Matthew Le God

The reports state Saints were offering the same as Leicester, the player was left with the decision on which to pick. So money was not the issue.

He scored more Premier League goals than Tadic (or any other Saints player) last season, but why does he have to be better than Tadic? They could both play in the same team.

Can you list reasons why Southampton are a more attractive proposition than Leicester City? If we were losing transfer battles with Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Watford etc you might have a point, but Leicester won the league 2 years ago and have a bigger wage budget than us. Plus, Sky have even stated a part of Maddison's decision was due to geographical location.

Why have you classified him as a "maybe"?

They may well internally think it is ridiculous, but... it is the type of thing that wouldn't appear ridiculous to a lot of their readership base, so they keep doing it.

We've seemingly lost a £24m transfer battle with a team that was Champions of England 2 years ago. It is not a disaster... 2004-2009 was a footballing disaster. Perspective

That is wrong. James Maddison is younger than all of them, his first England under 21 call up was in November 2017. In November 2017 Ward-Prowse, Targett, Redmond and Stephens were all too old to qualify for England under 21s. So Maddison would not know them from playing for England u21s.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

I don't know. I think we should sign one, but it is unclear how Hughes and the club view their current options without jumping to conclusions on extremely little (or nothing) in the way of evidence.

Betting odds don't reflect the truth, they reflect the amount of money the public put on different outcomes. The odds for Gibson shortened because the press ran with stories linking him to Saints, which in turn means the public place bets on him after reading newspaper stories and the odds shorten. That does not mean there was ever any truth to it.

Unless you have some information that isn't publicly available, then how are you able to determine it is "likely"? For all we know it is made up press nonsense and isn't at all likely in any way.

This is an alphabet legend...

We've just had that in 2017/18 Unless you mean the away shirt, which is far better than any yellow kit we've had...

Jumping to conclusions...

Season ticket holders get tickets for both games for FREE... https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-06-15/pre-season-home-fixtures-southampton-celta-vigo-borussia-monchengladbach

If those kits aren't the real ones, what viral marketing would UA be benefitting from exactly?

Which is also what Cortese did.

What makes you think that? I think the video is just acknowledging the kit is already out there, not that it is a fake leak by them. The video was filmed on Wednesday this week.

21st July 3pm vs Frank Lampard's Derby County... https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-06-14/derby-vs-saints-pre-season-friendly-announcement-1819

Liverpool have an away kit the same colour as the Liverpool city council wheelie bins... Living up to their bin dipper moniker!

How do you know they haven't? Plus even if they had, why would that mean they'd leave?

You had one reply to your post, is one reply saying this really count as a "ridiculing"?

Why? Even if we matched the £15m, he would not pick Saints over Spurs or Chelsea.

Feed them to a lion?