Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Leicester steal our Big Willy!

Wilcox out! How the hell have Ipswich signed a goalie from City before we've had a chance to be linked?! Cieran Slicker: Ipswich Town sign Manchester City keeper for undisclosed fee - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66142955

Gave him a bell. All he said was "What the fuck! Southampton! Is that my level?”

Wrong thread

The Cornish Maldini (if he stays)

So Charly stays unless we don't want him to?

This the one...

Wasn't there a story somewhere that suggested the low fee for Orsic had a trade off for a Trabzonspor defender joining Goztepe. #MultiClub

"Make mine a double" - I can see the headlines on the OS now... 😂

Cole Palmer on loan (Weds 12th July)

So, "I'd like to stay and repay the club's faith in me" equates to "I'm off to the first club who can agree a deal for me"? In which case, I hope plenty more of last season's squad would like to stay and repay our faith in them... In reality, if Tino had played the whole season and we'd gone down, he'd absolutely be one of the first other teams would be after. I guess Newcastle are willing to take a punt on him having recovered sufficiently if they can get a price that suits them.

Cheer up Russell Martin, Oh what can it mean, To a Sport Republic fall guy For a shit recruitment team...

I've heard they plan to announce him 5 mins before the kick-off of our first game back in the Championship. The latest data Sport Republic have - based on their 3 Saints managers to date - suggests the further away they keep a manager from the playing staff, the less chance he has to cock things up.

Can't he work remotely, so he doesn't have to move house? Perhaps kick a ball around Swansea while his new team-mates are at St Mary's in a ground-breaking new (presumably data-led) Saints initiative? We've played with less than 11 players for a couple of years now, with Elyounoussi, Walcott, Djenepo and others in the team, so those that remain will be used to this...

Oh when the Saints. Christ, why have we taken Spurs' song and tried to make it our own? 😉

Got a couple of Swansea fans in the office and they seem really disappointed he's going. Possession-based attacking football is what he'll bring, in their opinion. Sometimes a bit dodgy at the back but I guess that works for us as it's The Southampton Way! They said he wants to be at a club who can back his ambitions financially and their US owners won't do that. I imagine he'll see us with parachute payments plus player sale revenue (and maybe even a bit more of Dragan's wealth) as giving him that backing.

Chris Perry

Ah, good old Jim Joyce. I was there when he did his hammy running on to treat one of players. Good times.

He's from Brighton and puts his name to his own soccer schools in the area. We've probably seen Brighton doing really and put 2 and 2 together... 😂

The only reason I will renew is because it will probably be the final season before my son goes off to Uni (hopefully!) and, depending on where he ends up, it might not be practical for him to have a season ticket the year after. It will not be because I 'believe in the project' or the quality of the product/experience as a customer.

I hope he does. A more clinical finisher than Adams or Armstrong at top flight level.

Oh, and we'll win, results will conspire to go our way and the inevitable can be delayed a week longer just to string things out.

🎶 Saints club, there ain't no party like a relegation party 🎶

I was there last night. I thought the home fans were excellent - as a Forest player it must be uplifting to run out to that wall of scarves and noise. Whilst we have our Saints Brass band, and it's nice to listen to, we need to find a way of translating it into every fan on their feet before the game belting out OWTS as our anthem. Maybe Dragan & co. could leave us all a scarf on a seat for the first game of next season to try something similar to Forest. Light shows and those fire things are all well and good for US-style entertainment but what we need to generate is a proper atmosphere to let the opposition know they're at our place. I thought we, the fans, turned out well too, tried to back the boys in the beginning but the 2 quick goals knocked the stuffing out of the team (& support) for a bit. I can't help feeling some of the "passion" we saw on the pitch afterwards was desperation rather than a real desire to fight for something. AMN, ABK - dreadful defensively and, impressively, even worse in possession. Not sure Macca did too much wrong but, equally, he didn't look like saving anything either. Kyle doesn't seem the same player, Prowsey buzzed around but is always that little bit too lightweight to be truly influential. Up front we were our usual mix of slow build up and ineffectiveness until, presumably, someone pointed out we were losing at half time and we resorted to panic and desperation. It's a massive rebuilding job, even to conspire compete in the Championship. I look forward to seeing how Jason Wilcox kicks it off! Once again, it looked like the opposition had a shape and a plan and we lost ours when the first goals went in (if we even had one). Credit to each and every fan who went up there, got soaked but sung their hearts out. That's what we need to bring home next season and find a way to energise our fans before kick-off in the same way Forest do. I hope they stay up, their fans deserve it.

I genuinely don't think James Bree could be any worse. He's looked solid but unspectacular when he's played and lord knows our defence could do with some sensible play...