Unbelievable Jeff

So the story that they told him in the meeting today was untrue then?

I have specifically said 'board'. People are saying they can't trust the board, not that they don't trust Sibley.

Love how the board can't win. Really does show up some of the posters on this forum. I can see a lot wanting to change their usernames due to the embarrassment only the chap this summer. Just wonder who Batmans going to be next.

Did the board say that? I thought it was Sibley?

You didn't put a date on the quote, so I didn't know. As I said it was a good example. However I don't believe that's why people like yourself are spending your days crying into your cornflakes for the lies nasty Southampton are telling you.

Leave the gloating until September, it could come to bite you doing it this early...

Only Lambert. That would be a sale on one line within a shop. A fire-sale would mean all are for sale at low prices.

Stop talking sense...

Completely unprofessional from Morgan. Needs to understand that he is contracted to the club and if we say he can't leave, he doesn't leave.

Krueger didn't say that did he? Just seen it. I thought in the Solent interview he said he'd spoken to his agent.

Didn't Krueger say they'd spoken to his agent? Maybe his agent didn't tell him...

Thank you so much for proving my point. Today was an unequivocal statement that both J Rod and Morgan will be at the club September 1st. The first unequivocal statement. If either leave then yes, they have lied. Previously, not so much. As I say, in contract law one of the main things you look at is the intention of the contract. I am sorry, but the intention with those statements was to ensure that if players were sold they were not lying. The fact that a lot of fans didn't pick up on that doesn't surprise me.

What about him?

That's a better example, for sure. However, I also believe that when negotiating with Koeman he was aware that those 3 initial players would be sold...that is what has been told to us by the club and that he agreed those departures.

That's their raison d'etre though, to create hype out of something that isn't happening. If they didn't have that there would be very little news. Have you ever heard of 'sensationalising'? That is what they do and what has happened.

Course I wouldn't lie! How very dare you!

And as with the debate the other day about asset stripping, you're just not quite getting it. I don't know if you don't like to read the detail, but words like 'want', 'intention', 'probably' so on AREN'T definitives, so this is not lying. I would suggest doing a contract law course or something along those lines, it certainly helped with my critical appraisals of statements. Don't blame the board because you can't read/interpret what was said properly.

I expect a drop off of embarrassing posting for a while, ready to start again when we don't sign the exact players others want.

As I have said about a trillion times this Summer, let's calm down, wait and see and judge come September. The confusion and stress some of you must be feeling must be really draining.

Well, exactly. I find it strange how fans can say they don't trust when they haven't been lied to. Perhaps they need to improve their reading and interpretation skills?

Obviously this has been one of the main criticisms aimed at the board, but I can't remember them actually lying. I thought most of the quotes said that if players left they would be on our terms. There was no evidence of offers prior to Reeds end of season statement etc. Can someone point me towards these lies as I guess I missed them.

And this is it, the irony of us showing ambition yet expecting the players not to is q great example of the whimsical nature of football fans...

I would, but not as the omnipotent being that he was in the first tenure. This mess is partly of this making, so we'd need to ensure this didn't happen again.

OK, so it seems to me we have 2 sides of the same coin on this thread. I however, am more inclined to believe SG as he has elements of truth in it that I was aware of (the 'nearly' sacking of Pocketing for one). However I am not saying CL is incorrect, although pretty much what I was expecting. Let's hope the selling stops and the replacements start to arrive.

I don't think they're justifying them, but Jenkinson will be fine as a back up. I don't think we'd lose anything by getting him in as long as Clyne is first choice.