Fabrice29

The desire to keep Jack Stephens, who has found himself out of the side and not good enough shortly after every chance he's been given, is baffling.

Fingers crossed! Whole new revamp needed at CB and CM. No better time to do it. The desire to keep any of these failed defenders (ABK aside who is the most obvious one to leave) is bizarre let alone the claims for one of them to be captain.

If it had already been completed and he was just on a beach then Swansea would have announced it.

Maresca off to Leicester. Let the meltdown begin. Again.

I suspect unlike JWP those are not his only two options though.

Probably but Lavia will probably be nearly double the price of JWP? And you have to get him interested of course.

Alfie House was suggesting Shea Charles from City yesterday.

Well he managed to score nine goals in eight games for Villareal at the end of the season so some of them would have been nice. So not that injured.

Doesn't suit the way Brighton play at all. I'd be very surprised if it's not West Ham now. He's talked up missing European football and they need a midfield refresh. He's not a Rice replacement but they'll have the money to spend and could do with a Noble replacement. Funny to see Chelsea and Poch after Jackson from Villareal despite people scoffing at the idea of us signing him in January.

My overriding memory of that season was really bad strikers. Tadic was unbelievable but rarely got any credit because nobody could score anything he was creating. Just goes to show the difference goals make because the football was decent but the goal scorers weren't.

Man who has seen his mate get some attention and money for weird views decides to join the same platform and share his own weird views in the hope to get attention and money.

Hahaha yeah we were all annoyed when we won 3 games in a week whilst rotating the squad.

It's quite obvious he wants the attention. He's always wanted the attention on social media. He spent years deliberately tweeting things to wind up Liverpool fans and absolutely lapped up the attention he got from it. He'd get a kick out of it, enjoyed the deliberate baiting and enjoyed kicking back with a classic "all I said was this" tweet. The mechanics now are still the same, all he's done is move onto a different group of people, however you've now got the added complication that it's bringing in an income and without it he'd be skint as well as irrelevant.

If you ever find yourself whoring yourself out to GB news and creating opinions and angles to appeal to them and their audience then yes, you’re far down a rabbit hole.

It is, unless of course you’re deliberately coming to agreements that might favour you both tax/other club clause wise. Which is what got Juve into trouble (I don’t actually know the status of the punishment and whether it stood or not as it wasn’t just that issue Juve had) For example, I think City’s lawyers might have some questions when they come to pick up their 20% clause cheque but realise it’s £5 million less than expected and at the same time Harvey Vale is being announced as a bargain signing.

Doubt we’ll be taking players from Chelsea as part of the deal A) That doesn’t happen anymore and B) There will be all sorts of issues with valuation of the players we would take. It’s a part of what got Juventus into trouble. Nice little headline though.

I’ll give you a still picture of KWP doing a shimmy and you’ll be happy.

I think my point that with 16 games to go the idea that we were already down and we just wrote off the the idea that we might get more points than some other really shit teams stands up pretty well tbh.

I have a problem with lots of Saints content available none of it personal though. 😂 Just find it funny and nauseating that even the slightest bit of content on Southampton that looks in depth can be played off as great content when in reality it’s not but because we get little attention we lap it up when we get some, however average it is. But you’re right, that’s another thread probably.

He wasn’t filling in, he was a pretty regular fixture and he looked no less disappointing than anyone else imo but anyway, the point I was making was it’s not really a shock to find that versatile, free, experienced and problem free player is wanted as a squad player by some teams.

What does feet under the desk mean? Selles told us weeks ago he’s had numerous conversations with Wilcox so he’s clearly started. Not sure Jacob will know when Wilcox, the media team and staff at Staplewood get around to aligning their diaries for the obligatory YouTube video though to confirm everything. Anka’s reputation massively benefitting from timing btw. First one to provide in depth coverage on a new and exciting platform at the time. The content was very minimally different to it is now but he had a much better way with making it sound better.

I just don’t think there’s any evidence to suggest he has a bad attitude. Quite the opposite. He has had no issue playing in various roles, even in game, he’s kicked up zero fuss in his career or at Southampton when being in and out of teams and we’ve just had a manager who seemed to put attitude and commitment at the forefront of his selections who picked him almost every week he could. There’s a myth that someone who doesn’t belt around a pitch at 90mph is half arsed, and bad attitude digs are normally thrown at players like that and it’s weird but people show themselves differently. This guy has been reliable from the start in terms of application and just because he made the odd mistake in a season where everyone has been shit for some reason his attitude is questioned.

Have to disagree here but it’s subjective so whatever floats your boat. I personally find/found Jacobs and Carls tactical insights all a bit forced. ‘Here’s some graphs, here’s some pictures’ There’s much better tactical stuff on that site alone by others but I guess if people aren’t reading those then they can’t compare and think the Saints stuff is decent. I’m always cringed out by Jacob’s continued use of the word ‘pausa’ as if he’s some sort of tactical genius and Carl was always and continues to be his own biggest fan desperate to sound good without much detail.

I’m not Tanswells biggest fan and not going to defend the Athletic because it caters for all different things and people can have their opinions (Saints coverage has always been poor but that’s because the quality of journalist has never been great for us, so no surprise Saints centric fans don’t love it) but what do you mean they don’t know when Wilcox starts? He’s clearly been working behind the scenes for a while now but has yet to be ‘unveiled’ here because of a contract with City. Not sure The Athletic have stated anything differently have they?

Don’t think there’s anything shocking about that at all. Solid player, versatile, solid experience and despite some weird belief on here he’s clearly got a good attitude. Throw in the fact that he’s free and he’s a prime target for anyone looking for a squad player.