CB Fry

The Glazers whose Manchester United break world record transfer fees, pay huge wages and appoint elite level managers? Brilliant. Assuming the pro-rata Southampton version of a Glazers approach would be, say, Leicester City levels of transfer fees, or Palace paying £30m for Benteke then happy days.

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Of course we won't sell until we've signed up a replacement because that's what Spartak Moscow do and that was patiently explained to us that this is how these things work when a club wants to sign another club's player. That's right, isn't it?

If a foreigner wants to invest in property/commercial development in Southampton, why on earth do they need to buy the football club to do that? Turn up and speak to a couple of councillors and you're away. And why buy a football club with the sole intent of generating money to pay back the loan used to buy it? In both those instances, the sensible course of action is kind is to not buy the football club at all.

Seems an unlikely story. But if we sell Tadic this summer, one of the few experienced pros at the club with a track record of consistent performance/delivery then we'll see the board have not learned a single thing from the last two seasons. Do not let Tadic go.

Finishing sixth in one single season isn't "breaking the top six". Leicester won the fu cking league and haven't broken the top six.

He was player of the year, scored more in a single Prem season than any other player, and he plays for a prominent English club. And he's the clear stand-out player for his country. And there's the story of his injury and him missing the first game, and now he's back, a story English fans can relate to from competitions past. And it's Egypt vs Russia for effs sake so probably a good idea to give it some angle for the passing viewer because it ain't the golden ticket match. 32 goals in a season and you want him to track back? Hahahahahahaha. Lazy old Mohammed. Not like that goal machine Bobby Moore. He absolutely banged them in didn't he? We would have won world cup 70 if he'd actually put a shift in and scored 5 or 6.

The "one source says he prefers Southampton" stuff was pure agent talk. We've beaten other clubs to players and employed similar tactics no doubt.

Bobby Robson would have been long sacked after Euro 88.

Except they didn't "change it". In both instances it was white, which is clearly and obviously in their brand guidelines. As is red. Blue or any other colour clearly isn't. Basic, basic stuff.

More like they are happy to use it in red, or use it in white as they do in all other media/platforms. White would look awful on yellow.

Feels like a Mark Hughes QPR signing. But still no.

I knew we'd score.

We are never ever ever going to score.

There's still no reason to live three hours away if you can earn the same/do the same but live 15 minutes away.

Where the footballers live in the East Midlands are just as nice as, say, Chilworth etc. People massively over-egg the paradise that is the middle of the South Coast. I guessed the usual idiots would be in the usual meltdown, seriously well done chaps.

Yes we do. I'm already sick to death of VAR, especially if it results in squinneying about nothing decisions like that goal being pumped up into "big decisions" Er, no. I like football to be human, not some exercise in robotics and effing hawkeye. Rip the lot out, except maybe the goal line bit.

Add to that the promises already made that farmers subsidies will be maintained exactly as now (both Environment Secretaries Leadsom and Gove have promised this). Plus the fact we will need to fund the various regulatory bodies across medicine, aviation etc that we now need to set up because we're walking away from the economic efficiency of sharing that administrative burden. And the forecast hit to the economy on top of that reducing the tax take and expected hit on inward investment. Fair play to Theresa May: she's got the brass neck to spin that increase to the NHS as a completely fictitious Brexit dividend, it'll make the front page of the Daily Mail and various idiots will lap it up as we are seeing here. Right out of the Trump playbook.

I think most good sources regarding Saints transfer activity are based in sub-Saharan Africa these days.

The Brazilian defence has so many holes in it it's like that cheese you get with all the holes in it.

Yeah, the thing is, we don't pay £350m a week.

Yes we would, otherwise why bid for Messi?

Personally will be amazed if we win a bidding war like this. The entire ethos of the club is designed to not win them and then smugly pat ourselves on the back for "doing things differently". Les and Ralph will take not signing him as a badge of honour.

Your three "Obviously" ones weren't signed as the best Championship players.

If they've accepted the offer then we need to get it wrapped up quickly - Leicester/Everton/anyone else that want him can also come in with £20m. Or, maybe we've blown everyone else out of the water and those other clubs don't think he's worth that.