Jimmy_D

Don't blame him for going or the club for letting him go for that sort of money.

This was actually a lot easier to check than I was expecting, Football League Trophy started in 83/84, so the eight winning squads in the Euros to check since then. Vast majority of those players have never played in England, and out of those that have, only Traianos Dellas of Greece has played below the Top Flight, other than Fonte. Took about 15 minutes So, yes, he's the first player to win that particular double.

http://www.bayernforum.com/transfers-f1/pierre-hojbjerg-t10345-540.html General consensus that it's a pretty good deal for all parties from their view.

Gets my vote as well, but 'tis up to Steve and Baj, not us cat herders.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/20160710-jose-fonte-cedric-euro-2016-final-report-portugal-france-3178003.aspx

From League One, with us all the way to captaining us to our best Prem Finish and becoming European Champion with his country, getting into that team purely because of his efforts with Saints? Gets my vote.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/752254202374660096

They are going to get one heck of a reception when they get back to St. Mary's

Wow. They've done it!!!! Fonte and Soares finish with a perfect defensive record.

... Holy **** Fonte, these last ten minutes belong to you.

Seven years.... It really doesn't seem that long. Thank You Marcus.

Portugal will be underdogs, but they WILL have a chance. It'd be awesome to see Fonte lifting the trophy

Isn't he the one who reportedly said he wanted to join us? http://www.espnfc.com/story/2903061/wolfsburg-striker-bas-dost-eyes-move-to-nice-club-southampton

Aye, was thinking that myself.

Have to say I really like the new kit myself. That said...

You really think that wasn't Rosberg's fault? There's a bloody good reason that there's only one driver under investigation at the moment.

Wow. Racing hard is one thing, but Nico just deliberately crashed into Hamilton there. Utterly ridiculous.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?56756-Claude-Puel-Announced-as-New-Manger-OFFICAL#.V3UYd0JicZY

You mean, like to van Dijk, or Forster, for example? You can count on one hand the teams that can keep all their players. We might have lost Wanyama and Mané, but we've also improved on the quality of players we've been able to keep hold of. We've also kept hold of Wanyama, Schneiderlin and Mané a season longer than we once would have, which has given us two seasons of qualifying for Europe. That'll let us attract better replacements for those players. We won't carry on improving season on season forever, but we definitely have the structures in place for the Club to improve over time.

Would have been funny, but...

Apologies, 'like Liverpool journalists are trying to claim.' Saints report of a club record fee is the only official source of information we have, LFC are quoting it as undisclosed.

Yeah, Saints saying it's a club record, so no chance of it being less than £30M like Liverpool are trying to claim.

It's a shame he's gone, he's been really good to watch in a Saints shirt. Pretty likely I'll be able to say I was there for the fastest Premier League hat trick for a long long time to come because of him Now we need to carry on our track record of spending money ten times better than Liverpool. That's already led us to finishing above them for the first time in our history. Hopefully it can keep us above them next season.

I couldn't name a single policy Farage has, apart from leaving the EU. I'm not sure he even has any? Considering he's got that now, I'm not sure what he'll use to get any votes any more.