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To be fair there aren’t many clubs who have launched theirs yet. Arsenal / Newcastle / Liverpool / West Ham / Tottenham/ Man City I think and 3 of those were yesterday or today.

I’d take him for sure, but I think WHU paid circa £20-£25M for him so I’m sure they would look to move on for at least that tbh

How do we know that it was Forster decision to leave by not signing a contract rather than ours for not offering him one???

Imo I feel this will see Willy leave and this guy will be a cheaper younger third choice keeper.

Massive difference in quality between those two! Wolves seem to be revamping their midfield this summer, Neves likely to leave for CL football and Moutinho is old and they are looking to replace with younger option. I imagine they would give MGW a chance

Why would the owners be on the call?! How many businesses have the owners of a business in a meeting when staff are leaving. HR were there and a senior manager. Talk about trying to make a story from nothing.

Oh come on, you know if we appoint someone people haven’t heard of they will be on his back straight away as not good enough. However if they were a good footballer then clearly they will be better coach and who will get more grace from fans.

Hopefully a change in the roles brought in too, with a proper assistant one of those coming in.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2022-05-25/club-statement-southampton-football-club-coaching-changes

A change to the coaching set up, including a proper number 2. A number 1 keeper An older leader type centre back some form of creativity in the team a forward a change to our preferred playing style and a plan B not much needed huh

Just seen the goals. So simple, first was a(mother) defensive error, 2nd caught on the counter, 3rd and 4th they targeted the fact we didn’t have a left back playing.

The big downside of this buy kids to progress and sell on for a profit is the inconsistency that comes with them being young. I wish we went out and brought a centre back 26-29 age bracket who could lead the defence and also another older player for the team who was a leader. It’s all very well having this model but you need those two types in your team too imo.

Has nobody to discuss things with, get input from during the games. It’s only ever Ralph in the technical area, maybe a revamp of the coaching set up with an actual assistant one of those brought in rather than just a series of coaches?

Changes to coaching set up based on anything or just wishful thinking?

If Leeds went down where do you think Meslier would go? Fits our profile but likely to be too expensive for us.

Would be a good opportunity for the new owners to have one of their own in a key position. No idea if Glover is doing a good job or not but just adds to the importance of getting the summer trading right.

Any chance of this getting back on topic?!

From those likely to go down. Norwich, will ditch Krul and play Gunn next season. So nothing there. Watford, Foster is too old now and probably stay with Watford. Burnley, Pope will want to play premier league football for sure, but depends if Burnley put a silly price on him.

Kieran Maguire has done a good summary of the main points here in this twitter thread.

The good thing from recent games are the partnerships and understandings that have developed across the pitch KWP and Armstrong Perraud and Moi JWP and Romeu Broja and Adams

£8M rumoured price. No real chance when competing against Liverpool. I expect they will look to loan him out next season or two to a premier league to build up his experience as still so young.

If Alli is to go on loan to PL side a few possible clubs about to max out. Everton - if they get VDB then that’s their two filled. Newcastle - likely to use one on Henderson or Lingard. Targett appears to be their second option.

Thought Harry Hickford was his best mate and someone who sees as a brother since he lived with him growing up?!

But if a player wants to leave and won’t sign a new contract I’d still rather sell them than let them go for nothing. Don’t expect much to change there as most of our sales recently have been due to players running down their contracts.

Who the 2nd club In the group will be will be very interesting. You would expect some player linkup with maybe players going to this club to develop, “sold” onto Saints for us to develop more? Wonder if it’ll be used as a way to get round work permits for younger players to.