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10 May 2014 19:55:47
Outlets are reporting that Lallana had a secret meeting with Les Reed last night to plead for a move to Liverpool. It is also reported Bournemouth have been contacted by Lallana's representatives, in order to discuss the 25% sell on fee.

This is all contradiction to Lallana's comments of wanting to 'push on with the club. ' It would be an awful shame if he lied to fans and forced a move away, tarnishing his reputation with supporters who love him, and team mates he claimed to love just days ago.

1.) Outlets are wrong. Secret meetings, by there nature, cannot be reported upon. Unless, one of the attendees reveals the secrets, at which point they are no longer secrets and the 'secret meeting' becomes just a 'meeting'.

I also fail to see why a players agent would be involved in speaking to Bournemouth about the sell on few. That would between the two clubs. I also fail to see why Bournemouth would be willing to negotiate. They have strong financial backing and would, like Southampton fc, only benefit from holding out for the best price. More fiction from fact less news sites.

2.) Saw that in the sun as soon as it said 'a Southampton insider' I knew it was more bull

3.) Lallana has already shown he has a cool rational head on him. If he didn't he would have left a while ago. He's ambitious but not aggressively so. This whole story doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Why would he have this meeting now? Why not wait until after the game tomorrow when he finds out whether or not he goes to Brazil? Why not wait until after the WC?

If we assume he wants to leave then we assume he will also want to make as much money as possible. If he goes to the WC, regardless of how well he does, he will be a full blooded competition international. He would be able to negotiate from a position of strength in regards to money and his role in the side. Apply the same logic to the club and there's another reason they wouldn't accept an offer prior to a WC. You might get the first come premium price, but the other party wouldn't choose to negotiate before a WC unless it were in there benefit. And, in this particular, it serves to reason that if it's good for them its bad for us.

These people aren't persons. They know their business. If the wanted to sell and Adam wanted to leave it would not be occurring in this fashion. This strikes me more of the papers trying to manufacture a transfer story to open up that debate. Also look at the development of the Lallana transfer saga as a whole. You can see where it is being manufactured and manipulated - it's so remarkably obvious. The whole thing has been baseless and I've yet to see a modicum of proof to suggest he will go.

For the record I don't believe he'll go. The club don't want to sell and he has made no verifiable suggestion he wants to leave. If anything it's the opposite. When reviewing articles like these it's important to not conflate motivation with intent, correlation with causality, assumption for information and a lack of dispelling a rumour with the desire to see that rumour taken to it's conclusion.

4.) We are i'm afraid in the middle of the silly season when every man and his dog is going to invent stories about our wonderful players wanting to leave. The truth however is that it is all wishful thinking on their part, and the only circumstance in which any of their wildest hopes could come to fruition is if Saints fail to deliver a new plan with the required ambition. I however am annoyed that they have left it this late to discuss Pochettino s contract all it has done is creat huge uncertainty and upset the club s fans. Seriously stupid of them.

5.) Everyone is concerned about about players leaving but rember they are under contract and will only leaves at saints terms, your club is in a good place, look how well you've done. Palace supporter

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