Matthew Le God

On what is that based? In the last 10 seasons, it was possible to stay up on the following amount of points (if you had a better goal difference)... 2015/16 - 37 points 2014/15 - 35 points 2013/14 - 33 points 2012/13 - 36 points 2011/12 - 36 points 2010/11 - 39 points 2009/10 - 30 points 2008/09 - 34 points 2007/08 - 36 points 2006/07 - 38 points So in the last 10 seasons, 40 points hasn't been the benchmark in ANY of them! Currently 3rd bottom has 20 points from 25 games, they aren't remotely on target for getting 40 points from 38 points. Even if current 3rd bottom Hull got 40 points, others down the bottom wouldn't be able to match that form. 40 points won't be the 17th to 18th dotted line in 2016/17. So Dalek2003 you really need to stop with this 40 point benchmark nonsense! EVERY, SINGLE, F**KING YEAR! (do you not get bored of your nonsense? I have)

Bizarrely low prices relative to the current transfer market for Premier League players. A decent season in the Championship and players are valued at £12m to £15m.

Old Trafford and the Emirates don't have bigger playing surfaces than St Mary's. They are exactly the same size and St Mary's is the same as Wembley. In 2012 the Premier League implemented a pitch size rule that all clubs must meet if their stadium allows... 105m by 68m ​St Mary's is at that side, as are the majority of clubs, any others are smaller, none are allowed to be bigger.

Yet again you fail to concede the point when I point out to you that Cortese appointed Reed in 2010 to make football decisions. Cortese was not a football man, he delegated tasks to people who were experts in the departments of the business he was running. Reed has been making football decisions since 2010 at the club, Cortese relied heavily on him given Cortese had no real football experience. Talking about players that left under Cortese and then after Cortese left is daft. We have a significantly smaller income than the clubs that bought our best players... Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd & Spurs. It simply is not viable that the club can keep players that are good enough for & wanted by some of the richest clubs in the world. Your argument is a complete red herring and completely irrelevant. If Cortese somehow hadn't fallen out with Liebherr he wouldn't have been able to keep those players either, the club doesn't have the income needed to do so. All these thing are pointed out to you time after time. Yet you conveniently forget the rebuttals to your nonsense and trot out the same nonsense time after time. You likely will raise the same nonsense you've posted today in a few weeks.

He was on both lists; Koeman's before he arrived & the club were also already monitoring Mane before Koeman was appointed. Koeman even stated this in an interview.

A player Les Reed and his team spotted, sold for a fee rising to £38.5m to a significantly richer club. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/27/liverpool-could-end-up-paying-385m-for-sadio-mane/ Then signed another extremely talented player in Sofiane Boufal to replace him. Isn't that a good thing? I think it is. We are never going to be at the top of the football transfer food chain. Heisenberg you are delusional if you think we ever will. You also bizarrely think Reed wasn't the key football figure whilst Cortese was at the club. Cortese was not a football man, he hired Reed to make football decisions. Both Liebherr's, Cortese, Reed & all the managers deserve the credit for where we are as a club. Les Reed is a key part of our success, to be demanding he goes is utterly bizarre.

If you think a mid-table club is going to sack a manager who got them to only their 6th major cup final in their 132 year existence and replace him with an ex-player with ZERO experience as a manager days before Wembley then it is you that is a "joker". Mad as a box of frogs.

Can you name any examples of a manager being sacked 2 weeks before a major cup final at Wembley?

What are you accusing him of "wimping out" of? It isn't Boufal's fault many opponents see the only way to stop him being to hack him down, that is how he picks up injuries. I've also seen him accused of lacking workrate, when he is actually very effective at tackling back and winning the ball.

It removes the chance of a bidding war, so it isn't really in Southampton's interest to agree to such a deal.

The cup final is 2 weeks after the Sunderland game, there is no need for current 1st choice players like Bertrand, Cedric, Davis & Yoshida to be rotated for the Sunderland game. Puel has been rotating when fixtures are congested, we have a large amount of recovery time available now for the majority of the rest of the season.

It means you must win it or "X" happens. I was asking what you though "X" was.

What exactly do you mean by "must win"? "Must win" or what? They aren't going to sack Puel 2 weeks before a cup final at Wembley.

Well he is 73 years old!

He has also been the England manager since leaving Sunderland.

Football really is in a mess if the current Crystal Palace manger would make payments under the table to help Sunderland sign a player!!!

I'm normally pretty optimistic, but it really is dire at the moment! The lack of a centre back signing is a big issue, but as an attacking force we really don't look good either.

If Forster is injured or sent off after 5 minutes then Hassen wouldn't "just be sat on the bench". If he isn't match sharp then he shouldn't be on the bench.

Puel said in his pre-match press conference & one-to-one interview with club media that Hassen (although training) may not be ready to be in a matchday squad.

How have you managed to jump to that conclusion from the available evidence (we have at the moment)??? Puel said out for 2-3 months. 2 months takes us to the beginning of April 3 months takes us to the beginning of May Southampton's last game this season in on 21st May

His demand for £100k p/w wages apparently put West Ham off signing him... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/west-ham-decide-against-late-9730092

Yes, I am. Seen little need to do so in the past, but today has really annoyed me!

8 years under Liebherr and the club has done relatively little wrong to warrant criticising them. But if we don't sign a new centre back tonight (not looking likely at the moment!) then they have ****ed up big time.