Sport Republic

[ChristopheVAFC]

On 07/12/2024 at 22:17, FredVaFC59100 said:

You know what I like about SR ?

NOTHING!

SR are just a bunch of $h!theads. They sacked the manager at Valenciennes FC about 2 weeks ago and still haven't named a replacement. Meanwhile, we are treading water right in the middle of the table, 8 points behind the leader w/ the first budget in the league. We will very likely play another season in the 3rd division next year. The youth teams are dreadful as well. I miss our previous awful owner, at least he kept us in league 2 with more hope than I ever had under SR.

I would never, ever want my club to go back into the hands of the dictator Eddy Zdziech!

You'd have to be mad to want that!!!!!!!

[HarvSFC]

What an ambitionless shadow of a club we have become.

If Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford can do it, then we can. But, we're so below standard in multiple areas.

[Matthew Le God]

1 minute ago, HarvSFC said:

What an ambitionless shadow of a club we have become.

If Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford can do it, then we can. But, we're so below standard in multiple areas.

It isn't a lack of ambition, they've spent £260m+ on transfer fees in the last two PL seasons. This issue is how they've spent it!

[trousers]

8 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

It isn't a lack of ambition, they've spent £260m+ on transfer fees in the last two PL seasons. This issue is how they've spent it!

Indeed, however, having owners with ambition, but who spaff their money up the wall, are worse than owners with no ambition, in my book. #falsehope

Edited Monday at 17:41 by trousers

[saintant]

34 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

It isn't a lack of ambition, they've spent £260m+ on transfer fees in the last two PL seasons. This issue is how they've spent it!

You wonder how Dragan, the guy providing all the money, allows the clowns to get away with it.

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

You wonder how Dragan, the guy providing all the money, allows the clowns to get away with it.

But he clearly does.  The bearded floater is still here currently, with no sign of a firm Serbian flush.  Wonder if the board are trying to sell up. 

[saintant]

24 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

But he clearly does.  The bearded floater is still here currently, with no sign of a firm Serbian flush.  Wonder if the board are trying to sell up. 

We can only hope.

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

1 hour ago, HarvSFC said:

What an ambitionless shadow of a club we have become.

If Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford can do it, then we can. But, we're so below standard in multiple areas.

At the Wolves game, I was talking to a member of the Hampshire FA, a group dedicated to developing grassroots football in Hampshire. He said you wouldn't believe how much £100k would help their FA, so I asked him how much the Saints contributed to their cause. The answer was nothing, diddly squat. In fact, they get more support from Bournemouth - which isn't even in Hampshire!

I just find it difficult to find any positives about our management.

[lambtiss]

3 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Not everything needs to be instantaneous 

Instantaneous? it's nearly three years now since SR took over. They have wasted millions, had more managers than years of existence and appear to have no strategy. Incredulously, they have underperformed compared to the chancer without a pot to piss in, Gao.

Apart from that, I would say they are doing a great job

[FredVaFC59100]

4 hours ago, ChristopheVAFC said:

I would never, ever want my club to go back into the hands of the dictator Eddy Zdziech!

You'd have to be mad to want that!!!!!!!

What the difference between SR and Eddy Zdziech ? One is taking us to the cliff faster than the other !

They both put up a merde show! the team was constipated under Zdziech, it now has diarrhea under SR! 

We were in ligue 2 with a tiny glimmer of hope at the beginning of each season and the youth teams were doing quite well under the 'dictator'. Now everything is crap. Look at the way SR manages Southampton FC for Pete's sake! 

[ChristopheVAFC]

9 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

What the difference between SR and Eddy Zdziech ? One is taking us to the cliff faster than the other !

They both put up a merde show! the team was constipated under Zdziech, it now has diarrhea under SR! 

We were in ligue 2 with a tiny glimmer of hope at the beginning of each season and the youth teams were doing quite well under the 'dictator'. Now everything is crap. Look at the way SR manages Southampton FC for Pete's sake! 

With Eddy Zdziech:

- No ambition beyond personal ambition
- Conflict with sponsors, politicians and fans
- No maintenance of club facilities
- Non-payment of invoices with service providers
- Does not put his own money into the club
- Dismisses employees on Christmas Eve 
- Has always lost at the industrial tribunal
- Sanctioned every year by the DNCG

The club was left to its own devices!

