DT

The world's gone fucking mad. Total blindness to big clubs deaing with dogdy cash, laundering, cheating and large scale fraud and we get a ton of bricks on our head for a boy with a phone. Pathetic.

News on Tonda being released at 10am, says Talksport. Eek

Also, those Patrick boots were the best ever

Many, many moons ago I was at a Bobby Charlton soccer school (actually might have been the Kevin Keegan soccer school, come to that) in Southampton with a bunch other kids. News quickly got out that Kevin Keegan was training with the club nearby. Then as soon as you would know it a massive queue of keen kids formed up a stair way and over the other side, with Keegan taking time with each kid (there must have been over 100) to sign an autograph, me included. I was struck then by what a great guy he was. So kind with his time. And that seems to have been a consistent factor across his life. It also coincided with him in THAT team, in my view the best ever, with England players everywhere. Happy memories. Keegan was a one-off and I have been strangely emotionally hit by his death.

100% agree. Scienza is very good. Will be surprised if we manage to keep him.

Hairy Arsenal almost hijacked that deal

I thought he'd go to Hairdrieonians FC. Or maybe Wigan.

Not sure we will have Scienza for that for long tbh

Is he really for shale though?

Bit surprised that Spitfires didn't get a look in on the old heritage front

Spurs are suddenly paying silly money on wages too. Will be contenders next season I think. Sadly.

Saw that and immediately thought that it means the Shea Charles deal has gone through or is near enough deffo. Or is two and two making five here?

All true and well put. The difficult thing for us is that we will have trouble replacing someone of his ability and 'embeddedness' for £20m. But that's football, I guess. Better to take that now rather than risk losing him for free. Hope we play reasonably hard ball - take a leaf out of Brighton's book

Lionel Messi. Tiny. So shit.

Sure. But faced with someone who does give a toss about Southampton FC based on his lived experience and someone who doesn't care about the club, it's a pretty obvious choice. Someone is bound to reinterpret this as wanting JWP back - probably someone who swore he would never leave 😉 - but that would be the work of a dork. Personally think Bragg is very good and more than capable covering in the midfield.