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Sorry, I know twitter isn't allowed on here but that's straight from the horses mouth. About as good a source as it gets.
 
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are we gonna start a save poor Schneidy campaign? Southampton are treating him like a slave :cry:

that should annoy some Saints fans :p
 
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Pretty extensive ITK from Southampton about players and board, but worth the read
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Wow. One of the most interesting, and strangely moving things I have ever read ( on a sports forum, of course - I'm not including things like Gaza, Ukraine, etc., etc.).
That guy appears to be really, really ITK for Soton.
 
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And, I believe that Deschamps has said that Schneiderlin needs to play for a bigger team if he wants to play for France. Puts Schneiderlin in a panic position. He has to get out.
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Yeah check out his latest tweet :D
 
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I would assume MS's tweet in an indication that he may have asked for a move in response to the loyalty he has shown and that the chairman's statement has undermined what was said behind closed doors and therefore caused upset. That would be consistent with the Saints ITK posted up thread and the latest Spurs ITK and media reports.
 
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Wow. One of the most interesting, and strangely moving things I have ever read ( on a sports forum, of course - I'm not including things like Gaza, Ukraine, etc., etc.).
That guy appears to be really, really ITK for Soton.
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Maybe it's J-Rod posting under a fake name. :D
 
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This is the second time I've seen you write this. You seem to be suggesting that Bale was sold at AVB's behest, which is almost certainly not the case. He had a wish list I'm sure. But a) I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have swapped Bale for Hulk even if he could b) the only player we got that would have been high on AVB's wish list was Paulinho for 17m. We hardly needed to sell Bale for 90m to buy Paulinho. The only other player we were told was explicitly an AVB approved signing was Capoue at 7/8m. I'm pretty sure Soldado, Chadli, Chiriches, Lamella and Eriksen weren't. He may well of approved them, but I'm pretty sure they weren't high on any wish list of his. With the other players sold last summer we didn't need to sell Bale to buy Paulinho and Capoue, Soldado even.

AVB's wish list might have been a tad optimistic, but was no more out of line with club policy than Pochettino's current one (Lovren 20m, Schneiderlin 27m ?) or most of Redknapp's (16m Keane, 15m Defoe, 100k pw Cole, Tevez is doable blah blah ???).
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We had a partial list from Jason Burt in the Telegraph; Villas-Boas definitely wanted Soldado and Lamela as well as Paulinho and Capoue. Also in the list were Villa (one assumes Soldado was Plan B), Mkhiktaryan, Oscar, Fernandinho, Willian, Damiao, Hulk and Coentrao—and there were other names that Burt didn't mention. As we came very close to getting Willian, whatever we offered can't have been much short of the £32m Chelsea gazumped us with. Even assuming that we really did pay just £13m up front for Soldado, that wouldn't have left us with much change out of £100m for the five—and remember we were very strongly linked with Coentrao last summer, too. Another £25m?

I know we must have had a fair bit left in the bank from selling Modric, but I honestly don't see how we could have afforded that without selling Bale. Any ideas? I'm not suggesting that we sold Bale at AVB's behest, more that he may have been—how shall I put it?—somewhat detached from economic reality.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ger-Andre-Villas-Boas-had-become-distant.html
 
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