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Outside 2 hours before game where player's park - behind Chapel stand

@pn_neil_allen: Darel Russell contemplating #Pompey exit because he wants to win trophies. http://t.co/V6kMySMN It seems playing in front of the bestest fans in the world no longer has the allure that it once did...

Not doubting his sources per se, but where does he get his info from? How do we know he's not in on any ruse, or oblivious to any ruse if Milan are playing games?

For clarity, I didn't mean "arouse"

MLG is asleep upstairs....I'll just go and rouse him....

One report I read last week (can't recall which newspaper) said that Saints had made enquiries last summer but hadn't rekindled that interest during this transfer window. Makes you wonder if it was agents/Inter Milan exploiting our previous interest by drip feeding false new bids to the media. I don't see any tangible evidence that we made a bid in this window. Indeed, the fact that they seem to have accepted significantly less from Liverpool backs this theory up somewhat.

Cheers for posting the insight Gemmel

They're still not crediting DPS for the Firmino source...

@dailyecho: [saints] Reading boss hits out over Adkins sacking http://t.co/biL1hi86 (via @the_saints)

Why would Matt want a meeting that includes "witnesses AND season ticket holders"? Surely one independent "witness" would suffice, wouldn't it?

@pn_neil_allen: 10 wasted years as #Pompey bid goodbye to their stopgap. (Taken from my column in yesterday's News). http://t.co/6PFHu5ru

I think that qualifies as "meeting" him though....well, according to the criteria of a certain thread on the main board...

If this doesn't persuade Coutinho to come to Saints I don't know what will...

Will do (with increasing pleasure)

This (although much better articulated than my efforts)

So, if its going through the normal channels to get a dispute resolved why does MLT keep banging on about it? If its as cut and dried as MLT suggests (and there's no reason to disbelieve him) then Benali will get the cash he's duly owed. Yes, we can all form an opinion that Cortese is being a pig headed arse for letting it get to court but if he's wrong then the normal course of justice will prevail.

One thing I'm not understanding with this Benali house malarkey... If Cortese is in the wrong (which from the anecdotal evidence on here suggests he is) why doesn't Benali simply take Cortese to court and sort it out there?

Giving someone the benefit of the doubt = gullible Ok...

I heard it once but I'm half asleep so will bow to people more alert than myself

He said : "How can you judge someone you've never met?". IMO he simply missed "properly" off the end. Maybe I'm giving too much benefit of the doubt. Maybe, maybe not. I've "met" some famous people down the years....but never had a conversation with them. There's a difference between shaking someone's hand and having an indepth conversation about life and the universe.

Nah....just a Cortese puppet

Just watched the video for the first time. I know I'll get shot down in flames here but he says: "how can you judge someone who you haven't met?". My interpretation of that is: "how can you judge someone you haven't got to know well?". Yes, I know the word "met" sounds black and white out of context but maybe it was just a poor choice of words. He doesn't overtly say "I've never met the guy" although that's the obvious implication if we take his words literally, but on the context of the interview I think he meant "got to know well" rather than "met". As I say, reading the script of this thread, I know I'll get shot down for expressing such ridiculous benefit of the doubt but, hey Ho, it's only a football forum on the Internet so i'm site I'll survive the inevitable barrage....

Good to see the thread is keeping to the script. Can't abide ad-libbing on football forums.