Potential Saints investors from Guernsey are not frontrunners for the club the Daily Echo understands.

The Channel Islands pairing of Ben Steele and Quentin Hubbard are the first names from what is believed to be four interested parties in buying Saints to come out in the public domain.

Steele and Hubbard held talks with Southampton Leisure Holdings administrator Mark Fry at St Mary’s on Tuesday afternoon before flying back to Guernsey from Southampton airport yesterday morning.

They are understood to have been wanting a straight cash purchase of the club and were not interested in going through the full due diligence process.

As a result it has led insiders to question exactly how serious they are about the potential purchase with others having taken a much more thorough approach to a potential deal.

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