The Official Southampton FC Thread

[Truckosaurus]

Classic Saints. Score 4 goals against a Big Team and still don't win the game.

[tobinen]

Russell Martin then: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65980277

[The jiffle king]

Sheff Wed away is not the easiest of starts. They are on a roll although losing their manager will not help them

[lowdrag]

Thinking of poor Coventry last season, there is no easy match in the Championship. As Saints have found out, it is a damned sight easier to get into the Championship than to get out.

[Truckosaurus]

Indeed. We were very lucky last time where the momentum from getting out of League One with a decent team was enough to push straight through to a second promotion.

I suspect we will be looking at a similar situation to the mid-00s again with things getting worse before they get better.

[lowdrag]

Three weeks from the first league match and just silence here. No news of signings or such?

[The jiffle king]

We likely need major off loading before signings I would have thought.
Expecting
Lavia, Walker Peters, JWP and Livramento to have some level of demand but likely low fees given we are under pressure to sell

[Legacywr]

Are we under pressure to sell?

[SWoll]

Low fees? Aren't you demanding £50m for Lavia, a 19 year old with 17 PL games behind him that cost you £14m just 12 months ago?

[SaintsPaul]

I think you people need to do some more googling as we have signed 2 already

[FakeTaxi]

How good is Lavia? I know very little about him.

[sassthathoopie]

We signed the Championship's Team of the Year left back on Tuesday, and yesterday we signed the second most expensive Championship player ever. - A chap who's only experience of men's league football is one PL sub appearance; but it was Man City, and he also has 8 caps for Northern Ireland!

It would seem we have the deepest pockets in the championship.

[sassthathoopie]

Lavia is mustard. More impressive than Van Dyke bearing in mind his age and experience when he joined us. He already has caps for Belgium.

£50-60 million is cheap when he's sold to Real Madrid for £150million in 3 years time. He's that good. Saints ought to put a sell on percentage clause in the sale contract

[FakeTaxi]

Cheers.

[The jiffle king]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66241973

Romeu to Barcelona...... Was not expecting to see that

Would be nice to see him do well

[The jiffle king]

Top of the league

[lowdrag]

The jiffle king said:

Top of the league

Well, top in a league of two at the moment

[DocJock]

A win, so churlish to complain, but what do managers see in Adam Armstrong that I don't? Yes, he tries hard, but he doesn't make runs into the dangerous areas in front of the defenders that a natural striker would, and offers no real threat in my eyes.

[Fluid]

DocJock said:

A win, so churlish to complain, but what do managers see in Adam Armstrong that I don't? Yes, he tries hard, but he doesn't make runs into the dangerous areas in front of the defenders that a natural striker would, and offers no real threat in my eyes.

100% with you on this. Never seen the appeal or what he brings to the team.

[tobinen]

Livramento to Toon for up to £40M according to the Beeb. A good return I think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66397191

Saints holding out for £50M for Lavia:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66433045