 by goodymatt

[RedArmy]

4 hours ago, Football Special said:

He's a very good signing for Boro though, was excellent at Bristol City last season 

Yep. They’ve addressed their 2 biggest weaknesses GK and Striker. If they can continue to create as many chances as they did in the back end of last season they are going to be right up there 

[HarvSFC]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

 

It's the Saudi investment that Simon Jordan linked with us last summer.

[goodymatt]

45 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

It's the Saudi investment that Simon Jordan linked with us last summer.

This guy seems to just pretend to buy clubs. Rumoured interest with Saints, then strung Bristol City and Derby along since. One to avoid.

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

This guy seems to just pretend to buy clubs. Rumoured interest with Saints, then strung Bristol City and Derby along since. One to avoid.

He's hardly a chancer is he as shown by his involvement in multiple sports.

[SNSUN]

4 hours ago, RedArmy said:

Yep. They’ve addressed their 2 biggest weaknesses GK and Striker. If they can continue to create as many chances as they did in the back end of last season they are going to be right up there 

Yeah I'd have liked Vitek had we not managed to sign Peretz permanently. I'm less sure about Lankshear but overall they'll be up there. 

[goodymatt]

9 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

He's hardly a chancer is he as shown by his involvement in multiple sports.

Speaks too publicly and doesn’t follow through in his football examples. Clearly very wealthy and successful, so not a chancer. Just a time waster when it come to buying football clubs, so far.

[Fabrice29]

Derby dodged a massive bullet there. For now.

[Badger]

15 hours ago, RedArmy said:

Yep. They’ve addressed their 2 biggest weaknesses GK and Striker. If they can continue to create as many chances as they did in the back end of last season they are going to be right up there 

They’ve also signed the CB Phillips from Spurs for £7m. Must admit I hadn’t heard much about him but he was mentioned by a few on here.

Middlesborough appear to have spent quite well from the sale of Hackney, and their unexpected windfall from Rogers. Am hoping we do the same from the sale of Charles (on a MF and CF), unless of course we’ve already partly spent it on Peretz and Larin. 

[Fabrice29]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

They’ve also signed the CB Phillips from Spurs for £7m. Must admit I hadn’t heard much about him but he was mentioned by a few on here.

Middlesborough appear to have spent quite well from the sale of Hackney, and their unexpected windfall from Rogers. Am hoping we do the same from the sale of Charles (on a MF and CF), unless of course we’ve already partly spent it on Peretz and Larin. 

Not sure thats happened yet. Issues over the weekend I read.

Edited August 11 by Fabrice29

[goodymatt]

 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

So frustrating that the likes of Chelsea and City hoover up these kids early from other clubs. 

This lad seems to have a lot of potential. Solid loan for Burnley.

[goodymatt]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

So frustrating that the likes of Chelsea and City hoover up these kids early from other clubs. 

This lad seems to have a lot of potential. Solid loan for Burnley.

Fully agree, before the oil/state money funded these academy hoovers he would have been coming through at Saints. Sad times.

[goodymatt]

Premier League interest is surprising.

[goodymatt]

 

[SNSUN]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

Premier League interest is surprising.

Cheap midfield cover, still a reasonable age, had a decent season when we went up. Depends if he's over his injury but he'd be reasonable midfield cover for one of the smaller Prem teams and someone that can perform in the Championship pending relegation. I still think he'll likely go to a Championship club though. 

[goodymatt]

 

[UpweySaint]

34 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

It feels like good value, sensible from Wolves - the manager gamble aside Wolves seem to be making sensible decisions this summer. I can see why Wolves may be ahead of us in the queue for him too so fair enough really. Hopefully Spors can find somebody else more Jander than Downs.

[coalman]

[Saint86]

29 minutes ago, coalman said:

Its a fairly reasonable set of predictions imho.

[AlexLaw76]

Have their big signings passed us by?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

12 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Have their big signings passed us by?

 

Is this ready for the 2027/28 season when they scrape into the League One play-offs?

[badgerx16]

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Edited August 13 by badgerx16
wrong thread

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Interesting if anything will happen here.

 

 

[Saint NL]

Ok, 1 team down. Just need another 22 to get a points deduction and we win the league 

[leesaint88]

13 hours ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Interesting if anything will happen here.

 

 

Someone give 'Boro a call, I'm sure Gibbo will be all over this.

[die Mannyschaft]

10 hours ago, leesaint88 said:

Someone give 'Boro a call, I'm sure Gibbo will be all over this.

Did Saints get points deduction for insolvency?

[Badger]

17 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Did Saints get points deduction for insolvency?

Wasn’t it the -10 in L1 ? 

[CSA96]

Blimey

 

[die Mannyschaft]

2 hours ago, Badger said:

Wasn’t it the -10 in L1 ? 

Must have been parent company that was insolvent leading to administration and -10 . A building company ?

[LiberalCommunist]

A suspicious death at a football club......Someone call Gibbo! 

[CSA96]

 

[Badger]

19 hours ago, CSA96 said:

Blimey

 

Wonder if the poor sod had been trapped in from the end of last season. 

[Doctoroncall]

17 hours ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Must have been parent company that was insolvent leading to administration and -10 . A building company ?

Lowe tried to say the club was solvent while the parent company was insolvent and therefore the -10 penalty didn’t apply. The trouble was they were intrinsically linked. 

[Dark Munster]

3 hours ago, Doctoroncall said:

Lowe tried to say the club was solvent while the parent company was insolvent and therefore the -10 penalty didn’t apply. The trouble was they were intrinsically linked. 

The ruddy cheeked bastard knew that was total bullshit. He just spouted that crap to disguise the fact that he maliciously took us into administration days after the deadline for the -10 point penalty to carry over to the next season if we went down without it.

[die Mannyschaft]

This article mentions Saints. But its doesnt look straightforward with Sheffield United and the moving of shares to one of ge companies involved. It could be another City issue where its not clear but so dont bother with any points and turn a blind eye.. 

 

Though not a direct comparison, in 2009 Southampton were docked 10 points by the EFL after their parent company went into administration and the football club claimed there was not a financial link between the two.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g618x1z80o

[HarvSFC]

Because they add "Fuck off West Brom, we're Wolves" to the song, it's being removed for "mass offensive chanting".

[Suhari]

1 hour ago, HarvSFC said:

Because they add "Fuck off West Brom, we're Wolves" to the song, it's being removed for "mass offensive chanting".

The fucking state of the world now.