Who do we want next as Saints manager?

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, chivvy said:

2026 is the deadwood clearance year . Check out the contract expires.. 

and that’s where the odd one might happen if a player actually wants to be in and around the first team, is in their national squad, and the new manager makes it clear they are unlikely to be in the first team picture. If you’re confident you’ve got takers at a similar level on a free, but that club might struggle with the fees and wages, and Saints new manager wants more headroom, it’s possible. Unlikely but possible. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

13 minutes ago, chivvy said:

2026 is the deadwood clearance year

That’s one way, feed them to Wu’s pigs. 

[Oldandtired]

As we speak teams in the lower half of the championship and L1 are quaking in their boots knowing that in the near future SFC will be sniffing around their managers and players..

[Convict Colony]

18 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Gotta say rusk comes across great in the pressers . Would be a gamble but I’m interested to see if he stakes a claim 

Wait we judging managers on their press conferences now 🤣

[Holmes_and_Watson]

14 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Wait we judging managers on their press conferences now 🤣

They are all coming out about the same, when it comes to getting actual points. Sod all. So, this is one of the tie breaker categories.

Others are:-

The Fashion round - pullover, beard and hair.

The Philosophy round - The principles that mean more than points or jobs.

The Cookery Round - Testing various teflon pans against our manager's ability to never accept responsibility.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, chivvy said:

2026 is the deadwood clearance year . Check out the contract expiries. 

 

2 hours ago, Toussaint said:

We’d need a minibus at least 

 

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, Toussaint said:

We’d need a minibus at least 

More likely a skip.

[Badger]

12 hours ago, CSA96 said:

Some interesting post-match comments from Rohl: https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/danny-rohl-extraordinary-press-conference-sheffield-wednesday-relegation-scrap-5090783

Definitely looks like reinforcing a parting of the ways there. Little chance of turning back after publicly criticising players, and throwing down a challenge to the Board to spend (knowing they’re cash strapped).

I like the honesty, and better than some of the banal crap ( ‘ the lads are disappointed but will definitely be giving it 120% next game …’ etc) but if this were Saints I’d rather this were left unsaid until the season was over. 

[Badger]

4 hours ago, Turkish said:

A Martinesque throw your players under the bus style interview there. A bad run and they’re not good enough to play my style of football when they’ve done it the last 18 months. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

That’s Martinesque 2.0 after the saying the week before that ‘those guys are so brave, and he has so much love for those guys .., ‘ 

In terms of Rohlwatch, I’ll keep a close watch on his next press conference to see if he takes it to the next level : ‘when I left Bayern I could have married a buxom serving wench from Oktoberfest and taken a job as a PE teacher … ‘. *
 

* which fair play, sounds a fucking sight better than being a shelf stacker in Merthyr and a Welsh bird from the valleys .. 

[Badger]

13 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Looks like it. When you’ve overpaid hideously for one Conference North calibre young Irish keeper, the SR way would naturally be to double down 

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/30998/13351199/a-freak-goal-pierce-charles-howler-leads-to-ben-wilmot-goal
 

Christ, I hadn’t seen that when writing my original post !! 

[Gloucester Saint]

19 minutes ago, Badger said:

That’s Martinesque 2.0 after the saying the week before that ‘those guys are so brave, and he has so much love for those guys .., ‘ 

In terms of Rohlwatch, I’ll keep a close watch on his next press conference to see if he takes it to the next level : ‘when I left Bayern I could have married a buxom serving wench from Oktoberfest and taken a job as a PE teacher … ‘. *
 

* which fair play, sounds a fucking sight better than being a shelf stacker in Merthyr and a Welsh bird from the valleys .. 

We need a Danny on the Mike video to complete the PE teacher vibe ‘Wonderbar! Schon! Was fur ein schoner Morgen wir haben werden’

 

[chivvy]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

and that’s where the odd one might happen if a player actually wants to be in and around the first team, is in their national squad, and the new manager makes it clear they are unlikely to be in the first team picture. If you’re confident you’ve got takers at a similar level on a free, but that club might struggle with the fees and wages, and Saints new manager wants more headroom, it’s possible. Unlikely but possible. 

Hopefully we will sell some this year before they walk for free.  Annoyingly they are all ok in the championship..  