With Sport Républic:

- Medium and long-term project to regain lost ambition
- Return of Toyota / Partouche / the city and the agglomeration
- Work on the training centre last summer (professional pitch)
- Healthy finances
- Recruitment of several employees
- Development of club facilities that had been neglected for 10 years
- Successful passage through the DNCG 2 years ago

Apart from the sporting side, which always takes a lot longer to set up,

Do you need any other arguments?

As far as our friends at Southampton are concerned, just like our friends at Goztepe, whom I'm also watching, I'm keeping a close eye on their situation, so don't worry about that!

Of course I'm sad for my friends at Saint's and I hope that solutions can be found for them as soon as possible.

[Chewy]

I think the main difference I see for saints is that before SR we were “sleep-walking towards relegation” to quote a certain poster.

And now we’re driving head-long towards it at top speed, full Thelma and Louise style. Only we’re not surrounded by police, just doing it on our own to prove how brave we are.

[Miltonaggro]

When you think that we were in the top half of the table, established in the Premier League for over a decade when these jokers came in, their abject failure is truly spectacular. We are a bin fire instigated in the main by three people, two ideas men who have no fucking idea, and a money man who appears to be happy to lose money. What an avoidable mess!  

Edited yesterday at 09:01 by Miltonaggro

[saintant]

38 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

When you think that we were in the top half of the table, established in the Premier League for over a decade when these jokers came in, their abject failure is truly spectacular. We are a bin fire instigated in the main by three people, two ideas men who have no fucking idea, and a money man who appears to be happy to lose money. What an avoidable mess!  

Yeah, you have to ak why Semmens decided that these shysters were the best available bidders for the club. Smells a bit.

[Miltonaggro]

12 minutes ago, saintant said:

Yeah, you have to ak why Semmens decided that these shysters were the best available bidders for the club. Smells a bit.

It really is madness.

[tdmickey3]

16 minutes ago, saintant said:

Yeah, you have to ak why Semmens decided that these shysters were the best available bidders for the club. Smells a bit.

[Patrick Bateman]

1 hour ago, Miltonaggro said:

When you think that we were in the top half of the table, established in the Premier League for over a decade when these jokers came in, their abject failure is truly spectacular. We are a bin fire instigated in the main by three people, two ideas men who have no fucking idea, and a money man who appears to be happy to lose money. What an avoidable mess!  

Sadly, spot on.

I suspect that Semmens and co were sold the dream by Ankerson, only it was fucking deluded. You know how it goes "we will have a team of youth players, recruiting the best from around the world at a young age, we will use data to analyse and improve them, we will use the Brailsford approach for 1% gains every day, the players we develop will be sold for £50-£100m allowing the club to be fully sustainable and returning a profit, the only club in the world to do so"

Something along those lines.

Utterly utterly deluded and as Kat Liebherr still has a 20% stake, I'd love to hear from her. Even as a minority stakeholder she still has a voice as her 20% becomes more and more worthless every day letting these penises run things the way they are. 

Get rid of Martin. Get a Chairman in, get a CEO with some balls and footballing nous. Make some decisions, fast, immediately. This team is not getting out the Championship next year otherwise ... welcome to the life of a Stoke City or Sunderland fan. 

Edited yesterday at 10:08 by Patrick Bateman

[Lighthouse]

1 hour ago, Miltonaggro said:

When you think that we were in the top half of the table, established in the Premier League for over a decade when these jokers came in, their abject failure is truly spectacular. We are a bin fire instigated in the main by three people, two ideas men who have no fucking idea, and a money man who appears to be happy to lose money. What an avoidable mess!  

The seeds of this were sown when Kat sold to Gao, which was followed by years of stagnation and lack of investment in the squad. SR were just the ones holding the parcel when the music stopped. We were sliding down the league long before the SR takeover. Basically they needed to get their first summer here spot on to steer us clear of a relegation fight and they didn't, then they sacked the guy who'd kept us up for four years and the writing was on the wall.

I'm not defending SR but let's not pretend the bought the club which finished three points off the Champions League under Koeman and took them straight down. We had years of MoPe, Carrillo, Hoedt, Boufal and Forster's bizarre new contract in between.

[ally_uk]

Since Sports Republic took over the club, it's been one poor decision after another, coupled with slow, reactive behavior.

I've supported Southampton since I was 8 years old, and I can honestly say I've never felt this disinterested or disheartened with the club.

This season has been an embarrassment. We're limping back to the Championship without any urgency, grit, determination, or passion.

