Matthew Le God

Do you think his parents consulted him beforehand?

Depends if you consider Gorkss and Le Fondre better than the players they replaced in Mills and Long. They are "beefing up their squad" with Gorkss and Le Fondre because they just lost £12m worth of talent from it.

"Never change a winning team" is a nonsense strategy. Anyone that thinks otherwise, please answer this question...? Fonte and Lallana miss a game due to suspension, Saints used Martin and Holmes as their replacements and they luckily hold onto a 1-0 lead at home against Doncaster Rovers, with Martin and Holmes playing poorly. Next game is against West Ham away, would you seriously stick by the "never change a winning team" philosophy and not play Lallana and Fonte even if they are fully fit and available?

That is quite clearly not the "job spec" of the striker the club want. We only know for certain of one bid the club has made for a striker this summer, and that was when Nigel Adkins confirmed the club had a £3.25m bid accepted by Doncaster for Billy Sharp. All the other strikers are unconfirmed rumours. Saints wouldn't have signed Sharp for £3.25m only for him to be on the bench in the Championship. Therefore the club was and probably still are looking to sign a strike partner for Lambert, not a back-up.

Nigel Adkins has confirmed in interview with BBC Radio Solent and Saints Player that Saints made bids for Billy Sharp and Liam Fontaine this summer.

Absolute nonsense! - Waghorn is a proven scorer in the Championship and is a current England under 21 international. - Bignall has only seen first team action in League One and Two, with 27 league starts (20 sub appearances) and 4 goals in the last 4 seasons.

The End.

It is the main story on the Southampton FC website and has been for quite a few hours now... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2433092,00.html

As I said before... If Waghorn does sign, he won't be here as a "bench warmer" or "squad player". You don't spend £1.5m+ on a player as a Championship club only for him not to be in the first XI soon after signing. He wants to leave Leicester in order to get game time and would join Saints as Lambert's strike partner. Connolly and Barnard would be the ones providing cover (and very good cover at that!)

If Waghorn does sign, he won't be here as a "bench warmer". You don't spend £1.5m+ on a player as a Championship club only for him not to be in the first XI soon after signing. He wants to leave Leicester in order to get game time.

- You should take the game on its own merits. - You say "away to one of the division favourites", but Saints are actually shorter odds to win the Championship than Leicester with every major bookmaker.

No, but he did play in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur (albeit very briefly).

No they don't. That is complete nonsense.

Who on Twitter said this? Twitter can be useful or completely useless as a source depending on who it is Tweeting the info. If it is just a random bloke, then it means very little.

Looks like your "mate" has been reading http://www.football-rumours.co.uk As at 1:09pm today (5 hours before you started this thread) someone posted this...

You think buying a centre back from Millwall means that Bialkowski "isn't good enough back up" and Davis "may lose his place"? You are confusing him with the Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper!

You are still being extremely vague. How does he claim to know?

Heard it where?

They have been doing scans, blood tests etc etc for years, certainly not only introduced in the "last few years". For example there is a documentary about Peter Reid and Sunderland from the 1996/97 season, where they show potential new players undergoing a range of scans and numerous other screenings at a hospital. Probably was going on long before that as well.

Hard to understand why they keep referring to what previous clubs that came second in League One did once they were in the Championship. How is that relevant? You should take each team on its own merits, not look at completely different teams, with different budgets, resources, management and players.

You talk of "ignorance" and "reading up", yet you can't spell "Waghorn", "Rodriguez" or "Gorkšs" correctly, despite claiming to be aware of them. Funny that...

What makes you so sure Cortese "pulls the plug" if the press get wind of a transfer? It makes little sense to act like that, as it doesn't really matter and I have yet to see any evidence that is how Cortese acts.

End of thread really...

Rodriguez isn't eligible anymore, he is 22 years old.

Lallana is 23 years old. He is no longer eligible for the under 21's! He was eligible for the UEFA under 21 Euro tournament in the summer because he was under 21 when the qualifying started. In any case, Lallana and Chamberlain both received international recognition at under 21 level whilst in League One with Southampton.