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Yes I was there, he seemed to be playing well until the injury. Agree that the injury may have made VVD think about the risk\reward of injury versus income stream and combined with being tapped up this changed his outlook. But I feel blaming VVD for a poor perfromance in a game in which he was injured is not realistic and like I say up until that point he was performing well.

Was that the one where Vardy stamped on VVD's ankle? Which delayed the transfer not sure he cna be blamed for that.

Love the sentiment, but as discussed elsewhere goalkeepers from the academy are very, very rare. As in any profession you pay for experience, not being willing to pay for that experience leads to a less than satisfactory experience.

Not really, would be interested to see that stats, but I would guess Redmond had a better score\assist rate than Ely, and IMO his off the ball work was equal.

Sad if true, he looks like a great prospect from the games he played. Given the injuries he has had, can only hope he kicks on and has a career like Luke Shaw's. Playing for a big club and England. Not exactly the same I know because Tino wasn't a product of Saints academy and his injuries were earlier in his career, but looks to have the same exciting raw talent, Tino is less physical but looks to be technically better then Luke Shaw was at the same age.

Well as the selling club, if the prices are matched we sell, take the cash, and find the next KWP\Tino meanwhile we get to see if Bree can cut the mustard. He was highly rated in the championship if I recall correctly, is he a Russell ball player doesn't look like it from what I saw.

Plaque will need to include that of the 9 only three were starters and none of the nine scored. That is a typical Saints achievement, bloated squad, none of whom could score in the proverbial brothel.

Well not exactly kindness of heart, it at least gets them off the wage bill, which is better than continuing to pay them for very little return.

Succinct & accurate, how can that problem be resolved? Maybe outside the scope of Saints physio team?

They will live to regret it if they do not, barring (maybe) Luke Shaw the best 19 year old I have seen playing for Saints in the PL.

Very close call I would say.

Save yourself the drive, keeping ABK and selling Stephens is the no brainer here surely? Young growing in value versus old and declining in value. Plus helps sabotage your nearest rivals chances of staying in the Prem, win, win, win.

SNAP!

Oh if AMN gets another prem gig his agent is way better than good, he walks on water. Am I correct in thinking that the last two UK loans teams AMN went too (WBA and Saints) both got relegated? Will there be a line of teams trying to get the 'third times a charm' award, I doubt it. Best case for AMN is ARS release him and he gets picked up by a European team on the cheap. If Saints decide they want him back then there is no hope.

Agreed. Been following Saints since 1972 and he is arguably the player I have least enjoyed watching, certainly in the PL seasons. Well to be honest there are some who have been worse to watch, but they all have better explanations, came with Saints from lower leagues etc. But AMN I just do not get. This was his shop window and this is it? If the club doesn't have better B Team/Reserve players then Saints are in a world of hurt.

Yep please sign me up for whatever he is on. SO LONG AS ALL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION ARE REMOVED FROM HIM/HER.

Sadly it appears both tall Paul and Jack Stephens fit in the "cannot" play intersection of the Venn diagram of available Saints and Bournemouth players, one of them is in the contractual reasons bubble and one or possibly both in the not good enough for this league bubble 😃.

Now we know why he had to be subbed at half time. https://www.atptour.com/en/news/alcaraz-tsitsipas-barcelona-2023-sunday-final Had a really big game to play today. Hope he recovers in time for Bournemouth talk about versatile!

Excellent hope he gets to enjoy the moment. Is there an emergency recall clause Saint's can activate? Would be quite the achievement to help in the promotion of one team and help save another team from relegation in the course of a single season!

Well maybe you are right, maybe the statistically best manger in Europe had a sudden impulse to change the personnel and tactics completely from all the previous Southampton games he was in charge as a one off experiment, then reverted back to his game plan afterwards including another disaster class for the next round of the EFL? Or perhaps was forced into it by resting players for PL games and got lucky. We will probably never know for sure, until JWP's tell all biography comes out 😃. But go with me here which would be more surprising that he did that entirely of his own volition, or that he consulted with his chief coach who had been coaching the squad for longer and new the squad better? Maybe Jones was willing to listen to others, in which case that makes Jones a bit less of a moron than you, don't you think?

Suspect using simple deductive logic it is more than a rumour. Here is the deductive logic every other game under Nathan Jones was a disaster class from start to finish. Yet miraculously we beat City. Albeit City failed to show up, doubt we will see that again in the premier game, lightning rarely strikes twice.

Agreed, yes. But as pointed out he was only really viable after the FA cup, we would have seen him in the event of injury or a dramatic drop in league form.

Think the story is he was signed as cover on the basis of getting paid per game played, guess he thought he would walk into our team having regained his fitness. But that season the relegation threat was low, and Saints didn't appear to have a long term plan for him and he obviously wanted a more lucrative contract so he wasn't worth paying to play.

Some small differences here apart from the similarity in height, Peter Crouch "was capped 42 times by the England national team between 2005 and 2010, scoring 22 goals for his country during that time, and appearing at two FIFA World Cup tournaments.[2] He is one of 33 players to have scored 100 or more Premier League goals, and holds the record for the most headed goals in Premier League history." So how much did he remind you of Peter Crouch, bearing in mind when Peter Crouch played for Southampton he was five or so years younger than Paul?