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Pulis is on a 2 year deal

Nope Skacel was a 4 year deal.

As someone has already suggested Perry was only on a one year contract and Smith on 6 months. Svensson on a 1 year deal as well with an option of a further year.

No I was just providing a list of contracts I knew about. Add to that Skacel who signed in July 2006 on a 4 year deal. So another whose contract is not up at the end of the season

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6661 Rasiak signed May 2006 – 4 year deal Davis signed July 2006 – 3 year deal Wright Phillips signed July 2006 – 3 year deal Saganoski signs June 2007 – 3 year deal Surman signed July 2007 – 4 year deal Euell signed August 2007 – 2 year deal John signed August 2007 – 2 year deal Thomas signed August 2007- 3 year deal Dyer signs July 2008 – 3 year deal Lallana signs August 2008 – 3 year deal

Aston Villa will step up their efforts to sign Emile Heskey after Marlon Harewood was put on standby for a £2m switch to Stoke. (Mirror)

Quite simply we need goals and Saganowski has shown in his original loan spell he can provide them. £150,000, if the Echo are right, suggests he is on about £6,000 per week but I would expect appearances and goal bonus will increase that. I can understand the clubs reluctance and may be they do not feel he fits into the plan of play BUT we are at a critical point in the season. The next month is likely to shape whether our future is in the Championship or League 1. My own view is to use some of the Cup profits to pay his salary. Take a chance he will be able to contribute and it will save us looking for a loan player up front. If it goes tits up I challenge the club to show it will not without him. If the kids are to improve individually and as a team confidence is a big part of such development. Confidence comes with winning. They need to find that formula and fast.

Too late in my opinion. We must act now but I accept your point. It just adds to my despair

Good post GM with a bit of Kipling for culture.

Doubt it unless Crouch is back in control

What makes you think this will happen. No one else is quoting anything about him. My contacts have heard nothing, or at least they had not yesterday! I assume this is pure speculation or do you have an "insider" who you trust?

Quite honestly G... I have lost all faith in JP and his way of playing. I was prepared to give it a go and certainly early on the way we played looked good even though we were getting beat too regularly. I took the view that as the team gelled we would improve. However it has not happened and I am now convinced our style is not for the Championship. I cannot see any investment on the horizon. When I look at Lowe, Wilde and Crouch positives and negatives none are suited but they are all that is on offer. To change the way we play we need a three or four good experienced pro's with at least 1of them up front and a new Manager/Coach. We also need to take at least 7 points out of the next three games although I think we will need all 9. Without the personnel and results in January we will get relegated. The problem is the present team and tactics will see us struggle in League 1 as well. Yep, I am very pessimistic about our future but a few wins might lift my spirits.

Good report by Chris Bevan. Hits the spot for me. January is the last throw of the dice both in terms of personnel and results. I am not at all hopeful!

Can't see Baird coming back to be honest.

Adam Lallana has no idea about such a move. He expects to be a Saints player for the rest of this season at least. Source? His father who confirmed the same to me on Friday. This "going to Fulham" has been around for some time, and I mean months. Adam and his Agent have no knowledge or approach. Yesterday just before the match one of my sporadic sources (he told me about the Molyneau signing before it was announced) said he had heard Surman was going on loan to Fulham with Baird coming here on loan in return. Having spoken to Drew's dad only a few minutes before, I was able to put him right on that rumour. Pretty good sources, would you not agree. Of couse someone might come in with an offer that Saints feel they cannot turn down and if it means first team football in the Premership for Drew or Adam, may be they would go but they are not thinking about that at the moment. They feel they have unfinished business with Saints.

You have a PM

I was with Drew's Dad today. He is not aware of any deal! All paper talk with no substance.

To answer the question I say it is drivel. I believe Wilde has no time for Crouch but that the feeling is mutual. On that basis it is unlikely Wilde will sell to him. Why does Wilde not sell direct to Fulthorpe? Probably because, despite all his bluster, does not have the investers his fantasies hoped for. Any takeover was likely to be linked to a large property deal/development in the area. Big investors will not be interested without. It is not SFC they are interested in, it is the potential of the area. That said most of the countries linked with investment are deep in recession, have suffered big falls in investment income and property values and with an uncertain future are not likely to move at this time. There has been a suggestion of redevelopment in the area but I have been informed by a poster on here that no such approaches have been made as yet and even if there was it would not happen in the short term. There has been a suggestion from someone else I know that they have already purchased land in the area but I went on the web site of the present owners and they have not announced any sale to the Stock Market. They still have plans for development themselves. No investor/s will put money into SFC in isolation. So all in all, like it or not, I am afraid we are stuck with Lowe and Wilde for the forseeable future and anyone who thinks different is clutching at straws.

Bugger

When the shares are bought back by a company they are cancelled and of no value. The idea is to enhanse the value of the shares still in circulation. If you want to issue more new shares it can only be done with shareholders authority. The club say the recent intem on the AGM agenda was there to be used if necessary but no immediate intention of doing so.

Despite several comments on forums claiming Drew's absence was just an excuse before selling him I can confirm he did have a nasty gash on his ankle and unfortunately the Reading game came just too soon after Plymouth. He is training and will be absolutely gutted if he's not playing on Sunday. Of course he might have been sold by then but although there is some interest from a few clubs no offers have yet been made. As I said earlier, I am told Adam is at least 2 games away from a return.

I was told by someone at the Notts Forest game that two dutch players were training with the club. It was not from my usual sources but he also told me that we were about to sign Moleneaux (he assumed on loan) who was also training. He got that one right (except it was a permenant signing) so maybe he right with the Dutch pair. Not heard anything further from my other sources on the subject though.

They may say that but he will not be fit.

Lallana has an ankle injury that put him out on crutches. He is at least 2 weeks away from fitness.

Dyer on his way to Swansea?