OGC Nice's statement when Puel left the club this summer:
"We had planned to see each other once the season was completed.
"With a cool head and clear ideas we took stock and discussed the future. At the end of this turn of rich and constructive horizon, we took, by common consent, the decision not to continue working.
"Our common history ends today with deep respect, and with job satisfaction. We lived four seasons of intense emotions, and took considerable pleasure to jointly develop the project at OGC Nice.
"We are so grateful for each other, this great human and sporting adventure that began in 2012.
"While a page is turned, the direction of OGC Nice and Claude Puel, true to their ambitions, wish the best for the future."
You're not telling me Saints are appointing another manager who resigned from their job on very good terms and with apparently no new club lined up?