I genuinely can’t understand why we’re sticking with Russell Martin and this reckless, kamikaze style of football. The stats don’t lie—we’re making record mistakes leading to goals and sitting at the bottom of the league. Most of the fanbase can see that without adapting, we’ll keep conceding stupid goals.

Even the pundits, week in and week out, are baffled by the stubbornness to keep playing this way.

Yet the manager has the audacity to blame the loyal, hard-paying fanbase and take digs at the players, while he’s the one serving up this uninspiring, shambolic football on a regular basis.

So, we have a ten-year plan? Well, what exactly is it? To settle in the Championship, sell off our best assets like Tyle Dib and Fernandes, and hope we somehow claw our way back to the Premier League? And then what? Hope Russell Martin magically transforms into prime Pep and takes Saints storming up the table? It’s laughable.

We need proper footballing minds running this club. If we had a competent director of football, they wouldn’t tolerate this nonsense every week. They’d be telling Martin, “The style is rubbish—adapt it or get out!

Our scouts need firing—seriously, what are they doing? We’ve unearthed "gems" like Ross Stewart, a man who seems allergic to grass. And let’s not forget Larios or the obscene amount of money wasted on the likes of Oršić. It’s a complete joke.

As for Rasmus “Goldenballs” Wankerson, he epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the club right now—a complete charlatan. Shove your TED Talks and books where the sun doesn’t shine; you’re absolutely clueless, a fraud.

The sooner he fucks off, the better! Massive changes are needed, and Dragan seriously needs to grow a pair and make those changes happen.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, saintant said:

Yeah, you have to ak why Semmens decided that these shysters were the best available bidders for the club. Smells a bit.

Don't know what you mean.... all seems above board to me.... afterall, Sport Republic were the "Perfect Solution" and all's going according to plan....   😂

 

Edited yesterday at 11:34 by trousers

[saintant]

5 minutes ago, trousers said:

Don't know what you mean.... all seems above board to me.... afterall, Sport Republic were the "Perfect Solution" and all's going according to plan....   😂

 

They saw him coming and Semmens bought their complete stock of snake oil. I wonder what he got out of the deal.

[franniesTache]

3 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Sadly, spot on.

I suspect that Semmens and co were sold the dream by Ankerson, only it was fucking deluded. You know how it goes "we will have a team of youth players, recruiting the best from around the world at a young age, we will use data to analyse and improve them, we will use the Brailsford approach for 1% gains every day, the players we develop will be sold for £50-£100m allowing the club to be fully sustainable and returning a profit, the only club in the world to do so"

Something along those lines.

Utterly utterly deluded and as Kat Liebherr still has a 20% stake, I'd love to hear from her. Even as a minority stakeholder she still has a voice as her 20% becomes more and more worthless every day letting these penises run things the way they are. 

Get rid of Martin. Get a Chairman in, get a CEO with some balls and footballing nous. Make some decisions, fast, immediately. This team is not getting out the Championship next year otherwise ... welcome to the life of a Stoke City or Sunderland fan. 

Funny thing is when I leaked the takeover (including the exit amount the club was being sold for) I warned people it wasn't necessarily a good thing and got a load of abuse for saying it.

There were actually a fair few inside the club who weren't convinced by them before the takeover and it was by no means seen as a good thing for many.

But obviously on here I got pelters for it because "how could i possibly know"...

[trousers]

9 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

Funny thing is when I leaked the takeover (including the exit amount the club was being sold for) I warned people it wasn't necessarily a good thing and got a load of abuse for saying it.

There were actually a fair few inside the club who weren't convinced by them before the takeover and it was by no means seen as a good thing for many.

But obviously on here I got pelters for it because "how could i possibly know"...

Given you only joined the forum in October 2023, what User ID were you using when the takeover happened...?

[Wade Garrett]

Semmens job was to sell the club, which he did.  
I think the bloke is a bit of a tool, but he did the job he was paid to do and I didn’t see a big queue of potential buyers at the time.

 

[Turkish]

4 hours ago, trousers said:

Given you only joined the forum in October 2023, what User ID were you using when the takeover happened...?

He's been on here for years, not sure why it says that date. He's been a ITK for a while. I remember Frannies posts about the takeover because he got a bit of grief on here for it and when i said he was a reliable source a certain bitter individual made a right cock of himself accusing me of me of arrogantly giving him my stamp of approval showing my ego and narcissism. This led to the famous Turkish Stamp of approval as per the below

 

[Osvaldorama]

7 hours ago, ally_uk said:

Since Sports Republic took over the club, it's been one poor decision after another, coupled with slow, reactive behavior.

