Matthew Le God

He was on loan, so that isn't true. A "buy back" clause is when you sell a player and have an option to by him back at a set price.

Why? The majority of people that follow football would expect him to prefer a move to Spurs over Saints. So if that actually happens, why would we be a laughing stock for merely trying to enforce a legal contract we had with A. Madrid? Its not our fault they may have ****ed up, and I see no problem with us taking issue with them messing us around.

May even have been a problem due to it being lost in translation between Spanish and English.

Wouldn't the deadline A.Madrid missed have been relatively recently?

Why? Its not Southampton's fault A.Madrid appear to have messed up and breached a contract they signed.

Madrid may have messed up... Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 13s13 seconds ago #SaintsFC are expecting to sign Toby Alderweireld after Atletico Madrid failed to cancel the buy-out clause in time, PA Sport understands.

Its not really a "best bits" video, it shows all his touches in one game vs Ajax.

Okay... lets try to pick this apart... Wonder what about the board? Did last summer not show to you they know what they are doing? Over confident about what? Even if we have an offer accepted, it is then for the player to decide and Spurs can offer higher wages than us.

Depay in a Nike shirt...

He played in 25 league games for one of the best teams in Europe last season, so is doing something right.

Fairthorne said the day before Koeman's interview that an offer had been accepted, if it had been accepted then it is clearly taken seriously.

It is him, I copied and pasted directly from his twitter account and put it in speech marks. You have to wonder how little it takes to get a place on journalism degree course these days.

Why have you jumped to that conclusion? How do you know for certain Saints have the player high on their list of priorities?

If Fairthorne is right about that, then that would mean Koeman lied in his interview on 29th June when he said there have been no serious offers. I think its more likely Fairthorne hasn't a clue.

His bio says... The Sun Daily Mail Nuts magazine Quite a trustworthy CV then! Plus "Worked at football agency with predominately Arsenal and Spurs players", so a North London bias to his work then.

He sees something of himself in Osvaldo...

Its not live on British TV, it is moved to Sunday because of our European game on the Thursday before.

There is an 8 page thread about him here... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?54396-CONFIRMED-C%E9dric-to-Saints-on-four-year-deal&highlight=cedric+soares#.VZW7GVxpfpU

Praet and Clasie don't play in the same position/role.

Perhaps at 27 years old he has finally matured and realised what he has to do to be successful with his attributes. I remember Gradel having hissy fits at St Mary's on the opening day of the 2011/12 Championship season when things weren't going his way.

He scored 17 goals in 31 league games last season as a winger, so must be doing something right. Towards the top of the 2014/15 Ligue 1 goalscoring charts... Ibrahimovic 19 goals Cavani 18 goals Gradel 17 goals

Yes.

He trained today...

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 17m17 minutes ago Nothing planned at #SaintsFC right now to bring in Elia & Djuricic after last season's loans