Matthew Le God

We won 2-0, had 74% possession and 25 shots. The 1st half looked a little rusty but it was the first competitive game and we looked a lot better as the game went on. Hardly a disaster!

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He effectively has 2 years left on his contract, as the club has a one year extension option.

Pre-season is about building fitness. A high quality opponent isn't required. Most pre seasons we only play one or two top league European teams and we did that this summer when we played a Bundesliga team.

We signed him for €500,000. Some of that money will be due this window. Seemingly a bargain at that price!

Traore has left on loan with Le Mans having an option to buy. So Saints aren't keen on keeping him.

We sell out at the bottom of the Premier League, we sell out in the Championship. Supply doesn't meet demand if you are regularly selling out.

Phil Parsons at the fans forum last night... "Your revenue level is tied to your salary level and without the increased revenue you can't drive your salaries into higher levels. We've been working a lot on some real estate projects around the stadium. We're not quite at the point of being able to publicly share those because we're in talks with some major developers. But I can tell you that they will be one of the biggest development projects around any stadium in the UK." Parsons mentioned the reveal may be in 12 to 18 months time. Solak had previously said it is into the hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on this. Not just around the stadium either, a stadium capacity increase is also included.

Aston Villa weren't 14th 😉

Watford selling an important player shortly before we play them...

I think he is going for binoculars, rather than bollocks

His role is to break up play and give it to the creative players, not score goals or assist them himself. When he does it is a bonus, but not his main job at all.

IIRC he said in those interviews the opposite and that financially, the club is in a good place not needing to sell key players.

Ramsdale, BBD, Archer, Edozie, Downs, Sugawara Plus, what hard evidence is there for an issue in the finances?

He won't pick us over the Premier League

Euros not £s €30m is £25.7m

We play 4231, Azaz and Dobbin are the number 10 options to play behind Larin. What we need instead of a player like Ballard is another striker to play instead of Larin, for rotation/injuries like we had with Stewart.

We played a team that is better than Leicester. We played a top flight German team.

What teams would you class as being "like a team we are going to face in the EFL"? Apart from playing vs another Championship team in a friendly? We played a current top flight German team. They are better than most teams we will play this season.

Saints have a behind closed doors friendly on Sunday 9th August. So makes sense for the first choice XI to play the Colchester game on 8th August and the others to play in the friendly.

He was sold to Göztepe.