Saturday, May 2, 2026

Saints start pre-season without Mayuka

Zambian striker Emmanuel Mayuka has not traveled with the Southampton team that is in Austria for the pre-season camp.

The Saints squad arrived in Austria ahead of today’s friendly with RB Leipzig. A total of 31 players, including new signing Cuco Martina, departed the Staplewood Campus but the Zambian striker was not on the list of players.

Full squad list:
Armani Little, Cédric Soares, Cuco Martina, Dominic Gape, Dušan Tadić, Florin Gardos, Gastón
Ramírez, Graziano Pellè, Harrison Reed, Jack Stephens, Jake Hesketh, Jason McCarthy, Jay
Rodriguez, Jordan Turnbull, José Fonte, Josh Debayo, Juanmi, Kelvin Davis, Lloyd Isgrove,
Maarten Stekelenburg, Maya Yoshida, Morgan Schneiderlin, Paulo Gazzaniga, Ryan Seager,
Sadio Mané, Sam Gallagher, Sam McQueen, Shane Long, Steven Davis, Victor Wanyama, Will Wood

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23 Comments

  1. This boy is dull why is he still sticking around at the saints. Mwaiche Uka pwa. Be careful this club will completely finish you. Start looking at other options. This boy is zambia’s best striker he needs to move.

  2. We are tired of telling Mayuka to move on the boy is just wasting away. Make a move to another euro country start looking for options

  3. The son of Sven-Goran Erikkson, Johan is the agent leading Shanghai SIPG’s charge to land Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan, GHANAsoccernet.com is reliably informed.

    The Black Stars captain is expected to arrive in China on Wednesday to complete his mega move from Al Ain.

    The UAE giants have accepted an offer close to €20m to sell their prolific striker to the Chinese big spenders.

    Sources have however disclosed to GHANAsoccernet.com that the agent fronting the mega deal happens to be the son of Sven-Goran Erikkson – Johan – who is the coach of Shanghai SIPG.

    Johan Erikkson will be entitled to massive slice of the total transfer cost once the move for Asamoah Gyan is sealed.

    Gyan has also been offered a staggering $350,000 in weekly wages.

    The Black Stars captain’s surprising move to the UAE back in 2011 has turned out to be a huge success as he helped Al Ain to three domestic league titles in the last four years.

    He is expected to have a similar impact once he joins Shanghai SIPG.

  4. Mayuka, needs to move. This talk of still injured bufi, he was training with the team recently. Remember when we though he had been released only for photos of him in full sprint emerged. The guy is clearly surplus. He needs to request a transfer or a loan move.

  5. The very same pple who made silly jokes about CHris Katongo playing in China are now giving us flimsy excuses about how glorious it is to play there……funny people!

  6. mayuka dosent want 2 play football, he want 2 watch de epl live, coz if he want 2 play, he would hav leave that club b4. so dont call him 4 a national duty, he is not serias let him watch the epl live.

  7. Just when the release rumours started circulating Mayuka should have put in a request for a loan move and should move to the championship. If he can find his feet and get regular game time in the lower league then maybe we can start to reconsider if he has the quality to play in the EPL because clearly at present he is not good enough a footballer for the EPL. The fact that he failed in France exposed the fact that he is just not good enough at present. It could be confidence, it could be match fitness etc what ever it is he needs to reconsider he career path. Maybe a return to the leagues like Isreal or back to Switzerland will do him some good. The failure in France should have been a big eye opener for him because if there is one league with a style that suits African type football it is ligue 1. Him failing to there should have been a big eye opener especially that he failed under a coach who is like his father.

  8. mayukas level of footbal is mid teir league, like israel or turkey. im life you do things to your abillitys. in fact thez no zambian player right now who can play in epl. mark my words daka will fail in france

  9. Zambian players have low esteem and lack ambition. Their mental strength is very low and can’t stand new and more challenging environments. And Mayuka is such one Zambian player with such behaviour. The list of Zambian players who’ve failed to make it in more challenging leagues in Europe is endless. I think we have discussed this issue with bloggers on this forum before.

  10. Mmm,thats not good, if the injury is still bad why was he released to play fir chipolopolo, i feel he is finished at soton

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