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BBC News
03-05-2025
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🎧 Misery in the Midlands
The latest episode of the Goin' Home With Adam And Jo podcast has Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore and former Saints player Jo Tessem discuss Saturday's defeat against to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
07-04-2025
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- BBC News
Fans 'turned up in every game' but players 'not good enough'
Former Southampton player Jo Tessem says the fans have been "incredible" during a "really poor season" which has seen the club set another damning record of suffering the earliest relegation in Premier League praised them for "still coming and cheering" despite watching their team lose 25 Premier League games so far this season, with the latest defeat coming against on BBC Radio Solent's Goin' Home With Adam And Jo podcast, Tessem said: "They have turned up in every game this season. They have supported and done everything they can to help the team."It is not down to them that the club has been relegated. If the players had shown the effort the supporters have shown, it probably would have been a different story this season. We could have been in the Champions League next season!"The most difficult problem we have is that we haven't got players good enough for the Premier League. We have to be that honest now, and I think the players need to be that honest with themselves."The reason we are in this situation is because we aren't good enough to play the football that would allow us to compete in the Premier League - and that is purely down to the players."We have proven that this season. After sacking Russell Martin, we got Ivan Juric in and the same problem has continued. The problem is the players are not good enough."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
03-04-2025
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- BBC News
'Now let's just have some consistency'
On the latest episode of BBC Radio Solent's Goin' Home With Adam And Jo podcast, Adam Blackmore calls for continuity within the starting XI after Southampton almost held on to beat Crystal Palace on Wednesday. "Let's have the manager not overcomplicate it and just go again," Blackmore said. "Also, do it for the rest of the season unless you'e got a real reason to change it."Part of my thinking is, some fans might be saying 'well you've got to put Tyler Dibling in there'. Frankly, I don't think you have. "I don't think he has been the same player since his injury. I don't think he's been the same player since the transfer talk and although he's young and I don't want to pick on him, I don't see the same player in the past two months."Former Saints player Jo Tessem added: "With the game we had against Crystal Palace, [boss Ivan Juric] doesn't need to make many changes. He just needs to put the same team out again - without Flynn Downes obviously - because he is suspended and go with that. "I think that would keep a little bit of calmness in there towards the Tottenham game."Listen to the full episode
BBC News
03-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 A positive display
The latest episode of the Goin' Home With Adam And Jo podcast has Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore and former Saints player Jo Tessem are delighted to discuss Southampton avoiding defeat against Crystal to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
01-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Q&A: Building for the future
In the next part of our special Southampton Q&A, BBC Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore looks at how Saints build for the asked: How do you think, realistically, we build for the future in a sustainable way, so we can re-establish ourselves a solid Premier League team, envied by others for how we operate and the success we have as little old Southampton?Adam: This is a good question because so far under Sport Republic it has been feast or famine based on too many knee-jerk decisions under pressure that have either worked out or gone horribly wrong. And that applies to decisions on managers, players and staff and the timing of those problem is the fans and us in the media also have a part to play because it is hard to be sustainable and consistent in style and results in the long term if you do not allow for periods when the team has to endure growing the side goes on a bad run and the manager comes under pressure, you have to hold your nerve if you genuinely think the rough spell is part of the game, and not because of the manager out of his for the team or Sport Republic should not be blind, they have to be accountable, and I think we would all buy in to a style and philosophy if they communicated better and did not lurch from a manager with a certain playing style to another with a completely different said all that, I am hopeful that Dragan Solak and Johannes Spors can put a new, better identity on the club, one that is based on shrewd recruitment and having the right people doing the jobs. I really hope Spors will show why having a proper recruitment expert makes a difference, and Saints get a consistent many cooks have been involved with big decisions in the past two years. There is now a chance of consistency and Do you think there will be a fire sale of players this year? We managed to keep a decent core the last time we were relegated, but with the some of the negative chants from the fans in recent games I am not sure how many will want to stay to get the team back up answered: I did a recent episode of Goin' Home With Adam And Jo, which you can find on our Southampton page on Sounds, and in this I go into a lot of detail about the summer and what I think should or may the summer I think the club could move out about a dozen players (sales, loans ending, players out of contract) and still compete at the top of the Championship by only bringing in three or four top signings, rather than eight to 10 average ones. The squad is way too big and needs a big trim!Come back on Wednesday for part five where Adam discusses his favourite Saints player and game.
