Matthew Le God

£81k p/w wages €10m/£7.9m option to buy

The Spanish FM research team believes he is on £81k p/w at Atletico Madrid! Also that the option to buy in the loan is for €10m.

All we hear is... Sadio Mané

That doesn't matter. You can have extensions to the deadline and you can announce deals whenever you want.

Saints still own both Long and Ramirez, Hull will have paid Saints a signicant loan fee/cover a large % of his wages.

That is a Premier League rule, not down for the clubs to discuss in transfer talks.

https://twitter.com/svenclaes/status/506519432634847232

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/4776

In terms of looks, she is low down. Sky have a large number of more attractive presenters that know their stuff and can read an auto-cue.

Perhaps offscreen, but it doesn't come across when she is presenting or interviewing people. She asks daft questions and doesn't seem aware of a wide range of things to do with the sport. Don't you agree that she makes constant mistakes in her delivery? She really does struggle to read auto-cues, its just mistake after mistake. Surely the ability to read an auto-cue is a key skill in presenting on SSN that most of the other presenters manage to do fine.

She really is a terrible presenter, she struggles to read an auto-cue and knows little about football.

Its a story on a bookmaker's website, they write articles like this to get people to place bets.

Probably better if this one was locked and we just used the other one as its been stickied. Otherwise people will be flicking between the two threads for the same things.

Why did David Craig say live on SSN at 10:34 today that Saints had made a 3rd bid of £15m bid? Sky's left hand doesn't know what their right hand is doing.

Why would a British journalist talk about a transfer between one British club and another British club in EURO's and not in pounds sterling?

Sky Sport's David Craig said it at 10:34.

When he says "that", given the opening from the journalist talking about the Champions League plan it suggests that Koeman is answering a question put to him about the Champions League. The word "that" is Koeman quoted as talking about the Champions League, but it depends if you trust the integrity of the Daily Star and if they haven't taken him out of context.

The way the Daily Star article is worded suggests otherwise. They introduce the Koeman quotes talking about a 3 year plan for the Champions League and then Koeman uses "that" to describe would would have been asked in the question that prompted his answer.

This suggests otherwise...

A link to the article... http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/397322/Southampton-boss-Ronald-Koeman-needs-to-get-the-Saints-marching-quickly

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 18m Colleague saw my tweet & messaged me to say #SaintsFC may actually be close to an agreement for Alderweireld. Time do some digging...

Gardos missed a significant part of pre-season, which is key to why he hasn't played for us yet. I think he'll be starting for Saints after the international break, Koeman suggested as much in a recent interview.

Why do you think that? Although Fonte was named captain, if van Dijk joined I think it would soon end up with Gardos and van Dijk as the centre back pairing. It would be Yoshida as 4th choice and Fonte as 3rd choice and the back up on the bench.

It would have been a lot in the past, but £9m for Nathan Redmond doesn't stand out compared to other English club to English club transfers in the current marketplace (post massive 2013 TV deal).

The FA's offices need to be open to register the players; so whenever the 31st August falls on a Saturday deadline day is moved to the 2nd September and if its on a Sunday it is moved to the 1st September.