I've supported Southampton since I was 8 years old, and I can honestly say I've never felt this disinterested or disheartened with the club.

This season has been an embarrassment. We're limping back to the Championship without any urgency, grit, determination, or passion.

I genuinely can’t understand why we’re sticking with Russell Martin and this reckless, kamikaze style of football. The stats don’t lie—we’re making record mistakes leading to goals and sitting at the bottom of the league. Most of the fanbase can see that without adapting, we’ll keep conceding stupid goals.

Even the pundits, week in and week out, are baffled by the stubbornness to keep playing this way.

Yet the manager has the audacity to blame the loyal, hard-paying fanbase and take digs at the players, while he’s the one serving up this uninspiring, shambolic football on a regular basis.

So, we have a ten-year plan? Well, what exactly is it? To settle in the Championship, sell off our best assets like Tyle Dib and Fernandes, and hope we somehow claw our way back to the Premier League? And then what? Hope Russell Martin magically transforms into prime Pep and takes Saints storming up the table? It’s laughable.

We need proper footballing minds running this club. If we had a competent director of football, they wouldn’t tolerate this nonsense every week. They’d be telling Martin, “The style is rubbish—adapt it or get out!

Our scouts need firing—seriously, what are they doing? We’ve unearthed "gems" like Ross Stewart, a man who seems allergic to grass. And let’s not forget Larios or the obscene amount of money wasted on the likes of Oršić. It’s a complete joke.

As for Rasmus “Goldenballs” Wankerson, he epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the club right now—a complete charlatan. Shove your TED Talks and books where the sun doesn’t shine; you’re absolutely clueless, a fraud.

The sooner he fucks off, the better! Massive changes are needed, and Dragan seriously needs to grow a pair and make those changes happen.

Excellent post. 
 

They have been a complete and utter shambles so far. 

Dragan has to be embarrassed. Imagine spending all this money only to be breaking records for how shit we are. Heads need to roll at every level. 
 

Unfortunately it seems that they’re happy to plod along. Not sure where we go from here. 

At least it’s never dull being a saints fan. 

[Dark Munster]

42 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

At least it’s never dull being a saints fan. 

Actually watching the tippy tappy crab pedestrian football in our own half with zero shots on target is very dull.

[spyinthesky]

46 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Excellent post. 
 

They have been a complete and utter shambles so far. 

Dragan has to be embarrassed. Imagine spending all this money only to be breaking records for how shit we are. Heads need to roll at every level. 
 

Unfortunately it seems that they’re happy to plod along. Not sure where we go from here. 

At least it’s never dull being a saints fan. 

Fair comments and as far as on field decisions they have made then arguably 70% bad and 30% good.

However I was at St Marys yesterday and, by and large, they are possibly 70/30 in terms of Stadium/Matchday improvements.

I think the railed standing was a positive step, bearing in mind the stadium is over 20 years old, and they appear to be positive in their approach to engaging with supporters even if you dont like the band/light shows/ facilities around the ground.
However the stadium exterior is beginning to look a bit tired and ultimately the 'Feel Good' factor is on the pitch not around it.
In my opinion SR could be better owners but we could have worse as has happened to quite a few of our rivals.

[Gloucester Saint]

6 hours ago, trousers said:

Given you only joined the forum in October 2023, what User ID were you using when the takeover happened...?

It was on the UI first by a poster of the same name.

[Convict Colony]

6 hours ago, franniesTache said:

Funny thing is when I leaked the takeover (including the exit amount the club was being sold for) I warned people it wasn't necessarily a good thing and got a load of abuse for saying it.

There were actually a fair few inside the club who weren't convinced by them before the takeover and it was by no means seen as a good thing for many.

But obviously on here I got pelters for it because "how could i possibly know"...

Wait are you trying to make this thread about you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If we all said you are right and we are wrong will that make us play better football 😔

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

8 hours ago, ally_uk said:

As for Rasmus “Goldenballs” Wankerson, he epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the club right now—a complete charlatan. Shove your TED Talks and books where the sun doesn’t shine; you’re absolutely clueless, a fraud.

The sooner he fucks off, the better! Massive changes are needed, and Dragan seriously needs to grow a pair and make those changes happen.

[trousers]

34 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

It was on the UI first by a poster of the same name.

Ah, fair enough. My telepathy skills let me down again!

[Dellyears]

2 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

Excellent post. 
 

