Matthew Le God

Did you use Wikipedia where it currently say he has "18 French caps & 5 goals" all in 2016!? He plays for Morocco...

Nathan Redmond to replace Juanmi and perhaps Sofiane Boufal as a big money replacement for Sadio Mane...? http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transfert-sofiane-boufal-lille-plait-a-southampton/699056

We've sold Juanmi, so he needs replacing in the squad.

The Telegraph reported we offered Koeman £86,000 per week (£4.5m p/a). There are not many clubs in world football that offer more. Is that not ambitious?

We got a lot closer to the Champions League without Pochettino & Cortese... than we did with them.

I doubt Man City are expecting Pellegrini to turn up for work again before his contract expires, what would be the point? So it would be pretty harsh for them to obstruct him looking for a new job.

Lets see a screenshot of the huge bet you must have put on it if you are so confident...

Southampton FC's Gordon Simpson sits down with journalists Paul Belverstone, Adam Blackmore and Adam Leitch to look ahead to the upcoming 2016/17 campaign. It is official Saints media content; so this is club approved and on the Saints YouTube channel...

The time to be concerned is not when we sell players to top clubs, its when the top clubs don't want our players... that would suggest we have had a decline in quality and hasn't happened. Top clubs wanting our player is a sign that we are extremely successful. The number of clubs that aren't "selling clubs" in world football is tiny 3/4/5 at most. We have just finished 6th, in the Europa League, have one of the biggest incomes/wagebills/transfer budgets in world football. We offered Koeman £86,000 p/w, those kinds of wages should be able to attract a high calibre of manager. The Sheff Weds manager story was The Mirror sports desk dartboard of random rumours for clickbait articles to get Saints & Owls fans to read their website yesterday. It appears to have worked on you! The Walter Zenga nonsense story was in the Daily Star! Why have you jumped to conclusions we are "drawing blanks", do you have anything remotely approaching good evidence for that? The journalists who Saints leak news to are Telegraph's Jeremy Wilson, BBC's Adam Blackmore & PA's Simon Peach... not the gutter press tabloids.

Pellegrini spent £44m, that is not a huge amount. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/malaga-cf/transfers/verein/1084/plus/0?saison_id=2011&pos=&detailpos=&w_s= Koeman spent a lot more than that at Saints in 2014/15.

Can you really, honestly not see why this is an utterly bizarre logical path to take? You've jumped to conclusions based on THE SUN randomly linking us to a no-hoper of a manager. Have you considered it is... - it is his agent touting him? - clickbait which you've fallen for? - A Murdoch newspaper running a story, minutes later Murdoch's Skybet add him to betting market and start encouraging people to give them money - one or all of the above? Random made up bull**** has no bearing or reflection on what the club is actually doing. Alpine you have a vast history on this forum of jumping to conclusions based on little or no evidence. That is why you are being mocked! You appear to have no capability of critical thinking.

Has hallmarks of... 1) agent's futile attempt touting no-hoper client who doesn't remotely tick any of Les Reed's criteria 2) bookie using press to try to get public to back no-hoper and manipulate the marker (conflict of interest with Murdoch newspaper and Murdoch Skybet) 3) clickbait 4) some or all of the above

How do you know it is "a fact"? It remains media speculation in the tabloids.

Malaga Before Pellegrini... 2009/10 - 17th (avoided relegation by 1 point!) Malaga With Pellegrini... 2010/11 - 11th 2011/12 - 4th 2012/13 - 6th To turn a relegation threatened team into a Champions League quarter finalist in just 3 years is extremely impressive! Villareal Before Pellegrini... 2003/04 - 8th Villarreal With Pellegrini... 2004/05 - 3rd 2005/06 - 7th 2006/07 - 5th 2007/08 - 2nd - Very impressive to get Villarreal 10 points ahead of Barcelona! 2008/09 - 5th Pellegrini in Europe... 2004/05 - Villareal - Quarter final UEFA Cup 2005/06 - Villareal - Semi final Champions League 2006/07 - Villareal - Lost Intertoto Cup 2007/08 - Villareal - Last 32 round UEFA Cup 2008/09 - Villareal - Quarter final Champions League 2009/10 - Real Madrid - Last 16 Champions League 2012/13 - Malaga - Quarter final Champions League 2013/14 - Man City - Last 16 Champions League 2014/15 - Man City - Last 16 Champions League 2015/16 - Man City - Champions League semi final

He took Malaga to the Champions League quarter final! Before Pellegrini... 2009/10 - 17th (avoided relegation by 1 point!) With Pellegrini... 2010/11 - 11th 2011/12 - 4th 2012/13 - 6th To turn a relegation threatened team into a Champions League quarter finalist in just 3 years is extremely impressive!

