Fitzhugh Fella

PleaSE NO

Funniest post for a long time

I don't know, the Pinnacle debacle is not something I care to remind him about. He loves Saints as much as any of us and was only trying to help. Fry from Begbies also got fooled as did Leon Crouch to the tune of half a million.

Yes, I have tried to persuade David Bull to do it and he is keen writing it around Jason Dodd's biography but Jason remains to be convinced even though the club are content to let us do it subject to legal etc etc. And yes I have been thinking about trying to interview Rupert Lowe, I hold no grudges as I believe he was doing what was he though was right. As you know I started to lose faith in him when he appointed Wrigley and it went rapidly down hill from there.

I have not scarpered. Matt did not do anything like enough diligence on Pinnacle, even when I told him the weekend before the deal collapsed that they were bogus he refused to believe me. I am Matt's biggest fan but imo he was too ready to believe.

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You are not wrong with much of what you say and yes it has turned out beyond our wildest expectations. As has been pointed out I was never Lowe's biggest fan but he cared. In fact he cared enough to ring me up and call me a s**t which at the time I felt was a bit OTT. But it showed he had a bit of bottle and was prepared to defend himself so I have grudging respect for that. When talking in terms of how much damage he did the club, well we ended up ok but more by luck than judgement and technically one hero (MLT) potentially nearly did us more harm than anyone else by lending his name to the Pinnacle group which was damn near disastrous. Had we known at the time that Pinnacle using the oxygen of Matt's support were jeopardising the Liebherr takeover we would have all been pretty angry. We came damn close to losing Liebherr's interest and that does not bear thinking about.

With it looking likely Saints are about to bank £25+ for Schneiderlin, Rupert Lowe must be having a little ironic chuckle right now. Six years ago that amount of money would have been enough to purchase Saints out of administration, twice over. Morgan's arrival in 2009 which I believe Lowe was very instrumental in, was a strange affair because we were absolutely broke as a club and Lowe and Wilde had stated we would be running with the youngsters that season when all of a sudden £1.2m was found from somewhere to purchase Schneiderlin. There were rumours that the money had been put up by Arsenal and we were acting as a nursery club until Schneiderlin blossomed but when that happened Wenger was nowhere to be seen, so perhaps that rumour was just that. Lowe had many faults but today's fans can be very grateful for his acquisition of Schneiderlin.

Playing devil's advocate but perhaps offered more money? Both men appeared open to persuasion going by comments made by RK.

Good question

Hardly any of us will "know" what exactly happened so instead we have to read through the lines and make assumptions that may or may not be correct. But this is a forum where we put forward our views and thoughts based on what we think. Sometimes they will be praising the club and sometimes they won't be. I happen to think the club is well run and we are lucky to have a genuine owner who considers the fans and is in it for all the right reasons. However just occasionally we don't get it right and I do think the club have messed up a tad with this transfer, preferring to think they would be successful in getting TA using the legal route. That appears to have backfired despite it seems us meeting Tottenham's valuation yesterday. By then the horse had bolted. A great shame because I think TA was integral to our improvement last season and he will be sorely missed, but no one gets things 100% and if lessons are learnt so much the better.

If AM have missed triggering the £1.5m buy back clause, why are we now offering 20m euros when the original contract says we only have to offer the original 6.8m?

Spent last season in FC Twente's Reserves - will try and keep an open mind but his pedigree is certainly nothing to write home about.

I think this is a genuine question worthy of debate but Alpine's pro Cortese comment does undermine his argument, for us to be a big club like Spurs we need a bigger fan base and a bigger stadium for starters!

This has now got messy. We don't need this distraction to linger on through the summer.

Not sure many on here laud him any more. Hero to zero in record time but there were plenty who thought he was the dogs ******** at the time

First thing a union rep is taught is how to read an A4 piece of paper upside down

Damn good post

I know where you are coming from here Bern but fans that go to matches or even watch on tv do often get the gist of whether a player is any good or not. Sure Koeman knows best but the proof of Elia's worth can be seen in the comparative low fee being asked for him

Buying 2 - 3m players with an eye on the Europa league is not imo the way forward. Not sure Elia is cut out for the Prem and that being the case no point in buying him

Did you? Apart from the brace he scored at Newcastle I saw absolutely nothing impressive about him. Would prefer Djuricic to be honest.

No he went to Banister Court School

I have spoken to my contact at Spurs, he said they are preparing a British record bid for Martin Chivers.

OMG that is so bad, it was like watching Crossroads - you want to turn it off but its awfulness is so captivating

She certainly struck me as someone who had caught the "Southampton bug" and I gather her son is keen too. That can't be a bad thing.