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Don't shoot the messenger here. I've just seen this Facebook update from a mate of mine...

 

Saints fans - Get your money on Morgan Schneiderlin being sold, the **** has just pulled out of buying my house for 'personal reasons'. Seething!!!!!
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Contracts mean little these days, and despite my slightly mischievous initial reply, none of us have a clue what might or might happen. However given all the noises coming out this season, and the number of players who did sign new contracts, I think most players seem happy here and want to continue to grow with Saints. I would personally be surprised if Morgan left us. For more likely is indeed simply that he has found another house or area that he prefers. Such is life.

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It's going to be a long summer.

 

It would be if you read this place every day. Far easier to skim read it every week or so, or even better, get someone who is rational, not prone to knee-jerk, and who has plenty of time to kill, to read the forum and distil the latest down to a 10 minute pub conversation each week.

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why would Morgan want a big house in Bassett, he lives in Ocean Village with all of his friends.

 

I honestly don't know. I haven't spoken this mate of mine for a few months (since I was last in Southampton) and I didn't realise he was even in the process of selling his house to Morgan, but I have no reason to disbelieve him.

 

I know his house is worth a fair bob after the massive extension he built on it a few years ago. It's in a very desirable part of Bassett, and although it is quite small in comparison to the kind of gated mansion that you would normally associate with a PL footballer, it seems perfectly reasonable.

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ok so the chairman has struck an agreement to move onto the next stage, a bigger stage, he wont be selling our best players. But the only worrying thing is that Arsenal ( who have tracked him for a while ) have said to be splashing the cash this summer. I'm sure NC wont settle for bids anything less than £20 million for him, if he really wants European football he needs to get a special team here and that would include Morgan.

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I have been told from a third party that apparently his girlfriend had said he was moving to Arsenal with a £15 million fee agreed. Thought it was bulls**t at the time but you never known

 

 

well he said only on Thursday that he was looking forward to progressing again with us next season. Perhaps she fancies a move to London though so he's dumped her so he doesn't need the big house that she told him he needed, personal reasons you see..

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I reckon girlfriends and others probably drop fake stuff into random conversations with others and see how far they can get it to go, just for a laugh. I'd be tempted to do it if I knew a player and someone asked me...

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This is the worst rumour I've ever seen

 

I think the one I spread about Lambert being pulled from the away kit launch prior to the Championship season starting has to be up there - hi to my former neighbour near Northlands Road, btw, I know he reads - or at least I did after I posted about that on here. :facepalm:

 

Every word he said was absolutely true as far as I know though, Lambert did get pulled from the kit launch flyers etc due to a last minute call from the club, and he definitely wasn't on the advertising (it was for the yellow away shirt). It didn't mean we were selling him though, and it could also be true that Schneiderlin has found a better house, or just decided he wants to live somewhere else.

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I reckon girlfriends and others probably drop fake stuff into random conversations with others and see how far they can get it to go, just for a laugh. I'd be tempted to do it if I knew a player and someone asked me...

 

God absolutely. Incidentally, I know a taxi driver who has Schneiderlin's opinion on the new kit... :)

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Cheer up, this is the chilled out fun calm before Alpine starts his thread about a lack of early enough signings.

 

He's already been drip-feeding his fury about needing to make signings into the last 3 or 4 match day threads...

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I think the one I spread about Lambert being pulled from the away kit launch prior to the Championship season starting has to be up there - hi to my former neighbour near Northlands Road, btw, I know he reads - or at least I did after I posted about that on here. :facepalm:

 

Every word he said was absolutely true as far as I know though, Lambert did get pulled from the kit launch flyers etc due to a last minute call from the club, and he definitely wasn't on the advertising (it was for the yellow away shirt). It didn't mean we were selling him though, and it could also be true that Schneiderlin has found a better house, or just decided he wants to live somewhere else.

 

That rumour put you on the map.

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I reckon his close friend and neighbour Guly kicked off when he found out Morgan was looking at this property and subsequently threatened to hand in a transfer request unless Morgan pulled out of the deal. Based on the fact Gaston thinks Guly is the best player at the club Morgan decided in the interest of the club to please Mr Do Prado.

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hahaha saw this on not606 posted by Jose Fonte Baby -

 

"For the record, I heard that we're after a big forward & winger, to be sponsored by a F1 team & have an Adidas kit."

 

Needless to say everyone thought Ferrari as we wear red, funny how they missed Maurussia is also a red F1 team.

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The last time I spoke to Morgan and his gf, they were awaiting the survey and other legal information. Maybe the big extension on your mate's house is falling down. Maybe they found a better house. Maybe the Chinese Whispers of Arsenal were wrong and the Inter rumour last week was correct. Whatever the case, nothing will stop the bed-wetters.

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I have been told from a third party that apparently his girlfriend had said he was moving to Arsenal with a £15 million fee agreed. Thought it was bulls**t at the time but you never known

 

Here is a scenario:

Drunk 1: rarrr, lairy, rarrr, nice tits

Drunk 2: rarrr, lairy, rarrr, your old man only plays for fakkin' Saints, should find a real man luv

Girlfriend of footballer: P*ss off you drunk morons, he's signing for Arsenal for £15m and is worth much more than you

 

Yes. I can see how rumours like that start.

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Talking of rumours, block 3 yesterday - I had a Spanish looking guy sat behind me who wasn't Sergio Aguero, but had pretty much the same face! Skinny lad, would say about late teens early 20s...

 

I did wonder to myself if he was a possible signing, but I guess he could just be a relative of Poch or youth player. I have had a stalk through some of the names rumoured without any luck.

 

He didn't seem that interested as he was on his phone the whole game.

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None of this is anywhere near as ironic as the tale of the " late Alan Ball " that was going about back then.

 

After leaving Saints (finally)... Ball-ie moved around the country, managing different clubs here and there, but retained his house (at Chilworth or somewhere like?)

 

Eventually, he reluctantly put in on the market....... and it took almost 2 years to find a buyer for it.

 

2 weeks after the house deal went through - he got offered the Saints managers job (after Branfoot)...and had to go house-hunting himself.

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