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No idea how credible this is as I just saw it on twitter but the rumour goes that we have beaten PSV to the signing of the 21 year old Danish CB. Trying to post the link but twitter seems to have gone down. Anyone know much about him?

Think I have a contender. 35 Nilsson on the blue away shirt 04/05.

The latest update is utter gash. I thought it was my laptop and some of the add ons i had downloaded making the game glitch but it seems many others are having the same problem. If I try and start up a game now you cannot hold a team meeting and what's worse is that whenever you enter a match situation and have the team talk options, no matter how you say the insturctions, whether negative or positive etc, 80% of the players gauge an awful reaction; says they have switched off, look stressed, in danger of losing discipline. I just completely uninstalled and re installed it losing all progress and downloaded add ons to see if it was some dodgy add ons affecting the game but open it up again and it's exactly the same. Complete bull****. http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-discussion/89110-team-talks-dont-work-since-update.html

^ spot on st.sj

To the guy managing in Moldova; any good players to recommend? Just taken over Sheriff Tiraspol...

Just downloaded a patch with Baltic Leagues/Cups (Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania), gunna try a save at some obscure club...

Can anyone work out why my Saints team pick up so many yellow cards? Team is playing well, top of the league in Feb, clear by 20 points! Play fast attacking football with Billy Sharp scoring 30 in 30 but we pick up on average 4 yellow cards a match, leading to poor discipline and fines. The tackling mentality isn't aggressive or anything, it's just really weird...

just tested it and yes it does affect the shirt/weather situation, as before.

In Fifa 11 if you changed the boots, it would mean for some reason that the players wouldn't switch to long sleeve shirts etc in rain/snowy weather in the game. Does it have that effect in 12?

Downloaded it last night, signed 5 players; Tom Heaton (GK) for £300k, Stuart Parnaby (RB) free, Liam Fontaine (CB) £725k plus add ons, Iain Hume (FW) £800k, James Beattie (ST) free and one loanee, Emmanuel Frimpong from Arsenal. Played first game of the season at home to Ipswich and won 3-0, Lallana (1), Lambert (2). Think the match engine and new camera angles are much better. Starting line up; Heaton, Parnaby, Fonte, Hooiveld, Fox, Cork ©, Schneiderlin, De Ridder, Lallana, Lambert, Hume. Subs; Davis, Fontaine, Hammond, Guly, Beattie.

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My brother has written a 3 part blog on the Saints, please have a read and see what you think. Part 1 - http://www.itsroundanditswhite.co.uk/2011/09/01/my-beloved-saints-my-memories-as-a-saints-supporter-2001-onwards-part-1-2001-2005/ Part 2 - http://www.itsroundanditswhite.co.uk/2011/09/01/my-beloved-saints-my-memories-as-a-saints-supporter-2001-onwards-part-2-2005-2009/ Part 3 - to follow

Get over yourselves...what do you know about him? Nothing. Give the guy a chance.

oh and Liano and De Riddler now play for saints, apparently.

touche

Paul Merson is literally a shocking pundit. Yes he played professional football but the man hasn't a clue and seems to have no knowledge whatsoever, let alone the ability to read a players name of a teleprompter. Yeah it's funny sometimes but he is a joke.

