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I think that's a bit harsh. If anything Viera is actually a very "obvious" choice - big name, Ex player, Prem experience. It's not an "over thinking/being clever" choice, it's a no brainer/populist choice really. (It will, definitely be interpreted as "this season's Kompany", though, you're correct) Personally feels like a good choice and I'd be happy with it.

Bizarre - Nuno has delivered top 10 finishes in the Prem, Rowett has never finished higher than 6th in the Championship. Did well at Birmingham and Derby but absolutely stank the place out at (newly relegated) Stoke and Millwall fans don't even like him that much as his football is so dull. He is a good manager for a small-ish Championship clubs to grind out results and punch above weight but absolutely not what we need right now. Nuno feels unlikely but at least it is a Premier League standard manager with some genuine reputation, and delivered a promotion from the Championship.

Appalling seems a bit strong. The season of rebuilding Palace last year was pretty impressive, they lost a huge chunk of Hodgsons squad that first summer. Not sure who you think we can get that is not either a) unproven so hasn’t failed anywhere yet or b) has some failure/a sacking on their record

Would be happy with that appointment because Viera has the appropriate level of experience.

Ingolstadt were a Bundesliga team - Ralph got promoted and then he kept them there, he then got the RB job and Champions League football off that. Saints subsequently recruited a guy with loads of top flight experience. We didn't recruit a "lower league manager" and neither did RB Leipzig for that matter. Not sure I quite get the point. Is anyone really saying that we should not recruit anyone at all who has ever worked at a lower league club at any point in their own career?

Why have you picked 27 games? drumroll......pointless cherry picking!

That's a terrible example. The season before he came to us Hasenhuttl was managing a team in the Champions League and was finishing top six in the Bundesliga (finishing second in his first season). We got him as a top flight top level manager.

My PR people are currently finishing off the final draft of my really-sorry-and-thank-you Instagram message to you all (I've told those pricks four times to MAKE IT MORE HUMBLE fucks sake) Once that's done and up then I am Out. Of. Here.

It's the Sky last-day hype merchants I feel sorry for.

Brighton will never be in the bottom half of the table ever ever again. Well done them for mastering the Premier League 👏 👍 🙌 👍

"There's loads of money to be made in the Premier League" is not the red-hot business insight you think it is, lads. Every one already knows it. It's just this current regime who have delivered in one go our worst ever Premier League season in history. Ever. Let's not pretend this is some master plan only you understand.

It's almost he leaves this stuff on here as, well, clickbait. I definitely remember he did a load of stuff on here about how the club were told "money no object" last summer and we would get a front line striker (spoiler alert: we didn't).

99% certain, someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that Manji was on here saying all the Nathan Jones reports (about us appointing him) was all speculation made up by journalists and not true.

Keep going. You're absolutely smashing it on this thread 👏 🙌 👌

Honestly I don't even think you know what you're on about now.

Personally one of the biggest obstacles we face early on for acceptance of our new manager is that if Sports Republic think he is the best man for the job then he probably isn't because Sports Republic are effing hopeless.

They're not three different responses, they are pretty much identical. The first response doesn't say "managing in the Premier League" specifically, it talks about scale of club. For someone desperate to hammer people on specific word use it is strange you have ignored that. Those three answers are not different, they are saying the same thing.

I can't see "three different responses" on this thread. Just you pointlessly nitpicking and you trying to pretend Saints fans would reject Graham bloody Potter because he wasn't "experienced". Abject nonsense. Just looking at every possible candidate through the prism of your very narrow interpretation of one single word seems utterly futile, even for this forum.

List out the "three different responses" and how they are different.

It doesn't just mean that and I haven't said anything remotely like that. You don't get gravitas walking into a new club with zero relevant experience. Honestly you need to do a bit more work on the meanings of words. It's a a teeny bit more than the first line of a dictionary definition. Keep trying, you'll get there.

What planet are you living on that the people saying they want someone with "experience" would also reject Graham Potter? I think you are getting carried away with how clever you think your shitty little question is.

Why are you asking this question like it is some genius killer question? All the candidates will be slightly different on all metrics. But I think "experience" is a good phrase for someone to walk in to the club with significant gravitas, knowledge, know-how, authority who can inspire the fanbase and the playing staff. So yep, someone with experience please.

We're going down this season because of the disastrous decisions on players and managers made by the current leadership of the club last summer, in January and throughout. You want keep crying about Cortese leaving 9 fucking years ago carry on mate. But it's got fuck all to do with anything you thick cunt. Enjoy the Eurovision final tonight X X 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈

How are we getting on compared to all the last-ten-game match predictors everyone was doing a few weeks ago?

https://www.fotytv.com/2023/05/southampton-vs-fulham-preview.html Surprising good site, have been using for a few weeks now - probably will be shut down before long.