S-Clarke

He moved out of his Ocean Village apartment yesterday, and his stuff has been put in storage. He was ready to start talking to Spurs, so I'm not having what Ralf said in that we never spoke with anyone regarding the sale.

Morgan is staying in a hotel in Southampton overnight apparently.

That was probably before the board decided to sell everyone else, and now actually realise we need a competitive team.

Would have the same effect the playoffs have had in the NPC - it means that tons of teams still have a chance of reaching the big time, even with weeks left. Would level the playing field and make things so much more interesting. That way, every club has kind of got a chance to get into the CL. Seeing as that seems to be the be all and end all for every player on the planet...

I must admit, I was a little naive to think that they'd just sold Morgan and Jay the vision and that they were happy to stay for now. They clearly hadn't been spoken to at all. Another utter PR disaster by own good old friend Ralf.

If so many players want out, this badly, then yes there is.

I think the ''destroyed'' comments comes from what he's now going to have to do. He's clearly now going to force a move via agents/media/striking. He will go, and our friend Ralf will find his position untenable. But once again, I'm sure we'll hear the fact that ''he wanted to go, we want players who want to be here''. No, we know want to know why the flying **** so many want out. It's not normal, something is horrendously wrong.

There must be something so horrible going on at the club that so many want out, this badly. It's not even a little request, it's a steaming great big hissy fit from them all.

Yeah, he's gone. We've been duped, again.

We have a problem.

ummmm

The cynical bone in me says it's because no clubs was willing to meet our 'premium'.

For 6.7m, I'm so frustrated he's not here. I'd hope we could have competed with Lazio.

Probably long-term to be used over multiple windows I imagine.

I wasn't actually being naughty with that quote at all, was just putting it out there as to why else would he have been meeting them? We're after a couple of their lads?

Now...what do we make of that?

There is a lot more information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28542225

If he isn't, then his position is untenable and he will have to go - or fans will force him out. It will get ugly.

Why is anyone going to say sorry based on a bit of PR? Actions, and lots of actions, and then we may be seeing some u-turns. Until then, they've achieved nothing but failure.

They've loaned him back to Lille I think?

We've just added £10m onto every single target. I wish he'd stop talking about Europe as well. We clearly won't get there by doing what we're doing.

Unfortunately this seems 1 interview too many for Ralf. Struggling in this one.

He's imminent.

It's now a frontpage statement on the OS. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/29072014-ralph-krueger-on-jay-rodriguez-and-morgan-schneiderlin-1790653.aspx They're clearly not going now. I believe it.

Just to throw this one out there, as others have said....maybe there was an urgent meeting, and it also kind of backs up the reports that Morgan was meeting the club earlier today. Morgan made it clear that he wanted to see the plans and good signings made....maybe they've given Morgan the rundown on the players they're actually after and he's ended up coming away pretty excited by it all. Just throwing a positive thought out there for the hell of it. I'm of the opinion that Ralf wouldn't have said something which such certainty if he hadn't spoken to both players and received their backing. There were no ifs, buts, maybes...a clear and straight ''No, they won't be going''. Let's see the action now...