Bewildered

Wasn't popular with Newcastle fans because of his allegiance to Ashley plus a few outbursts against the fans and some club legends but the scouting network he established allowed them to build a good team for relatively little money.

The source is his agent as those are his quotes.

if current points per game are expanded over the rest of the season, the table would look like this, obviously some teams will go on a bad runs and some on good runs so. (totals are rounded up/down) Saints - 53 pts - (1.4 ppg) Villa - 41 - (1.09 ppg) Hull - 40 - (1.04 ppg) Stoke - 40 - (1.04 ppg) Norwich - 40 - (1.04 ppg) Swansea - 38 - (1 ppg) WBA - 38 - (1 ppg) Palace - 35 - (0.9 ppg) Fulham - 33 - (0.86 ppg) Sunderland - 31 - (0.81 ppg) West Ham - 31 - (0.81 ppg) Cardiff - 31 - (0.81 ppg) Going by that it looks like the bar for staying up will be pretty low.

Even if we are poor the rest of the season, I can't see us dropping too many places. Fun fact: at 0.8 ppg, if the bottom three keep that kind of form through to the end of the season they will finish with 31 pts, the same amount we have after 22 games.

Norwich 1 up against Hull

And the sides below them have a game in hand

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1861482-saintsfc-manager-mauricio-pochettino-speaks-to-bigadamsport-after-the-2-2-draw-at-sunderland MP's reaction Not pleased with the point, we were the better team Worried about Gaston and Lovren, Injuries look bad but need to wait for assessment. Congratulate the players, put in hard shift despite hard week Tired after emotional week, not had much sleep. Clear KL will decide when they will next meet, it is not up to him to decide when they meet.

This. The tackle even happen after he had beaten three men and was about to get into a goalscoring position.

At least Osvaldo is back next game, Lambert was poor and sadly has been for quite a while. Doesn't win it in the air and rarely gets into goalscoring positions anymore. If Lovren is out for a lengthy period we really will need to bring in someone else. Cork was outstanding

Awful second half, but an all too familiar story Dominate play, don't make the most of it and we get punished for it. Lovren injury looked serious, big worry if he is out for any significant period of time. Cork MOTM

How is Jozy Altidore still starting matches for them? Absolutely terrible player.

Wasn't that Charles Sale?

Why was Cortese trying to sell a popular player like Rickie days before he walked out on the club? Wonder who would have been taking the flak for that if it had gone through in time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2541553/Cortese-thought-star-Southampton-just-rich-familys-banker-Martin-Samuel.html Martin Samuel offers an alternative viewpoint on NC to his DM colleagues

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/roma-and-galatasaray-pursuing-gaston-ramirez/

lol, did he finally have a look at the table?

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 49s #SaintsFC Chairman Katharina Liebherr: “ The Club has no plans to sell any of the squad during the January transfer window.” Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 2m #SaintsFC Chairman Katharina Liebherr: “The manager and the team have my full support.”

http://www.goaldengoals.co.uk/good-news-pochettino-staying-saints-may-still-sold/ MLT column on his website about the past couple of days

Ahead of his press conference, Mauricio Pochettino tells Saints Player that he is "100% committed" to #SaintsFC. pic.twitter.com/asTjNFmXRo

The blueprint that will take us to the next level

Paul Belverstone ‏@paulbelvers 1m Katharina Liebherr has just arrived at St Mary's for her meeting with Mauricio Pochettino #saintsfc

MailOnline Sport ‏@MailSport 5m BREAKING: #SaintsFC manager Mauricio Pochettino will commit to the club after talks with owner Katharina Liebherr http://dailym.ai/1ctzulj

Think you've been had here

This

An odd thing to do unless there is something KL wants to make its way into the media.