Southampton: Saints to the heavens?

Graham takes charge at Southampton

The Southampton board have today confirmed the appointment of Romano Graham as the new boss at St. Mary's Stadium.

Graham enjoys a growing reputation within football and its hoped that his appointment will take Southampton onto bigger and better things.

Good luck mate.

Good luck mate, I have literally just started a Southampton story myself. Will be interesting to see how we both get on!

2014-02-18 17:51#161962 44bloody2 : Good luck mate, I have literally just started a Southampton story myself. Will be interesting to see how we both get on!

thank you. I like how you're getting rid of older players. I tried this with a spurs save and ruined the club so I'm trying to have a good mixture of youth and experience

Transfers
in
Simone Pepe - Juventus - Loan
Jordan Rhodes - Blackburn Rvrs - £10.75m
Stefano Denswil - Ajax - Loan
Fraser Fyvie - Wigan - Loan
Memphis Depay - PSV - Loan
Nicola Leali - Juventus - Loan
Pitor Zielinski - Udinese - Loan
Sean Murray - Watford - £9.25m
Rafal Wolfski - Fiorenta - Loan
Ksotas Stafylidis - Leverkusen - Loan
out
Dominic Gape - Mansfield - Loan
Joe Curtis - Kidderminster - Loan
Lloyd Isgrove - Sheff Utd - Loan
Lee Barnard - Sheff Wed - £325k
Billy Sharp - Swansea - Loan
Aaron Martin - Bournemouth - £325k
Morgan Schneiderlin - Shakhtar - £8.94m
Jonathan Forte - Northampton - Loan
Cody Cropper - Rotherham - Loan

Overview
Loan deals in: mostly because I couldn't afford the asking price their clubs was asking. Most have good potential
Loan deals out: from reserves. Looking for new clubs for some. Trying to get others to reach near full potential

Pre Season
Plymouth 1 - 6 Southampton
Lokomotiv (Plovdiv) 0 - 3 Southampton
Stade de Reims 0 - 3 Southampton
Southampton 4 - 3 Roma
Hyde 0 - 3 Southampton
Sutton Utd 1 - 9 Southampton
Southampton 2 - 0 Lazio
Dag & Red 0 - 6 Southampton

Good luck with Southampton mate just finished my first season as Saints managed to finish 4th in the league!

August results
Manchester City 4 - 1 Southampton L. Shaw
Southampton 4 - 1 Fulham J. Rhodes x2, P. Osvaldo, J. Rodriquez
Southampton 5 - 2 Huddersfield (AET) Capital One Cup 2nd Rnd C. Chambers, J. Rhodes, P. Osvaldo, R. Lambert x2
West Ham 0 - 1 Southampton J. Rhodes

September Results
Southampton 1 - 2 Cardiff G. Ramirez
Southampton 1 - 1 Hull J. Rhodes
Swansea 0 - 2 Southampton J. Rhodes, N. Clyne Capital One Cup 3rd Rnd
Swansea 1 - 3 Southampton G. Ramirez x3

October Results
Aston Villa 2 - 1 Southampton R.Lambert
Southampton 3 - 0 Spurs P. Osvaldo, S. Pepe x2
Southampton 2 - 2 Liverpool P. Osvaldo, S. Denswil
Southampton 2 - 2 Everton (P) R. Lambert, J. Rhodes Capital One Cup 4th Round

November Results
Sunderland 5 - 2 Southampton D. Lovren, J. Rhodes
Man Utd 2 - 1 Southampton J. Warde-Prowse
Southampton 1 - 4 Chelsea J. Rhodes
Southampton 1 - 1 Stoke S. Murray

December Results
Norwich 2 - 1 Southampton A. Lallana
Southampton 2 - 0 Crystal Palace J. Rhodes, S. Denswil
Southampton 0 - 1 Arsenal
Southampton 5 - 1 Liverpool J. Rhodes x2, M. Depay, D. Lovren, OG Capital One Cup Qtr Final
West Brom 1 - 0 Southampton
Newcastle 0 - 1 Southampton P. Osvaldo
Southampton 1 - 3 Everton R. Lambert
Southampton 2 - 3 Manchester City J. Rhodes x2

Southampton manager on verge of sack

The Southampton hierarchy appear to finally be losing patience with manager Romano Graham

football.guardian.co.uk are declaring a bad result against Tottenham in the forthcoming Capital One Cup match could seal his fate.

Southampton book Wembley place

Southampton can look forward to a trip to Wembley for the final following a 5 - 4 aggregate win over Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
Southampton will play Manchester City in the Capital One Cup final.
the game will be played at Wembley on Sunday, 2nd March 2014.
Man City have not lost to Southampton in the last 2 meetings between the sides.

January Update
Southampton 5 - 2 Mansfield J. Rhodes, T. Lee, S. Davies, J. Hooiveld, OG FA Cup 3rd Rnd
Southampton 4 - 1 Tottenham P. Osvaldo, G. Ramirez, J. Rhodes, S. Pepe Capital One Cup Semi Final 1st leg
Fulham 5 - 1 Southampton J. Rhodes
Southampton 2 - 2 West Ham S. Pepe, R. Sterling
Tottenham 3 - 1 Southampton R. Lambert Capital One Cup Semi Final 2nd leg
Southampton 2 - 2 Ipswich J. Rodriguez, OG
Cardiff 2 - 4 Southampton J. Rhodes x2, S. Pepe, G. Ramirez