Taylor Harwood-Bellis

[SouSaint]

29 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGBoJ7ruP-H/?igsh=MWtxNXQzbng3ZG11aQ==

New agent? Perhaps looking to find a move to stay in the PL when we drop.

I can only see him getting decent game time at a promoted club. He's been a huge disappointment this season. 

[sambosa75]

On 10/01/2025 at 11:58, Turkish said:

Yep, hes a young player in his first season in the premier league. He should be playing alongside a good, experienced centre back not stuck alongside crap like Stephens & Bednarek or expecting Wood who is also in his first season to just swim. We did this with Stephens expecting him and Yoshida to step up to replace Fonte and Van Dijk, why do we never learn?

The 65 capped full international and 213 appearances for Southampton Jan Bednarek? 

[Turkish]

6 minutes ago, sambosa75 said:

The 65 capped full international and 213 appearances for Southampton Jan Bednarek? 

you missed out the word "good"

[sambosa75]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

you missed out the word "good"

Worryingly he's been by far our best (in the loosest sense of the word) centre-back this season too.  THB been a huge disappointment.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, sambosa75 said:

Worryingly he's been by far our best (in the loosest sense of the word) centre-back this season too.  THB been a huge disappointment.

He has but no wonder given the shit around him too. Young player in his first season in the premier league thrown under the bus again by us 

[S-Clarke]

4 minutes ago, sambosa75 said:

Worryingly he's been by far our best (in the loosest sense of the word) centre-back this season too.  THB been a huge disappointment.

Yeah he has, but if you go back to 2018/2019 the most consistent factor with our awful defence has been Bednarek. Bar a couple of purple patches here and there, he's been involved in it all. Both 9-0's, the 5-0's, 6-0's etc. +60 goals conceded in every season he's been a consistent part of it, I include last season in that as well.

He's definitely redeemed himself professionally since his stomp off to Villa, but he is one of the reasons we leak goals as he's so incredibly limited.

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Yeah he has, but if you go back to 2018/2019 the most consistent factor with our awful defence has been Bednarek. Bar a couple of purple patches here and there, he's been involved in it all. Both 9-0's, the 5-0's, 6-0's etc. +60 goals conceded in every season he's been a consistent part of it, I include last season in that as well.

He's definitely redeemed himself professionally since his stomp off to Villa, but he is one of the reasons we leak goals as he's so incredibly limited.

It's a pretty low bar. He's had Stephens, Yoshida, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Salisu, Lyanco and ABK as competition. 

[Toussaint]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It's a pretty low bar. He's had Stephens, Yoshida, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Salisu, Lyanco and ABK as competition. 

Christ on a bike, you have just identified a fundamental part of our decline. 

[S-Clarke]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It's a pretty low bar. He's had Stephens, Yoshida, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Salisu, Lyanco and ABK as competition. 

Yep, very true. Our CB recruitment is leading the way in crapness.

Only we can go from Fonte and VVD to Yoshida and Stephens less than a year later. The Southampton Way of doing things differently I guess.

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

Christ on a bike, you have just identified a fundamental part of our decline. 

 

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

Yep, very true. Our CB recruitment is leading the way in crapness.

Only we can go from Fonte and VVD to Yoshida and Stephens less than a year later. The Southampton Way of doing things differently I guess.

i forgot Caleta-Car as well. About £70m of "talent" right there 

[sambosa75]

Imagine thinking Wesley f*cking Hoedt was an adequate replacement for VVD. 🤣

[SaintNewForest]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Yep, very true. Our CB recruitment is leading the way in crapness.

Only we can go from Fonte and VVD to Yoshida and Stephens less than a year later. The Southampton Way of doing things differently I guess.

And yet, the Stephens-Yoshida partnership under Puel was probably the last time we looked defensively solid. 

Obviously not at the quality of what went before, mind.

Edited yesterday at 16:50 by SaintNewForest

[lambtiss]

I would say Yoshida is a far better defender in terms of being a stopper than either Bednarek or THB.

[Turkish]

23 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

And yet, the Stephens-Yoshida partnership under Puel was probably the last time we looked defensively solid. 

Obviously not at the quality of what went before, mind.

boring old claude hey......

[SaintNewForest]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

boring old claude hey......

Was bullshit then, and bullshit now. 

My god, he'd have been an improvement on some of the dross we've had since. 

[Galway saint]

Didn't Juric say that Bednarek turned down a large offer during January, so someone must rate him ( assuming it's true) ?

THB has been a disappointment and appears a bit overweight to me and at times it looks like hes running through treacle.

Like a lot of the squad he's struggled with the pace and power in the PL

[Sarnia Cherie]

10 minutes ago, Galway saint said:

Didn't Juric say that Bednarek turned down a large offer during January, so someone must rate him ( assuming it's true) ?

THB has been a disappointment and appears a bit overweight to me and at times it looks like hes running through treacle.

Like a lot of the squad he's struggled with the pace and power in the PL

Most of the team look as if they are running through treacle. That's when they aren't standing still. It would be interesting to see what their training sessions consist of.

[woodsaint1]

1 hour ago, Galway saint said:

Didn't Juric say that Bednarek turned down a large offer during January, so someone must rate him ( assuming it's true) ?

THB has been a disappointment and appears a bit overweight to me and at times it looks like hes running through treacle.

Like a lot of the squad he's struggled with the pace and power in the PL

Roma were reportedly interested, but we turned their offer down (£8 million)