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Their objective is to make money, like all other football club owners (on the exception of a few who have a connection to the club they own). I think what happened is that Ankersen and Kraft approached various businessmen with their plan and Dragan decided to go for it. Someone told me the other day that Danish football club Midjiland (spelling) do everything with data. And guess who was their chairman. Likely Ankersen had a plan that using the latest data software systems they could outsmart other clubs who dont use it and make money with player trading and finishing high up in the league. It all worked at Brentford and would work again they thought. Problem was that in the premier league you need big money and they relied too much on data and didn’t use their common sense. Dragan has a few options, sell and accept a loss, continue and hope it works out or replace Ankersen and others and bring in experienced football chairman and directors. These are my thoughts and I could be wrong in how I think it went.

Obviously awful, but need to show net spend as well

Excellent summary. I wish Dragan could read this and get it through his thick skull. I think he's suffering from classic sunk cost fallacy. Rasmus sold him the bullshit that he could fund a new Man City, and if he cuts him loose now he has to admit (to himself) that he's been sold up the river by a fraud.

The question is what is their objective? If it's to build a successful football club then clearly they will never be competent enough to do that.

Great work lads

Someone help me please. I hear a lot about playing 5 at the back but if you have 3 CBs and 2 wing halves, surely that is 3 at the back? 4 across the back, 2 CBs and 2 FBs gives you more defensive strength doesn’t it, assuming that the wing halves play further up the pitch? Asking for a friend (TE).

Where is our new no 9?

Satyr

Or when this seasons relegation is confirmed.

Tragedy

He did say “a well known Labour figure” so who knows what he means by that?

Thanks for the name check! No excitement GS. I just naturally assume that anyone who affiliates with Reform doesn’t have a problem with him. Birds of a feather… Never heard of him before but he seems to have a dodgy record of playing the system so he will fit right in as you say. Farage is trying to sell his party as an alternative to the “corrupt” and “broken” major parties. In truth he is building a party that would be worse than the two combined. How long before Braverman jumps on board?

They won’t sack him until play offs are mathematically impossible. Like Juric when we were relegated last season.

Kuenssberg has been drinking the Boomerade for a while but still not a patch on their PR Officer, Chris Mason. When you look under the Political Views section, it’s a wonder she didn’t move to Farage over years ago when she wasn’t an absolute has been because she makes him look like Ken Livingstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Hoey She’d have hated Cameron’s Tory Party with the social liberal agenda although didn’t mind Corbyn’s anti-semitism. Tried to cosy up to Boris over the Olympics - he’s an unpleasant bigot as well. The section below that also details some unpleasant homophobia.

Agree. They are neither an adventure capital business nor asset strippers. What they are is a bunch of incompetent clowns who listened to Ankersen's big ideas. He sold them the dream and they now find themselves floundering out of their depth in a business they know the square root of diddly squat about. I don't think they have an exit strategy but Ankersen probably continues to lead them by the nose because his ego won't allow him to admit defeat and quit.

BuT oUr xG pEr GaMe!!!!!

Annoying hearing Laura K this morning trying to pretend Hoey is Labour when chatting to Richard Tice about potential defectors. I'm not a professional political journalist but I knew she left Labour during the Brexit years.

There’s a lot of 2026 contract expiries in the squad so there will be a fair bit of turnover potentially organically. Manning, Wood and Downes are three worst apples I suspect.

They are not asset strippers and they haven't asset stripped. I don't know why people are so quick the grasp for that phrase and that assessment when it doesn't match anything our owners have done at all. If anything they have invested - in the ground, in the match experience, in the training ground, in the squad, on the pitch. They've spent and spent and spent. You've decided to create a fiction of evil owners who are "wringing out every last penny" when that bears no resemblance to anything they have said or done. They've made some terrible mistakes, especially on managers. But that isn't "asset stripping" and it isn't "wringing every last penny". What club and what owners are you talking about here?

Should get some reaction from the visiting Blades if so…

Agree with all of that, except it just won’t affect me in the slightest when the skates hammer us, because what Pellegrino and Reed started diluting has become full scale agnosticism about Southampton Football Club under SR. I’ll probably laugh when I see the result mid-afternoon 🤭 Receiving WUM texts from fans of other clubs will be quite boring 🥱 😴 . Rather like SR’s brand of sideways annd backwards that finally killed it off for me. Owners, management and players who don’t care full stop - and the fanbase is weary and apathetic (not surprisingly). Even in 08/09 there were still some fun moments amongst the turmoil and Lowe’s chaos, but just nothing this season and last. It’s like having an anaesthetic.

Not Downes. Charles supposed to be involved Wednesday, Jander if he's not ready to start.

My heart pumps piss for them. I hope they lose the fucking lot.

Incredible stuff 7th minute of injury time in the final - really soft foul given denying Senegal an injury time winner 8th minute of injury time - Morocco go crazy over an incident that happens for most corners, leading to the ref being called to the VAR screen, to watch along with both teams shouting in his ears. Awards pen. time passes. Lots of anger. Eventually the whole Senegal team except mané go back to the dressing room. Mané then seems to get them to come back out. lots more time passes - at last they are lined up for the penalty it’s the worst panenka ever

Hopefully our players walk off the pitch in the first minute on Wednesday so we don't have to put up with more turgid shite.