26 Aug 2016 08:06:59
Apparently we have agree a new contract with Jose Fonte for 2 more years. £75k per week. This is being reported this morning. I'd heard that "talks between him and saints were progressing well" yesterday. Great news!


1.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 08:52:55
See we can keep players :) I think this in it self is a big statement for the club. Manchester UTD come in for Fonte, I honestly 100 percent thought he was gone. At his age coming to the end of his career and having just won the European championship with Portugal I really thought he would be off for a last big pay day but mainly to say he played for UTD, to have it on his CV. So this news is most welcome, superb news.

So the club does have it in them to not sell every bit of talent onto bigger clubs. let's hope we can do this more often going forward, no for some signings of our own before the window shuts please :)


2.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 09:53:31
If this is actually true, Jose Fonte will go down as one of the most important players we have ever had!


3.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 10:11:37
Think even if he had gone to UTD he would / should still have been held in high regard, but yes a legend for the club :)


4.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 10:16:47
Agree great if true inly thing is was he ever going? Or was this another great but if business by his agent with him looking after mourinho as well. Don't begrudge home the money but am sure others will have pay parity in their contracts as well. Either way striker and at least one other by end of business please.


5.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 10:38:02
I couldn't agree more, he would always have been very important and a legend if he had have moved, but THIS takes him from Lambert status to Letissier status. Let's build him a statue and call the stadium St Fonte of St Mary's. If I ever see him again I'm going to lick his face.


6.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 10:57:31
Saint ben basingsoke "At his age, coming to the end of his career" Why would you then want him staying till 34? He is too slow NOW, let alone in 2 years. You seem to have contradicted yourself. Get rid and get someone in as good as VVD.


7.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 11:14:00
LOL he is upthere but Le God status? I don't think so :)


8.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 11:38:23
Larry, Fonte is at least as good as vvd, in fact I would argue better. He is a leader and organised the defence impeccably. Speed isn't necessarily the most important attribute for a commanding CB, I'd argue that he still has it anyway. The whole team jut looks far more confident when he is on the pitch. John Terry is still going strong at his age and being considered for a role in the national team again. 34 isn't old as a CB, maybe as a box to box midfielder who covers upwards of 5 miles in 90 minutes. But even then, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard would still walk into most premier league teams at their age. Fitness levels are much higher now in these players and 34 is a good age.


9.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 12:49:45
Spot on Jamesaint, Larry lol, WTF! your obviously a deluded pompey or UTD fan. What you have just said is actually funnier than the guy that said robson kanu is better then Charlie Austin. Doughnut :)


10.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 12:52:39
Looking at all 5 of yours posts Larry all you do is slate our players, definitely not a saint! Go elsewhere and moan about your own club!


11.) 26 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 18:33:56
another great attribute of Fonte is his positioning.


12.) 27 Aug 2016
26 Aug 2016 23:05:39
If I disagree with any of you peoples comments you always pull the pathetic skate card.
There are number of people on saints forums who have stated quite clearly, including that actual basingstoke bloke, that he is at the end if his career, Basingstoke then says that he is ecstatic that a Saints player at the end of his career has now got a 2 year extension. That is a contradiction in terms of the English Language. Why want a player a player at the end of his career at all. Le God Les has now got Log, Fonte and Davis on long term contracts who are now on the downward slope.
My opinion. Disagree but don't be a complete ****er and call me a skate. I have been a Saints fan since 1960 onwards


13.) 28 Aug 2016
28 Aug 2016 08:31:47
Larry, fair point and I understand what you are saying. But Fonte is NEARING the end of his career and a few years left at the top level, earning big money is what he deserves. I think that what you have understood to mean that he is at the end of his career is simply people saying that this will be his last chance to move to another Lin within the same league and certainly a bigger club. When he is at the next stage, it will be a big step down the league or to somewhere like USA to just entertain the crowds. Also, a 2 year deal isn't a long term deal at all. In actual fact it's a fairly short term deal given that it will only tie him down to the club for 18 months, and that only if we don't decide to let him go. The contract only states (in its simplest terms) that the player will earn a set wage or an agreed wage for a set period of time, either until the contract expired, is replaced by another, the club and player mutually agree to destroy it or he does something that contravenes the contract ie criminal record. Other bits and pieces can be, and very often are, tucked into the contract like performance bonuses, minimum games, sponsorship, buy out clauses, etc etc. But 2 years is not long at all.