Matthew Le God

Have you already forgotten you posted this? I didn't receive a photo.

Ronan Curtis is not British.

You evidence for that is...? Our wagebill budget still dwarfs Brighton and Huddersfield.

From my surveillance team outside a Kenyan night club late last night...

Or perhaps Dean Coombes is a time traveller and went into the future saw Ekon's post and then travelled back into the past and tweeted it before Ekon We can't disprove that at the moment... so it must be a possibility... right?

Nice try! Kenyan time is 2 hours different from UK time. Not 11 hours! Plus in any case, Twitter lists tweets in order of time, the tweet by Dean Coombes I read yesterday and appears earlier in timelines. Ekon's only appeared 2 hours ago!

It originated on twitter from this account on Saturday evening... and Ekon tweeted it on Sunday morning... https://twitter.com/OkerekeEkon/status/1003181587230527488 ................. Ekon was about 11 hours later!

From my surveillance team at Lake Victoria...

Ross Wilson was at the club when we signed... van Dijk Cedric Gabbiadini Lemina Hojbjerg Austin Romeu McCarthy Bednarek Sure the club have had some **** ups in that time as well, but the above list are all good signings.

Putting transfer rumours in the press that then don't happen doesn't give the club a meaningful PR boost. If anything it makes the situation worse as it ****es the fanbase off.

Will Wood had a trial with Accrington in February, he has known for a long time he was leaving and Saints help find them new clubs.

According to...?

Why does that matter? They still agreed to go from 1st choice to 2nd choice at a bigger club. Why is the length of time they were 1st choice relevant to the decision? They moved for money, if McCarthy is offered a huge pay rise and the odd European game it wouldn't be surprising to see him go.

I'm not sure what you are objecting to in what I said... Begovic was established as a number one at Stoke... yet went to Chelsea to be a number two Vorm was established as a number one at Swansea... yet went to Spurs to be a number two Money very likely influenced those moves.

Money. Keepers like Begovic went from regular football at Stoke to bigger money at Chelsea and a place on the bench. Vorm went from regular football at Swansea to 2nd choice at Spurs.

My point was Gazzaniga didn't set the world alight at Saints, but got a move to Spurs to be 3rd choice. Yet you said there is "no chance" Spurs would want Alex McCarthy to be 2nd choice if Michel Vorm leaves.

How does that work in practice? What are Saints going to do based on reading a story in the Mirror?

So Paulo Gazzaniga is 3rd choice at Spurs... but Alex McCarthy isn't good enough to be 2nd choice at Spurs?

How would a story like that make any difference to him getting a better contract from Saints? Hard to see why any professional club would make decisions based on stories in the Mirror about interest from other clubs.

It highlights how out of touch their owner is with the views of very likely a large % of their fanbase. If he isn't aware a tweet like that would go badly then what other daft decisions will he make...?

Baby

If the story about his father is true (little reason not to believe him), then it is The Sun who have yet again ****ed up, not Sterling... Sterling on Instagram in reply... In no way is that glamourising gun culture... quite the opposite in fact!

Rolling Stones at St Mary's tonight... Rolling granny and the Muppets houseband at Fratton Park...

If your owner owns the club the player goes to, you have far more control vs sending to a random League 1 club. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/16230056.Gao_plans_overseas_investment/ Southampton and Sannois SG (French 3rd tier) have a partnership agreement. - The partnership expires on 30/06/2018 but is renewable - Sannois SG teams of different age groups come to play friendlies in England - Staff from Southampton will come to train Sannois SG young players sometimes - A seminar will take place in England for Sannois SG youth teams managers - Sannois SG seems to have a lot of good young players, that is interesting for Southampton, a majority of best French players comes from Paris region (including Sannois SG) - Sannois SG club expect that more young players will be interested in coming to the club, in order to have a chance to reach the English leagues later