Manchester United have jumped ahead of Arsenal in the chase to land Morgan Schneiderlin according to the latest media frenzy.

It is funny how transfer rumours suddenly start, last week most of the media outlets were claiming that Morgan Schneiderlin to Arsenal was a done deal and that all had been agreed between club and player, today those same journalists are no frothing at the mouth and claiming that the Frenchman is about to sign for Manchester United.

If nothing else it shows just how shallow even the best rumours are and how certain journalists are manipulated by certain clubs and agents to put out information that suits them, whether it has any real substance or not and that once a few have done so within a short period of time everyone else follows making it look like the rumour is cast iron.

What it should show the average football fan is just how the industry works now and that you should not believe all you read whatever the situation surrounding a player.

If United are now chasing Schneiderlin then its good news for Saints fans, the player has publicly stated he wants to play for a Champions league club and that means that he is highly unlikely to stay at St Mary's for next season.

That being the case the fact that United may have joined the scrimmage is good news as it can only push the price up a bit.

There are some that will berate Schneiderlin as some sort of traitor, but I think that would be very unfair, out of the five big names that left last year,Scneiderlin deserved a big money move in front of all of them, he had put in more service and been loyal to Saints for six season then. Now he has completed a seventh and he has done so by not throwing his toys out of the pram by some, but by getting his head down and putting in hard work for the club.

Having done so he deserves to go to a big club in the Champions league and he will hopefully do so with the best wishes of Saints fans ringing in his ears.

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BaselSaint added 10:16 - Jun 1 Yay! bidding war. Luvly jubbly
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DEVONIANSAINT added 11:01 - Jun 1 Morgan has developed into a very fine player while at Saints,who gave him the opportunity to play when he was young and inexperienced.It looks like he will move on this time and we need to recruit someone who is able to go straight into the team-we cannot always be looking for 'one for the future' nor the' one who is not quite good enough but we might be able to develop them'.Look at the great impact of Forster and Pelle,if we can find and buy quality and experience then supplement it with our Academy starlets then hopefully we will have a successful team for the immediate as well as the longer term future.

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SaintNick added 11:15 - Jun 1 We have been linked with a few who are quality players to replace Morgan, Im sure that we will get someone suitable
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BarnetSaint added 11:45 - Jun 1 If we do lose him, I'd like to think we'll get at least £25M.
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mesquita added 12:11 - Jun 1 we should be happy for him, he has been good for us. personally I hope that it's Athletico Madrid in a deal that includes Toby plus money or another player already in our sites
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bstokesaint added 12:39 - Jun 1 To be honest I wish Morgan and Clyne would just sign new contracts or go. I don't mean that in an offensive/ungrateful way as I think both have been excellent servants for the club and I would suggest the former can be heralded a modern day legend. However, given we have 59 days or something to prepare for the next campaign then that doesn't give us long to find equal replacements and start moulding a team for next year. I still feel there was a large element of luck to this season with all of our last minute work paying off big time. I'm not sure we'd have that same success a second time. That said we are far better placed this time round then we were at the same time last season with far more uncertainty on the horizon.

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