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Enjoying trying to figure out how this can possibly relate to our transfer business on the previous few pages?

Difficulty finishing as well…

They might also want to f**k over Newcastle - given if they go down they definitely won’t be a rival for European places next year

Goalkeepers are statistically the least valuable member of the team; hence the (relatively) lower transfer fees and wages. Would rather we bought a statement no. 10 with the cash instead as that’s much more likely to translate to improvement

Well the Premier League just brought in these new related party sponsorship rules. Think the crux of them is that all deals with related parties have to be independently assessed as being done at fair value to stop Newcastle doing a City.

As a young person (unfortunately not a millionaire) - I don’t think I’d leave London for Newcastle even for double or triple the money I’m on tbh. Where would you spend it? There’s far fewer fashion boutiques; few fine dining establishments (only 24 Michelin star restaurants in the North); all the nightclubs have the Geordie Shore lot in; if one were a foreign player who doesn’t have great English, the Geordie accent would be a struggle; further to fly to get to anywhere nice; even colder than the rest of the country etc…

Exactly this - Carl Anka's stuff was really in depth and asking interesting questions/looking at tactical trends whereas Dan Sheldon's articles are so incredibly basic. I find it very annoying that he never actually looks for anything that nobody else has thought of covering yet and he has a real "so what?" problem where he just states things and doesn't explain why we should care or how this could impact things - just terrible analysis. I like a lot of the other stuff on the Athletic so keep paying for it but on the Saints coverage it really feels like us going from Virgil Van Dijk to Wesley Hoedt - both Dutch defenders but one's world class and one has to be paid to piss off to a Belgian club.

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Since 2015 (when we signed Romeu) - Barcelona have 0 Champions League wins to Chelsea’s 1 so arguably Chelsea>Saints represents more of a step down than Barca>Saints

I’d much rather it be a 20 team Premier League where everyone has broadly the same resources and can therefore have a chance of winning through the use of superior tactics and recruitment, rather than there be 6 teams with double the money of the other 14. Could be a chance to make real, positive change - add in a salary cap/financial regulations to keep it at a level playing field (the one good bit of MLS) and it’s still a compelling product. Invite Celtic and Rangers to come in and add 4 Championship teams and I’m all for it. I’ll honestly be furious if the FA, UEFA and FIFA just bend over at the end of the day and let them get away with their brinkmanship in order to get a bigger slice of the pie. Just let them take their ball home with them and see how it works out for them - I think it would get very boring after a couple of seasons and would subsequently relish the 8-10 years it’ll take the Big 6 to all get back from National League to Premier League…

Double remainer

Per Jeremy Wilson on Twitter “Southampton have submitted a deal sheet to Premier League in an attempt to get extension for Danny Ings deal. They are now hopeful of getting it done”

Whilst this is true it also is not true any more. The 3 teams that went down last year were definitely worse than us - yes. Now though, both Wolves and Fulham have better teams and more exciting managers than we do; West Ham have sorted their life out and got some good players in. Basically everyone has strengthened a lot from last year. Who is definitely worse than us now? Cardiff, Huddersfield, Newcastle once Rafa leaves, Brighton maybe, Bournemouth maybe? Not a lot of scope for cock ups needed on paper to leave us in a bad position...

West Ham dropping £93m plus whatever signing bonus wilshere and Fredericksburg got for being free seems.... a bit Leeds-y

Mbappe wants to play for Real and PSG can’t afford to exercise their £160m option on his loan due to FFP. Would seem the best choice to replace Ronaldo for the next 10+ years at a net £100m-ish cost

Armstrong scored 17 season before last (when he was fit); no reason to class him as "not creative"

*Cough* Bullshirt *Cough*

239 miles, give or take....

Genuinely mad that 75% of the goals in the Champions League Final were scored by Ex-Saints

I’ll be at The Ship by Borough tube station in all likelihood

About 98% of that goes to the shirt manufacturers, it's only going to be useful when it comes to renegotiating the deal with them. Clubs ony get a small fraction of shirt sale money, and usually that;s after they've sold a certain number of shirts

Hmm - not sure, I reckon it might be prohibitively expensive to buy him from Everton the day after he's signed for them at a cost of £45m...

Net Income Attributable to Shareholders > Retained Earnings

Managed to find a picture of him, not sure what to make of it...