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, chivvy said:

Hopefully we will sell some this year before they walk for free.  Annoyingly they are all ok in the championship..  

Aribo has suitors, he’s in the 2026 expiry cohort, one of the big Turkish clubs, probably a £5-8m fee and one of our bigger earners. Similar for Onachu.

Bazanu is a quandary as 2027, hasn’t pulled up any trees at Standard. If Rohl does the obvious thing and replaces Ramsdale, he is probably looking at another loan out as McCarthy inexcusably got a 2 year deal last summer and he will understandably see it through. If Baz had only one year left a mutual termination would have made sense to get a new club without them risking a fee and stay in RoI contention.

Stewart might as well treat as a bonus David Connolly style (although yet to see any evidence Ross is anywhere near David’s calibre as a forward). 

Edozie is trickier to predict - year left, as with Bazanu not pulled up the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Did alright last time in the Champ but might be happier moving to another Champ club, or Old Firm, on a 3 year deal if the fee is fairly low. Smallbone is another who had some success last time, but can only function and compete as most advanced in a central three. See below on Charlie Taylor if that doesn’t suit Rohl or whoever it is, or Bree if it does.

Bree will stay with a 12 month extension I reckon, Taylor who knows? Maybe a free with Saints paying a % of wages. 
Full list https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-southampton/vertragsende/verein/180/vertragsendeJahr/2026

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Wade Garrett]

I couldn’t give a toss about how a manager comes across in a press conference.  Rusk has had media training.  Big fucking deal.  He still set us up wrong against Villa and brought Will fucking Smallbone on.

Still, hopefully his post-match conference was good and made up for his dreadful tactics and substitutions in the actual game.

 

[Channons Windmill]

I had a brief chat with Mauricio Pochettino yesterday. Can confirm he’s not interested in returning. In fact, he laughed.

[Winnersaint]

So lets get this straight we're the worst team in EPL history thus far. No confidence it'll change before the season is out, and were looking at the manager of the worst team since January in the league below. i know there are mitigating circumstances but what could possibly go wrong?

[Appy]

9 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

So let’s get this straight we're the worst team in EPL history thus far. No confidence it'll change before the season is out, and were looking at the manager of the worst team since January in the league below. i know there are mitigating circumstances but what could possibly go wrong?

The circumstances are very mitigating yes. RB Leipzig are interested for a reason. 

[AlexLaw76]

37 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

So lets get this straight we're the worst team in EPL history thus far. No confidence it'll change before the season is out, and were looking at the manager of the worst team since January in the league below. i know there are mitigating circumstances but what could possibly go wrong?

We are also after Lampard apparently

he is doing alright since January, isn’t he?

[benjii]

6 hours ago, beatlesaint said:

Are you being deliberately stupid? 

Totally missed the point which is that he is happy to sit around doing fuck all on his big fat wage, its happened at three clubs now in the case of him. Its got nothing to do with refusing his wages, all to do with happily taking them whilst contributing nothing or even looking to get another club. If RM hadnt come along for his ex room mate he would have been kicking about at Newcastle training on his own still.  

I didn't miss the point. Your point seems to be that he should either demand a transfer (which would be idiotic on his part given no other PL team would be stupid enough to sign him) or refuse his wages (which would also be idiotic, given we have agreed to pay them) because the manager won't pick him. My point is that you're talking shite.

If you want to be angry, be angry with Russel Martin and our genius transfer committee for signing him.

[beatlesaint]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

I didn't miss the point. Your point seems to be that he should either demand a transfer (which would be idiotic on his part given no other PL team would be stupid enough to sign him) or refuse his wages (which would also be idiotic, given we have agreed to pay them) because the manager won't pick him. My point is that you're talking shite.

If you want to be angry, be angry with Russel Martin and our genius transfer committee for signing him.

Only talking shite if either if your two interpretations are correct and niether are so the talking shite award, not for the first time, is all yours !

In simple language, just for you, my point is if players are happy to sit on a big contract and not move on or who are not wanted we aren’t likely to get shot of them. 

Edited 1 hour ago by beatlesaint

[Winnersaint]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We are also after Lampard apparently

he is doing alright since January, isn’t he?

He is indeed.

[Matthew Le God]

Would be nice to see Ralph at Saints with money to spend.