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Wood looks like much more of a unit than I was expecting, and probably not in a good way

Beautiful goal from SAA

Could work a lot better if we're going with three at the back, but someone of Manning's quality will be hopeless in there

Manning playing very inverted so far

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/video/live-pre-season-friendly-bordeaux-vs-saints

That scorpion kick and backflip is absolutely insane. Unfortunately, he is not suited to the Premier League in any way and even less so to what RM is trying to do. I can't see any way he stays.

Seriously dodgy deal, one in a series with Man City including Charles, possibly Edozie and less so Bazunu. Thank fuck we managed to get Lavia.

Good luck and thank you Che. Our best striker in recent years, even if that is a low bar. A hard worker and a lot more technical than given credit for.

Wages probably. He's been there for a while so has no doubt negotiated a few juicy increases in that time, could even still be on first-choice wages.

Che and Brereton-Diaz or Callum Wilson in an ideal world

Would've thought we could at least match if not better the wages on offer at Atalanta too, they're not exactly a massive club

He ends up at PSG on every FM24 save I start, so hopefully we put in a sell-on clause

Reed would make the most sense given our situation imo

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-southampton/transfers/verein/180/saison_id/2024

Ronaldo really is an enigma. What the fuck is he crying for?

The 'anchoring' proposal they're trialling this season seems promising. Limiting spending on fees and wages to the same level reins in the top clubs and also allows smaller clubs to spend at the same level if they've got the muscle to do so . The problem with that is the PL may just become a playground for nation states... but hopefully that can be stopped as well.

Newcastle in a right state with PSR it seems

Think £20m would be fair, we must have some dreck we can send their way to get the cost down. Seems to be all the rage. Sulemana could do with a confidence-boosting season in Scotland if you ask me, Champions League football as well.

That's more like it

25 points

I guess we'll find out

All these free transfers cost money... they'll be on bigger wages and signing on fees because there's no transfer fee attached. Lallana, McCarthy and Ghoddos - all three are pissing money down the drain and shouldn't play more than 10 games each. Taylor, is he even better than Manning? Hopefully we'll see some more ambition after the accounts roll over next week.

If we're signing Charlie Taylor as our first-choice left-back and McCarthy as our first-choice goalkeeper then we are skint, surely?

For what it's worth, it was given as offside on-field - so VAR then needed to look for a clear and obvious error to reverse that decision, rather than the other way around. I can see why it wasn't given tbh

Ghoddos is not a central midfielder