LGTL

True, but I’ll be stunned if we get £30m straight up. That’s the least we should be hoping for, but it’s a massive jump from £18m and Villa would have bid that knowing the wishes of THB. Here’s hoping.

Villa have bid that to further unsettle THB. They’ll get him for a reduced fee, Saints will argue we did everything we could to keep him blah blah. Tale as old as time.

The club would rather sell 10,000 at £25 than 30,000 at £5. It’s just basic maths unfortunately. The sweet spot would have been around £15-£18 IMO.

7 points off the top after one game 😂

Imperative we start the season well on -4 and they serve up this utter shit.

We’re going to end this window with at least two of Scienza, THB and Jander gone, aren’t we. Yay

They won’t get relegated but we’re miles ahead of them again. We really should be fucking beating them in the league, finally.

Who was the last Southampton born lad to actually go through our academy and make an impact? For a big city, we seem to really struggle producing footballers.

More like 3 minutes.

Really fucking me off this is. The bubble last year was a joke. Standing in a freezing uncovered shit hole at 8am on a Sunday morning ffs. ‘Supporter groups’ are just a closed shop of losers who are happy to go with the club line. Pathetic.

This really needs raising at the fans forum although I won’t hold my breath.

States they’re digital through the app when purchasing.

Watford going quite low, I assume due to the digital tickets. Lincoln will be interesting as we’ll only get 1200 and it’ll be a new ground for most.

Banned from a play off final, 4 point deduction and the manager likely getting banned. They saw Saints as the perfect opportunity to flex their muscles unfortunately. We’re moving from a disproportionate punishment to a joke, frankly.

Both clubs and Hampshire OB have absolutely ruined that fixture. It’s gone from being the best two games, to comfortably the worst two games. Drives me fucking bananas.

Mexico in the Azteca in a World Cup knockout is the sort of game we'll blab on about to our grandchildren in years to come. Proper Football match. Insanely jealous of any England fans doing that one.

They didn’t last season. They never actively pushed for the bubble, the clubs did.

None other than Hassan Kachoul in the BBC studio!

He's some player, outstanding signing for us.

If it was being hosted by Canada/Mexico it would be a little more interesting. The Americans just kill Football with theatrical nonsense. Them being involved in a second World Cup in just over 30 years is, frankly, ludicrous.

Fantastic news. Big statement of intent, and I wonder if it’ll have any impact on some of the others deciding their future? Here’s hoping.

Alfie House is very good IMO. Unfortunately (for us), he’s probably destined for bigger things than the Echo.

It's all since he was made redundant from The Times. Found himself increasingly on TalkSport and writing his own pieces. This has meant he's needed to become edgy and over-opiniated to stay relevant.

Why the fuck are Boro fans still obsessing over this? They got their free pass to Wembley, and blew it. Fuck all to do with them anymore, the weird little freaks.

I mean, the kick off times are unfortunate but can’t really be helped. Evening games on the west coast were always going to produce shit kick off times for Europe, and we’ve had our way on those for the last 24 years. I do think this is causing a lot of the indifference though - Scotland v Haiti or Korea v Mexico is a lot more inviting at 4pm & 6pm than 1am and 5am.