The Southampton Courier
Market24 Aug 2026
Charlie Taylor puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Southampton, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Southampton
Shea Charles 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Southampton see off Charlton Athletic
Three points for Southampton, 2‑0 the final word against Charlton Athletic in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Tom Fellows at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Southampton.
Market24 Aug 2026
Eyes on Hugo Fisher again
The phone has started ringing about Hugo Fisher again, and this time the name on the line is Colchester United. Southampton are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Léo Scienza
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Southampton are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Southampton man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Tom Fellows was the best thing in any of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Cyle Larin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Joe Aribo
- Market The Shea Charles talk will not go away
- Player ratings Nothing got past Mads Roerslev