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Sorry, your point being? He still did join didn't he?? Which is more than can be said for the ones set to sign for us that didn't. Obviously we cant sell the club in other ways. Thanks for proving my point that we manage to f*ck things up.

Probably. It's never our fault. In Cortese we trust.

"protracted negotiations with Southampton" There's a surprise. We cant even sell a player properly. FFS.

I am enjoy it. However considering we were bidding for a proven championship player at centre back in Gorkss, failed to do the deal and end up with a player who by your own admission "could be anything" then i dont think he is the proven centre half, better than we have do you? As i've already said, there seems to be a pattern forming with our transfer dealings which is making me question our ability to bring in our targets whilst p*ssing off other clubs and agents in the process. It is a fact that at least 4 targets were at the club ready to sign and it didnt happen. It's also very worrying that we continued to bid for a player that had long ago said he didn't want to join us. Or did he want to join us but went the way of the other 4? Do you not find this worrying?

Apart from teh fact Svenson cost £2m and was a curent Swedish international. We have been crying out for a decent centre back, tried to sign loads and failed and ended up with some Dutch journey man who cant get a kick at Celtic FFS. The way i see it he isn't an improvement on what is already here, we now have 5 centre backs, only one of which is an automatic choice. That is a problem. Anyone who was at leciester saturday will see how we were torn apart in the first half by pace and power.

That's 31. To that i give you Rooney, Drogba, Lampard, Ronaldo, Vidic. That's 5. Another 19 please to to cover BBB's theory that for every one big money transfer there are 10 that fail.

One this is for sure. I've never applied for a job which was paying far less than i wanted, gone for the interview only to pull out at the offer stage when their offer was what it had said in the advert. So come on, do you think we had no idea at all of the wages Sharp, Rodriguez, Jemmel etc wanted when we made bids for them?

Thats 5, i still need another 15 just to cover off Rooney and Drogba. Keeping going, this should be good.

I'm chiled mate, just LOLing at the blindness.

Yes, after the Ellot Ward embarassment where we landed Seaborne instead!!

Do you seriously believe that this is how a transfer works? That we get a bid accepted, sit down with the player and then at that point the player turns round and says "i want £40k a week" we turn round and say "sorry, we only pay £20k a week, deals off, bye" As for your 2nd point, just f*cking LOL - Point me to the 10 big money transfers that haven't worked at Chelsea and Man United for every one that has.

Do you seriously think we only have any idea what wage a player wants when we are sitting down with them and their agent? Chris Coleman has also had a go at our transfer policy as well.

The naievity and blindness on here is quite cute. It's all them isn't it. Nothing to do with us, depsite all the evidence. In Cortese we trust.

I am sure there will be 4 or 5 who will try to get on the bus but have the wrong ticket and be thrown off by the conductor.

THink that if you want, but looking at the evidence of what agents and managers are saying about us, It doesn't look good does it. Or maybe we should ignore all this, keep our heads in the sand and blame everyone else. In Cortese we trust.

No i wouldn't. I just dont understand why on at least 5 occasions we have had bids accepted and players at the club ready to sign, or the case of Rodriguez, tell us he never wanted to sign anyway and it's not happened. You've got to admit, give the Elliot Ward deabacle and the fact managers and agents are coming out and slagging up off via the media and social media it cant all be them being c*nts, can it?

YEs we've signed 3 good players. We've aso consistantly failed to sign players in the positions Nige clearly has identified as weak areas. It's alright though, we've got 3 left backs and 5 centre backs, only one of which is of the standard needed. In Cortese we trust.

So we had no idea FOuntaine was injured, lol!! We had no idea Rodriguez had no intention of joining us did we? lol!! Given the Ellot Ward debarcle as well i cant believe some of you cant see anything wrong, there is a clear pattern. Clubs coming out and slagging us off for the way we do business, agents saying we are difficult to deal with. I know some of you like to spin it but it doesn't take a genius to piece together the little snippets and see the pattern there is. It's all them, not us isnt it, time after time after time.

Sorry, so who is to blame for us trying to sign injured players and players that dont want to join us anyway? In the case of Rodriguez surely we could have sounded his agent out and see if he would at least talk to us? Or did we just put in turned down bid after turned down bid for a player who we had no idea wanted to join us or not, or did we just f*ck another one up at the last minute? WHo knows!!

We should have gone for Messi. It's entirely possible he'd have signed, afterall they did say man would never climb Everest didn't they.

Like i said, its all them, not us. F*cking players hey!!

Where did i say that? It seems we had fees ageed for the 5 mentioned above. I'd prefer the way most clubs do it and that when we have a player that is about to sign they actually complete the deal, or not chase players that aren't going to join us anyway!

Gorkss, we f*cked about for two weeks or whatever. He was here, ready to sign - it didn't happen Jemmel was here, ready to do the deal - it didn't happen Fountaine was here had a medical ready to sign - it didn't happen. SHarp - oh look another one - it didn't happen Rodriguez - you seriously telling me that we chased a player for months, even up to the last day of the window, making bid etc and he didn't want to join us anyway?? What a waste of time and effort that was!!! Surely we'd have found this out earlier rather than wasting three months chasing him? Who is to blame for that immense f*ck up then?!!! Dont worry though, we're left with our at best, 4th choice centre back who cant get anywhere near a team who would struggle to make top half of the championship and failed to strengthen the two area Nige clearly has been trying to all summer. F*cking greedy players, f*cking greedy agents, f*cking greedy clubs. Despite what everyone else says, its not us it's them. Keep your heads in the sand everyone. We are brilliant at negotiating deals and here is the proof. We wont be held to ransom, not us. We are Southampton, w'll sign who we want. In Cortese we trust.

Lets face it. We've f*cked up 3 deals at the last minute for centre backs when it appears they are all ready to sign and are left with this Dutch mug who doesn't seem any better than what we have. We've failed with a succession of bids and deals for strikers so failed to strengthen in the areas nige has been trying to all summer. There are clearly some goons negotiating our deals, it's becoming embarrassing.

So are you saying it's yet another one we've f*cked up at the last minute? Surely we'd have sounded out the kids agent regarding wages before getting to that stage. If what you say is true then these 'last minute hitches' which are ruining our deals clearly aren't just greedy agents everytime FFS.