Yes, think that is the case. Otherwise it's getting shunted right to the end of the season. Like final week, or so. It won't be played before final week of April as it stands. We were told that a decision was coming very shortly, but, nothing has been said yet...
Right pain in the arse really. Gotta get United game in somewhere too... We could have a big say in the top 4 race yet.
Sadly, it looks like I'll miss Liverpool and one of Arsenal/United as I'm away with work 7th May for a week.
I warned at the time leading up to the referendum that voting to leave the EU would cause real problems for football recruitment and sure enough it has. Premier league Chairman are lobbying for exemption from post Brexit rules. Here are the first few lines of the article. Premier League chairmen have urged the government to allow footballers from the European Union exemption from post-Brexit immigration controls. More than two-thirds of players in the Premier League are from overseas with the majority from EU countries and clubs fear that Brexit could have a huge impact on their ability to make signings from the Continent. Others, however, believe that a reduction in the number of European players in the Premier League would give more chances to English players and boost the quality of the national team.
It will be up to the FA to sort out what level of players they want to be allowed in...the rules applied to non-EU players will probably now also apply to EU players. Players will have to be of a certain standard, so it may prevent middling players coming in and thus increase opportunities for UK players. I don't know whether this was ever much of an issue though.
Senility is catching up with me. I keep missing out things when I write posts. The article was back page headlines in the Times.
Don't you just love Brexit? It's given us so much to **** ourselves about. Fran is surely right - we'll go to the standards applied to, say, African players. Means a reduction in opportunities for young EU players , so lower league clubs won't be able to pick up promising young stars from the EU. This would have meant we would not have been able to recruit Morgan, for example. Whether this is good or bad depends on how you look at it. Maybe the French would have preferred it if young Morgan had developed his craft at Strasbourg, moving on to PSG before considering a move to a Premier League club for the big wage packet. Had we simultaneously developed the midfield talents of a young lad from Southampton to become our Morgan this might have been good. Whether such embryonic talent existed/exists is a moot point. Now how are they going to resolve the issue of non-UK managers?
Resign, man. It's the only logical response. I believe there are some excellent hostels for battered husbands in Northampton.
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/sport/football/pierre-hojbjerg-wont-take-no-answer-southampton/ Hojbjerg talking about his attitude to being kept out of Saints team by Romeu.....work hard.
Chelsea are also interested in re-signing 27-year-old left-back Ryan Bertrand from Southampton, and want Saints' 25-year-old centre-back Virgil van Dijk. (Evening Standard)
It might be useful for us if the media supplied us with a list of our players that will still be with us come the start of next season....just to help with our forward planning.
http://sportwitness.co.uk/agent-gives-injury-update-southampton-star-good-news-saints-fans/ Agent says that Gabby will be back in a week at the most....which confirms what Claude said. I want him back, but also don't want him to break down again. Bring him back at the right time and not before.
