Fonte submits Official Transfer Request

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All the best Jose - in my opinion, if anyone deserves to leave when he wants to, it's him. Not overly impressed by Reed going so public when he claims we do all our business in private.

Good point and one that hadn't crossed my mind.

I'll wait to see what's said before passing judgement though <ok>
 
All the best Jose - in my opinion, if anyone deserves to leave when he wants to, it's him. Not overly impressed by Reed going so public when he claims we do all our business in private.
Yes, but Jose had said there was no offer on the table. Now Jose has come out and asked for a move, I have no problem with Les getting his oar in.
 
Hang on Al ... is it ok that fonte went public and maybe with some untruths?

No of course not. But two wrongs etc.

Also we're always saying in public about how we're different so shouldn't stoop to it...

As I said though... I'll wait until tomorrow and see what is said before I pass any particular judgement on that <ok>
 
Not entirely convenient. I wonder who is on our target list.

As for Jose. It's his career, if he thinks he can get a better/longer deal or a new challenge he can do whatever he wishes, good luck to him. Absolutely terrible luck to Jorge Mendes though.
 
Yes, but Jose had said there was no offer on the table. Now Jose has come out and asked for a move, I have no problem with Les getting his oar in.
I don't condone Jose going public either, but being left out of the European games and being left out in others due to 'rotation', plus all the accusations from some at his 'lack of effort' this season probably grated on him.

No one comes out of this clean, but I have no ill feeling towards Jose - just my personal view :)
 
Ah well, time to change my signature again....:(

Good luck Jose and thanks for the good times, we wouldn't be where we we are now without the likes of you, SRL, Adam and SKD.
This is not much different to Rickie leaving IMO and in a way, I don't want to see him deteriorate here at Saints, better to remember him as a great Saints player.

Well said . Lets not forget he dropped a league to join us in the first place !
 
Yes, but Jose had said there was no offer on the table. Now Jose has come out and asked for a move, I have no problem with Les getting his oar in.

I guess part of me is hoping this isn't a smoke screen from the club detracting from incoming this window. The club should know by now that we need to bring a front man in rather than focus on departures again.
 
Don't really get some of the outrage, definitely disappointing but doing it the right way and being fair to the club - even if from our point of view he seems to have changed the goalposts in the contract discussions (which was probably just leverage anyway). If the right offer doesn't come and he has a big strop then fair enough, right now he seems to be being professional. Shame he doesn't want to hang up his boots here but it's his life, and he doesn't live it by what we want unfortunately for us (especially Fran).

Dunno if people expect him to be posting transcripts of every meeting on social media and explaining his every move but I guarantee the club don't want or allow him to communicate about it, even if it paints them in a better light.

He's played fine this year, I know people got all up in arms when he started poorly but you can't chalk that up to transfer business. You can also put together some theories about his EL omissions and his behind-the-scenes leadership but really we have no justification to jump to conclusions.

It's easiest to get angry and then view situations in a way that fits that agenda, but that just comes from raw disappointment and sadness. Sometimes I wonder if the thing with some posters is they haven't suffered any/many break-ups that have left a mark... Or they have but just didn't learn from them! <laugh>