S-Clarke

To be honest, as crap as it is for us, you cannot help but feel a sense of pride to see Lambert turning out for his home town club. It's a story that will warm the hearts of any football fan - a wonderful journey and he deserves every single bit of it. Top bloke, always will be remembered as one of our best strikers in my generation.

I believe Alpine has applied for the role.

I hate the ring-fencing that is done on fans. ''happy clappy'' ''negative'' and now ''special fans''. All I can see on here are a bunch of passionate and dedicated saints fans who are all desperate to see their club do the best they can. All we are seeing at the moment is our manager going, our talisman striker on the verge of leaving and the very strong likelihood of our captain and leading defender following them. That's just depressing and it doesn't paint the board in a positive light, no matter how you swing it. Sure, they might be good bids, but what is it....do we not need the money? or are we up the creek financially? If we were as ambitious as we want us to be as fans, then we want the club to be hard nosed. Don't put value's on players heads, don't talk about doing what is right for the club - doing what is right for the club is keeping this squad together, but they're clearly not intent on doing that. The board have come across naive and very dim in how they've approached every situation thus far. RK is nothing but a spokesperson, he's clueless in terms of being a chairman in my eyes - he comes across as someone who is utterly, utterly out of his depth - and if the owner of this club is making decisions to appoint people like him to such a position, then you have to worry about future decisions. I might be being harsh on RK, but I don't have the time for people like him - just waffles nothing. Talks at you, and says nothing. Delivers, nothing. As a supporter base, we should be so excited for the summer. We've just had our best ever season in the PL, we've got a host of our players at the World Cup (playing for our own country) - yet we can't be excited, because we know they're all off anyway. Ok, it's not been announced yet - but it will happen, just as it did with MP. There's no point in tippy tapping around the edges and plugging your ears, these other sales will happen - it's just a matter of time. The club has set their stool out, players are for sale. Simple as that. Offer us what we deem as acceptable, then they can go. Gone are the days of us not even entertaining bids, we are now in a position whereby every, single person at the club is for sale at the right price. This board have got a hell of a lot to prove to win me over.

Gone are the days I used to look forward to Guan posting gossip

Just to throw one out there, maybe the new manager is done and he has sanctioned this transfer as he goes about finalising his contract with us. Nah, didn't think so either.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27629474 It's as close to being done as it can be, without being announced.

Sorry, but what the hell has this got to do with our media department? The reason the media have such a free-for-all is because of the likes of RK, and Hans whatshisname and their throwaway, naive comments. The comments regarding them inheriting a difficult financial situation was ill-advised, ill-timed and opened up the doors. This isn't anything to do with the media team. They put out what they're told to put out.

The last 3 echo headlines, in chronological order, in the last 3 days. 'We're aiming for Europe' - full interview with Saints chairman Ralph Krueger Ex-Brighton boss on Saints radar Lambert close to shock Liverpool move

According to a Liverpool ITK, Liverpool are discussing a fee with us regarding Reed as well.

Probably £30m or so, on a load of utter dross.

That was already sanctioned, and they couldn't just stop the work 90% completed (As it was at that stage when they came in).

Take your head out of the sand.

Have you had your head in the oven?

Was that ever actually confirmed? And anyway, at that point - we still had a manager, Lallana, Shaw and Lovren weren't subject to bids and Jay wasn't out for 6-9 months.

They will get them as well.

''We are Southampton, we're not off to Brazil''

But we didn't have stripes, MLT wasn't' allowed in the club, and the press hated us.

Was always just talk, good talk, but talk. I'm never sucked in by people like him, slimy, fan on the board, have a pint with me in the pub types. Actions were what we were waiting for. Looks like we have our 2nd action of the summer, and a 2nd fail for the new board.

It's ok, we want Oscar Garcia. We'll rejuvenate our interest in Mackail-Smith.

That will clearly happen now.

I can see the wood from the tree's, and all the board are feeding us is waffle. Look what they're doing....it will all become clear in 6-8 weeks. Please don't be sucked in by what he says. He's good at talking and getting fans on side, that's why he's in that position. Then the people behind him can do all the stuff he doesn't mention.

''We are Southampton, we're not off to Brazil.''

I tell you what, Twitter has made the transfer window an absolute bull ache. It's like walking through wades of treacle every hour.

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