SAINTS legend Matt Le Tissier has reportedly confirmed he is fronting a consortium, which includes a number of wealthy property developers, that is in the running to buy the club.

According to reports this afternoon, Le Tissier has confirmed that the group have already completed the due diligence process, with a view to potentially making an offer for the assets of Saints’ parent company Southampton Leisure Holding.

Le Tissier, 40, scored a total of 209 goals in 462 appearances for Southampton, including 47 out of 48 penalties, and won eight caps for England.

The man worshipped by Saints fans as Le God spent his entire career at The Dell.

His often spectacular goals helped the club to stay in the Premiership.

Guernsey duo Ben Steele and Quentin Hubbard also emerged this week as potentially being among the contenders to purchase the club, which is danger of folding completely if a buyer is not found soon.

The Channel Islands pairing were the first of what is believed to be four parties interested in snapping up Saints, whose identities came 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.