Matthew Le God

So this... http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=119313 Which is based on these tweets... The Football Family ‏@TFootballFamily 10h Official Reading news: One player failed a medical with us on Friday. Drenthe scheduled for a medical today. 100% true. #readingfc The Football Family ‏@TFootballFamily 9h Final update: Player who failed a medical was from Southampton. I don't know anything else. I have told you what I know! #readingfc

Does he? Yoshida is the best of the three. Hooiveld

Link to all of these reports?

Well I've just had a conversation with a Guardian journalist about it.

I'll get the press to understand Shaw isn't leaving this summer and is signing a long term deal next month! The daftest suggestion that we'd sell Shaw for £10m this summer and then loan him back for a year. What benefit do Saints gain from that? They'd be better off keeping him for a season, watching his value grow and then sell him. Not that I think Cortese would want to do that. I do think we'll keep Shaw for longer than we kept Walcott and Bale due to Premier League status and the owners actually trying to compete towards the top of the league with other signings. Eventually Shaw will leave for a bigger club, but we are in a good position at the moment to keep him happy.

The Everton year in 2017/18 will be fun...

He is at an Italian club but he isn't Italian - he is Czech.

The first positive post about Saints I've seen you make on this forum in the last 7 years!

2009/10 - Gobern, Tafazolli, White, Gillett, Lancashire, Thomson 2010/11 - Mills, Saville, Tafazolli, Garrod, Doble 2011/12 - Doble, Saville, Dovey, Hoskins, Dean 2012/13 - Hoskins, Seidi, Reeves, Britt

Page 180 of the Premier League rulebook... http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2012-2013.pdf

Should people be allowed multiple guesses?

Andreas Jakobsson http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/helsingborgs-if/1999/2/

The % of people that favour their right foot is 81%. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/reprints/1983BJP-ReviewCoren_Porac.pdf So it is of little surprise that there are more right/right centre back partnerships than right/left or left/left centre back partnerships.

I meant any kind of signing, so you were right with Liptak. I should have perhaps been clearer! Your question.

I merely answered a question Hutch asked. I know you need see the relevance of having a left and right footed centre half on the correct sides and use the Ferdinand/Vidic example, but it does have its benefits. For example... - Which fullbacks is a left sided centre back most likely to cover during a game? Left back - Which fullback is a right sided centre back most likely to cover during a game? Right back It is therefore beneficial if your left sided centre half is left footed, like most left backs are. And the same on the right. Of course there will be exceptions, including some at a high level and the lower number of left footed players makes a difference, but I think a lot of managers would like the centre backs to match up in this way.

Who was the last player to sign for Southampton whilst Rupert Lowe was the chairman?

- Forren is left footed - Lovren is right footed

Dan Harding

Yep!

You'll have someone's eye out!

Jim Lucas (Southampton Communications Officer) is a tease! Jim Lucas ‏@JFBLucas 21m Looks like I'm #allin... Probably a new pair of trainers.

There are a lot of indications that the budget will be significant this season, having spent close to £40m last season and already €12m on Lovren this summer. I doubt Lovren will be our biggest signing this summer and expect some other very large deals in the coming weeks. We won't be going the way of Portsmouth. - We have a large modern stadium which sells out - they didn't - We own a modern training ground - they didn't - We have one of the best academies in the UK - they didn't - We have a young squad with high potential and relatively restrained wage structure - they didn't - Saints are in the Premier League for the most lucrative TV deal of world domestic football - Have a very rich owner without a "dodgy" background unlike Pompey over the last decade - Haven't taken out huge loans from South African banks like Pompey did

If Fonte left, I think we'd only get another centre back if Hooiveld also left. Four centre backs - Lovren, Yoshida, Forren and one other should be enough.

José Fonte is being linked with a move to Fenerbahçe according to numerous foreign media outlets in Portugal and Turkey. http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt/inglaterra/jose-fonte-fenerbahce-southampton-premier-league-maisfutebol/1460257-1488.html