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To save you having to type it out in full when either eventuality occurs, below are a couple of handy pre-crafted posts which can be cut and pasted to save a bit of time: "There, told you so" "Glad I was proven wrong in hindsight" You're welcome

Puel saying at today's press conference that "it's a bit coincidental these rumours came out the week before we play Utd"... subtle hint there!

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport #Saintsfc boss Claude Puel just told me there is a "good chance" Jose Fonte will play v #mufc - but Ryan Bertrand still out

I've been bouncing this (conspiracy) theory around in my head for a while now. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if this was simply a case of Mourinho playing mind games to unsettle us for the game on Friday.

I knew there must have been a good reason why our old friend Wang Jianlin completed a buy-back of his $4.4bn Dalian Wanda property business this week. It's all starting to make sense now... I also wonder if this means we'll see Cortese resurfacing on the South Coast with his "good friend" Dalian Wanda.... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?48666-Wang-Jianlin-looking-at-175m-takeover-of-Southampton-according-to-Sunday-Mirror#.V7QjFpgrLWU

FFS. Was banking on them being promoted this season so we could start to witness the early clamour for new owners in order for them to become a 'competitive' upper League 1/Championship team. This perpetual failure in Division 4 (four) simply isn't funny anymore....

I'm expecting an 'exclusive' update any time soon... Yours cynically....

No, because this is obviously a tactic by Saints to get the player's club to accept our 'final' bid.... Senior SFC bod: Hey, Guan Guan: Yes boss? SFC: have turned down our final offer for Guan: That's a bugger. Anything you'd like me to do? SFC: Sure. If you could post on the SaintsWeb Forum that we've made our final offer. That way, the news will filter through to that we're not going to raise our bid and that the deal is dead, at which point they'll come crawling back to us to accept our current offer. Guan: Ah, nice one boss. Leave it with me... [yes, you're right. Utter nonsense from trousers yet again]

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We keep some of our 'best' players (e.g. VvD, Forster, Tadic, Long, Davis, Bertrand), we lose some of our 'best' players (e.g. Mane, Pelle, Wanyama), we buy new potential 'best' players (e.g. Hojbjerg, Redmond, a.n.other tbc). Long may it continue.

The reason we (seemingly) experience this more than other clubs is because we are better at them at taking raw or lapsed talent and turning them into top class players. That's something to be proud and happy about rather than frustrated or disappointed. The day I'll start to get frustrated is when the player turnover stops...

Yellow card (Offence: too much common sense on a football forum)

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That film I've only ever seen once...?

I take it you don't come here often then...? Things are pretty much going to the standard Saintsweb Forum summer script thus far... Keep an eye out for the plethora of "glad I was proven wrong" or "told you so" posts around November time. (Act 4 Scene 2)

This. Always a sign of a good season ahead

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No Harry Reed in yesterday's game. Injured?