peacey

Wheres your sense of humour my little flower? Mind you i ought to relise you dont have one by now!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/381688/Comedian-Lee-Nelson-poses-a-England-star-before-airport-security-notice-and-chuck-him-out Brillant!

http://www.ftbpro.com/posts/lauren.sfc.hanslip/976205/liebherr-s-load-of-lies

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/southampton-being-punished-for-progress/

Lets be honest there is a good chance a PR stunt going on here?: I have never before seen the press in my life time link so many of our players to different clubs, or for that matter any club had its players linked as much as we are currently having. Something just isnt right here on this front-oh and as i speak jay rod is surposed to be joining spurs as the next to leave even though he is injured. Football has curruption these days and we are maybe the target of someone who maybe used to be at the club perhaps,maybe not from our club for that matter? Someone imo has a big dislike for the club and is doing everything to dismantle it....I may be shot for this, but may even be paying the papers to dismantle us? Maybe not though? I surpose i just want to know who is behind it if there is indeed any truth to this, with your guess as good as mine? Maybe there is know truth to this? Again this is just imo though..... I could be very wrong here, but felt the need to post this. Thoughts? I suspect i wil get loads of abuse now, but it has concerned me for a while.

Take Krueger with a big pinch of salt. He is her yes man i sadly feel. I feel we are being buttered up. I mean after a report from sky this morning, we were surposed to not have to sell anyone......yet a mere 8 hours later Lambert is off back home!! I dont have a good taste in m mouth at all about this....

Could it be she wants her money back before selling the club and making a little profit to? Just a thought? I am convinced she is not intrested in southampto fc. Hence the deals you have stated above? Could a certain Mr Cortese be waiting in the wings to buy back the club with a new owner? Other than this i dont have any other way off understanding what the f*ck her and the board are up to?

Pochettino targets Southampton players: Tottenham are to make a stunning £25 million move for Southampton's Adam Lallana after Mauricio Pochettino became the London club's new manager. The Daily Express reports that the Argentine boss wants to capitalise on Liverpool's cooling interest in the England midfielder and Lallana's reluctance to move his young family too far away from the South Coast. The paper claims that Pochettino and Lallana have a close relationship and that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy will back the new manager in the transfer market. The Daily Mail adds that Pochettino will also try to raid his former club for Jay Rodriguez, while Dejan Lovren, Callum Chambers, Nathaniel Clyne, Morgan Schneiderlin and James Ward-Prowse could all be on his radar too. Paper Round's view: Southampton have been resigned to losing Lallana for some time, but the list of other players they stand to lose as Pochettino looks to stick with what he knows will be concerning for the South Coast club. Having lost their manager and his backroom staff, and with their best player about to leave, their task now will be damage limitation - and that means stopping as many other players as possible from making it into an exodus. Installing a new manager as quickly as possible is the first step to doing that Dailymail at it again?!

Murat Yakin The next Guardiola? Marvellous Murat Yakin deserves a chance at the very top The Basel boss continues to perform miracles in Europe with a squad blighted by injuries and departures to bigger clubs - that he will soon follow suit seems only right Against all the odds and the expectations of the continent, Basel made history last season by reaching their first European semi-final. Twelve months on, with dreams of a treble still alive as their domestic superiority continues, the Swiss champions are on the brink of the last four again after dismantling Valencia in the Europa League quarter-final first leg. All this with a squad size and financial backing which barely register on the Richter scale of the continent's biggest movers and shakers. Little wonder, then, that coach Murat Yakin is becoming one of Europe's hottest properties. MURAT'S BASEL MAESTROS YANN SOMMER Signed by Gladbach as Ter Stegen's summer replacement, Sommer has become one of Europe's finest since 2012. FABIAN SCHAR Still just 22, the cultured defender - with a rasping shot - and has been tracked by Barca and Dortmund despite injuries. FABIAN FREI The Swiss league's most versatile player played down a January move by claiming suitors "wouldn't know" his best position. MOHAMED ELNENY A technically gifted 21-year-old midfielder who starred alongside Mohamed Salah at youth level for club and country. VALENTIN STOCKER On the brink of joining Schalke before the deal fell through, thw einger has speed and skill in abundance - and a wicked finish. While Basel are no strangers to Europe's top table, they have always remained small fry among the continental elite. Shock Champions League wins over Manchester United and Bayern Munich in 2011-12 were seen as one-off triumphs rather than signs of genuine progress under coach Thorsten Fink (and later Heiko Vogel). A 7-0 thrashing at the Allianz Arena that season was a return to the norm. Yakin has changed that perception. After guiding Luzern to second in the league and a place in the Schweizer Cup final, the former midfielder was picked to replace Vogel in October 2012 after Basel picked up just four wins in their first 11 games. Yakin promptly defended Basel's league crown reached the cup final against Grasshopper Zurich. A penalty shoot-out defeat handed their rivals their first trophy in 10 years, and remains Yakin's sole blot on his Basel copybook. But it was in European competition where he began to capture attention. Building his side around a flexible 4-2-3-1 system, Basel despatched Dnipro and Zenit with minimal fuss before their historic win over Andre Villas-Boas' Tottenham last season. Defeat to eventual winners Chelsea followed, but Yakin – far from accepting an inevitable end to the dream – was already plotting revenge. Summer brought more transition to the club: the departure of outstanding defensive prospect Aleksandar Dragovic and the retirement of club icon Alex Frei could have been enough to destabilise FCB in the past. But not under Yakin. In came former players Matias Delgado and Behrang Safari, Ivan Ivanov and later Marek Suchy bolstered the defence, and the core talent of Yann Sommer, Fabian Frei, Mohamed Salah and Valentin Stocker was retained. Yakin also toyed with his tactics. The 4-2-3-1 system was adapted to a 4-1-4-1 for Basel's more difficult games, with Fabian Frei moved into the midfield pivot role (one which Yakin adopted for club and country as a player) to allow more creative freedom for Stocker, Salah and new signing Giovanni Sio further forward. It was a system deployed for spells of the game at Stamford Bridge, as Basel inflicted upon Jose Mourinho his only home defeat thus far since his return to Chelsea and a first win in 20 attempts for Swiss sides in England. By the time Salah struck the winner in the return fixture - and sealed his own January move to the Blues - Yakin was a noisy blip on the European radar, buoyed by the "beautiful" praise of Mourinho. Hannover made enquiries, which the 39-year-old dismissed; Tottenham, having dispensed with Villas-Boas, reportedly named him on a shortlist of options which included Louis van Gaal and Ajax coach Frank de Boer. Stellar company indeed. Injuries soon mounted; Schar's three-month convalescence was made worse by a host of further absentees. So Yakin changed again: Frei was moved into the back four, Mohamed Elneny and Serey Die took charge of the midfield engine room, and Basel stayed top of the Super League before putting Europa League top-scorers Red Bull Salzburg out of the competition with a whimper. Against Valencia, with no recognised strikers available, five defenders sidelined and St Jakob Park empty after a supporter ban, the end of the road seemed inevitable - this was a team who beat Barcelona at Camp Nou, after all. But not so. Yakin started the match with Delgado as a false 10, with Stocker and David Degen either side on the wings. Delgado scored his first goals since September; Basel were free-flowing, supremely disciplined and up for the fight. And yet the win came as no surprise to Yakin's charges. "It's not incredible for us," Delgado said after the match. "We believed that we could do something like that, for sure. Maybe we didn't think about winning 3-0, but our team beat Chelsea, these lads have a lot of experience with big teams – you can see it, you can feel it." Yakin has never lost by three or more goals in Europe. Don't expect this belief to waver in Spain on Thursday. On the brink of more domestic silverware and a second-successive Europa League semi-final, Yakin's stock has never been higher, and he will be primed to listen to any offers from abroad this summer as he enters the final year of his contract. The Bundesliga and the Premier League remain the most likely possible destination; some of his Basel stars could even join him. As a player, Yakin struggled to cement himself at clubs outside of Switzerland. Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern and Fenerbahce (twice) all tried and failed to coax the best from him on the pitch. But should he continue to flourish in the dugout, the man already regarded as one of Basel's greatest-ever servants could yet become their finest export to date. http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4016/main/2014/04/10/4742927/the-next-guardiola-marvellous-murat-yakin-deserves-a-chance

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/380315/Pochettino-contract-talks-cast-doubt-over-Man-Utd-and-Liverpool-bids-for-Southampton-duo

http://footylatest.com/southampton-owe-it-to-clubs-outside-the-top-six-to-stand-firm/56273?utm_source=dlvr.it Good article.

What the f*ck is there problem: Cortese involved? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2628151/Southampton-players-think-Mauricio-Pochettino-leave-summer-Tottenham-likely-destination.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EchoSaintsForum/?fref=ts Twiter photo saying MoPo ill sign new 3year eal with investment to follow Probably bullsh*t but thought i would post it

The daily echo

Poch offered new deal.

Mike Williamson was a saint once If my memory is right? Did he ever play for us though?

Source?

Ok. Mods feel free to lock this. Sorry if i got anyones hopes up.

Berget??? Went on skysports website and he is in the squad profile of soton as number 34. It says we have signed him on a free transfer from Molde? Yet alo say hehas signed or cardiff cit? I am a tad confused here, ca anyonehelp or itk spread some lght here?

Poch laughs off quit reports: Mauricio Pochettino laughed off reports that he is set to leave Saints at the end of the season. The Italian media have suggested that the highly thought of Saints boss will depart for pastures new in the summer, when he will have just a year left to run on his contract. ... Pochettino admitted talks over a new deal have not yet begun but insisted the reports of his likely departure were incorrect. “In Italy there is a new piece of news happening every single minute and most of them are contradictory from one hour to the next,” he smiled. “What can I say about it? I think if we paid attention to every single report that came out in Italy we’d probably go mad. “I can’t really comment on something that has no solidity to it. “I am happy here of course.” He added: “There haven’t been any talks about an extension of the contract. “There isn’t any news about that and the moment that does happen I will answer that question.”

Dave Beasant vs Liverpool. Runs out his area to get ball, controls it then kicks straight to John Barnes in the middle of the pitch. Barnes hits it towards goal with Beasant running back to the goal can not get there in time. I remember this like yesterday.

How many there tonight?

Jack Stephens?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/desmond-kane/poland-renaissance-man-artur-boruc-remains-truly-blessed-204310676.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2446431/Southamptons-Dani-Osvaldo-dreaming-life-Argentina.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 WTF?