Matthew Le God

Jack Cork signed for us in July 2011 on a 4 year deal until June 2015, but that was as a Championship club. Perhaps he'll sign a new deal soon or maybe wait until next summer? Might depend on clauses in his current deal.

And why does it bear "little relation"? When you say "yes they would", are you really saying you believe Chelsea would sell 42,000 tickets for a relegation fight season? Really? People would desert them in their droves if they were in a relegation fight.

If we were 6th, it would likely be because we had a team packed full of internationals, playing good football, regularly winning and a very positive atmosphere about the fanbase. It would also mean we'd be more likely to go on better cup runs and possibly win something. All things that would contribute to growing the fanbase and having larger attendances, something a 32k St Mary's would hamper us from doing. Every sellout this season in a relegation fight means the club can't meet the demand of the fanbase and people are missing out, which is why Cortese commissioned AFL to come up with those designs.

As Rafa Benítez knows he is leaving no matter what, he may prioritse a trophy win in the FA Cup or Europa League. And with Chelsea playing Saints on the Saturday, Man Utd on the Monday, Rubin Kazan on the Thursday and Sunderland on the Sunday - that is 4 games in 8 days!!! He'd be daft not to rotate.

Do you think Chelsea would get 42,000 at Stamford Bridge if they were in a relegation fight? When Chelsea were a mid table Premier League team in the mid 90's before the Harding/Bates/Abramovich money they averaged similar to what Saints did in League One.

Even though he was offside and it shouldn't have counted?

They may rest Ba for the FA Cup game vs. Man Utd they have 2 days later and play Torres against us.

Not very unexpected to sellout vs Chelsea of course, but we sold out in this seasons relegation threatened campaign to... 1. Man Utd 2. Tottenham 3. Newcastle 4. Sunderland 5. Arsenal 6. Man City 7. QPR 8. Liverpool 9. Chelsea And having the following games remaining... 10. West Ham - They have sold out 3,000 away tickets and could well be another sellout 11. West Brom - The least likely of the remaining games to be a sellout, but you never know 12. Stoke - Last game of the season, very likely to sell out So in a relegation threatened season, Saints will likely sellout for 11 (or possibly 12) of the 19 games. Imagine if we actually had a good season in the top half of the Premier League! 32k capacity is simply too small for Saints in a Premier League relegation battle, let alone where Cortese/Liebherr want to take us.

A take that doesn't take into account a large number of those players are out of contract in 3 months time and are therefore worthless as they won't be getting new deals.

We need a bigger stadium...

I don't think they actually put a number of years on it, but said it was "similar to Ward-Prowse" - who is now on a 5 year deal.

He has already agreed to sign a deal with Saints this summer, so won't be joining Tottenham. As for the article suggesting Saints would find it hard to turn down a £15m bid with £8m upfront, signing Ramirez for £12m and spending over £35m this season shows the intent of the club and lack of need to sell its youngsters anymore.

Any evidence he is a "billionaire" in pounds sterling? He hasn't exactly splashed the cash so far, he is young with a rich dad with possible connections to the Russian mafia. Could be Sasha Gaydamak/Arcadi Gaydamak mark II.

No it isn't. Still works for me.

I'd imagine it is because the drainage at St Mary's is good and the rainfall before the game would quickly move away from the surface. The sprinklers are used close to kickoff so the surface is slick for quick passing during the game.

When did I say he was" great"? I said he looked promising but we can't really tell yet given his lack of minutes, so for fans to say the club should sell him in the summer is daft.

Because the managers can only pick 11 players for the starting XI, one to three players in Mayuka's positions of winger/striker in our 4-2-3-1 system and only 18 players in a matchday squad. Some players will inevitably miss out in both starting in the XI and the match-day 18. To write a 22 year old international like Mayuka off already is daft, especially as in the very brief glimpses we have seen he has shown some good qualities. Maybe he will end up being a "dud signing", but given his lack of minutes I fail to see how any Saints fan can jump to that conclusion yet and justify it.

Have you really seen enough of Mayuka to write him off? He is 22 years old, has hardly played and his performance vs. Spurs in particular showed he could be useful in years to come.

Not the fine directly, but Mark Clattenburg would have given us a very low mark for that game which goes towards the fair play league.

Chelsea, Sunderland, Newcastle and Liverpool have all been fined £20k for the same reason in the last 2 years, no big deal really. Although Saints' players and management shouldn't have done what they did, they were actually quite restrained and were hardly right up in Clattenburg's face shouting at him.

A huge number of people wrote Schneiderlin off, many are unlikely to admit they were wrong with that. To write Ramirez off is daft, as he clearly has ability, its his first season in a new country, in a struggling team, has had injuries, no pre-season with the team and a family bereavement to deal with.

??? Saints are not in the relegation zone and haven't been for some time. They are 16th and 4 points above the relegation zone with a superior goal difference. Yes a relegation fight, but not sure why that makes them "likely to go down". Cheer up ffs!

Cortese isn't going to sell him in the summer of 2013 for less than we paid for him in the summer of 2012! ffs He really hasn't done as poorly as many in this thread are making out. Technically he is probably our best player, has had injuries, a family bereavement, no-preseason with Saints and is only 22 years old. I think he will prove to be a very good buy, a pre-season with Pochetinno this summer will do him the world of good.

Who said he wouldn't play?