hypochondriac

Good riddance.

I don't want any England internationals. They will all be gone next summer if that is the case.

That's nonsense and your wife is clearly an ignoramus. One of the easiest phones to use I have ever had.

It's possible that he has a bit more respect for the club due to the fact that he signed for us when we were on a downer and has been here the whole way through.

I would have allowed the three who left to leave and then said we would be losing no more. I would have spoken to lovren and told him he can leave next year with our blessing provided he gives us good service for one more season. In that scenario it is potentially two players who want to leave in Morgan and lovren not a large group, yet Morgan has seemingly been less bothered about it than some so I think he could be persuaded to stay another season.

But deals like that happen at clubs all the time and it doesn't create a poisonous atmosphere as you call it.

Yes that too. As I said, from a pr perspective this has been handled very poorly.

Erm exactly how I said we should stagger departures. As I said, it happens often and is a common tactic in football.

It happens at loads of clubs and is a common tactic. Suarez wasn't happy last year about Liverpool but they got another season out of him. This isn't some sort of amateur organisation, it's a professional business and you have to be hard nosed to an extent. If the likes of lovren had been refused a move then IMO it's quite likely he would have agreed to play for us for another season. Stuff about poisonous atmosphere is silly, if they knew they would be allowed to leave next season then they would most likely perform this year for us. These guys are supposedly professionals and when all is said and done, players don't actually go on strike.

That's nonsense. The choice wasn't the all stay or they all go. As I said we needed to negotiate better and managed the departures over a season or two not allow them to all jump ship at once.

Which players went on strike then?

No it doesn't it's completely different.

Oh dear you didn't read what I said then did you. Where did I say that having someone like levy in charge would mean we wouldn't sell players?

Seems like Dejan is off so seemingly either that tactic hasn't worked or we didn't try it. I can take losing Shaw for the fee and Rickie. I'm unhappy with losing Adam and losing Dejan and Morgan would be shambolic.

You aren't seriously telling me that if the likes of Daniel levy was saints chairman that we would have lost as many players as we have this year? It wouldn't happen. I'm very glad cortese has gone but with regards to the handling of player contracts and this sort of thing, I don't think he would have allowed five players to leave at once in this fashion regardless of our financial situation.

Or amazingly you negotiate with a player. You say unfortunately you aren't for sale right now but if you give us one more year we will let you leave with our blessing. It's what a host of clubs do all the time and it means they avoid the situation of losing all their best players at once.

I think the lack of leadership for five months and seemingly no figurehead st the top unsettled players even before bids had come in. Someone like John Williams IMO would have had a much better chance of persuading certain players to stay even if it's only a short term basis. This would have allowed the situation to be managed much better without looking like a shambolic and like we are a club on the down.

I like this smirking saint a lot

his smugness suggested he was confident there were no links.

I merely posed the question as we have been linked with a few older players. Ffs.

I am aware of that.

Sorry meant smaller! Doh

Hmm hasn't got a great goals record and is quite old again. Change in transfer policy?

In the context of your meeting with Ralph, how do you feel about things at the moment?

Swansea have done well. Kept bony and where they have just lost Davies, are looking to get a player swap as part of it (gylfi is a great player.) if I were saints then Swansea is the model I would follow, especially as they are a smaller club than us.