Saint86

If we have a sell on fee then i bloody hope so...

I am wary that this may not be the case, and that another sale is required for any serious additions. None of us know the financial state of the club until last year's accounts are published, although clearly we had enough to sanction Peretz and Larin's transfers within the PSR window. Just from a balancing the books perspective, this is the business we seem to have done so far this summer (ignoring unknown distribution of installments): Money out Peretz, Dobbin, Larin signed for circa £18.5M. Drop in parachute payments of circa £15M. Money in Fernandes sell on of circa £6M Bllard sell on of circa £1M Charles transfer sale of circa £25M x 0.85, so circa £21m coming in. So currently we're on about -£5.5M on outright transfer dealings and drop in tv monies, although i'm aware we seem to have done a lot of work reducing the wage bill and outstanding loan debts/interest payments. We need to sign a new CM and CF with the remaining money. And personally i am not happy going into the season with Long as our only GK backup. Remaining assets we may see leave: Ramsdale, Archer, BBD, Bazunu, Edozie, JayRob, Sugawara, Downs. Not clear how many of those we'll be able to shift for meaningful money. Edit - if the AA january sale is included (circa £7M) we are roughly balanced on recent transfer sales.

Would be a good move for him in fairness.

The rumored figure that is being quoted is £25.7M (not £30M - you are quoting a euros figure in pounds). I would say that is a reasonable fee for Charles, and a good price for saints given we need to pay City their sell on. I agree with others who say that we'll look back on it as the one that got away, but right now he's a player we can afford to lose that brings much needed funds in. Saints do need to sell, we lose £15M on parachute payments this year, and have the outgoings of Larin, Peretz, and Dobbin to cover with just the fernandes monies (which will be installments) coming in.

That was basically an admission that everyone does it... to be Pompey manager and not put the boot in over that question is actually quite staggering.

Yup, £4M for Saints. Would be a good addition up front.

I still think he'll get anything from a fine with suspended ban, to a 3-6 week touchline ban. What he did was less impactful than Bielsa (spying on all teams throughout a season vs 3 teams and failing to win any of those games) and there is no evidence of personal bullying by Eckert (that we are aware of) for the FA to make that charge stick. People can say there is now an EFL rule all they want, but the EFL don't get to sanction Eckert, and there is no FA rule about spying - the challenge for the FA is to show that Eckert's behavior was notably worse than Bielsa's - and without evidence of Eckert bullying staff, and the fact that Bielsa's spying was far more widespread, that's going to be very difficult for them. As a result, if they go to hard then we will appeal and potentially take them to court.

Couldn't see a thread on this - bit of fun ahead of the new season. Expectations for relegated sides: West Ham - Autos Wolves - Playoffs Burnley - Playoffs Established championship teams to watch (i.e., for promotion/playoff charge): Southampton, Norwich, Middlesbrough. Promotion picks: West Ham, Southampton, Norwich Relegation Contenders: Blackburn, Portsmouth, Bolton, Lincoln, Charlton Relegation picks: Blackburn, Portsmouth, Bolton. Top scorer (1 pick): Vipotnik Most goal involvements (goals/assists): Bowen Eckert ban decision sweepstake: Thursday 13th August Saints hot take : Peretz to average under 1.0 goals against per game. *all southampton predictions assuming we keep Eckert.

AA as a central striker vs AA as a right winger playing off a big man though. He was essentially championship player of the season under Martin when he played on the right coming off of Adams - They are very different things. I am purely hypothesizing over his on pitch offering, not any potential issues behind the scenes. Fellows has been very frustrating so far. He's great running at players, has a very good engine, but his end product isn't enough. AA had 36 goal involvements playing largely on the right under Martin. Fellows managed 6 last season. I know people can be revisionist over players that leave, but thats a 30goal difference per season 🤷‍♂️

Don't disagree with this overly. Its a pretty tasty side. Begs the question, should we have kept (/ would we be better with) AA on the right and not signing Fellows... for me, probably a yes - would have added some serious threat down our right side.

In fairness to Martin, i don't think Tonda has a worse squad. Azaz, scienza, fellows, Jander/downes and an older charles - Larin as CF (over a non existent stewart)... Peretz in goal? And older Wood, and older THB, and older Manning... In many ways, i'd argue that Tonda/Spors have built/coached a better squad. KWP and peak arma probably the two standouts from that Martin side.

Perhaps, but you seem overly negative this summer - I wouldn't be so quick to rule out any big signings. I.e., last year we took azaz and fellows (key players) from established championship clubs... We will likely be selling Charles for £25M+, potentially losing some of THB, Scienza, or Jander for big money, and almost certainly seeing the backs of the likes of BBD, Archer, Ramsdale, Bazunu etc. we've also had the Fernandes money come in, as well as seeing the likes of macca and aribo off the wage bill 🤷.

Haven't seen that. If he is for sale then we should be all over it 🤷

They are putting together a decent side under the radar. J.Opoku in particular could be a star in the championship. If it clicks for them, they'll be fighting for playoffs this year.

A week to go before first potential use of the away shirt... Where is it saints? 🤣😂