I'm not going to stress myself about Bertrand...let's just get the best money we can and move on. Unless of course we are talking about the Bertrand we had the season before last. .
Just a quick swegway back to VVD. How funny would it be if Liverpool are found guilty of tapping him up and handed a 3 point deduction like Chelsea were in 2005. Arsenal would get their 4th place afterall! Smallprint: Chelsea's point deduction was suspended but nobody reads the smallprint.
Sounds like the herd on Saintsweb tbh, on here the main posters seem to think that Les is some sort of messiah and can do no wrong.
I think Les and his team (not just one person) is human and can make mistakes, but their overall record is good. I like the idea of sticking to an overall plan and not swaying in the wind with every managerial change...though unclear whether that was promoted by Les or Nicola.
In life there are people who haven't a clue what is happening, there are those who watch what is happening but do bugger all about it and then there are those who make things happen. If you fit the last category you would have already complained to the press about Cascirino. I just hope that I am not the lone voice in the wilderness fighting for morality in sport. You can whinge and whine or you can act.
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Chelsea-Man-City-transfer-news-gossip-rumours Article suggesting that Chelsea thought they had VVD all tied up....unless Virgil has been a very naughty boy, how can this be true. The window hasn't opened yet and Saints say they have had no offers. Complete tosh.
Yep, I'm getting annoyed with him now. Lack of respect. Yes, you can be interested in a move, but there's ways of doing it.
A sensible mod on a Liverpool site has posted this after locking a thread This is being locked for a while. The main reason is that some of the stuff written about Southampton and their fans in the last 20 pages or so is ****ing embarrassing. . The attitude of some people is that the club should just bend over and give us their best player without a whimper. It's just ridiculous. I'm not suggesting for a moment that they've been hard done by in recent years, as we've paid reasonable prices for each of the players signed from them. But I can completely understand the frustration of their fans that every year we swoop in and sign their best players, whether Southampton's policy is as a selling club or otherwise. IF Southampton gave us, and whoever else, permission to speak to VVD, then this is all bluster and ********. But there's no proof it is yet. Similarly, the idea that Klopp and/or the club have made improper approaches to the player is also unfounded and seems to be based on media reports. But given the nature of the briefing and the sudden "reveal" of the news, I can entirely understand why, if no permission was given, they and their fans would be ****ed off. It's not hard to imagine the shoe being on the other foot. We have lost players who have been publically courted by other clubs (Suarez) and may do so again in the future (Coutinho for one). They've signed him to a new long term contract, and he is a Southampton player. They're under no obligation to sell him to us however much it may upset the player or LFC. They may of course do so, but the idea that they "have to" is a joke and we'd be ****ing livid if Coutinho came out, said he wanted to play for Barce, and then Barce fans came along and said we "had to" sell him. It may be the prudent choice but it's far from an obligation. This isn't a Southampton forum so we're not asking people to post glowing comments about the club, but some of the ****e has been ridiculous. They ain't all bad you know...
**** me, that was so long, I had to go outside and check my tyres were still on my car after I finished reading it...
They have obviously broke some laws/rules. No way would they suddenly declare that they have ended their interest and publicly apologise if they were innocent. Let's hope we don't drop matters and we see this through. Hopefully this will be a benchmark in terms of showing that smaller clubs can stand up to the big boys.
