Southampton Banter Archive May 24 2014

24 May 2014 21:56:29
Worryingly people, Poch is still the bookies clear favourite for the spuds job. Maybe it has something to do with him being pictured at their training ground! I don't know but the bookies can't be that wrong can they?

Don't pay attention to the bookies and the picture report is far from trustworthy, have you seen the picture?

I have. Looks like him and his two boys judging by the picture he had with Michael Own at St Marys.

The media is now saying he's snubbed spurs so hopefully there's some truth in that

24 May 2014 20:16:57
Shaw, Lallana and Pochettino have had ample opportunity to come forward and announce that they will not be moving anywhere. For that matter the club have been equally mute in this respect. Cortese would've been sharp with his response that we have ambitions and are not a selling club. At the moment I'm concerned that the silence speaks volumes. Yes it's a given that all are under contract and no one has to respond to media speculation but I believe the club at the least owe it to the fans to keep us informed of their intentions. It's been smokescreen after smokescreen and excuse after excuse riddled with speculation ever since Nicola departed. Give us some answers, we deserve it, we are the loyal fans, the backbone of this great club, come on you reds

The club put out a statement, they will only comment on facts, not rumour. In that respect no news since the club told you no one would be sold is good news, no?

No other club will comment on paper rumour, if you could even name another club who put out the type of statement we did, I'd be surprised

Players would have been told not to say anything, if they start commenting on it it could show the press and whoever is planting the stories that they're becoming unsettled.

Until there are facts you won't here anything from club or staff - rightly so, you've already been told everything factual you need to know

Les Reed already made a statement! Just keep calm and enjoy the World Cup, nothing will be announced (for most clubs anyway) until after the tournament.
Stay cheery Saint's fans! :)

So you're more of a glass half empty kind of guy then dank?

;)

St Christopher give Dank a break we are all on the same side of the fence. Together as one. Believe it or not I have had a letter from the Daily mail Sports Editor, signed personally by him claiming that both Lallana and Shaw will be on their way this summer. There are two ways of looking at this. Either he is a bald faced liar with an anti Saints agenda, or if we take him at face value and believe what he says that he has "excellent sources" to support his statement, then the paper is not guilty of defamation. I am expecting a reply from Saints on this very issue and when I get a response I will reproduce it in full on this site. All I can say is that this climate of uncertainty in which practically every player has been linked with a move away would never have happened under Corteses watch. He always renewed contracts well before they expired simply because he was aware that this would be the result if he did not. And he wanted to leave a clear message to the rest of the Premiership that Southampton were no longer a selling club. it is my belief that he left because he could not get the guarantees from Miss Liebherr that he sought particularly as regards players, both incoming and outgoing. Its time we got some answers.

I'm not having a go at dank, Just saying that there's an old saying 'no news is good news'

There really is two ways of taking the current situation, and the silence from the Saints Board.

1) you can be focused on the negative, and that there must be something happening, so why aren't they denying all these rumours.
or
2) The Saints Board said that they will (probably) reject all offers. If the board responded to every rumour that comes out, Les Reed would be on TV more often than Corrie! Therefore there is no news to report - no news is good news.

For me, I'm a glass half full chap.

So good to see another realist

24 May 2014 13:58:18
Don't see why people are panicking over MoPo not signing a new deal yet, he doesn't need to in order to turn spurs down. there's still a year to sort a new one

24 May 2014 08:03:32
Ok. It's something like 3 weeks after the season has come to a close and only 7 days since the FA cup final was played and we are all creaking out about every rumour written about saints players, managers and back room staff. We all know that the papers need to write stories that sell papers and after the season we have had there will be plenty written about ours. The way these papers think is that players will tend to go for a transfer to a bigger team if they have declared an interest, this in itself would suggest that stories written, weather truth in it or not, about our players leaving will eventually get one or two right. So far Ed has confirmed and I believe him to be true, that we have had 2 firm offers which we have rejected in lallana and shaw. This along with spurs showing an interest in poch are the only REAL stories. All quite likely but not done deals. Let's have a look at who may be coming in?! Cheeky bid for Benteke at villa? I quite fancy Costa? Come on saints fans, we have come this far. Stop panicking and look to the future? So what if shaw and lallana go? We made them, we can make more of them. We have in fact. Taggart and Harrison?! Not to mention JWP. Out if the three to be in doubt about staying I think poch would be the only one we need to panic over at this stage.