St Chalet

Seeing lots of reports of bids, none that we have accepted.

Liverpool Echo reporting £4m + add ones. A ****ing shambles if true.

Still no credible news source running the story. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-looking-seal-surprise-signing-3623384

@dankerins: Okay, so Rickie Lambert to Liverpool is real. I genuinely did not see that one coming. #saintsfc @SimonPeach: Not had anything firmed up on the talk of Lambert to #LFC but, put it this way, nobody has told me it's a rumour without foundation. @gordonsimpson: Lambert to Liverpool, if true (which it increasingly sounds like it is), is a jaw dropper. #saintsfc

Sky Sources = Twitter I repeat, no serious news outlet reporting this and it's come out of nowhere.

Pochettino's departure has been reported to be a pre-cursor to several leading players also leaving but Krueger said there are no deals in place for either Adam Lallana or Luke Shaw. "Under the circumstances we wanted to wait to clarify the manager's situation to move forward. There are no deals done," Krueger said.

I love Rickie, but £9m? Has to be a windup.

Didn't someone post the first year we in the Prem after the first 8 games we should apply to forfeit?

No serious media have picked this up. Sky have simply stopped taking bets as it's Giro day and the whole of Scouseland has stacked on this rumour.

Can someone tell the dude re-laying the pitch he needn't bother as we won't be able to field a team.

Moved to main board as will get more views.

Source?

Great article Nicola, sorry I meant Neil.

Peach is 100% Saints fan and has some decent links to the club. Save your venom for Alex Crook.

Apart from the chronology being completely incorrect? Pochettino did what Cortese wanted, not through obligation, but through instinct. Unfortunately for Southampton, Markus Liebharr, who appointed Cortese, died, and his daughter-and-heir, Katharine, figured the family had spent enough of their fortune on an English football club. With strategy tending towards a breakeven point, Cortese resigned. It was inevitable that Pochettino would follow.

A dignified ripple of applause to show our class followed by a huge round of "xxxx xxxxx Red and White Army" to show we've moved on.

Thread is now unstickied. May it drop down the board like Spurs down the league.

Which in reality would need to be near £4m to cover the tax.

Given we have a new manager thread and this has been done before. Time to move on as Ralph says.

I thought he did as well as he could in the circumstances. Encouraged by the admission that the committee scout management staff as well. That said it was hardly Paxman grilling him.

If only we had a new manager discussion thread.

Ralph is very fond of this poem, I expect he will draw inspiration form it - as should we.

Victor Says (and his comments are very much true / expected): Article infers

Their money is as good as MoPo's when it hits our bank account.

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!