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By now i would have thought you would have realised that 99% of players we go after or show an interest we NEVER KNOW about! Its been that way since NC took over and i for one am quite happy with this. Occasionally we have got to hear about a possible player but its fair to say YOU and the rest of us have no idea who the management were trying to get in.....and just because we dont know doesnt mean they were not trying to address the issue with the right players!

I'm amazed that Alpine has not hijacked this thread with his unique brand of doom and gloom spreading, after all he has hijacked every other thread! Excellent comeback by the younger players and totally agree with other posters that now playing competitive football this season will help their development tremendously. Nice to have positive things to read about for once about our club and players!

Well well another footballer or ex in this case using tweets to get a public reaction.....this is pathetic and i thought better of Le Tiss than airing any personal grief he has in public. All this public mud flinging does is harm our great club.

As the rest of you i am gutted that we have lost a game that we were within touching distance of winning. I watched however a young team that once they got going after the first ten minutes make a Ferguson team look very ordinary for such long periods of the game. We have players that play the way game should be played and it was a joy to watch. Yes, also like the rest of you i feel the changes cost us the game. However before you all start slating NA remember he got us up 2 seasons on the trot and has made many great decisions along the way. Today he got it wrong and i'm sure no one here needs to tell him that! I still feel very optimistic for the rest of the season......I know it hurts like hell right now but lets not all be so quick to slate the manager and certain players....A season is a long time NOT JUST 3 GAMES!

There are not many things that would cause me to stop attending Saints games but if we were to ever re-appoint that man that would be one of them! NC runs an honest club, there is no way on gods earth he would want HR here!

I can remember as a kid when we signed Keegan and how excited and shocked i was that little Southampton had pulled off a miracle signing.......well i didn't think i would see it again but this is Saints and miracles do happen....brilliant transfer window.....thank you NC and especially ML

Originally Posted by angelman well bugger me. Shouldn`t this be in the Muppet Show?

Adkins was grinning from ear to ear during that interview, its a done deal and i expect thats not the end of it either. Saints i love the way you do business.

PMSL, just shows what the Italians are like.....Berbatov was apparently supposed to join Fiorentina but failed to turn up for medical and now looking like joining Fulham. Fiorentina's presidents reaction "we are glad he didn't turn up, he is not worthy of our great city".......made me laugh

There is only one reason for feeling like this. The majority on this forum hang on every bit of gossip, every tweet, every idiot out there google searching and then posting here. Come tomorrow night we will have in who we have....end off! Its only become like a poor soap opera because people on here have turned it into one!

have we scored??? BBC showing us 1-0 up?

come on guys lay off Alps....after all he keeps staff at the DOP game fully employed!

OK, for what its worth this lad has great ability. He is very confident on the ball and is a very good tackler. I cant say that whenever i have seen him that he lacks pace, he looked fine by me and at first glance i would say this is an excellent signing and in the mould of players we are looking to bring here. However my one reservation is his serious injury.....by all accounts he is fully recovered......i just get the feeling Barcelona are willing to sell this player because it was such a bad injury and they dont want to risk getting nothing for this player. I trust totally that if we are in for him a medical will reveal if this is a risk or not.

And i for one will be happy with this scenario. Do we really want to be the next Pompey or spend spend spend like WestHam.......Cortese is a shrewd business man and is attempting to do the best bit of business for Southampton. Thats all i want a sensible approach by the club thatwill not bankrupt us!

At the moment i'm in the "this could still happen" camp. I think Cortese is quite rightly playing a game of chicken with Bologna and quite rightly so. Whatever the outcome Cortese is showing that we are a competently run football club that will not be bullied and will not be swayed by the stupid mind games Bologna have adopted during this saga.

Everyone relax, there will be no announcement tonight. I suggest you all turn your computers of, put Sky on and watch Barca v Madrid!

I don't believe for one moment we are looking at another striker.

I would love us to get him just to shut up half the idiots that use this forum!

This has been very amusing watching so many people get so wound up about a possible transfer. Don't get me wrong i would be delighted if it happens but i won't be slitting my wrists if it doesn't. As for a well known connection to SFC flying into Italy next Friday....well i can not see it having anything to do with this possible signing. We either wrap this up in the next 48 hours or it will not happen IMHO. Cannot see it being dragged out to next Friday.

well done Turkish, you have reminded me how crap it really is here!....Peppa pig world...pmsl

All i can say in answer to this is thank god NA picks the team and you have no say whatsoever!

After a very shaky 20 minutes we settled and i thought we played some decent football. Guly and Clyne had a decent partnership going the longer the first half went on. JWP looked very composed on the ball and the more the game went on the better Lallana and Morgan got. Sounds like its very doubtful our new signing Davis will be fit for the start of the season so its imperative we are solid in midfield from the start and dont get over ran. It really ****es me off how even when Guly plays really well some people still have to criticise the player for one misplaced pass!....using that logic every single Saints player should be criticised!

I don't disagree with your sentiments at all here but we live in a blame culture and an absurdly politically correct one! You answered your own question in your last line mate!

Alps, for your info if the person/s reading an article similar to the vile crap we have all just read and perceive it to them to be racist then a potential criminal offence is there if they report it. It is then down to the courts to decide if any comments made were "racist"

This very much appears a dead duck and to be honest i would rather we look else where if this player has a third party that makes life difficult not only for the purchasing club but also the player himself! NO ROOM ON THIS BUS PLEASE GET OFF!