Tag: Southamptons

‘You legend. Manager loved it’ – Southampton’s Spygate WhatsApps revealed
1 June 2026 Off

‘You legend. Manager loved it’ – Southampton’s Spygate WhatsApps revealed

By Total Football News

New WhatsApp messages have revealed how Southampton orchestrated a spying campaign against their Championship rivals.

Junior members of staff told the independent disciplinary commission how head coach Tonda Eckert had placed them “under extreme pressure” to carry out a task they were clearly uncomfortable with and felt was morally wrong.

The exchanges are detailed in the written reasons of the League Arbitration Panel, appointed to hear Southampton’s appeal against being

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Middlesbrough: Championship club calls for Southampton’s expulsion from play-offs
15 May 2026 Off

Middlesbrough: Championship club calls for Southampton’s expulsion from play-offs

By Total Football News

Most of the attention around Middlesbrough’s statement on Friday will centre around the club wanting Southampton thrown out of the play-offs.

We sort of knew this anyway, of course, but Boro coming out and putting it on the record ramps up the story another notch.

But buried in the detail is one important fact: the Riverside club have not been named by the Independent Disciplinary Commission as an “interested party”.

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Southampton’s Cameron Bragg on how playing for Saints is a privilege
27 November 2025 Off

Southampton’s Cameron Bragg on how playing for Saints is a privilege

By Total Football News

Bragg has also been working in the Saints academy with another former graduate Adam Lallana who went on to make almost 450 club appearances, including 245 for Southampton.

“He’s been so good with me, and lot of the young boys,” Bragg said.

“I hope everyone feasts on his knowledge because he’s a proper genius in football, and has worked with some of the best ever.

“You can really tell

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Shea Charles: Southampton’s Northern Ireland midfielder out until December
31 October 2025 Off

Shea Charles: Southampton’s Northern Ireland midfielder out until December

By Total Football News

Southampton midfielder Shea Charles could be sidelined until late December with a hamstring injury.

The 21-year-old Northern Ireland international had played all but 22 minutes of Saints’ opening 12 Championship games, and also started their first two EFL Cup ties.

But he limped off nine minutes from the end of the the 2-1 defeat at Blackburn on Saturday, to add to boss Will Still’s injury problems.

Speaking ahead of Saturday’s

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The rise of Tyler Dibling: Why Southampton’s wanted winger is the ‘antidote to robotic, structured & predictable football’
31 March 2025 Off

The rise of Tyler Dibling: Why Southampton’s wanted winger is the ‘antidote to robotic, structured & predictable football’

By Total Football News

“Tyler has uniqueness. In a world and industry which is becoming more commercialised, over sanitised, robotic, structured and predictable, Tyler’s greatest strength is the opposite to all of that.”

That’s quite the sell for Southampton’s 19-year-old midfield star Tyler Dibling, especially given his basic Premier League career numbers amount to 25 appearances, 1540 minutes played, two goals and zero assists.

But that gushing description from one senior source at the

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Southampton’s Ivan Juric says Saints capable of ‘something exceptional’
23 December 2024 Off

Southampton’s Ivan Juric says Saints capable of ‘something exceptional’

By Total Football News

Southampton’s new manager Ivan Juric says his side are capable of “something exceptional” in their fight against relegation from the Premier League.

The Saints head into Christmas rooted to the bottom of the table on six points, half a dozen adrift of Ipswich in 19th and eight away from safety.

Only four teams have ever retained their place from the same position on 25 December in 32 seasons of the

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Russell Martin: Southampton’s Premier League points tally is embarrassing
12 December 2024 Off

Russell Martin: Southampton’s Premier League points tally is embarrassing

By Total Football News

Southampton manager Russell Martin says the club’s Premier League points tally so far this season is “incredibly hurtful and embarrassing”.

His team sit bottom of the Premier League table on five points.

Martin’s side have won once, drawn twice and lost 12 of their 15 league fixtures since earning promotion back to the top flight.

They have a goal difference of minus 20, having scored 11 and conceded 31 times.

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