@SaintsExtra@Plettigoal Seeing as the Hamburg coach said he couldnt play him as the fans hate him, wasn't ever going to happen. Sell him to a yank club, best thing for him
🚨 Stuttgart are ‘particularly’ keen on signing Southampton midfielder Caspar Jander (23) this summer, but the German club would need to sell a player first to afford the €25m [£21.6m] asking price #saintsfc@BILD
@AlfieHouseEcho Exactly that. Look at our position start of the season, excellent work by TE and the squad to be in this position. Heads up and keep going
Find it hard to be particularly angry about tonight. The performance wasn’t very good and there were some things you definitely could have done differently, but it’s not normal to expect to win eight or nine or 10 games in a row. You’ll always have off days, or you’ll get things wrong or opposition will find a way to stifle you. The precarious nature of the situation meant Saints perhaps couldn’t afford an off day, but it’s 20 games unbeaten and an incredible run to even be in this position. Showed plenty of fight to come from behind twice and we’ve seen enough of that over the last few weeks. Eventually it’ll catch up with you, the intensity of the schedule and the demands, and maybe it did tonight. It looks like it’ll probably be play-offs now but as long as they can respond to this they’ll have a serious chance of winning them. Would have snapped your hand off to be in this position a few months ago. Wembley next, can’t complain!
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@SaintsExtra@BILD Id forgotten all about him. Not good for the lad mentally, perhaps a loan move to a yank club would be good...closer to friends/family etc.
🚨 Criticism of Southampton loanee Damion Downs (21) by Hamburg supporters has become so bad that manager Merlin Polzin ‘can’t use him anymore’ — the German side will not be using their €10m option to buy the American #saintsfc@BILD
People say there's nothing affordable out there. £55,000. Perfect starter home. We can put you in touch with our handyman Dave. One bucket of paint and it'll look better than most of our rentals. Get on the ladder early. Nobody's stopping you but matcha. 🇬🇧
Anger. Its a tough one. Always had it, sometimes rightly and sometimes I admit I'd overreact. When I was younger I needed to have it because of what I lived in. Then I got old and mellowed. But since the heart attack the anger is back and I can't shake it. Anger, former drunk
@BurnsideWasTosh That's the demoralising bit. Nothing gets better. Millions spunked by gov after gov, while the infrastructure crumbles. Go on holiday to some "little" country and everything works - roads, trains, water, power, food. Then it's back home getting rinsed for £6 in a costa coffee
@PolitiKeyUK@dvernalls@implausibleblog Maybe see how other countries afford to do it such as Spain or Italy. They are under more or less the same financial issues as us yet they do not have students in huge debt
@ButchFist@dvernalls@implausibleblog The government not only doesn’t have spare money lying around - they are in crushing debt already.
I agree the interest feels very unfair btw - I think part of the issue is that when gov designed the policy we were living through a very low interest rate era.
Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT
Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"
"From the day I was charged RPI interest"
"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"
"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"
"On top of that its a regressive system"
"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"
"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"
Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"
Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"
"The state paid for it, didn't they?"
Fiona Bruce, "They did"
Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"
@andyvanboom@pollyfw@implausibleblog I get what you're saying, I doubt anyone would be against the moral side of it, but if the question is can we afford to maybe ask how other countries do it? Italy, Spain etc. they aren't shackled with huge debt for going to university
@pollyfw@ButchFist@implausibleblog This is the issue. There's an answer for every point he raises, because the people designing the scheme aren't cruel and evil. But any alternative involves the country paying and there's no money for that. Whether we should or shouldn't is not the question, it's whether we can.
@PolitiKeyUK@dvernalls@implausibleblog Say for example all the student loans come to £500m per year, surely the gov got that knocking about in a spare pair of trousers somewhere? I doubt we need to borrow, we spunked far more on covid. Just lend it at flat rate and get the money back
@solentsport@AdamBlackmore Spot on. Yes the squad needed trimming, but everything else has been a shitshow. Manager appointments and player recruitment has been abysmal (apart from LS). You can't even argue they took the cheap option as they have spent money...just very poorly
😇 Southampton fans, how would you rate the January transfer window?
It's been a tumultuous season so far, but could things have been made easier by the #SaintsFC hierarchy?
@AdamBlackmore had his say on tonight's Deadline Day Special 🔊⬇️
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@L1minus10 Stoke are an average team, not brilliant by any means. But they do go into games organised, whereas we just seem like a group of lads that've turned up for a stag weekend....maybe you know a few names but basically strangers. Hope I'm wrong, but I can't see a win.
League 1 Minus 10. Can we do it on a Cold Rainy Saturday lunchtime in Stoke? RPs appreciated
#saintsfc Stoke preamble. Featuring Reality Check, The Baz Derby and End of the Window Musings.
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Greatest Pearl Jam song #13
Their hardest riff, this song barrels out of the speakers like a runaway truck careening wildly out of control.
Shockingly, this is probably not even a top 5 riff for the band. Good lord.