Greenridge

It's not obviously the case whatsoever. Talk about speculation.

Didn't he get the hump with Koeman last year? Maybe it's a hangover from then. Either that or he has indeed had enough of the current 'Southampton Way' or his opinion of his own ability is misguided and he see's himself elsewhere.

Unfortunately we're not doing much of any of those three with any regularity right now.

Indeed they can. He could be making 1 yard passes to Cedric, VvD, Forster, Romeu and Bertrand all game.

Indeed they do but not to the tune of 5 - 8 pretty much every single week. No one does that on a regular basis. No one.

Do you not think that if it was such an innovative idea that gave a huge advantage that all the big clubs, well all clubs for that matter, would be doing the same? Surely little ol' Southampton haven't beaten everyone else to this strategy.

Yes, I agree, you are speculating.

I don't know much about him except for both Klopp and Wenger have allegedly been interested him in recent months and they're both pretty good judges.

Probably why the club have gone to the press with the Fonte news today. Be interesting to see if it's someone who's been on the media radar or an out-of-the-blue signing.

I always wondered how someone could ever reach 40k+ of posts on a football forum.

Not expecting him to criticise. He could have just published the information from SFC / Reed but he's done more than that he's actually endorsed it fairly significantly with additional comment.

We're paying I assume rather than getting for JF?

Ah OK. The PA Dugout Twitter feed is quoting it and they're normally pretty reliable. Whichever way there seems to be lots of interest in him and at the fee quoted or thereabouts.

Celtic must be following our model. They only bought Dembele last year for £500K as a development fee. That's some return.

West Ham have apparently bid £20M for Dembele at Celtic.

Modelled himself on Wayne Shaw. Actually, as you say, he did OK for us. Big lad.

He's talking about this. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dejan-lovren-cryptic-comment-southamptons-12353169 It's all 'social media' whichever way you look at it.

Reading Blackmore's feed I was surprised how he seems to have completely taken everything as said by Reed as gospel. We all know how the propaganda machine works- on both sides - with each party wanting to present themselves in the best possible light for the ensuing move.

So just Rooney in reply to his point then. Sanchez is very happy according to to Wenger and neither he nor Ozil are Captains.

The club would have known this was coming for weeks if not months. A plan will be in place and with the timing of the transfer request I expect him to leave this window. The propoganda war has started.

The only other (real) option is Oriol if we want an outfield player or I guess Forster.

Always thought Andrew Davies was a better player than he was given credit for although I seem to recall winning player of the season when only playing half the campaign. Shows what a state we were in then I guess. Injury prone unfortunately.

I don't think he'll be allowed to field twelve.

Planning to play 'a youthful' team against Norwich according to The Echo http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/15002169.Puel_set_to_take_a_gamble/?ref=mr&lp=1