Matthew Le God

What makes you think that? I'm clearly not that bad on Twitter or I wouldn't have nearly 600 people following me. Yes, some people on this forum don't like me, but a number of people do. I have received a number of good will private messages from other members of this forum about the abuse a certain 5 or 6 posters constantly give me. That might sound like a "world is against me" post, but the actual number of those against me appears relatively small, they are just unrelenting in putting me down for being positive.

Lallana is 24, which means for him to be included they would have to drop one of Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy or Micah Richards.

Accepting people have a different stance on some subject is one thing, a number of people use insulting language against me and break the forums rules regularly to jump down my throat at any opportunity is quite another. Should I have to accept that and "roll with it"?

I didn't say this thread in particular, just in general.

So why haven't you put me on ignore? Or do you enjoy attacking any post I make if it has a shred of positivity about it too much?

If you are thinking I'm going to do that then you are wrong. It is an absolute shambles!

They are hardly small time. http://www.tickets.com/index.html But yes, it is poor service.

Well you could say it is "their fault" for choosing tickets.com, but they should in theory have been a good choice.

Not Saints fault, they are using a ticketing website run by tickets.com

Southampton Y.M.A. St. Mary's F.C. Southampton St Mary's Southampton FC Are all names our club has used in its 127 years.

26 people have retweeted my Tweet about this and I've gained over 30 new followers since I posted it, so some people are clearly interested.

Still doesn't make sense. You started a thread called "Press Conference?" and used a link that made no mention of press conferences to support it.

It is possible to have numerous targets all at once. We don't know what else he is planning. Harding and Dickson aren't really Premier League quality, so maybe Adkins wants Fox and Buttner as his left backs and will let Harding and Dickson go and have Shaw for the future.

You have to build towards that, at the moment we can't even offer Europa League football next season, let alone Champions League. If we have a good season next year we'll be able to step up another step in players we can attract next summer.

Read the title of the thread you created! You called it "Press conference today?" http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?38754-Press-conference-today You then go on to say "according to this" and link to a thread that doesn't mention a "press conference" at all. YOU are the one that brought up the phrase "press conference".

Does every signing, for every club state that the team that they are potentially joining is aiming to directly compete at the top of the Premier League with Man City? He could have left it with "I'm impressed with Southampton and the stadium", he didn't need to then go on with the Man City claim.

Read the title of the thread you created! You then go on to say "according to this" and link to a thread that doesn't mention a "press conference". Are we playing a game of Chinese Whispers?

Why not? "I've been in Southampton and everything - even the living conditions - is perfect. The club, the stadium and the reception really surprised me." - Alexander Buttner

Do the direct quotes in the Dutch media from the player not count as evidence?

That thread does not mention a "press conference". You jumped to that conclusion and then made a thread about it here. This is like a game of Chinese whispers! It merely says a conference room has been booked, that could just be for the meeting to discuss terms with his agent.

So you don't think direct quotes from a player Saints are in talks with are a "clue"?

I've asked a Dutchman to translate it for me... Büttner: "Southampton wants to chase Man City." Alexander Büttner currently only has one wish: that Vitessse reaches an agreement with Southampton to seal his transfer. The leftback trained on Sunday for his employer from Arnhem, but there's a real possibility that that was the last time. "I want to go to Southampton", as the defender said curtly (loosely translated here). "I am waiting to see if the clubs reach an agreement, but I count on Vitesse's cooperation. Büttner has a contract that expires at the end of the season and can count on the interest of several clubs. Southampton was taken over by a billionaire in 2009 and got promoted to the Premier League last season. The Saints appear to be willing to pay the most under the leading of the billionaire. "It would be a very big disappointment if this didn't happen" says Büttner. "I've been in Southampton and everything - even the living conditions - is perfect. The club, the stadium and the reception really surprised me. Beautiful. And Southampton has major ambitions. With the new backer they want to chase after Man City."

They had their media things done in the Markus Liebherr lounge on Sunday...

In order for Buttner to care about such an ambition it would have to be relatively soon.