They have been a complete and utter shambles so far. 

Dragan has to be embarrassed. Imagine spending all this money only to be breaking records for how shit we are. Heads need to roll at every level. 
 

Unfortunately it seems that they’re happy to plod along. Not sure where we go from here. 

At least it’s never dull being a saints fan. 

Yes the whole thing is now an utter shambles but Dragan has tried, he has poured more money in than anyone ever bgt been let down by his 'team', its the manager choices which has done for us.

[saintant]

7 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Semmens job was to sell the club, which he did.  
I think the bloke is a bit of a tool, but he did the job he was paid to do and I didn’t see a big queue of potential buyers at the time.

 

I recall there was talk at the time of other offers having been made. Yes, Semmens sold the club which any of us could have done. We now know he made a complete cock up of choosing who to sell it to and that is on him.

[Dark Munster]

8 hours ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Brilliant! Did you create that? 

I wish Dragan could see it! 

[FredVaFC59100]

22 hours ago, ChristopheVAFC said:

 

Do you need any other arguments?

 

Yes! what's the plan ? Because I don't see any!

SRs have their heads up their asses and I don't the light at the end of the tunnel. All signals are going red except for the financials according to you...but for how long ? If Valenciennes FC stays another year in the 3rd league then it will lose its professional license. do you think SR is going to keep on bleeding money and won't start downsizing / firing employees? get real !

And look at the other clubs nearby, USL Dunkerque was acquired by a Turkish group about the same time SR took over Valenciennes FC. We were both at the bottom of Ligue 2 last xmas eve. BUT they performed a massive turnaround, managed to stay up and are doing quite well nowadays (3rd position in Ligue 2).They have a 10M budget, about what we have ... but in the 3rd league.

Another club nearby, US Boulogne Co, has the smallest budget in 3rd league and they are also pointing at 3rd position...where we are supposed to be.  

Shows you that money isn't everything, it does help but you need a management with a brain. And so far SRs have shown themselves to be retards.

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

45 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Brilliant! Did you create that? 

I wish Dragan could see it! 

Yeah, too much time on my hands now I’m semi-retired…and should know better at my age!

#notbignotclever

[pimpin4rizeal]

On 09/12/2024 at 17:33, Matthew Le God said:

It isn't a lack of ambition, they've spent £260m+ on transfer fees in the last two PL seasons. This issue is how they've spent it!

It really winds me up that people are looking at this as ambition. 
go look at the record signings for each club.many of the  teams we wanna be competing with are in the 40million range.

we buy the cheapest players in the league ffs  we are pretty much shopping in the same price range as we did 10 years ago ..

just because we bought a shit load of items shopping at Audi does not make us big spenders 

People need to stop looking at total spent as ambition. We never push the boat out to sign a expensive player, if us and another club are in for a player it’s game over . Is that how you define ambition ?

Edited 12 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal

[Galway saint]

I thought the forward third recruitment in the summer spoke volumes really about ambition 

was ridiculous to think archer, armstrong, BBD and an injury prone stewart would be a credible strike force

 

[madge]

Just imagine if this had been everton or West Ham… Jim white and talkshite would be covering this everyday…. Hardly a mention.

[ChristopheVAFC]

3 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Yes! what's the plan ? Because I don't see any!

SRs have their heads up their asses and I don't the light at the end of the tunnel. All signals are going red except for the financials according to you...but for how long ? If Valenciennes FC stays another year in the 3rd league then it will lose its professional license. do you think SR is going to keep on bleeding money and won't start downsizing / firing employees? get real !

And look at the other clubs nearby, USL Dunkerque was acquired by a Turkish group about the same time SR took over Valenciennes FC. We were both at the bottom of Ligue 2 last xmas eve. BUT they performed a massive turnaround, managed to stay up and are doing quite well nowadays (3rd position in Ligue 2).They have a 10M budget, about what we have ... but in the 3rd league.

Another club nearby, US Boulogne Co, has the smallest budget in 3rd league and they are also pointing at 3rd position...where we are supposed to be.  

Shows you that money isn't everything, it does help but you need a management with a brain. And so far SRs have shown themselves to be retards.

Why constantly compare yourself to others? Every situation is different and every heritage is different too!

I'm not sure that Dunkerque and Boulogne had the disastrous social and financial situation that Valenciennes had before the takeover by Sport Républic! 

