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FA = Fucking Amateurs. Sloth city.

We're not beating Mexico in Mexico, should we get by Congo.

Tuchel has fallen into the trap of banking on the fitness of injured/injury prone players. Saka has been injured for a long time, James is a sick note (Tino the same), Henderson offers nothing what so ever. That is a shame as Tuchel is a brilliant manager, just gone weird with his squad selection. Madueke and Spence starting in the World Cup is hilarious.

Agreed - think we look pretty average compared to the usual top teams. I’m perplexed as to why Pickford still starts in goal - I think he’s a calamity waiting to happen and can’t believe there’s not a better English keeper. Then there’s the very average Roger’s, Spence and Anderson making up numbers. Without Rice the midfield looks weak. And the defensive line looks very unbalanced.

100%. If he's going anywhere its Everton or Palace etc worst case scenario one of the promoted teams. Zero chance of dropping back down to Championship.

Liam Delap under Eckhert guidance would be a dream signing for Saints or indeed any Championship side. He has all the attributes for a CF role and is easily as good as Larin if not better. Best we could expect is a loan to buy, but I don’t think he wants to be playing anywhere other than the Prem…certainly not with Saints.

But then again, I’ve heard that AI fucking hates Pompey!

Japan could be tough to beat…..think they’ve a decent shout v Brazil. we were utter shite last night. Congo should absolutely be gunning for us. A half decent side will put us out.

I think that he is one of those players who fails to live up to the hype. He didn’t do anything when he (apparently) chose Stoke over us, and not at PNE either. Yes, scored some goals for Hull and had a good season at Ipswich but was awful for Chelsea and the fans want him gone. Most of the stuff I had read from Everton fans is that they don’t want him there. £30m to £40m??? He isn’t coming here on loan and will probably end up as a 2nd string striker for a bottom half Prem club so I can’t see any point in speculating about him anyway.

It's a fair cop. I hadn't followed the thread and didn't realise he was talking about previous England teams.

I hear you both - I have mentioned it before but I did graphic design/promotional work for a fairly large UK sport, I designed logos, used by the leagues - and still are in some cases - for teams, promotional logos, game day promos, online stuff you name it - I worked my socks off and really enjoyed it, I found it fun. I even designed shirts that were used by teams during the seasons, very proud of that. Now the leagues, every team, use AI and most fans either don't know, care or some even 'love' it. Guess what, I write and paint too - so that means I might as well fall out of hotel window 'accidentally' as if I lived in Russia.... Still hopefully Saints might sign on a 'real' player or two. Personally I'm hoping for a player who scores regularly and when he signs on our collective mouths drop open in amazement!

I think Boro told FA to wait and see if Saints sack Tonda as close to start of season and if not then make decision to ban him week before the start of Germany pre season or start season. This is another complete fix that only takes 10 mins over Teams call.

I really haven't bothered to look into it that closely.

At least England should get to QF then likely meet Brazil then Argentina in SF. https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/48539270/england-route-2026-world-cup-final-road-knockouts-group-l-mexico-brazil-argentina-france-spain-portugal

My shortlist: One of the following: Striker: ( Ross Stewart replacement Will Lankshear Yousef Salech Noel Futkeu Lotent Toljaj Kasper Hogh Number 10 ( Creative ) Tobias Gulliksen Sondre Ørjasæter Paul Nebel Tyler Dibbs ( loan )

Ah ok, fair enough. I misread that then. Does seem like a decent signing on paper. Their second half of the season was decent too.

As someone noted recently..."Once you have a machine think and write for you, you're cooked as a species".

Been away for a week, which was clearly an inspired choice given the slightly warmer weather I’ve been hearing about. But I’m on it and my application will be sent this week before the deadline.

To me, it seems bizarre that there's not been a whiff of news from either within the FA or via journalists peering in. Why is it seemingly beyond the bounds of possibility that the FA can't come up with an interim update along the lines of: "The investigation into the conduct of Southampton FC staff formally began on <insert date>. The investigatory panel, consisting of <insert names>, are targeting <insert date> to conclude their investigations. Instead... Nothing... Not a sausage... Whilst the EFL investigation was a bumbling circus, at least they were relatively transparent with what was occurring and when...

How is it England end up playing Congo ? Last week we were due to play Senegal who at the time were 7th in the 3rd Place table. That place is now Paraguay, Congo are top.

Got the result right, but otherwise this aged like milk. What a game.

I think the delay of such an important decision is unacceptable. Is the intention to do the maximum damage by forcing the club to drastically alter plans at the last minute? It is starting to stink the same as the EFL enquiry led by Steve Gibson.

I fucking detest AI with every fibre of my being.

Er, he's talking about Neville / Ferdinand / Terry / Cole and he's right - those four are clearly better than what we played yesterday. No idea why you think he's talking about Saints.

Not sure what this means other than you seem to be saying no Saints defenders would get into the England team. Hardly surprising seeing as we are a Championship side.