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@SouthamptonFC: Pochettino speaking to the press as he looks ahead to Southampton's trip to Manchester United... #saintsfc http://t.co/pitHp0bY

@SouthamptonFC: Pochettino: "We're going to Manchester United to win - that has to be our mentality. Our mentality always has to be to win." #saintsfc

@SouthamptonFC: Mauricio Pochettino says Adam Lallana may be involved against Manchester United having returned to training last week. #saintsfc

@SouthamptonFC: Here's Vegard chatting to Saints Player at St Mary's moments ago... #saintsfc http://t.co/zHtOAIRn

More fool the owners of the training ground if they let Pompey rack up yet more debt with them.

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Mark Staniforth ‏@markstani1 Everton new boy Leroy Fer spent £22,000 on a horse for his girlfriend last year, conveniently forgetting she lived in a high-rise flat.

@solentsport: #pompey boss Guy Whittingham tells us Darel Russell will not be playing v Notts County tomorrow. Said goodbyes at training ground today

I can vouch that he went back and listened to the whole 4 hours later that evening. He took so long the bath was cold before he finished and I had to get out before him.

They can't be as bad as banks..... shocking how late they pay invoices to small suppliers sometimes.... over 6 months late isn't unheard of.... especially given the toys they throw out of the pram should you or I be a day late paying a credit card bill or such like....

Hunch or ITK?

My favourite...

Yep, not doubting his 'sources' are genuine...just pondering whether, sometimes, his source might feed him misleading information to spin a story one way or the other...? In other words, when his source tells him "we've had two bids from Southampton" how does he know whether that is actually the case or not? Just because the information he's given 99% of the time turns out to be right doesn't mean that he won't be fed misleading information the other 1% of the time. Indeed, the fact that he's a reliable source 99% of the time makes him an ideal conduit for the odd snippet of misleading info every now and then. Anyway, probably me thinking too hard again...

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?