Matthew Le God

You don't get some of the biggest clubs in the world chasing you if you aren't very good. Maybe one club might make a mistake in scouting but not when lots of big clubs are tracking you. £10m is cheap for a player rated as an important part of the national teams future by people high up in the English FA and Wenger, Ferguson and Comoli. Especially when you look at £35m+ for 22 year old Andy Carroll who has 5 years fewer playing time left than Chamberlain.

Alex Chamberlain is 10 years younger and any club would get 10 years service more out of Alex then they would with Van Der Vaart! Plus Chamberlain would have a higher potential sell on fee for the same reason. Van Der Vaart's value will only go down from now on, Chamberlain's will rise. Van der Vaart was also surplus to requirements at his previous club, Chamberlain is an important player for Saints.

Well he looks it to me, more importantly he does to senior figures at Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd. Probably numerous other clubs aswell.

No, we haven't made a bid for him. Rocket Swanie on BBC 606 forums where this rumour came from hasn't got one single rumour correct in his many years of trying! The Saints club spokesman on Twitter denies it and has laughed at Rocket Swanie rumours in the past... I'm guessing you didn't read this thread... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27949-Hamidi-Salihi

I think you will actually find in this thread I have said that Cortese only said those things in December because he knew the player wouldn't leave even when the inevitable bids came in. He would have been foolish to make such a claim without knowing the players intentions and it "looks" like Cortese and I will be showed to be correct.

He only came on in the 79th minute for a League One side playing the best team in England, at the time Man Utd were leading and playing possession football to see out the game. How you make a judgement based on that I don't know!

In the faceless world of internet forums it is impossible to judge if someone is being serious or fishing for a bite. So I bite everything to make sure!

I'll ask again. How many times have you seen Forte play?

The player the quote refers to. i.e. the player you called "****e", Jonathan Forte.

How many games have you seen him play in person?

http://audioboo.fm/boos/266873-steve-cotterill-on-whether-david-norris-will-sign

Absolutely! By no means solely base your opinion of a player on it. After all I'm the one that other teams fans base their opinion of Saints players on. But it is the biggest scouting network for footballers anywhere in the world with over 1,500 scouts and hundreds of thousands of players. Okay, these "scouts" are fans of the clubs and not professionals. But they do see the players week in, week out. A number of clubs and managers have admitted to using Football Manager as an intitial scouting tool and then follow up by properly scouting them. Everton for a start use it... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/11/14/everton-sign-deal-to-scout-for-world-s-best-players-in-football-manager-video-game-86908-20893667/

The deals for Guly, Lallana and Chaplow would have been significant for a League One side. Jose Fonte? David Connolly? Dan Harding? Radhi Jaidi? Danny Butterfield? Guly? (Serie A to League One is a step down) etc etc

Forte isn't particularly good on FM.

Absolutely! Well done Nicola, Nigel and everyone else involved in all of that.

I'm sure the deals for Lallana, Chaplow and Guly were substantial for a League One side. Transfer cost, signing on fees, agent fees and wages etc.

It is not "just paper talk". Damien Comoli from Liverpool has been at Saints games watching him, Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson have both publicly stated their interest. They have not done the same with Pilkington! What is "paper talk" is that Saints are selling him, even though Cortese stated he wouldn't be (and it looks like he is right).

Pilkington doesn't have some of the biggest clubs in the world after him. I'm not saying Pilkington is a bad player of course he isn't, but I'd put Lallana and Chamberlain ahead of Pilkington and Bennett in a top 4 list of League One wingers.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27953-Jonathan-Forte Best keep it to the main transfer thread. Here... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27915-Transfer-deadline-day-thread!

He is referring to Craig Mackail-Smith.

Saint Clark is a spoil sport! Reopen it if he signs

A rumour with a lot more substance than many others we've had. UPDATE: Forte signs... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2281315,00.html

Pompey tried to get Liverpool's Paul Konchesky on loan according to Steve Cotterill ffs! (Source - reporter from Pompey News who was at Cotterill press conference)

James Beattie having a medical at Blackpool according to SSN. Beattie and Omerod together again!

He is also always present(just out of camera view) for all press interviews at the training ground such as the usual BBC Radio Solent/Saints Player pre match interview for the Exeter game that have just taken place in the last hour at Staplewood.