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No, coming straight into Saints senior training, will probably play for U21s to begin with but train with main group

We're signing France U19 captain and CB Joachim Kayi Sanda from Valenciennes. Fee is €5m and medical is arranged

Then followed it up by saying that he wants Ugochukwu to stay here

Forest didn’t - what’s your point?

At this point, I would be surprised if he is here next season

Watched him in the warm ups at Selhurst today. Was swinging at the ball in the shooting drill like he had a pirate's peg leg, and then after he eventually converted one - to ironic cheering and celebrations from the crowd - he was cracking up laughing about it. Fernandes was shaking his head and laughing to himself too Knew what sort of performance we were in for today after that

'I had contact two years ago, which was the first time I started thinking about Southampton, but I was the coach of Torino and I stayed there. But I've been watching a lot since then. It was my wish to come here.'

Work permit approved and received. Means he can do the press conference this afternoon

I think he was coaching Torino at the time and they were in the top half of Serie A, so taking over that Saints team was presumably not tempting enough. Could've saved us all from the Mad Nate experience

Had me worried when I saw the title. We've only got five!

Will be interesting to see what we do with the loan slots now Jurić is in. As I understand it, Cornet already has a move set in Jan

There's a thread knocking around on X of a random Turkish fan who was sat next to Ankersen on a plane in 2022 when he was texting Juric saying he wanted to meet with him in person to pitch the job to him, so clearly he is someone they've been interested in for a while. Admittedly, like yourself I know very little of him

"I'm very pleased. I think this is a really big challenge but I'm very optimistic because I saw a team that I believe can do better. "It's important to immediately be connected with the fans. I want an aggressive team and I think that fans of Southampton will like that. "I want us to be more aggressive, to do much more pressing and we have to be quick to change mentality because this is my idea of football."

Official - Ivan Jurić appointed as Saints boss: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-appoint-ivan-juric-as-mens-first-team-manager

Danny Rohl's just done a press conf for the first time since all the rumours surfaced... "I think the most important key point is that I’m here, that I’l take the game tomorrow," Röhl told the media. "It’s always an honour when you’re linked with Premier league clubs, and people know my history (at Southampton), it was a part of my life. But the most important key point is the game tomorrow. "My decision is clear, I will stay here at Sheffield Wednesday. "The club knows my ambitions, I think we have agreed that we want to improve and attack higher positions in the table and we know what that means in January… "I’m here, I love this club, I love the supporters and I love my team. We’ve achieved a lot, but our journey is not over. We’ll try to keep improving as a team."

And of course they started doing great as soon as they were cut loose of Juric - ah wait, no, they're bottom half still...

To be fair, I didn't actually think you were crazy until I got to this bit

Because if you want Corberan/Rohl in the event of relegation to the Championship, you don't want them to have lost 15/16 of 20 PL games beforehand, presumably. Juric has top level experience and will give it a crack, if not we will go down, sell some players for big £ and have the compo to buy out Rohl/Corberan if we so wish

Sounds like it's a bit of a fiddly contract. Could conceivably be structued as: - 18 month contract as basic - 6 months in, if we're a Championship club there's a get-out clause for one/both parties - 6 months in, if we're a Premier League club we utilise the two-year extension and he's a PL manager on a 4yr deal