Pamplemousse

That does look pretty spot on

Or you could say we had just appointed the failed Valencia coach and his brother whose managerial career you can describe as average at best. Puel is a highly respected manager in France. Pascal Plancque was wanted by PSG before he came here. Eric Black was Steve Bruce's trusted right hand man for many years.

Corporate Ho has come back and is pleasuring himself as we speak whilst reading your material

Apparently Koeman has told their rich owner to pull out all the stops to sign Van Dijk

So have we deduced that the images of those kits are fake?

Gregoire is 24 years old. Le Havre have a terrific academy, one of the best in France, but Gregoire isn't from their academy. Apparently we were very close to signing their top goal scorer before he signed for Bournemouth.

It's their club anthem. They are France's oldest football club and were founded by members from Oxford and Cambridge (their home kit (ciel et marine) is light and dark blue, the colours of the two universities

Dave Watson was at relegated Norwich before he came to us.

There is no way we would sign Gregoire Puel. Having physically seen Le Havre play, it was comfortably the worst standard of football I have ever seen. (their stadium, however, is very nice and they play God Save The Queen before every game)

In my mind, the number one priority is a number 10 player. It was the one thing we lacked last season.

Crabb has some rather 'interesting' views on gay people. It has to be Theresa May, she is the only credible candidate.

The messages from the French media seem very positive. Of course, it's too early to judge either way but I think Les Reed and the black box may have pulled a rabbit out of the hat. I also hope that, unlike his predecessor, the academy lads are, at the very least, given a chance. If they're no good, they're no good but it seems like they were written off before kicking a ball. Let's hope Puel is more favourable to the Southampton Way.

Good find. Plancque seems to be an excellent choice.

Well at least we know he speaks English although it's a bit broken. Probably a good idea to get Eric Black in whilst Puel improves his English.

Absolutely gutted that they didn't choose Guy Mengual This is Pascal Plancque It's pronounced roughly PLONK

Who is PP

When we qualify for the Champions League, there will be some classic posts from this thread to dig up again

Same guy on Twitter who originally said that Eric Black was joining.

http://www.francefootball.fr/news/Mercato-claude-puel-est-a-southampton/700958

You of all people can hardly accuse anyone of attention seeking

http://www.destentor.nl/regio/dalfsen/nieuwleusen-vreest-britse-fans-bij-pec-southampton-1.6150326 Can any of our resident dutchies translate? From Google translate, it seems like one Dutch mayor wants to ban Saints fans from attending.

Is it Guy Mengual?

6/10

My opinion of Rupert Lowe has just gone up. Only very slightly though.