Matthew Le God

I'll ask again. How many times have you seen Forte play?

The player the quote refers to. i.e. the player you called "****e", Jonathan Forte.

How many games have you seen him play in person?

http://audioboo.fm/boos/266873-steve-cotterill-on-whether-david-norris-will-sign

Absolutely! By no means solely base your opinion of a player on it. After all I'm the one that other teams fans base their opinion of Saints players on. But it is the biggest scouting network for footballers anywhere in the world with over 1,500 scouts and hundreds of thousands of players. Okay, these "scouts" are fans of the clubs and not professionals. But they do see the players week in, week out. A number of clubs and managers have admitted to using Football Manager as an intitial scouting tool and then follow up by properly scouting them. Everton for a start use it... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/11/14/everton-sign-deal-to-scout-for-world-s-best-players-in-football-manager-video-game-86908-20893667/

The deals for Guly, Lallana and Chaplow would have been significant for a League One side. Jose Fonte? David Connolly? Dan Harding? Radhi Jaidi? Danny Butterfield? Guly? (Serie A to League One is a step down) etc etc

Forte isn't particularly good on FM.

Absolutely! Well done Nicola, Nigel and everyone else involved in all of that.

I'm sure the deals for Lallana, Chaplow and Guly were substantial for a League One side. Transfer cost, signing on fees, agent fees and wages etc.

It is not "just paper talk". Damien Comoli from Liverpool has been at Saints games watching him, Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson have both publicly stated their interest. They have not done the same with Pilkington! What is "paper talk" is that Saints are selling him, even though Cortese stated he wouldn't be (and it looks like he is right).

Pilkington doesn't have some of the biggest clubs in the world after him. I'm not saying Pilkington is a bad player of course he isn't, but I'd put Lallana and Chamberlain ahead of Pilkington and Bennett in a top 4 list of League One wingers.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27953-Jonathan-Forte Best keep it to the main transfer thread. Here... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27915-Transfer-deadline-day-thread!

He is referring to Craig Mackail-Smith.

Saint Clark is a spoil sport! Reopen it if he signs

A rumour with a lot more substance than many others we've had. UPDATE: Forte signs... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2281315,00.html

Pompey tried to get Liverpool's Paul Konchesky on loan according to Steve Cotterill ffs! (Source - reporter from Pompey News who was at Cotterill press conference)

James Beattie having a medical at Blackpool according to SSN. Beattie and Omerod together again!

He is also always present(just out of camera view) for all press interviews at the training ground such as the usual BBC Radio Solent/Saints Player pre match interview for the Exeter game that have just taken place in the last hour at Staplewood.

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone in the world. It is one of the least reliable sources you could use! tbf to you the Daily Echo also use it as the foundation for articles

BBC Radio Solent Twitter... #saintsfc Nigel Adkins has just told solentsport that Alex Chamberlin trained today and will be on the coach tomorrow for Exeter. 53 seconds ago

Craig Mackail-Smith

It was based on some facts. Arsene Wenger, Damian Comoli and Alex Ferguson have all been shown publicly to be interested with Chamberlain. However all the written press completely ignored the interview in December when Nicola Cortese (backed with the financial security of the club being owned by the estate of a billionaire) said that Chamberlain won't be sold. None the less the media continued with the story and are now shown to be wrong. Many newspaper reports also contained significant factual errors and inaccuracies.

How about reading post 2, 3, 6 and 7 in this thread?

You can't really compare Blackpool in a 16k seater stadium with Saints in a 32k seater stadium and the estate of a billionaire. Saints when in the Premier League again will be a very different proposition to Blackpool in the transfer market.

No, we haven't made a bid for him. Rocket Swanie on BBC 606 forums where this rumour came from hasn't got one single rumour correct in his many years of trying! The Saints club spokesman on Twitter denies it and has laughed at Rocket Swanie rumours in the past...