Goodbye Jose and......

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Dell Boy said:
Its probably just me, but I find I'm becoming more and more disillusioned with modern day footer shenanigans ie Koeman, Fonte etc.etc?
Why someone would go on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat or whatever other social media tools exist to make snide references to a move away when he's signed a new contract only 5 minutes ago is totally beyond me?
The club then reacts by offering him a new improved contract and the World now waits for his next pronouncement via social media, hoping desperately for a positive coded message?.
I'd prefer the club to make a stand and turn down offers that may or may not arrive, and tell the player to get over it.
If Man U are really after a CH I'd be more worried about VVD being on their radar.
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Don't even *think* things like that last line!
 
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He was happy to sign back in October and did so...........it is time Saints stuck to their guns. You have a new contract which already keeps you here until 2019........Your options................ stay on more pay or stay........on less pay......Either way....you 'aint going nowhere.................Get used to it............
 
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Perhaps the Daily Echo article that says we don't want to sell and would only for an excessive fee may suggest that the club would stand firm on this one? If we got an excessive fee I'd be happy to sell by the way. I've said before but this could be his last season anyway so if a fee around £20m came in then I'd say it made business sense. Van Dijk is strides ahead of him anyway.
 
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A Touch of Clas said:
Perhaps the Daily Echo article that says we don't want to sell and would only for an excessive fee may suggest that the club would stand firm on this one? If we got an excessive fee I'd be happy to sell by the way. I've said before but this could be his last season anyway so if a fee around £20m came in then I'd say it made business sense. Van Dijk is strides ahead of him anyway.
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Indeed, who's to say we're not "standing firm" and saying bugger off United, but Mendes is whispering in Jose's ear. If there was a 'gentleman's agreement' as well, we're not in an enviable position here. All we can hope to do is hold out for the very best deal we can (or price him out of the market and have a very unhappy/rebellious captain on our hands).

He has all the power here - imagine how negatively impactful it will be if we refuse him a move, he has a major strop which means we have to (publicly, because it will be obvious, of course) strip him of his captaincy.
 
Mind you, we could do that and take the bruises that come with it. I guess at least it would show us to be tough to the other players all of a sudden. Might have a season in the Championship as a result though. Your choice.
 
sotonsaint said:
If he wants to go let him go, if he wants to stay let him stay.

12 .5 million and I'll happily wish him good luck, he's a top bloke, he just wants to play for the biggest club on the planet and who wouldn't.

On the other hand he stays and we carry on as normal, I don't really see the dilemma or the potentially incoming meltdown
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So he's going to Real Madrid.
 
Fonte is in the training pics on the os.looks happy enough so who knows whats happening
 
Brixham Saint said:
I think the squad looks short of 2 or 3 players to most of us, except Puell according to The Echo. Makes me laugh that whoever gives this info to The Echo, is putting it on the lap of Puell.
In all seriousness, how long does he need to realise we are a couple of players short?
Just smells of the usual LR tactic, aka, video before Koeman left etc etc.
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Puel knows.
 
I'm fairly confident he will stay purely for the fact that Les has kept quiet, normally when Les comes out with a quote that a player/manager is staying and contract negotiations are going well then the oppisite tends to happen and they leave.
 
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'FLATTERING TO BE LINKED TO MAN UTD'

Southampton defender Jose Fonte has responded to reports linking him with a move to Manchester United.

"If the interest is there, it's flattering to be associated with a club like Manchester United," he said. "But I have a contract with Southampton".

Fonte and United boss Jose Mourinho are both looked after by super agent Jorge Mendes.
 
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Situation seems fairly clear to me.

Fonte would like to leave and go to United and he has expressed this to the board. However we will not sell him unless a ridiculous offer comes in from United, which it won't. Even though he would like to leave, he wont throw a strop if we refuse him a transfer and thus will eventually sign up to a pay rise and stay at saints.
 
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Le Tissier's Laces said:
Mind you, we could do that and take the bruises that come with it. I guess at least it would show us to be tough to the other players all of a sudden. Might have a season in the Championship as a result though. Your choice.
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I've purposely stayed out of this whole board debate for now (and still am) but why could doing that end up in relegation?

Not digging or anything, just confused.
 
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Southampton.fc/wales said:
Sky Transfer Centre LIVE!


11:28

'FLATTERING TO BE LINKED TO MAN UTD'

Southampton defender Jose Fonte has responded to reports linking him with a move to Manchester United.

"If the interest is there, it's flattering to be associated with a club like Manchester United," he said. "But I have a contract with Southampton".

Fonte and United boss Jose Mourinho are both looked after by super agent Jorge Mendes.
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That is actually an old quote (well, a couple of weeks anyway)....the media is just circulating the same phrases. I have to say that I don't believe for one minute that Fonte won't do his best for us if he isn't allowed a transfer. Just isn't that kind of guy....and it wouldn't make sense not to play well for Saints if you hoped to move in January** or next summer.

**Please don't make us go through this again in January.
 
The Liebherr Legacy said:
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I've purposely stayed out of this whole board debate for now (and still am) but why could doing that end up in relegation?

Not digging or anything, just confused.
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It wouldn't necessarily, of course, but if major players sided with Fonte then it could. Look at Chelsea last year (and they're a lot better than us).
 
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