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Yes, looking forward to seeing them at St Mary's on Wednesday. Eze especially is one of the most exciting players around.
They've recruited very well from the Bundesliga, spending very little, to get Glasner, a manager who won the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt, Lacroix from Wolfsburg, Mateta from Mainz and Richards from Bayern Munich. If only we had European scouts who knew what they were doing - unlikely, I know.
"I just hope that the director in question isn't Ankersen, given that he has purportedly been seconded to be the chief decision maker for Goztepe."
I think it's like the Les Reed situation used to be: when things are going well here, he's the man responsible; when they're not, he isn't. Goztepe fans will probably get told he's in charge here, not there, when they hit a bad patch.
Wherever he really is working, be it in Turkey or England, SFC will probably be footing the bill.
The money they get for Dibling, will make it all seem worthwhile for the owners. It's the classic Southampton Way they were attracted to in the first place: produce players for next to nothing in the academy and sell them for a big profit.
Everybody has different tastes. I rarely watch TV dramas nowadays, but I enjoyed Wolf Hall: the Mirror and the Light, mainly for the riveting performance by Mark Rylance. I guess some others might hate it and will probably tell me so on here :)
There are still hundreds of great old documentaries out there, far better than most dramas:
It's a shame that the next home game, vs Senegal, is being played at the City Ground, as Senegal are a good side and the game would attract 70,000+ at Wembley. The Serbia home game will sell out easily.
I, along with many others, enjoy going to the England games. They are a great opportunity to see foreign players who don't play for English clubs. The Greek team, for example, were a real revelation at Wembley. Of course, the games are also very popular with fans of non-Premier League clubs as it's an opportunity for them to see the top English players. You are right about Wales, Pat. They are mostly Championship level players, and we'll see plenty of that standard next season.
As for only playing the top nations, we play them a lot already. It's good to see some different teams for a change.
You were looking at where I was sitting. I asked the 2 Albanians next to me how they got there. They said they walked. They live in Wembley. I always thought Wembley was a Polish area, but it seems it's been taken over by Albanians now. There were Albanian flags up outside quite a few of the local bars and restaurants. They were a friendly lot.
I thought Lewis-Skelly and Dan Burn both had good debuts. In the first half, the entire Albanian team made 77 passes; Dan Burn made 82.
Didn't he fail his medical here, which surely means there can be no insurance payout? Insurance companies don't give money away lightly so even if the club says he passed it, their insurers will argue the case and point out that he had long-term injuries when we signed him, which should have been declared. At best, we might end up with a partial payment.
In 2022, Fulham, Bournemouth and Forest were promoted. They are all top 10 Premier League teams now. Next year, who knows? Only last year, people were saying that Man City were certain to win the league again. They are now below Forest. Football really isn't that predictable. If it were, we could all make a fortune at the bookies.
In the first 25 years of this century, 14 different teams have won major honours and we might well get a 15th new one in the FA Cup this year, possibly one of those promoted teams.
You make a very good point there, Pat. If you want a Championship promotion season, good loan signings from Premier League clubs are often the answer. Our loan of Nathan Tella to Burnley, for example, was the main reason they won the Championship.
He's a very good player and we wouldn't have scored at all against Wolves without him. He'll do very well in a team where he's not surrounded by a bunch of donkeys.
I'm not sure that it's a case of lack of money spent ; it's more a case of money being spent unwisely.
Wolves' goalscorer, Strand Larsen, cost them £3 mill for a year's loan. His goals have helped keep them up. We spent £15 mill on Cameron Archer. Maybe, SR thought he'd be a good investment that they would make a profit on. That's the crux of the matter really. We needed to focus on building a Premier League team instead of just buying players in the hope of selling them for a profit. Unfortunately, over the years, prospective owners have seen that as our MO, and that's what's attracted the likes of Gao and SR here: the prospect of buying players cheaply as well as getting some from our academy, and then selling them for a big profit. But, what they fail to realize is that the man responsible for it all, Paul 'Black Box' Mitchell, is long gone, and is now working his magic at Newcastle.
What SR need to do now is study what successful clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton and Forest have been doing and copy them.
"no one bar Pompey, Deby and ourselves will really remember afterwards anyway"
Oh yes they will. If we ever get back into the Premier League again, it will be mentioned every time Saints are on TV.
As for today, I guess we'll find out if the team spirit is already broken beyond repair, with most of the players already thinking about which team they are going to play for next season. If, in spite of that, Juric has managed to organise and motivate them enough to win today, he's a better manager than most people think.
We usually get a decent effort for the first quarter of the game. Then it gradually falls apart after that.
They are now only 29 points behind their local rivals, Sheff Utd, who are in the 2nd of the 2 automatic promotion places. Wth 8 games left to play, Blades fans must be really worried.
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