Southampton Banter Archive May 07 2012

07 May 2012 16:08:06
Greatest transfer since signing keegan we will sign KAKA from real madrid, he's the wrong side of 30 and out of favour with mourinho so why not???

Because his wages will be ridiculous and he won't want to play for an average team in England.

I'm a Saints fan. This is just ridiculous.

More chance of getting drogba, and even that wont happen

07 May 2012 03:17:05
As a general awareness notice to all Southampton fans and people who are pissed off at Southampton fans...

Sorry, some of us get excited - we are only human after all. Also some of us like to push the boundaries and say outrageous things that we all know are not true. We also have inside of us, deep within, the heart of a Football Manager. First thing you do on Football Manager is try and make the dream team from your regular team. Unfortunately, to a small few, this is construed as a divine right we assume is ours. This is not the case whatsoever and contrary to many of the bizarre rumours the following Official Sane Fan Statement is what will happen at Southampton Football Club this summer:


"We were fortunate to get promoted from the Championship, we happened to take momentum from a League 1 campaign into a championship that this season seemed a little confused and lost. No-one was putting together winning streaks apart from us initially. And the early confidence and ability to make a couple astute signings allowed us to crawl over the line. Just.

Nonetheless we have stuck to a vision inspired by the late Markus Lieberhh who wanted Southampton FC to be a talent factory, nuturing youngsters and playing Barca-esque football along the way (albeit rarely successfully). This has been generally been achieved through strong team spirit brought in by Adkins whose principal skill is of man management.

I agree with a lot of the insults thrown at us. We occasionally rely on Lambert, we don't play attractive football consistently, we don't have the best or most skilled footballers at our club, and our fans aren't the loudest (although they are passionate nonetheless).

True, on paper we are distinctly average. We rely heavily on a team ethos, without which we would be mid-table championship at best.

We as a club recognise that we do not have the money to spend on big, expensive players so we will for the foreseeable future ALWAYS be an underdog who looks crap on paper.

Thus we will NOT be spending loads of money on players this window. We will keep the same starting 11 minus one or two and make sure we have a strong bench and that is ALL. We expect no more. Common sense dictates that we are together as one so should remain as such, not throw money and numerous players just to play passionless, piss poor football and lose the one thing that pushed us to promotion in the first place - togetherness and integrity on and off the field.

Anyway I digress, the long term hope is to play and function like Barcelona. Right now a lot of us are looking at Swansea in admiration. They got promoted and comfortably survived their first premiership season in style. They signed no big names or big wage players. They shopped round and purchased players who were good value, under the radar and most importantly had no ego so would fit into a passing, understanding, fluid team.

To ignore how we got to the prem, and how teams like Swansea reap success in the prem would be beyond foolish. We will not be signing any players mentioned on this website, I guarantee it.

To confirm: I (and many Saints fans) genuinely belive that this summer no player will be linked with Southampton on here before being signed.

We will, as always, look for cheap clever deals for good players who are grateful and proud to pull on a Saints shirt and join the lads. We are looking for gifted footballers who dream of playing at a club like Southampton, not those who see it as a step down. And hopefully we will reap the rewards of having a united, understanding, well balanced team as Swansea have this season.

So to everyone who calls us arrogant when a few people got carried away and linked us to a few players from the prem i say this...

F**K YOU. Keep your Doyle. Keep your Clyne. Keep your Zaha. Keep your Hoilett. Keep your Phillips. Keep your Jarvis. Keep your own crap players.

We have one of the best set ups in this country. Including a youth academy and a scouting set up second to none. People are allowed to make their dream teams, but realistically we don't want to touch any players who think playing for Southampton isn't good enough for them, or think think they are worth tens of thousands weekly wages.

Thanks for the long winded droning dribble that is YOUR opinion.

I beg to differ that we were by some distance the best footballing side in the league.

We also did not have an average squad. We have had the 2 best players in the league in Lambert and Lallana. Every neutral pundit has said the same. I think Davies, Jos and Fonte were the best back 3 in the league, only possible argument could be Reading but be honest, they relied heavily on Federici to save their skins so many times.

Scraped over the line?? Saints were robbed of the title in the end as we outplayed teams and dropped points a lot of times this season. Brighton away (battered them, scored a goal which wasn't given and then had Lambert wrongly sent off after 60 mins 0-0), Skates home and away we were the better side, Leicester away (never seen saints play better and get nothing, should have been 5-1 saints. Leicester's 2nd shouldn't have stood and it was blatantly obvious.) Reading home - reminds me of Barca v Chelsea... there are so many others where we didn't play great, but were the better side and dropped points. The run at the end of the season where we dropped points saw nearly every shot on target find a corner of the net from outside the box. Reading and West Ham were very fortunate many times with iffy pens, dodgy goals, world class goalkeeping and teams simply not punishing them the same way we were punished for less margin of error.

No doubt, we need to improve further to be safe in the Prem and I believe in the youth system. However to say we wont sign big money players is a joke. We were spending millions in league 1. I can see Corteze spending £10m+ on a player if it's deemed reasonable. We are not Man Utd but we are not a small fish. With TV money and good management, spending £20m+ on transfers is nothing if it seals safety.

I agree we have a great set-up. I agree most fans post utter r****cks on here. But I wouldn't bet against one of the likes of Jarvis, Doyle, Clyne, Philips etc joining the march.

Make me laugh that despite how much has been achieved in the last 2 seasons with stadium improvements, training facilities, youth development and the vision of European football always having been stated by Corteze since the beginning, there is still enough room for pessimistic cynical muppets to underestimate there own fans and club.

Lucky to go up? We were the best team in the league last year!