Monk

We currently have six active enquiries/approaches for players. Pelle has hit a snag, from our end. It appears we may have our sights set elsewhere.

Once the second part of the medical is completed today he will be announced. No idea on shirt number, he was at Marchwood yesterday, where he agreed his contract which I believe has since been drawn up ready for the photo shots. The quote I was given "expect the dominoe effect".

Yes sorry. Not because of funds just man power/time. We expected to close the Pelle deal before this.

It is done Pelle has stalled predominately because of this deal.

Shame the lead foundation coach requires your A licence.

Aim is to complete by Monday, possibly before.

To be fair, the adidas cock up was on their end not ours.

If you're watching Paolo Nutini, just wait for 'Iron Sky' what a song that is!

I am aware that we are very close to losing a deal for a player due to our delay in confirming the deal. No idea who he is but he isn't playing in the WC, Valencia, Torino and Inter are interested. p.s Jay Rod in good spirits and progressing well.

Completely disagree with those of you slating Adam for signing a CHILDS Liverpool shirt whilst on international duty. However, I am very ****ed off at the comments he 'supposedly' made. Never thought I'd see the day Adam Lallana would behave in such a way.

The last time I felt gutted by a Saints transfer would be Wayne Bridge's move to Chelsea. This however is another level. Genuinely feeling sad about it today.

John Bishop as Lambert.

Not quite yet, not cultured enough. Closest to non football related reading is early years related and sports psychology.

I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic: 10/10

The thing I find most bizarre about England and tournament football is we never go out to attack. Always pedestrian and cautious. Okay it worked for the Italians but it hasn't for us. Why cant we go out and play to win each game? After all football is an invasion game and you can't win the world cup by drawing.

Read the opening post. I haven't got much of a clue how much it would cost to bring him here but it wont be £10m.# My main emphasis was Lasogga.

£4m might be enough but there's one real candidate for me - Lasogga.

THIS

Shut up.

Interested in peoples opinions in the following two questions: Should Rickie make the move, will he remain a club icon/legend in the same capacity? Should Rickie make the move should he stay in the banner? Thoughts

Hats off, smashes my post out of the water. My sentiments exactly.

Firstly, I do not expect you to all agree or perhaps like the following post. I suggest you take a deep breath before you read: Over the last five years, I have witnessed a number of bedwetters on this forum panicking from 'issues' such as not purchasing a player who posses pace, no weekly press statements regarding a stadium expansion to hideous car park charges. However, following our most successful and enjoyable season in the PL we now have a stomach churning summer which has a number of us questioning 'why we bother'? Ultimately, we are not a big club. People come and go with ambitions to progress us and sometimes those ambitions have been reached. I urge you to bare in mind it is just as easier to fall from success than it is to maintain it (success in our case was cracking the top half with a philosophy). We as a fan base easily get carried away with anything, whether its positive or negative as opposed to just supporting our club. However, the last few weeks I have found incredibly unsettling and uncomfortable as a large number of you have. The majority of you will respect the fact it is now the close season, the media go into overdrive with their imagination regarding transfers. There's much more column inches to fill daily now there is no PL/FL matches to cover, that's just how the English media is and we MUST get use to it. I do hate it when people say 'well you/we must be doing something right if clubs are interested in your players' - I can assure you, nobody knows this more than the fans that pay £40 a week to watch the team week in. It is incredibly bizarre that we have endured our most successful campaign but have since lost our manager and potential 4 key players but as they say, that is football. It happened to Villa, Newcastle and Leeds for whatever reasons but it happened. I am not happy with the way the club has conducted itself from closed doors. My personal opinion is Southampton's board should of notified potential bidders/agents that any approaches for our players before the WC will be deemed as disrespectful and we will not take it lightly (no deal will be done with that club or run the risk of paying a higher fee). I appreciate everybody is feeling the pinch of uncertainty around our club its completely valid, just take a deep breath as unfortunately we can only do one thing WAIT until the new management comes in. Thunder is just a noise and it can't hurt you, when lightening does strike that's another bloody matter!

Can anybody elaborate why Yakin left Basel?

Hit Nail The Head: Reassemble the above words as you please but that's opening post is spot on.

What a surprise Jim White brining up Nicola.