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True, but if the deal is really agreed, he won’t want to get injured. Can’t see him playing a part at all tbh. He will be gone before Saturday.

“Mr Southampton”, took us down then ran off the first chance he got.

Hope his career is a spectacular failure from here

 

I love him, but he’s not a club legend imo.

Club legends are the sort that get statues built etc. could have been him, but he left for cash

 

If he’s going(which looks likely) he should be nowhere near the team on Saturday.
Fingers crossed he will be gone by then, time to move on.

 

So who fits the legend status? Le Tiss and erm Bobby Stokes?

 

Aarons seems to be Leeds bound. So hopefully it was only ever a case of a rehashed old rumour rather than us losing out

 

Mick Channon certainly. Despite leaving twice.

 

We have very few tbh

in my life time le Tiss & Dodd probs the only ones that are conceivably club legends. I’d say Rickie lambert is up there too, I know he also left but I’ll forgive him as he was going to his boyhood club.

 

JWP was always 90% to go. Small chance he would stay, but not to be.

He is going to feel pretty silly next season though when he is in the Championship again and we are in the Premiership

No ill will to him. It's his career.

 

Surely Benali?

 

Benali as he is a local man and also still does so much for the city.

Edit: And I have met him loads of times and he is a really nice guy

 

Both in my lifetime but before my time really, no idea if Dodd had many chances to leave and turned them down as that seems to be your criteria for legend. Same with Benali but he has also added to his legend after retirement, Le Tiss and Lambert probably not so much

 

And for his silky football skills? And contribution to tackling John Fashanu?

 

Sad that he's going, of course. Always gave 100% for the club. Not sure why people are going crazy about it though, it was always the most likely scenario, and I wish him well.

 

We need an inbound transfer gossip page. It would be empty but happier.

 

yeah benali for sure

 

I agree with all three. Without Rickie we would still be struggling to get out of League One.

 

If we could only have held on to players, Walcott, Bale, Schneiderlin, Lallana, Lambert and Ulrich van Gobbel all could have been true Saints Legends...

 

I’d also say Oscar gobern deserves a statue for that tackle

 

Alongside the one of Ali Dia?

 

Inscribed “Death to the Cherries (silly name)”