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I mean, it's possible .....

Perhaps we need to get saints brass to go rebel as well and belt this out before games?

didn’t take long;

Coventry had three very good strikers last season in Wright, Thomas-Asante, and Simms. They probably go with those three as good enough for the Prem, but if they bring in another then one of the three might be available. Two of them are going into the last year of their contracts, and the one most likely to be available is the youngest, cheapest, and most efficient last season on minutes per goal, Ellis Simms. Might be too expensive though. Looking at other tall strikers going into the last year of their contracts... Andrej Ilic is a Serb who registered five goals and ten assists in the Bundesliga last year. He scored seven in sixteen the year before when on loan from Lille. Forest and Coventry are rumoured to be in for him. If he forces Wood, Awoniyi, or Simms out, those dominoes falling might lead for an option for us. Kevin Rodriguez is in the Brighton system at Union SG in Belgium. That Brighton scouting setup can find a South American or three, and after a knee injury ended his first season there and his second season was shit he went alright (eight in 21) last season. Jesus Ramirez scored 18 in 33 in the Portuguese top flight as sometime captain of bottom-half side Nacional. If you’re not afraid of the German second division after Damion Downs, Isac Lidberg has a couple of good season at that level under his belt. Though you do have to query why he hasn't been picked up by a top flight side. A couple of younger strikers who outperformed his 17 in 30 last season are Mateusz Zukowski and Noel Futkeu. All three have German top flight suitors; Frankfurt have activated their buyback clause on Futkeu and are rumoured to be interested in Zukowski, while Monchengladbach are apparently interested in all three. Looking at the cheap option of free agents, Jonas Wind is leaving Wolfsburg. He’s a Danish international, and he’d be a proper Ross Stewart replacement on the basis of his multiple muscle injuries last season. (Seriously though, if he’s fit...) One for the future is 22yo, 1.97m Serbian Marko Milovanovic. He’s on the books of Spanish club Almeira who are currently in the La Liga 2 promotion playoffs, but had his first season of decent minutes in men’s football (he’s 22) in Portugal last season. Nine in 31 is decent, but more decent when he only played 1500 minutes. The year before he made some bench appearances in La Liga 2 and only played 60 minutes plus in the three Copa Del Rey games, which included a goal and assist vs Sevilla.

I broadly agree, Will is an established Championship midfielder if used at the head of a central three. However, playing for a favourite manager, favourite position, probably still on Champ wages for their first season back in L1, could be a ‘wouldn’t normally play at that level but club/manager’ like it was Harding and Fonte.

Love it - we all need to push as hard as we can this year and embrace the "fuck it, we'll do it again and do it harder" mentality, as shown by Peretz in his video. I'm very much looking forward to this season (on that note, I'm ready to renew, let's do it please Saints) The famous ending (4:10 onwards) to this song feels apt this season ...

He could join Timbuktu Rovers for all I care, as long as he’s off Saints’s payroll! Peretz, Wright and AN Other.

3 down for just over 100 at lunch. Probably slightly sub-par with how green the pitch was but behaving better with more consistent bounce than the pitch at Lord’s albeit quite a bit of sideways movement on offer.

Bonuses offered to keep the squad together? Leo, Caspar, Shea and Taylor all staying?

Ouch you must really hate Leicester

Oh interesting. Will be seeing news soon then?!

Not sure about what the kit should be but surely we need to add binoculars to the badge.

Expensive

Advertising revenue is no doubt offset by the purchases of people who don"t really support football, occasional viewers etc. People watch the WC who don,'t normally watch football. Major advertisers know that.

I wonder if Sunderland are looking at him, they have europe to deal with. With Ross finally getting back to fitness and form a renunion with his old team may be on the cards. They will need extra cover, and we may have given both a gift, free transfer for Sunderland, PL contract as his final payday! Now i curse all i say above and hope he stays! LND 🙏SFC!

I’m sure the fact he went through Man City’s academy means selling him will be better for the profit rules than selling Jander or someone else for the exact same fee. I’m not 100% sure as it’s complicated, but I think selling someone who came through an English academy does benefit the profitability more than a foreign one. Therefore it might be the case that selling 2 English players, would be the same as selling 3 foreign ones as far as PSR is concerned .

Potgieter With a couple - Surrey 53-2

Dragan is really stepping up. Like seriously. Bit between his teeth. £££. Players will be happy.

https://www.attackingfootball.com/3-youth-players-southampton-this-summer/

Fucking biased twats, gutter press. Had Middlesbrough signed a Bayern reserve keeper it would be all over the front pages…..

Smallbone is too good for League 1, they’ll do well if they get him but I suspect Championship clubs will be looking at him as well.

He's contracted to the end of 26-27. Funnily enough, whatever option we have isn't entirely down to Saints "actually getting round to it". Obviously a wee bit more complicated than that. The most likely scenario is we cash in this summer. I guess there probably is a contract to be written with a kind of reverse relegation clause in it - if we don’t go up he goes, if we do go up we pay him £xxxxx. But probably the most likely departure of the summer.

They could but as Solak has pointed out the double jeopardy law will be a big defence from the clubs lawyers should they need to appeal. The whole club has been fucked over by the actions taken already ffs.

Will did really well under Russ in our promotion season. It would be an obvious one for them to continue that.