Lighthouse

It's not just thick racists. You can also be a greedy, self serving, arse kissing narcissist who claims any kind of public welfare system is communism, to manipulate thick racists into voting against any kind of tax or environmental policy.

Have they actually said that? He's got absolutely nothing to prove in the Championship.

I think you need to show a bit more respect to a person who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Monaco Grand Prix and Eurovision.

You mean a bit like this? https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/mens-retained-list-published-for-2026 "We would like to express our thanks to each of those players and wish them well for the future."

I’d be massively surprised if there was another striker signed, I think it’s just the way FR worded that tweet. I think we’re most likely to see two departures up front from here on.

Seems like a decent addition for relatively little financial outlay. If we can get double figures out of him that’ll be a very shrewd signing for the season.

It was confirmed when McCarthy and the other out of contract players left. He’s not Rickie Lambert, I can’t see why we’d say anything particularly emotive beyond confirming he’s left the club.

I don't think there was any lack of resources or manpower attributable to the multiclub model. Our problems last time in the Prem stemmed from our DoF buggering off to Man Utd in April and not appointing a replacement for the subsequent transfer window. I can't remember any big money signings for Goztepe in 2024 which detracted from our own recruitment.

Assuming we bring in some form of Larin-esq target man, such as Mubama, I would think the answer is no. Those two will essentially be competing for one place in the team, with Leo, Dobbin, Azaz, Fellows, Matsuki, Edozie and Oyekunle all competing to play in the three behind. That’s assuming DD leaves too.

Very unlikely IMO. Che scored 16 goals last time and JWP is an experienced PL player. I'd bite your hand off for two players that good being in our price range.

Albert playing like his uncle's a glazier now. This could be a big score.

Most likely we were sending a message to Fulham that it’s not a done deal yet and we’re still willing to put him in our squad until we get an acceptable offer.

On to the league then. Hopefully the Colchester game blew away any lingering cobwebs and a couple more players, namely Azaz and Larin, are fit to start. Azaz or Dobbin looks to be the only real selection headache at the moment, so that'll be interesting.

He's not a horrendous footballer and he was no worse than three or four other players. He lost his confidence and form completely playing two campaigns above his level in two of the worst teams the PL has ever seen. Like Dobbin he was effectively making his competitive debut in this team and the former was hardly any better.

TBH the whole front half of the team looked a bit out of sorts, I'd say because we were missing Jander/Charles, Azaz and Larin straight through the spine of it. Matsuki didn't really impose himself in a deeper role and the final balls from Scienza and Fellows were often wayward. BBD certainly didn't force his name onto the team sheet for Watford but I can't really blame him too much either. It's not like the rest of the team had them on toast.