OldNick

I was thinking on similar lines this morning. It is a credit to you Duncan that you post such a thing as you were not always a fan of Lowes Lowe was many things but if you look at the current owners model it is just what Lowe was intending to do for us. Sadly having a posh English accent and also the name of Rupert never helped his cause.

This bag is going to be bulging even more when you sign for United

I agree but we patently cant or wont keep a player who wants to leave.I would love the club to make a stand and put a player in the reserves to rot, but no club will do so as money is the factor.

I thought we were told that no player will leave unless we are happy for them to go, so that would infer that we could enforce a player to stay. It is also amusing that most of the time we are told the the Echo is full of rubbish and then when it suits we suck up their story re TA as chapter and verse. The legal route soon was pushed under the carpet. Also last pre season we were told that all the transfer money in would be spent on players ( not withstanding the 30m war chest and Sky money) We are now told that we need to sell before spend. The fans always are taken as mugs and whatever side of the fence we fall in, we are being played. I am calm about the lack of players coming in at present and will give the club a bit of slack, but come the start of the season if they have not bought some quality we may regret it. Had we purchased a couple of quality players in January the CL could well have been obtainable

All clubs have arrogant bellends. We have fans who give it the big one and go on rivals sites. Spurs are a massive club. Under performers but we have to face it, we are a selling club and Spurs can buy who they want from us if they pay the money

Mainly fair. I dont dislike Spurs, I do Liverpool as I grew up with lots of mates who were Liverpool fans as they ruled Division 1 (now EPL) for a long time. I have little worry about that with Spurs. They are the Saints of London,nearly getting there but as they get close the bigger and better clubs take the better players away. I like Poch and feel he will do well, but you will not finish above Arsenal or the like for a longtime as you like Saints will sell the players who can take you there. Time will tell if Toby will cut it at Spurs but i have never rated centre halves who are more worried about their hair than counting their scars on their face. Good luck to you and you may laud over us for another season but at the end of the day, you are just us but a couple of places up the league. Enjoy the Europa league as that is where you will be for years. i personally dont care for European football but i know you wannabees do

those companies did try to do something about their actions. The Greeks have done nothing in the last 5 years to try and rectify things. Im not sure i want to pay higher taxes so that the Greeks can retire early on index linked pensions and also don't think they should pay their taxes. Iam happy for the EEC to try and reduce their debt, but not if we are going to be back here in a couple of years time

that is true but if we were talking about a player choosing between Norwich, Derby, Swansea, Leicester, Palace or Spurs we would not blink an eye if he joined Spurs. Spurs have millions of fans around the world and do have that extra sparkle we dont. It is annoying but we are just a provincial club of large size, not one in the lights. Bridesmaids and only once the bride

I was listening to Talksport some weeks ago and a member of Celtics backroom staff said they had a fantastic young centreback (not Van Djyk) who will be a fantastic player.Perhaps we should buy him

Why is dealing in football transfers so different to normal life to fans? If you agree to buy a car and sign a contract at a lower price, why then go and pay a lot more if there is other interest? It seems to me the legal team have messed up as they misread or misunderstood the exact terms of the contract. The club must have believed that their position was watertight and so if they wished to get him they could as soon as AM had not paid the compensation in time.

Perhaps they had the deal agreed and signed before we woke up to what was going on. The club obviously thought they had 'An option to purchase' and so didnt need to chase. Somewhere somebody got it wrong and Spurs have benefited. The ither surprise is that no iother club came in for him.

what are they saying?

sounds like a post from somebody in the club/PR who knows what happened. it all seems plausible. I now believe we will hear that Toby has left, sometime this morning. A I still wonder about the timing of the departure of the CFO by mutual consent. I dont really expect somebody to leave such a job for no good reason

after following Saints for nearly 50 years it has always been the way that our better players leave. Even after all these years it is hard to bear and our position in the food chain is below Spurs. Therefore we as Saints fans have to get used to our better players leaving.

If the contract was in British law and an option to purchase then it is watertight. Options to purchase even if done on a fag packet are something you cant wriggle out of, as long as you follow the exact terms.

Your maths is not good at all, you need to swat up a bit, we all know the answer is 6

It would be galling if we not only lost out on TA but also the compensation. CFO leaving the club MAY have had something to do with it.

Ooops that sounds as if somebody has dropped a bollock, if the Toby thing fizzles out and he goes to Spurs without much trouble then we know where it went wrong

As much as anything it is principle. AM had an agreement that was in writing and a contract. if they have indeed broken it, why should our club shrug its shoulders and walk away. Spurs are at present one of our nearest rivals, to allow them to steal a march on us by potentially weakening us and them getting stronger is no good to us.

I forgot about the golf, I tried a search for meeting McIlroy and there hasn't been a mention on here for about 3 weeks

but DubaiPhil is over there................ohh:lol:

They have a classic thread on there of Old Southampton. A fascinating delve into the past

Mero now You own ' Pompey fan online' This site charges £5 membership, you should do the same. What would you do with £5? Dubai Phil has put a teaser saying about the 20th july, have you any idea what that may elude to?

to us they are traitors but they are wrapped up thinking Muslim first.No different to the Jews who put the religion before Nation.

No trolls there ,not at all