The Southampton Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jack Stephens has been here 15 seasons
248 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Shea Charles signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Shea Charles commits to Southampton for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Finn Azaz in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Southampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Lumezzane join the queue for Cam Bragg
Add another name to the list: Lumezzane have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cam Bragg. The answer from Southampton has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Shea Charles
Still no offer on the table, and Shea Charles’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Cyle Larin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market Alex McCarthy is free to find somewhere else
- Market Still no ink between Southampton and Nick Oyekunle