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That is just paper talk, based on no evidence, fake news. Indications from the Club are that it could be very minor and could be back but that they will know better after scans this week. In other words nobody knows yet.

Its not doing any harm either. Apart from letting Erikson (?) ghost past him once in the 2nd half he did absolutely nothing wrong again on Sunday and looked calm and collected, significantly better than Yoshida (who I like) who was a bit all over the place. Stephens is clearly good enough for the PL especially if he is alongside someone like VvD. He is making less costly mistakes than Fonte was earlier this season, some people seem to expect him to be the greatest CB in the world already, even at his young age. The last thing he needs is a loan again, he has had them and performed very well. I would like to see Caceres playing but to be honest he is not going to be significantly better. It will be interesting when VvD is back whether Puel keeps faith with Stephens or swaps Yoshida back to the right. Unless he picks up some serious injury I fully expect Stephens to be England's CB in 2 or 3 years. He needs to improve a few areas (his heading and to some extent his passing) but it is quite exciting seeing a good ball playing CB coming through now, its been a long time since we have produced one like this (yes I know we got him from Plymouth). Think some people need to appreciate what potentially we have here.

Tweaked groin

The season over bit

Slight over reaction.

When the rumour was initially published a week or so ago it was clear that any move was likely to be a further loan and that City would continue to pay a substantial part of his wages. It is also clear that City will not loan to a rival-they apparently consider Everton a rival but not us. Torino will not have European football next season so Hart moving to the PL which is what he wants will not be influenced by lack of Europe, there are only a few other options, West Ham perhaps. So with his wages not being an issue and his options boiling down to Torino or a mid-table PL side it really is not that unlikely that he would choose to go to us if Forster moves on. Maybe the influence of Watson is pertinent,who knows.Hart's options are very limited. People may poo poo the likelihood of this happening but in reality it is not so unlikely.

English, two legs, plays for Man U. Simple. 9 former and current Saints, would have been 10 if Walcott had been included. Stephens next.

Nice little swipe at Luke "Nandos" Shaw. He does come across as arrogant, and his being best buddies with Ronaldo doesn't help. Unfortunately (for him) he isn't doing it on the pitch where it really matters, until it does all his talk is just that.

Unless of course we are not paying by instalments but 100% up front.

Nope, it was particularly embarrassing because of its association with Trump at the time. It really is awful, cringeworthy. Problem is that no-one these days tries to build atmosphere before game everyone too bloody interested in downing **** in the bar before kick-off.

Fake news.

MK stadium contains integral hotel with rooms over looking the pitch

No it isn't, his current contract is until end of 2018/19 season (another 2 years). If his contract was up City would not have any say in his plans for next season. Just to check my facts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2880977/Joe-Hart-signs-new-Manchester-City-contract-keeping-Premier-League-champions-end-2018-19-season.html

Man City will not sell him to a rival, they consider Everton a rival but not little Southampton. It would also initially be a loan with City paying some of his salary (as they are doing at Torino). Hart is reasonably happy with Torino who will not be CL next season so he is not limiting himself to a CL club as someone suggested (Torino won't qualify for EL either). Personally I would Take Hart over Forster since Forster has Morphed from a decent keeper last season to an absolutely crap one now. Whether Ronald or his successor would take him is another matter.

Yep, they will only have hat-trick Son instead, LOL.

Having watched two interviews now, I think most people watching would probably think "what's the issue"? The "acrimonious" transfer (was it?) isn't really discussed//mentioned and there is nothing that really gives any sense of what injustice was done (I didn't hand in a transfer request is about the sum total of any controversy). The follow up on the BBC interview focused very much on the crux of the matter, namely that Ronaldo is a great player and that Fonte does all he can to give him the platform to play. The pundits really had no interest in Fonte, West Ham or Southampton, only what he said about Ronaldo.

Morph would be better than Forster at the moment.

"Stellar list of names", Gareth McAuley Good result and deserved

He is also a former Saint, so not completely tenuous. It is so clearly an accident, it is disgusting that the FA have given him a 5 match ban, with no right of appeal. The Ibra ban should be for the games previously scheduled, that would mean he would miss our game, but now he won't.

There are many, just a few on this thread as an example: https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?57132-Martina-and-Van-Dijk&highlight=Martina#.WL_lc_mLRPY One particularly enlightened poster even thought I had a thing for Cedric, (didn't see thatat the time). No ****. Still if I had at least I would be in the company of Barcelona

8 April actually. Charlie and Matt Targett 1 April. Still staggered that McCarthy's hamstring has effectively ended his season.

Gathering pace meaning more sites are copying the same reports. Nothing new here, links directly to the Sun report the previous day which was then a rehash of another report last week. Probably true though, would be a shame as Cedric has become a key player since he got over his injury (head) problems last season. Still some on here think Martina is better so we will be OK if we offer hiim a new contract

Maybe he'll head for York City on his "brother's" recommendation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39198728

How is the update to the Banner coming along? Someone is telling porkies, maybe its Les Reed, maybe its Jose, we'll probably never know, but I know where my money is after that little piece.

Caceres has grown into this game, he is apparently now 6' 3".