As far as maintaining professional status is concerned, the rules have recently changed! Each club goes before a committee every two years with a dossier to defend and criteria to meet, knowing that with the move from National 1 to Ligue 3 decided by the FFF and the LFP, this will no longer be the case!

Valenciennes' situation at the time of the takeover was more than catastrophic, on the verge of bankruptcy and relegation to National 3 or worse.

Patience will be the best asset if the project is to take shape, and personally I have no doubts about that. Rome wasn't built in 1 day, was it?

Being a supporter means being there through the good times and the bad!

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, madge said:

Just imagine if this had been everton or West Ham… Jim white and talkshite would be covering this everyday…. Hardly a mention.

Difference is their fans would be having a stadium full of banners, tennis balls on the pitch, invading the pitch, constantly chanting for the manager and owners to go. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Galway saint said:

I thought the forward third recruitment in the summer spoke volumes really about ambition 

was ridiculous to think archer, armstrong, BBD and an injury prone stewart would be a credible strike force

 

Same mistake as summer 2022 as well. They simply don’t learn or reflect on their mistakes.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

7 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Difference is their fans would be having a stadium full of banners, tennis balls on the pitch, invading the pitch, constantly chanting for the manager and owners to go. 

Not tennis balls! At 50 passes to get each ball across the park and out of play, the ground won't be useable for years. 🙂

[Gloucester Saint]

9 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Not tennis balls! At 50 passes to get each ball across the park and out of play, the ground won't be useable for years. 🙂

It’d be like the school playground football match from hell.

[david in sweden]

2 hours ago, Galway saint said:

I thought the forward third recruitment in the summer spoke volumes really about ambition 

was ridiculous to think archer, armstrong, BBD and an injury prone stewart would be a credible strike force

 

and you forgot  Onuachu ...

[Turkish]

22 hours ago, ally_uk said:

Since Sports Republic took over the club, it's been one poor decision after another, coupled with slow, reactive behavior.

I've supported Southampton since I was 8 years old, and I can honestly say I've never felt this disinterested or disheartened with the club.

This season has been an embarrassment. We're limping back to the Championship without any urgency, grit, determination, or passion.

I genuinely can’t understand why we’re sticking with Russell Martin and this reckless, kamikaze style of football. The stats don’t lie—we’re making record mistakes leading to goals and sitting at the bottom of the league. Most of the fanbase can see that without adapting, we’ll keep conceding stupid goals.

Even the pundits, week in and week out, are baffled by the stubbornness to keep playing this way.

Yet the manager has the audacity to blame the loyal, hard-paying fanbase and take digs at the players, while he’s the one serving up this uninspiring, shambolic football on a regular basis.

So, we have a ten-year plan? Well, what exactly is it? To settle in the Championship, sell off our best assets like Tyle Dib and Fernandes, and hope we somehow claw our way back to the Premier League? And then what? Hope Russell Martin magically transforms into prime Pep and takes Saints storming up the table? It’s laughable.

We need proper footballing minds running this club. If we had a competent director of football, they wouldn’t tolerate this nonsense every week. They’d be telling Martin, “The style is rubbish—adapt it or get out!

Our scouts need firing—seriously, what are they doing? We’ve unearthed "gems" like Ross Stewart, a man who seems allergic to grass. And let’s not forget Larios or the obscene amount of money wasted on the likes of Oršić. It’s a complete joke.

As for Rasmus “Goldenballs” Wankerson, he epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the club right now—a complete charlatan. Shove your TED Talks and books where the sun doesn’t shine; you’re absolutely clueless, a fraud.

The sooner he fucks off, the better! Massive changes are needed, and Dragan seriously needs to grow a pair and make those changes happen.

Show some gratitude!! Apart from a footballing philosophy, re-promotion to the English Premier Soccerball league, a new pub inside the ground, an elite lounge themed on a tree somewhere, a fanzone, selling Lavia for £55m, posh seats in the Itchen what have SR done for us? 

 

 

[AlexLaw76]

THIS IS THE GREATEST ERA IN OUR HISTORY!!!!

[Challenger]

14 hours ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Stick a scarf and halo on it and submit it to SR for a new club crest.

[pimpin4rizeal]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Same mistake as summer 2022 as well. They simply don’t learn or reflect on their mistakes.

Basically comes down to the same thing.. lack of ambition and trying to do everything on the cheap.. .why sign one decent striker when we can buy 3 cheap ones 😂..  even Ipswich outdid us for delap 

Whatever our total spend was pretty much equates to someone going shopping at Poundland and getting a bit carried away 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal