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Couldn't say, perhaps it was on Cortese's "to do" list and he took it with him. Who knows really. The upheaval at the club last January (or was it October) has left a lot of situations in abeyance, presumably someone will take care of it sooner or later. Was it not said (can't remember when or by whom) that those 2 players did have new contract offers but that they were withdrawn? Perhaps I'm getting that wrong but I've got an inkling that I'm not. The veracity of the original statement though, that I couldn't guarantee.

Contracts aren't a one way street, perhaps there have been preliminary discussions at some time or other and the proposed terms were neither right for the player or the club.

OK... If that's what pointing out forum rules generates I've no problem with it. I'll let the admin sort out their problems and adherence to their rules next time. DO NOT copy and paste entire articles from other websites on the forum. It is almost certainly a breach of copyright, and we get a lot of hassle from people at the Echo and the like because of it.

They can pay him what they want but just now they can't magically produce European football which is what it's all about in his case. In his first FFF interview he said that he'd reached the Footballer's Grail (ie the senior national side) he will not want to throw that away, I have told you before how DD's mind works, big club is better than little club and a slightly poorer player with CL experience is better than a better one without. He's not going to throw all of that away, in my opinion it would break him totally if after being a bit part player at the WC he fell into obscurity in favour of a lesser player from Monaco,PSG or Porto (they all have candidates) We saw against Ecuador that Morgan has surpassed Mavuba for the right to be Cabaye's understudy, he'll want to go on from there now and be first choice in the role as Cabaye is injury prone,poorly disciplined and pushing 29 (I think). Morgan will leave this summer and no amount of money will keep him here.

if they'd taken a hit down to say 20% 16+4 would be about right actually. Depends on exactly what constitutes the transfer fee and the role of VAT in all that. 16 for Saints,4 for Bournemouth and 5 for the tax man, total 25 million, as I said we'll never know.

Wenger probably speaks to Morgan every other day in the course of his role as a consultant to TF1, not that he'd ever admit it of course but with Giroud and Koscielny in the same group he has every opportunity.

As I said, total confusion and we'll never ever know the real figures, exactly as in the case of Shaw. Lallana has gone for a figure that the club eventually judged acceptable. Liverpool fans will file it down, ours will crank it up, each to satisfy their own desire not to have been ripped off.

different type of beer ?

I just can't be bothered with pedants such as yourself. When the club tells me exactly how much we obtained from the Shaw deal and the exact conditions of payment then I can answer your question. I don't know the amount of every transfer of every teenager in world football, neither do you so just leave it out. Rooney was sold when a teenager for a figure reported to be in the region of 30 million £ many years ago, until someone shows me the exact figures for the 2 transfers then I'm in no position to judge. Neither is anyone else.

It's a free world, I have no particular confidence in those running the club just now and that affects my posting. I have seen plenty of no one is for sale and then there are sales. To me it's just all esbroufe and nothing that happens in the near future will surprise me. I just expect more of the same from the club, all smoke and mirrors.

He has other suitors, no doubt Twente are just trying to get the best deal for him. I mean it was reported even last week that we had agreed a bid for Pelle and then it was reported that we hadn't. One does not really know what to believe any more. As I said yesterday when it's on the OS we'll know it's gone through.

Probably, never noticed them in the first place.

Talking of kit ..I noticed that the sponsors on the rolling bar on the OS have been reduced from 7 to 4 now. I can see that Adidas have gone and the betting outfit,Veho have replaced AAP but who else is missing.

But none of them had to resort to Jos,Gazzaniga and Fox. They had weaknesses but not at the same level that we did.

And hopefully we'll offer more than Schalke or Seville for him, remains to be seen.

Minor league internationals don't count, they're bit part players not particularly desired elsewhere.

Really? And he couldn't arrange that in his own time. Hope it's not like Osvaldo's illness then.

Probably not no.

Or Shaw or Lambert... You have to wonder why internationals don't want to play for us really.

No Boruc then, suppose he had a couple of internationals after the season ended and won't be back for a while yet.

plenty of clubs will take him on loan if the price is low enough, plenty of other nasty pieces of work in the Calcio. Managed 4 months at Juve without getting into too much trouble I think. Probably just hated Southampton in general and Southampton FC in particular and made sure he got out soon enough.

As I said never would be soon enough for me. Personal opinion,we'll see how he gets on. I expect no miracles from him so i can only be pleasantly surprised. Like Koeman I've seen his record elsewhere, poor at Alkmaar, poor at Samp and Parma. He may have improved since then but I'm uncertain that success in the Dutch league is a guarantee of success with us. It could be that he was playing for one of the strongest teams and they just steamrollered nearly everyone else. Our initial valuation was reported to be very low, Koeman must have told those bidding not to go too high at first surely,if the player was of an exceptional standard surely we would have offered more initially.

total fallacy, copyright and intellectual property are exactly that, the property of the owner and cannot be reproduced without permission. Try copying out a bestseller and putting it up on the internet and see where it gets you.

Yes there are, read the terms and conditions on any site.Just saying where it comes from does not give you the right to reproduce it elsewhere. By looking at the Ugly you see their adverts etc. For instance the fixture list for football, you aren't allowed to reproduce it and say Oh yes it comes from the FA. It's copyright you can't reproduce it without express permission of the owner.

Yes it would, he wants to leave, he said so, he needs to be at a top club and will have no doubt been told that by the FFF again. Even Debuchy is being manoeuvred out of Newcastle to Arsenal. The FFF want the players who'll carry their Euro Home Campaign playing for top clubs and that excludes Newcastle and Southampton.