Pat from Poole

I've always thought Fonte would be a good midfielder, but then I guess we have Schneiderlin / Cork for the type of midfield role I could see Jose doing well in.

Absolute horse dung for three reasons:- 1. not going to repeat Daren's points re use of the "c" word, but entirely agree with him. 2. The9 is a sound guy, very knowledgeable. I think he'd be missed a lot more than you. 3. Nothing wrong with The Ugly Inside board.

I bet you're fun in the pub.

Yeah, that was my thinking as well.

Wouldn't worry, I think the silent majority will think it's an intriguing rumour. Nothing should surprise anybody in football, I'm certainly not attaching any great weight to the fact that Lambert has signed a new contract recently. Same with Lallana. Money talks ultimately.

Mmm, struggled to replace Andy Carroll, haven't they? Maybe there was a particular reason for RLSGM to be looking leaner and fitter than I've seen at any point in the last two years.

You, sir, with the best will in the world, are obviously a cretin. You clearly have no idea whatsoever what I meant. I dread to think what line of business you are in and who is daft enough to be a customer of yours.

Clearly, I didn't assume you would tell customers how much you would pay yourself. It was more that you wouldn't have the nerve to tell a customer you would punch them on the nose if they questioned your right to pay yourself whatever you wanted. Any sane businessman does not behave in such a moronic way if they intend to stay in business.

Bet you don't say that to any of your customers, as if you did you'd soon be paying yourself the square root of farkall.

To quote everybody's favourite ex-Saints Web poster Stu Romsey Saint in a thread I was conversing with him last night on the Ugly site:- "Come on Pat, give the man some credit, the £650k is just the basic salary, it doesn't include the credit card bills, sunseeker, private schooling or rent on a Chilworth mansion ( or the extra costs incurred of changing curtains or laying laminate flooring ) . "

Good grief, no. His only asset used to be pace, which he now won't have.

I very much doubt there was.

The annual wage bill in those accounts was over £12 million, so we raised the bar big-time for a League 1 club all round, I'd suggest.

Didn't this come to light some months ago when the 2010 accounts were first issued? Re the dividends, it is perhaps of some relevance that they can only legally be paid through distributable reserves, so if Saints hadn't been profitable (or more to the point, solvent) then Lowe (and all the thousands of shareholders at the time) wouldn't be able to be paid the dividends. My issue with Lowe was more the salary he was taking from the club on his second (part-time) spell with us, and also getting the club to pay his legal fees when he was suing people like Martin Samuel.

Fish Mills has just put the following on Twitter:- "not a happy chap #badtimes" I wonder if a 2-week fine is imminent....

I suspect it's a bit like the FA Cup game against Blackpool. He'll look interested if he thinks he'll get a transfer out of it. Watch out for a loan move to Totton.....

Is there an African Nations Cup sometime soon?

I think the sale and loan back idea is daft. Chamberlain would probably get quite a lot of stick from the crowd, he'd be scared of getting injured and it just wouldn't work.

This is the key point. It is why I despise the term "loyalty bonus" so much. You can see with Arsenal and Spurs that they're waiting for Fabregas and Modric to submit formal transfer requests, both of them have quite a few years left on their contracts, if Arsenal and Spurs sold those players without transfer requests having been submitted, it would probably cost them a few million each which they'd have to pay to the departing players, hence why they're playing hardball. It is at times like this that football appears rotten to the core.

I didn't think you were the greatest fan of that classic foreign import song?

This is a random name, but he's a good striker, and if Leicester have just signed Yakubu.......

That subs bench is the stuff of nightmares.

Utter drivel, hogwash and horse spit.

I saw Angelos tell that joke at the O2 in Boscombe just before Christmas, he was very good.

I think Lawrence can play anywhere in midfield. Good player. Can't see Cheats letting us have him though.