alpine_saint

Normally agree with you, but not on this one. NC has set his stall out to players, clubs and agents : Don't f**k with me. I am perfectly happy with that.

Paranoid. If this deal doesnt go through because NC has dug his heels in, I shall applaud him.

This Charming Man is right, people who read that article wont give a shiny one if its Claus or Forbes Ernest Phillipson-Masters, they will only see Southampton Football Club.

Yep, we are back in the same situation as the last days of the Dell. NC wont do anything about it untill he see a sustained trend - and at least one Premeirship survival, imo.

Completely agree, hence my comment #23...

Why does the Lords need reforming ?

Its about time this idiot was made persona non grata in Southampton.......

I am worried about this. We have no champions in the corridors of power, like the West Hams of this world. I can see this blowing up big-time...

Rangers have ben punished for being bent and they have different players and ownership...

Its going to be quite a record if he manages to get us relegated for a second time....

Yeah, and this is the worst message of the lot. Its fallen through because NC has tired very quickly of the sh*t, I reckon. We all know he gives short shrift to these sort of shennanigans (rightly so, imo).

Claus is a f**king bell-end. Really, he's become a complete embarassment since his retirement. I just hope the FA dont see some sort of bizarre convoluted excuse here to punish the latter-day club.

The kits for my kids finally arrived this afternoon with my aunt. My reaction ? Didnt think the quality was too bad, tbh, maybe the shirt is a bit thin (except the part with the sponsor logo, which rivals the belt armour on the battleship HMS King George V for its thickness). Still very "meh" over the scheme though. A bit p*ssed of with the name/number printing though. There are no "." between the first name initials and the surnames. Is this the way its done now ?

Is the Carsten Jancker deal finally going through ?

Steven Davis ?

Seems the SFA is an even more pointless organisation than its English counterpart.

Reckon you are right. Player's problem to solve.

Sounds like b*ll*cks to me, and completely unenforceable. Would have to be in terms of sale between the clubs.

Then it MUST be an agreement between player and agent that agent gets a cut of the transfer value. Since the terms of a sale arent known until it happens, maybe Büttner expected to get some sort of golden hello, (the deal between Saints and Vitesse doesnt have anything to do with that) and Saints arent willing to pay a golden hello, meaning player has to pay agents cut himself. If this is true, its Büttner who has screwed up - with agent for signing it and with clubs for not telling them early enough.

That was my point. One of the papers or the Beeb have contacted FIFA who have stated they have received no requests in relation to these 5 players so far.

Because it invites players to be "forgetful" during the negotiations for further transfers ?

Past tense ? Has this already occurred ?

It has nothing to do with experience, Turkish. Its all to do with whether NC wants to submerge himself in the cess-pit/underworld of agent-involved transfer activity, and so far he has given impression that he'd rather crawl across broken glass with his flies open. We dont know the full story, but if player or agent have stuck their hand up and said "but" at the last second, I suspect NC wont play ball and will sh*t-can the whole transfer, as Vitesse seem to be inclined to do, rather than set a precidence of being bullyable.

Yes, we dont have the full picture. Sounds very fishy. Wouldnt be surprised if NC drops the whole thing.

So Aviv presented us with a bill for 4m over the summer ?