DuncanRG

Can't blame him for leaving, we were never going to be able to match his ambitions.

How's that single message smear going?

You might struggle to find one of those on your council ballot.

He in that interview that he will never return to Southampton.

We really don't. Everyone agrees on Fonte's quality now as well, I think.

If it was still a problem for Baines he wouldn't be in the squad.

There have been stories about Wanyama to City/Arsenal, Clyne to Chelsea/Arsenal and Chambers to Arsenal in the past year. Whether you believe them is something else.

Maybe it's different in the Premier League or when the top clubs get involved because the players are more newsworthy, but there are plenty of enquiries which never make it to the press.

It's an incredibly daft proposition.

Literally nothing has happened.

We'll never know. I'm sure plenty are kept under wraps.

I'd think 'fair enough, thanks for staying'. He's great and Southampton is no manager's dream. As long as he's committed to the job - which he is - then we should be happy if he stays regardless of what he thinks about other clubs.

'Would he ever go back? "Never." '

Blackmore quotes director in inverted commas: 'She [Katharina] has same ambition as her father' Now the debate is whether Markus had the same ambition as Cortese. He certainly put the money up for it, as did Katharina.

Yet.

I value insight into the goings-on our club. We all do.

Glad we agree! I'm not concerned with pro or anti Cortese tribalism, though. I just hope we get some insight from one of the most influential figures in our club's recent history.

I can't see Lampard starting - that's just the number he's held for close to a decade. Fair enough to give it to him again. I'm not sure Wilshere's fit enough to start either, is he?

I want to hear his reasons for leaving and his account of what happened. I think most of us do.

Maybe that's why he's chosen to speak out now?

Albrighton's always showed flashes of class. He'd be a very good player if he could produce it consistently.

Twitter is no more a source than 'paper' or 'screen'. Who said it on Twitter?

There are signs of a very good coach in Tim Sherwood but looking at his character from the outside I'm not sure he'd carry on the positive attitude we've had at the club since 2009.

It is funny how everybody on here has got sources all of a sudden.

I really don't get why people take credit from Cortese because he was spending someone else's money. One party provided the money, the other did the work. We should appreciate both.