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Sounds like the higher up just wrote this season off? Fantastic.
I know we were all pretty down, but my god, you'd hope and expect the clubs leadership to not be so defeatist. Pricks.
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Sounds like the higher up just wrote this season off? Fantastic.
I know we were all pretty down, but my god, you'd hope and expect the clubs leadership to not be so defeatist. Pricks.
If that was the case then pricks they are. I'm loath to believe a post on the ultimate social media disgrace without some sound verification. Developing talent and selling on has always been part of most club's business model.You must log in or register to see media
Sounds like the higher up just wrote this season off? Fantastic.
I know we were all pretty down, but my god, you'd hope and expect the clubs leadership to not be so defeatist. Pricks.
I blame Gao.Article from The Athletic this morning:
Inside Southampton’s relegation: ‘Slow-motion car crash’, Solak frustration and what comes next - The Athletic
This section is particularly damning:
The Athletic has spoken to multiple sources, all on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, to chart the ins and outs of their 2024-25 season — and one thing has become clear: relegation was a foregone conclusion before a ball had even been kicked.
“It was like a slow-motion car crash this summer,” explained a first-team source. “That’s the only way to describe it. It’s knowing something (relegation) is going to happen but you can’t do anything about it.”
Before a ball had been kicked, conversations had taken place at a senior level in relation to using the season to develop some of the younger players — Dibling and Fernandes, for example — and turn them into assets, knowing relegation was almost a foregone conclusion.
I blame Gao.
...if you believe it.
I think they were probably being pragmatic, but it's stretch to say they'd written it off. That piece is so very speculative.
If my memory serves me well, it often doesn't, you had a match in the director's box and were able to gauge the mood so to speak....if you believe it.
I think they were probably being pragmatic, but it's stretch to say they'd written it off. That piece is so very speculative.
...if you believe it.
I think they were probably being pragmatic, but it's stretch to say they'd written it off. That piece is so very speculative.

If my memory serves me well, it often doesn't, you had a match in the director's box and were able to gauge the mood so to speak.
Yeah true, I shouldn't really be so suckered into an typical standard Athletic hit piece, but equally, I can believe that part based on how we've managed the season as a club![]()
It's just a bit inconsistent. Apparently the club decided to get Dibling into the first team in order to sell him later for profit? Okay, so why have they now put a 100m price tag on his head, which can only have been done to put clubs off bidding?
And why weren't SR telling Russ to play Dibling last season, if they were eager to get him in the shop window?
...if you believe it.
I think they were probably being pragmatic, but it's stretch to say they'd written it off. That piece is so very speculative.
£100m price tag won’t put clubs off. Once they bat their eye lashes he will be off, we will do well to get £50m.It's just a bit inconsistent. Apparently the club decided to get Dibling into the first team in order to sell him later for profit? Okay, so why have they now put a 100m price tag on his head, which can only have been done to put clubs off bidding?
And why weren't SR telling Russ to play Dibling last season, if they were eager to get him in the shop window?
£100m price tag won’t put clubs off. Once they bat their eye lashes he will be off, we will do well to get £50m.
I don’t ****ing care to be honest, he can **** off on a free for all I care. SR can go **** themselves too.
Well yeah I guess. No reason we couldn’t keep him, he can’t be on that much.Aw. You do care a little bit. Admit it.