The Southampton Courier
Match5 Sep 2026
Southampton make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Southampton have 4 straight wins of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Southampton turn down Burton Albion for Jay Robinson
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Flynn Downes wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Southampton hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Southampton
Flynn Downes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Southampton lose Ryan Manning
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match5 Sep 2026
Southampton get the job done against West Bromwich Albion
A 1‑0 win over West Bromwich Albion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Léo Scienza at his very best
Marked 8.50. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Southampton.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Will Smallbone
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Will Smallbone, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Mads Roerslev
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
- Squad Welington named in the team of the month
- Player ratings Finn Azaz runs at them all day
- Player ratings Tom Fellows ran the game