Matthew Le God

You didn't answer my question. You've also bizarrely added a word "organic" to the Tweet trousers posted. Why?

She's owned the club since 2010 and we've seen over £70m spent on players and £30m on infrastructure since then and also used youth players. What kind of growth is that?

Hey, get it right! http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?34280-Sam-Gallagher-Plymouth-Argyle-youth-player-to-sign-for-Saints&highlight=Gallagher

John Williams set to take Southampton chief executive role... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25804054 Is it all an elaborate plan to get referees on our side after the Lallana/Clattenburg fiasco?

Contract extension offer for Pochettino says Alex Crook in tomorrow's Daily Star...

On what subject, for what purpose and through what method of communication?

Adding up the possible values of the players is not how potential owners put a value on football clubs they wish to takeover.

Those are odds to be relegated, not to stay up. Seems BETVictor are the only bookies to have that market at the moment. Pompey are 1/20 to stay up so not really worth a bet. http://www.bookies.com/football/england/league-two/to-stay-up/

Any further updates from your sources? That'll help get the thread back on track.

Yes, we do offer more than Fulham in many areas, but a key factor they have in their favour in terms of their value is they have a riverside site in West London. Craven Cottage's land value would be enormous.

Yep, they are talking Saints now.

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport8h I'm informed that Cortese-Chinese consortium #saintsfc takeover story is well wide of the mark FM Saints Researcher‏@MatthewLeGod2m @bigadamsport If a bid hadn't gone in but Wanda planned to in the future how would your contact know? All they'd do is deny a takeover today Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport1m @MatthewLeGod correct, you're right FM Saints Researcher ‏@MatthewLeGod52s @bigadamsport I'm not saying the Mirror are right. But your contact doesn't appear to have told you anything that denies the Mirror story. So he doesn't actually have evidence it is "well wide of the mark" and he agrees with me as such. It may well be well wide of the mark, but he doesn't have any evidence for that.

Put yourself in Cortese's place, how would you feel if Blackmore phoned you up on the Sunday morning after you left the club because he was curious about a newspaper story? Would you even take the call, let alone give him an answer to the question? And yet you think that is more plausible than Blackmore contacting one of the media department he regularly sees, follows on Twitter and would have the work email for. I'm very tempted to add you to my ignore list along with Turkish. Bizarre argumentative viewpoints combined with petty personal insults. Yep, thats sorted, I won't be conversing with you anymore. Carry on peeps. Back to the takeover talk...

He is a local radio presenter, any dealings he had with Cortese were rare (I think he only had one interview with him) and would be arranged through the club. His interactions with the club will be all through the media department. Blackmore did one interview with Cortese in 2010, that would most likely be arranged through his PA, not Cortese giving out his home and mobile number to Blackmore for him to ring him on Sunday mornings after he's left the club. In the case of a matchday radio presenter for Radio Solent, yes I do. Have you listened to Radio Solent on matchdays? They know nothing other than want the media department want to tell them.

I think when Cortese was still an employee at Saints; Sky, the BBC and the Daily Mail would be contacting Cortese through the club and his PA, not his home and mobile number. Cortese wakes up on a Sunday morning and you think a local radio presenter would give him a call to get his opinion on a newspaper story so he can Tweet it? Really? Come on ffs Is it not far more plausible that Blackmore either emailed/phoned/PM'd on Twitter one of the 5 or 6 media staff he knows at Saints? They then deny the Mirror takeover story because a) they aren't aware of the intentions of a Chinese company b) Liebherr doesn't inform the media department of takeovers and if she did she wouldn't want them blurting it out to the media

I didn't say that at all, I have no idea if it is true or not. What I'm saying is I very much doubt Adam Blackmore does either. Any source he asked either won't know if its true or wouldn't be able to tell him its true even if they knew it was.

You only need to listen to Adam and Dave on Solent to realise how out the loop they are. I very much doubt Blackmore has Cortese's home or mobile phone number for a start. Its not me that is out of touch with reality here ffs. You think a BBC radio Solent journalist has Cortese's home or mobile phone number and phoned him up today to get his view on the Mirror's story. For Christ's sake CB Fry!

So Blackmore ringing Cortese is more likely than Blackmore contacting one of the many members of the Saints media department he meets with regularly? Really? I mean really?

Has it? Or is it not just dependant on who the opposition is? Yeovil aren't exactly a big draw.

We aren't currently competing with them for the title are we?

What are you basing that on?

Far less detail than the Mirror article. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/454706/Southampton-braced-for-Nicola-Cortese-takeover-bid

Do you have a link? I wonder if the PA have stretched beyond asking the club's media department about the potential takeover of the company. Even if the rumours were true, it is unlikely Saints media department would confirm them or even know about the intentions someone looking to buy the club.

Doesn't really make sense unless you know where Blackmore got his information. I think its unlikely to have stretched further than asking the Saints media department. I fail to see how they would know the future intentions of a Chinese property developer. Even if talks were underway, Liebherr wouldn't be giving details to the club's media department, let alone letting them discuss details of a potential sale.

The author of the Daily Mirror article, Peter White has now asked Adam Blackmore for the source of his claim that it is wide of the mark. They follow each other on Twitter and may know one another in media circles at St Mary's. Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport59m I'm informed that Cortese-Chinese consortium #saintsfc takeover story is well wide of the mark Peter White ‏@peterwhite_111m “@bigadamsport: I'm informed that Cortese-Chinese consortium #saintsfc takeover story is well wide of the mark”source mate?