S-Clarke

It's nothing to do with that. He's been very very poor for a while now. The game passed him by yesterday.

been looking into this guy a bit more, it seems to be a really random signing if true. His club have just got promoted to Serie A and according to the stats he's one of their keymen with 11 goals from midfield last season in Serie B. His record before his move to Cesena is a bit iffy though, he had a very very serious injury when he was at Fiorentina and found him self loaned out everywhere for a few seasons, but in the last year he seems to have got over his injury troubles..There were rumblings that Roma and Lazio were interested earlier in the summer. He looks to be well loved at Cesena and they don't want to sell him...so i think it's safe to assume that it will be one hell of a coup to get him to L1..

What i think Morgan needs is a midfielder bombing on in front of him. Hammond and Morgan are always too close together creating a very narrow approach at times, there's no real ''AMC'' in our squad. If we get this new guy hopefully that will give us what we need...

Hopefully the next batch of Bales and Theo's are not too far away, and their emergence coincides with us getting back to the PL.

He was completely rubbish yesterday, in-fact he's been off form for way too long now and i'm not surprised Pardew took him off. I like hammond, when he plays well he's my sort of CM - but that's not been frequent enough for me. Bring in the competition to give him a kick up the backside, he's the captain but doesn't look like one at the moment.

Good scoop saint-lard, looks like it may be happening.

If he has Pace, sign him up.

A truly inept game of football. Not sure what else is to be said really. Good start, out of the blocks early - got the goal then decided to fall asleep 3 mins later from a corner. after that, the game was over. It was so poor.

i would assume they mean papa?

Reminds me of the Papa Waigo deal, came out of nowhere. (actually, all our signings have been like that haven't they?) If it's true, i'd imagine Cortese's contacts have come into play again.

+1. so much will change if we fail to go up, and it won't get easier by any means.

Nice thread CWD - thanks for sharing. I ''think'' he's a defensive player, but i'm not 100% sure.

I don't think his ''entire'' family own us, it's more likley to be one of his siblings that have takne over control - similar to what has happend with the mali businesses. the quote bellow suggests the ownership stays within the family - " I can confirm to our supporters that ownership of Southampton Football Club shall remain solely within Markus' family's personal interests."

That's what we all wanted to hear. Now let's go and WIFM

This is an old, un-founded rumour.

It did sound like we are tracking players that are better than we currently have, rather than just average squad players.

I think it was also a pop at some players we've possibly spoken to, not just older players. There was a rumour we were after Adu - but then he apparently demanded massive wages.

Wasn't sure what to read into that if im honest - time will tell i guess.

His preview has just popped up on Saints Player and the OS - http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2128125,00.html I think he talks well and is trying hard to get everyone focused by the sounds of it. He also mentions in the video - "we're lucky that Markus family will be continuing the investment, hopefully" - not sure how much he really knows of that though. Also some news on transfers on the video - ''Work is still on going, we're trying to be patient because we don't want to miss some of the better signings that become avaliable later. We're on the ball with a number of players at the moment, we'll move when we feel it's right too. It's about getting players that affect the first team, it's not easy to find very good players that will come to this level and be 100% committed. There are plenty of good players that will come here, but how committed will they be? I need players that don't just accept finance and an easy end to their career, i want players that have 100% commitment to what we're doing here" ''I'll be concerned if we don't get some players in within the next 12 days, we have a small squad at the moment, our bench is showing that''

I agree in parts, but i understand that the club were planning things for this game and with the shockingly low attendance, these cannot go ahead (mozaics possibly)

That would still be so poor. 55k got the chance to go to Wembley because of him and probably enjoyed one of their best saints supporting days. you'd think just over half of that attedance could muster up an appereance against leyton orient to say thanks.

Do we really need this on this thread? No.

A lone striker most of the time, although alex revell may have played with him when he was there

Very, very good.

That watch story really is heart-wrenching. I'm not really looking at this as if the club has lost it's owner, more so the world has lost one heck of a man.