| News Comment | Day 31 ! Day Of Destiny at 10:24:23
Nice article, though IMO it's a lot easier for a 'players head to turn' at southampton than the vast majority of other football clubs. A precedent has been set by our hierarchy for years now.. lallana, lovren, wanyama fonte etc are 100% not world class and theres a strong argument for them being just shy of top class..its just the way our club is run now (post ML); we are a family club who will never make ruthless decisions. The amount of football Stepthens and Yosh have been given last 18 months or so suggest they are going nowthere even if a 'better' footballer is available or even in the ranks (Wesley)..i've prepared myself for a quiet day..its 30 days into the window, spartak have set 30mil from day one, very honestly and publicly.. 3 weeks later we offer 25 (rejected straight away) 12 hours on - no activity.. 12 hours or so to go..still fingers crossed though |
| News Comment | Why Van Dijk Needed To Stay And Then Had To Go ! at 18:26:07
Good article.. On each of those occasions wanyama etc we had already sold 2/3/4 players from our first 11 or first 18. Our current administration cares more about the books than football. Credit where its due, when they sell its on saints terms, when they don't sell its on saints terms. In my opinion that's just a smokescreen because fans who care about football not money will kick off. If it wasn't for that reason and that reason only, wanyama etc would not have been told to stay another season. |
| News Comment | Virgil Van Dijk ! Good Riddance To A Disgrace at 18:25:49
So painful supporting saints.. If anyone can be bothered, look at my comments from 6 months ago, I said sell. This was inevitable he wasn't staying 3/4+ years, I have no idea what saints wanted to achieve, not sure they do tbh.. Anyway I'm hearing Alfie mawson and theo W.. Could be interesting |
| News Comment | Virgil Van Dijk ! Good Riddance To A Disgrace at 18:25:13
So painful supporting saints.. If anyone can be bothered, look at my comments from 6 months ago, I said sell. This was inevitable he wasn't staying 3/4+ years, I have no idea what saints wanted to achieve, not sure they do tbh.. Anyway I'm hearing Alfie mawson and theo W.. Could be interesting |
| News Comment | Saints At Tottenham Hotspur The Verdict at 14:13:56
The longer time goes on the more I begin to believe that there is something going on in the background that we have no idea about and can just keep guessing every week. Puel has not made next to no rotations at Leicester, actually attempting to play football which they didn't even do when they won the league (averaging 35% possession or something ridiculous) against City, United and teams away from home over 45/50% of the ball. I believe a wider agenda is happening at Southampton, perhaps stubbornesss thinking the youths are still on the same calibre as lallana etc but the reality is they are not, I like MP, I can't think what anyone can do in or out of football to lose so much respect in such a short space of time. I can understand it to a degree, just by watching 30 mins of a competitive match anyone with half a football eye can see hoedt lemina gabbi are that cut above which is obviously more evident in training. The players themselves know that, which could be causing this unbalance. For me that's not MP, it wasn't Puel before he joined saints and it's not puel after. MP wasn't like that before us, if he is sacked I can bet anything he won't be like that at his new club. Just a guess of course |
| News Comment | Redmond Is Saints Most Influential Player Fact ! at 08:25:36
Firstly I have never booed a footballer in my life, including opposition teams. Can Redmond play football of course, he gets paid 10s of thousands doing it, is he a good footballer, absolutely NOT. You only have to see him in training or look around the world at players in his position to see how bog standard if not just below, he is. Fact |
| News Comment | Van Dijk Reception Was Counter Productive at 13:22:48
Nice point of view densham41.. Seems like the type of people that gave him stick would have booed if he went and obviously if he stayed.. Lose / lose with certain fanbase.. It's a shame |
| News Comment | Where Is The Positivity ! at 18:41:43
I still believe when VVD is integrated back into the squad along with WH at the back, we will be on track for a top 10 finish. COYR |
| News Comment | Where Is The Positivity ! at 18:35:09
I still believe once VVD is fully integrated back into the squad along side WD at centre back, we will be fine and back on track for a top 10 finish. COYR |
| News Comment | Saints V Watford The Preview at 18:09:04
Jack Stephens is not even close to a Premier league footballer.. To those who say otherwise, I salute your blind faith and genuinely admire the passion towards our club... Be very interesting to see what those people make of him if he was wearing different colours. I have definitely noticed a trend with the people that rate him |
| News Comment | Saints Can End Goal Drought With Defence Becoming First Form Of Attack at 13:03:07
Loisdeem nice comment.. The point I was trying to make is only in reference to people blaming the forwards, the way I'm reading certain comments suggests we have so many layers and dimensions and are creating a vast array of different opportunities and they are being squandered.. If that is true, our transfer window has been worse than barca, chelsea arsenal. It's an easy fix if that's true, one new centre forward job done. Expect we have bought in a holding midfielder a centre back and have successfully reintegrated another centre back. Which suggests what I just said is 100% not true. And these additions should now add those extra layers and dimensions to our play. COYR |
| News Comment | Saints Can End Goal Drought With Defence Becoming First Form Of Attack at 12:16:14
Number 58 hahaha this is all in reference to longevity.. If you think a sold FOOTBALL TEAM (eg 11 players) should be relying on pens and free kicks I don't even know what to reply to that.. Remember your comments in 6 months, that's all I can say. We have got the exact same forwards but different central defenders, have and open mind and they way you look at football will be forever changed |
| News Comment | Saints Can End Goal Drought With Defence Becoming First Form Of Attack at 12:02:22
100%. Football is, 11 v 11. The people blaming the forwards don't understand football. Very very few footballers can just pick up a ball 50 yards out from nothing and create a goal. Solid players in every position allows further opportunities and different scenarios to arise.. Wesley and vvd back in the side, I'm expecting an exciting season for saints |
| News Comment | Pellegrino Speaks Out About Virgil Van Dijk at 10:58:53
Luffy because Southampton reported Liverpool early. They asked him to kick off in hope saints would put him on the market, then Liverpool would have made an offer. As for other clubs, it's just the way modern transfers are conducted. Eg the reps of arsenal will contact vvd reps and enquire, the word allllll summer was no sale. Respectful clubs respect that. Liverpool on the other hand.. We all know what they attempt to do and are also the first ones to kick off when other clubs play the same game for their players lol |
| News Comment | Pellegrino Speaks Out About Virgil Van Dijk at 08:27:11
'shown great ambition'.. so come September 2018 VVD will be wearing a saints shirt? I'd love to see it and hate to say it but we are not an ambitious club.. not since markus/cortese anyway |
| News Comment | Hoedt Deal Hits Snag at 16:29:42
@redandwhitedee that is A way of running a football club not the ONLY way, there are in excess of millions of football clubs around the club that have less commercial and ticket income than saintsfc. They don't have a constant revolving door. The owners have even stated they want to reduce that. |
| News Comment | Could Virgil Van Dijk Play For Saints Next Week ? at 19:09:39
This whole van dijk saga to me just seems to a classic case of 'you made it.. Now lie in it'. If someone allowed me to come take a pint of milk from there fridge every single week and suddenly few years later asked what I'm doing or reported me, I'd be taken back or a bit surprised too |
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