Matthew Le God

If Pompey signed Micah Richards would that be an "average signing"? He'd be easily their best player. Which is why I asked what the definition of an "average signing" is.

Thats not a definition.

What is your definition of an "average signing"?

The 25 man Premier League squad is only for players over 21 years old. Lotus-Cheek, Brown and Baker are under 21 on cutoff date, Chalobah and Bamford are also under 21 on cutoff date (plus were out on loan in 2014/15) and aren't included in 25 man squad.

Saints were linked with him in May... http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Swansea-City-linked-Brondby-s-Finnish/story-26439129-detail/story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3071074/Swansea-City-weigh-Brondby-keeper-Lukas-Hradecky.html

Stoke first had red and white stripes in 1883, but in their first 45 years of existence they went through many different colours and designs before settling with red/white stripes in 1908 (but not entirely until 1915). http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htm

Its nonsense, Saints were formed in 1885 and we didn't start wearing red and white stripes until 1896. In 1896 Stoke were wearing this red and blue striped kit...

How do you know what the process was or what else Saints were doing? It is possible to be in negotiations with multiple players at the same time.

Why would it matter if we hadn't?

Yep, any promotion pay rise was probably countered with a relegation drop again. But then this is QPR... so who knows!

He last signed a contract as a Championship player and is currently on £28,000 p/w if you believe... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2910450/Charlie-Austin-60-000-week-deal-stand-QPR-striker-indicates-wait-summer-deciding-stay.html http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/charlie-austin-set-to-earn-over-50000-a-week-as-qpr-bid-to-secure-strikers-longterm-future-with-new-contract-9852902.html http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/443141/EXCLUSIVE-Villa-prepare-15m-bid-Chelsea-Liverpool-target-Charlie-Austin

If we didn't win the FA Cup wearing yellow and blue in 1976 would these Saints fans still have a fixation that every away kit from now on has to be yellow and blue? Did our away kit future come down to a coin toss for who out of Saints and Man Utd would play in their away kit? Saints didn't always wear yellow and blue away kits before 1976, should they really have to after 1976?

Hull City would probably have paid us a loan fee to have Ramirez on loan. As would Inter Milan, Juventus and Boca Juniors for Osvaldo. So that is recouping some of the money as well, plus some of their fees from Roma and Bologna would probably have been for appearances/goals etc which neither has a great deal of for us so we wouldn't have paid the full price.

No we didn't. - Saints were last in Europe in the 2003/04 (playing two games vs Steaua Bucharest early in the season) - Saints were relegated from the Premier league in 2004/05

Grealish looked out of his depth against our midfield when we beat them 6-1 a few weeks ago. Grealish - 19 years old - 13 Premier League appearances Ward-Prowse - 20 years old - 74 Premier League appearances The difference in experience between them shows, plus Ward-Prowse is playing for a significantly better team and has stronger competition for his place.

Yep, in our Championship playoff campaign of 2006/07 he scored 19 goals in 43 Championship matches. Hardly a disaster.

Entertain me... what did I say in this thread that was wrong?

St Armstrong's post was based on a tweet from an unrelated Twitter account, not the actual Bild account. He even admitted that here... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?54403-Bayern-want-Sadio&p=2197308#post2197308 At the time of my post they was nothing on Bild's Twitter account or website about Mane linked with Bayern. Nothing I said was wrong. I didn't say it definitely wasn't in Bild, just that at the time of my post there was no evidence of it on Bild's internet output.

All I said at around midnight was that it was not on their Twitter feed. Which was true at the time. Then 11 hours later it appeared on their website. Nothing I said was incorrect.

No I haven't, all I said at around midnight was that it was not on their Twitter feed. Which was true at the time. Then 11 hours later it appeared on their website. Nothing I said was incorrect.

No mention of it on their Twitter feed... https://twitter.com/SPORTBILD This Twitter account claims Bild have said it. But that isn't the same as Bild actually saying it... https://twitter.com/BL_Latest/status/608385598580256768

No mention of it on their Twitter feed... https://twitter.com/SPORTBILD This Twitter account claims Bild have said it. But that isn't the same as Bild actually saying it... https://twitter.com/BL_Latest/status/608385598580256768

I could go on Twitter now and write... "Southampton want Messi & Ronaldo" Just putting "On Twitter" is ridiculous! What is your source? Who on Twitter said it?

If you trace back to the article that is based on, it is a case of the Metro plucking a story out of the air. No mention of Saints in the recent story the Metro links to... http://as.com/diarioas/2015/06/08/english/1433746650_725606.html The only link is to an old Metro rehash of a Mirror story from March... http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/18/southampton-plot-loan-signing-of-real-madrid-wonderkid-martin-odegaard-5110410/ It is shoddy and lazy journalism.