I know what you're saying and absolutely right. All the going on's at the moment I think although a little out of sync are really non-issues. I actually feel that although the Saints haven’t got the press in their control (nor wives and sisters on social networks) everything else is as expected and perhaps even planned for. Ricky Lambert, great guy, great player for us and will be forever in our history books. 4M (or whatever the real price may end up) will be great business for the Saints, but I'm more made up for him. I'm sure we would all give our left or right, possibly both, Gonads to play for our football team. This Roy of the Rovers (I know well used and worn out comparison) is simply fantastic for Ricky and well deserved. We must all wish him well and success, boyhood team and Champions league football fantastic way to enter the last phase of his football playing years. After all he may have been off to West Ham last January, so this was always on the cards. AL, LS and the rest, as far as I can make out is all rumor and speculation. Painful to keep reading and listen to I know, but at the moment everything else ties in to what the Chairman was saying a couple of days ago. Talk of meltdown and mass exodus by the press is just sensationalism to add justification to cut and paste reporting. The board, I feel confident, will get it right. As a glass half full type of person think that within the next week or so Southampton FC will be making the news for all the right reasons. New Manager and new players targeted, perhaps, confirmation that no one else is leaving and back on track for next season, just in time to watch the WC. There is no real reason to think any differently.

Good point well made Nick and good post Rednose. Let the management team get on with building for next season and leave talk of meltdown to the tabloids.

The odds will change if we lose more players and if we make a risky managerial appointment.