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http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/10152683.Saints_centre_half_Jose_Fonte_facing_major_injury_crisis/?ref=twt

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100197305/once-again-labour-is-sticking-its-head-in-the-sand-and-hoping-the-welfare-debate-goes-away/

The American debating technique...shout loudly and often... [video=youtube_share;AtyKofFih8Y]http://youtu.be/AtyKofFih8Y

Funny old world... BBC Sport ‏@BBCSport Blackburn Rovers have made an official approach to Blackpool for their manager Michael Appleton. @OneRovers statement:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/blackburn-rovers-statement-588897.aspx …

Hush now....it's against forum thought police rules to reflect on where we were 3 years ago...

That's another question I asked Mr Allen on today's webchat but no response (one assumes he's forgotten all about that £2m as well....very easy to forget about these 7 figure sums of cash down Pompey way...)

Have some kind of legally binding pre-contract agreement maybe? A bit like a house where you go through two phases of purchase..... exchange of contracts and then completion Actually, the solution is to get rid of the daft transfer windows in the first place...

Don;t we get through that number of pages in a couple of months these days....?

A day after the court case collapsed....ties in... So, the administrators of Miland Development 2004 Ltd sold the land direct to Tesco rather than Robinson? Wouldn't there be something on Land Registry to confirm the details? There's nothing on Companies House for Miland Development to confirm an asset has been sold.

@Milanello: Sky reports that Milan are ready to offer €8.5m for @DavideAstori. Cagliari's president, Cellino, wants at least €15m. @Milanello: The pact that Milan and Cagliari made for Astori was only valid if Milan wanted to buy him back within a year after he was sold. [sky].

Can I ask an Alpine-esque question? Why don't the clubs do all this fart arsing around negotiation stuff BEFORE the window starts and then just rubber stamp things in the window itself? Isn't that a win-win for all parties?

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What is it about Italian football and selling/buying percentages of a player? Here's another one... AC Milan News ‏@Milanello Empoli's SD: "If it's true that Milan have signed 50% of @rickysaponara for €4m? Yes, those are the figures." #BenvenutoSaponara AC Milan News ‏@Milanello Empoli's SD: "We have an agreement with Parma, so we'll sell the other 50% of Saponara to Parma at the end of the season." (edit: apologies to wander off topic but this whole co-ownership malarkey sounds bonkers to me)

Funnily enough I said the same thing to my son walking back to the station after the game. Happy to be proven wrong but I don't think Rickie scores many goals running onto fast through balls?

http://www.fcinternews.it/?action=read&idnotizia=102995 Ian Abrahams ‏@BroadcastMoose I'm told today from the Midlands, A Villa will not be spending a significant amount of money or bring in many players this transfer window

Actually, thinking (too hard) about this a bit more.....if this is true, could this actually be an indication that the Trust bid is on track? Reason being that it was always part of the plan for Robinson to build an adjoining supermarket to Fratton Park as part of the whole PDT takeover 'package'...so....if things have moved on and Robinson has subsequently sold on the land to Tesco with his development company delivering the project, then maybe things are further advanced than we thought? Or, maybe I'm adding 2 and 2 and coming up with 572?

I asked several variations of the question: "How does the unaccounted for £2m floating charge that came up in court last month affect the Trust's business plan?"....not a nibble....another case of the silence speaking volumes me thinks...

Even better point!

Actually - good point - I think Allen actually did break this one first. The questioner was right about all the other occasions though

[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:23 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Neil: Right, going to end this soon, getting a lot of Southampton fans and wind-up merchants appearing. Last few questions please. Oh and I'm on twitter @pn_neil_allen[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:23 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE=width: 504] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From Ryan The ones from up the M27 still cant handle the fact we won the FA cup again [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] It's not "won" old chum....the words you're looking for is "cheated in order to win"

[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:18 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE=width: 504] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From BBC Fan Forget about Express, what about the BBC? They are always beating you to the stories. I saw they scooped you again when they said players would be leaving on Monday night.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:18 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Neil: I love irony!!! [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Erm, how is that irony?!

[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:14[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE=width: 504] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From sb Have you put your hand in Neil?[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]14:15[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Neil: Am part of a syndicate at The News and we're currently finalising the remainder of the pledge settlement. Steve Wilson, Jordan Cross, Matt Brown, Howard Frost and Mark McMahon are also on board.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]