A few interesting comments from Simon Clifford, via twitter to me. I asked a throw away comment about st.juste as in what is he upto these days : @SimonDClifford what ever happened to jason st.juste? and got this response: @alexdmcinnes As I said, his story at Southampton is a story in itself. He played professionally in Norway until last year and walked out, @alexdmcinnes on a very good contract and got into bad company. I got him back around my house and he's working for me now and doing well. Then I asked him; @SimonDClifford i've read a load of today's tweets regarding your time at saints and i'm admiring the honesty you are showing but would you @SimonDClifford really have taken the job with clive, given, from what i've read, your lack of confidence in him?. And he has been replying to this one question in abundance. In truth, in the end he said he would not go into football without me in an interview with Patrick Barclay, It brought me a mix of confidence regards his faith in me, but also sadness that his football dream would not happen. If I said 'no' that in the end made me finally agree. He is a good man, but not a strong man and lacks courage. He told me that I was the toughest and most 'macho' man he had known an that he needed to develop courage himself from me. I was furious with him after one incident when I attacked Redknapp and Bassett in a staff meeting, he said I was too Intimidating and agressive. The way we were going something had to be said. Later that day we travelled to Ipswich for a friendly, I sat with Leon Best as Clive I was unhappy with. We stopped at a hotel to eat on route and he came to talk with me in the car park of the hotel. He apologised and said he needed to be more like me an that as of the following day he would be, I was pleased. He never turned up at work the next day, nor in the days following giving me various reasons, within a week I had gone. I had Rupert and Clive try to change my mind promise this and that but there was no way. The most difficult thing in leaving was the family time I had shared with him and mine and the time I has with him. I loved his company and weekends away etc. but I had to think of my career and project and accept in doing it we would no longer share time together. Intellectually, he was interesting and a like mind, the social time was great. He was just incapable of putting into practice or even saying anything of what he really thought. He says that one day we will work together again. I will not but in 20 years or so when I have time I would enjoy if we spoke or saw each others families. His mistake was selling Rupert a very radical critique of the status quo and a blue print got change. Yet when im post leaving all of that to me. Rupert described me as a hawk and Clive a dove. In post his main focus became ingratiating himself with the very people he has told Rupert were archaic etc. and had promised to destroy, along with the football establishment itself. He once said at his house months before 'we are going to be the new Clough and Taylor' to which I replied we should first focus on winning a match or 2. He had ideas of us moving to Madrid and who knows what else. That was week two and I was complaining in the reserves aspect and that we must just think of that and why we did not have the team as promised. When I complained to Rupert on this he said that Clive had to ask Harry?. Out of the blue today, I may collaborate with a friend and write a book, a diary of the 2 months 11 days 'the damned Southampton'. The reason is there are 1000 other things I could say and I have never being able to describe things as I just carried straight on with my work. I got a lift home from Rupert the first two weeks and had to listen every night on speakerphone to 2 members of staff and friends of the manager asking for the manager to be acked as he was behind th etimes and this 'high tec' duo installed. To keep my mouth shut while there was hard and as it comes to my mind it is now. The traitors who ganged together against us, I listened every night as they plotted to knife their own. In summation I worked out that the only one not being two faced was Rupert and the whole thing was beyond farce. Maybe that is every club, I would nope not, but nobody had any loyalty to another save Kevin Bond, who although I did not speak to much, I thought was innocent of playing politics. Rupert said it to the face to everyone, I do the same. Whether he he is right or wrong, he is being a man and straight. The rest of the entire cast, save Kevin Bond I could not say that of. It would actually be a big book, I would do it diary form. It would include characters from across football, Sven, Fergie, Palios, Theo, Pini Zahavi, Dennis Wise. I would not write it myself I would speak it to someone though. In my life, I would not give it a chapter if I wrote of all things, which I will not. But thinking today it was a strange little period. The club cannot sue me, anyone else will not be able to either as I will just tell the truth. A final flash, we almost signed a player from Africa until at the last minute John Hollins (ex QPR) informed us that a member of our staff who had asked rupert to buy him 'owned' a third share of the player. The footballer ended up at Portsmouth. I will stop as my mind is going into over drive recall with how bizarre the whole thing was, sorry Alex, Simon. These are all just tweets of 140 characters put together in the order he has sent them. I'm not really sure what to make of it all but i'm sure you guys will have opinion son this, personally i think it's good he has been very open about the whole thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14577100.stm Anybody know what the 'breach of discipline' was?

Don't know any facts to be honest, just the pages and pages of speculation on this forum. I think English players are generally overpriced as it stands in the current climate, you can get other players from foreign leagues for far less ...

This is the first thread I have ever started, just think the price being quoted in the media is absurd and thought it deserved a thread of it's own? Sorry

I truly think we are being taken advantage of in our pursuit of Jay Rodriguez with regards to the price. Nottingham Forest have just signed Ishmael Miller, who at 24 is only 2 years older than Rodriguez, for just £1.2m. He is a powerful, fast and young striker, who has played for years in both the Championship and Premier League. I am not saying we shouldn't go for Rodriguez, but surely £4/5m is far too much to pay ...

Is it just me or is Rene Howe one of the fattest players to grace the hallowed turf of St. Marys?

He did have a lot of work to do playing for Saints, however I think that view is slightly naive. Technically he was one of the best around ... I genuinley think he could have played for Manchester United, Chelsea or another PL title challenger and not looked out of place. He was THAT good.

Sorry posted up the wrong link ...