According to the Telegraph's Jeremy Wilson, Pellegrini is being interviewed this weekend... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/17/manuel-pellegrini-on-southampton-manager-shortlist/ Pellegrini record since moving to European football in 2004... Villareal in La Liga 2004/05 - 3rd 2005/06 - 7th 2006/07 - 5th 2007/08 - 2nd 2008/09 - 5th Real Madrid in La Liga 2009/10 - 2nd Malaga in La Liga 2010/11 - 11th 2011/12 - 4th 2012/13 - 6th Man City in Premier League 2013/14 - 1st 2014/15 - 2nd 2015/16 - 4th Runs in Europe 2004/05 - Villareal - Quarter final UEFA Cup 2005/06 - Villareal - Semi final UEFA Cup 2006/07 - Villareal - Lost Intertoto Cup 2007/08 - Villareal - Last 32 round UEFA Cup 2008/09 - Villareal - Quarter final Champions League 2009/10 - Real Madrid - Last 16 Champions League 2012/13 - Malaga - Quarter final Champions League 2013/14 - Man City - Last 16 Champions League 2014/15 - Man City - Last 16 Champions League 2015/16 - Man City - Champions League semi final He comfortably has a more impressive CV than any previous Southampton manager and a lot of experience in European competition. I'm not entirely convinced he is a perfect match for style of play & academy importance at Saints, but his record with Villareal & Malaga is impressive. Him joining would also be a sign of ambition to current players, potential players and the fanbase. Wilson has also said Saints offered Koeman £4.5m p/a, that is at a similar level to what Pellegrini was on at Man City. Saints aren't lacking ambition if they are offering £4.5m (£86,000 p/w) to managers, not many clubs in world football offer more... Jeremy WilsonVerified account‏@JWTelegraph Southampton preferred that he extended but would have let him see out last year. Offer was 3yrs at £4.5m with a get-out clause next summer

We finished higher without them.

No. They are rehashing a story in The Sun. They even cite The Sun as their source, and it doesn't say he will be shortly confirmed as Saints manager, it actually says very little. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lequipe.fr%2FFootball%2FActualites%2FRudi-garcia-vers-southampton%2F695819%3Fxtref%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F&edit-text=&act=url This is how journalism sometimes works... Day 1 - English paper runs with story Day 2 - Foreign paper rehashes English story Day 3 - English paper uses foreign newspapers rehashing to justify their story Day 4,5,6 etc - repeat It becomes a loop, with little substance due to constant rehashing of the same original article.

Even if that is true and if he has come to London to meet Saints, its still a leap to think that means he has the job. It could be for another round of interviews, if we still have multiple candidates. This is a job with a multi-million pound salary, the recruitment process will be very thorough.

Political Partridge...

He is French, his grandparents left Spain during the civil war.

That doesn't really mean much. He had similar stories when going from Bournemouth to Burnley and Burnley to Bournemouth. For example... http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/9965252.display/

Giggs would be a massive risk as he has only been a 1st team (interim) manager for 4 games. I'd be amazed if Southampton appointed him, as I doubt he ticks many of Les Reed's criteria at all for a new manager. We've just finished 6th in the Premier League, in the Europa League group stage next season, will offer a decent salary and have a squad full of internationals; this isn't the time to be the testing ground for potential future Man Utd managers. Giggs needs to look for a job in the Championship. The job at Southampton should really be attractive enough to appeal to a relatively high calibre of manager with a good managerial track record.

Saints will be able to offer bigger wages than most national FA's...

You've ignored a lot of what I said and focused on one point. Plus my point with that was the £8m release clause with Delph could only be triggered by clubs in the Champions League. Everton can't trigger such clauses and if it is similar for Saints they can refuse to sell Forster, hold him to his recently signed 5 year extension without fear of his value dropping as we have until 2021.