Saint Garrett

Because they're getting a £600m stadium for sweet FA....and even though theyr'e going to use it, they're not even paying the restoration costs. I could understand them having it if they paid for the changes, but they aren't.

Yeah, it's on a track......

So they'll actually be making an initial profit out of this move !?

There are pros and cons of both options. From a business level it is understandable that a chairman will want to maximize profits by getting as many people through the door as possible. Whereas the fans of the clubs will generally want as many 'proper fans' in the stadium. However in this day and age with money everything in football, if any club's going to move forward then they need to maximise revenue.

They'll turn into Reading with half their stadium being full of daytrippers wanting to visit the Olympic Stadium.

Johansen? Soldvelt?

Someone has really f*cked up with this, for the government to be paying so much and WHU paying pretty much f*ck all. Aren't they paying £15m, which is only 3m more than Jarvis...joke. Good idea for the owners though as it will make the club worth a lot mroe.

Done an interview with the club last week apparently, just appeared online...http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/feature-interview-vegard-forren-728702.aspx?pageView=full#anchored

Excited to see how Ryan Seager progresses. Would be great to bring a striker through our ranks, as goalscorers are so difficult to come across.

It's hard to put a value on a player though. No player is worth £5m realistically, but if the player desn't want to leave, they're one of our 'star' players, then teams will have to cough up for them, it's not like we need the money. I don't think we'd sell Lambert because he's worth more to us than what we could replace him with. Shaw is the highest rated young player in the country at the moment, and Morgan has been absolutely outstanding. I don't see us entertaining any offers short of 15m for Morgan or Shaw, especially if Cortese wants to carry on this vision of building the team round young players. It makes him look pretty stupid if we then go and sell our best young players after 1 season in the prem, and Cortese doesn't come across as someone who likes to be made a mockery of.

Good to see Kimi was quickest this morning! Mclaren way off the pace again. Also good to see Massa looking back to his former self.

I know very little about him. His goalscoring record isn't great though. Played 17 times for Athletico this season.

Fabio Coentrao went for €30m. Dani Alves €35.5m Sergio Ramos €27m Glen Johnson £17m

http://t.co/OJW14B6an5 7:47am Friday 22nd March 2013 in Saints News By Gordon Simpson, Senior Sports Reporter Saints keeper - I was racially abused by fans ARTUR Boruc has revealed why he threw a water bottle towards Saints fans – alleging he was subjected to “racist” insults from the stands. The Polish keeper was involved in the controversial incident during his home debut last October, as Saints lost 2-1 against Tottenham Hotspur. Boruc chucked a plastic bottle towards home supporters in the Chapel Stand after conceding the second goal. He was subsequently dropped from first-team contention while the club conducted an investigation, before being cleared to return to action a few weeks later. Speaking about the incident while on international duty, Boruc claimed he had reacted to taunts from the crowd. “I blamed myself for it because I gave Adkins the reason that he could sit me on the bench,” he told the Polish media. “I won’t say I regret it, because I heard insults from the stands. Racist ones.” Boruc has now established himself as the club’s number one keeper, having joined as a free agent last September. There is no suggestion from him that the comments he says were aimed at him came from more than a small minority. There certainly appears to plenty of mutual respect between the keeper and the fans as a whole, as was evident following his penalty save in the 0-0 draw at Norwich earlier this month. It has taken him some time to emerge as the first choice, however. After waiting a month for his debut, he lost his place following the incident against Spurs, which occurred during his second game for the club, and did not play again until January. Boruc revealed that then-manager Nigel Adkins had not initially seen him as part of his plans. “One must remember I joined them when not ready, so I had to catch up with the rest,” he said. “The situation was a bit funny. “Adkins didn’t see me in the team, but his bosses decided to hire a new goalie because the team played poorly. “I was thinking I’d get ready quickly, but I had to come to terms with a different role. The coach had his vision and I was a bit angry. “The games I played I didn’t do too well, and there was the incident with the bottle. “But I like such challenges, and feel good when I hit the bottom, because you can start from scratch.” Boruc is out of contract in the summer and has said he is leaving negotiations over a new deal to his agent. He has the support of Saints manager Mauricio Pochettino, who said last weekend that he would be “really pleased” if the 33-year-old stayed at the club. Boruc could start for Poland tonight, as they host Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier (7.45pm kickoff UK time). The Saints stopper has been brought back into the international fold by manager Waldemar Fornalik, after being frozen out by the previous boss, Franciszek Smuda. Boruc was called up earlier this year and started the 2-0 friendly defeat away to Ireland in February. Poland are third in Group H, three points behind England, but with a game in hand. After facing second-bottom Ukraine tonight, they will host basement side San Marino on Tuesday. The Daily Echo contacted Saints for a comment on Boruc’s interview, but they had not replied at the time of the paper going to press last night.

And he pretty much said when he signed.

Chambers has opened the scoring tonight vs Turkey. JWP is captain.

Its not a rumour!!!

Much appreciated, thanks.

Would guess about 40k a week.

http://www.westham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=313540 Plan B Anyone? Previously, the media have been quite insistent that Sam Allardyce fancies signing Rickie Lambert in the summer. With Andy Carroll set to return to Liverpool, Marouane Chamakh likely to return to Arsenal and Carlton Cole out of contract, Lambert, the highest scoring English born player in the Premier League, seemed a good acquisition for Big Sam. But that idea may just have been blown out of the water with it being reported that Lambert, today, signed a two year contract extension and at the same time remarked, 'To be spending the next three years at Southampton is something I'm absolutely delighted about.' Right, where`s that Plan B?

Don't you just love autocorrect sometimes!!!

@SouthamptonFC: Southampton Football Club is pleased to announce that Rickie Lambert has extended his contract until 2016. #saintsfc http://t.co/zvh32YomMb

People are scared of change though. And now people have seen that we have improved, people are beginning to see it was probably the best decision. And you can't be shocked by fickle football fans?!