CB Fry

Amen brother. I know some don't want to hear it but I couldn't give a flying fu ck that we're not in the Champions League and like you say we never will be. I want us to win a cup and three Wembley trips in less than a decade has been great. Europa, all for it, suits us. We are what we are and I love Saints for it.

It's looking like this year's "We're going to recruit Unai Emery/Thomas Tuchel" is actually "We're going to recruit Mark Hughes". We've even downgraded our unachievable targets... In all seriousness I am sure we will get this done but the fact that WHU and Stoke and others can get on with stuff while we can't is a joke. If we finalise Hughes tomorrow then fine but it's still taken too long and all the behaviours that have fu cked up The last 3 transfer windows are still there.

You will remember the last four transfer windows right? Im sure we do "track targets for months" but we then wait until the last possible moment to act because we think we're awful clever, leaving us no contingency plans and in the case of Jan 2018, Summer 2017 and Jan 2017 a failure to sign the players we have been supposedly tracking for months. Oh, and we've dithered about with managers for the last two summers as well, tracking pointless targets for weeks and that falling through then recruiting duds. Four utter car crashes of transfer windows over 2 seasons and two utter car crashes of managerial appointments over two summers. And now we can't seem to conclude a deal on a manager who basically is already our manager. The club is a fu cking clown car. Yeah, I got faith.

It is now becoming a bit silly that other clubs can sack recruit and announce brand new managers and we can't seem to complete this simple task with a manager that has a car parking space and a monogrammed tracksuit at the club already. Just feels the club have learned fu ck all.

We were three points and a two legged qualifier away from the Champions League.

But when Markus bought us we were just like Shrewsbury are now. Just like them and no mistake.

The easy bit compared to getting into the Champions League. And it is. Huddersfield have made it to the Prem and Burnley, Swansea and WBA have made it to eighth.

"Snapping up".

Nothing anywhere that said ML's dream was CL football. He was a sensible businessman so I very much doubt he had any interest in funding that.

I can't imagine anyone would be so lame as to make out they were from a different country just to spread rumours on a football forum.

I miss Redslo.

Who is "someone like Rowett"? I know Derby fans that will happily drive him to Stoke. Unambitious, tedious football and scraped the play offs despite plenty of financial backing and a good half season before to settle in. Best comparison is Burley with us. All in all a fair to middling boss, not some undiscovered genius.

I voted go. Middle way sounds like a bit of a fudge. He's had his time and think sensible to move on.

I'll look out for it. Used to read the original column in the paper, and I read one of the books. Is it still Dave Kitson, or have they regenerated a new one?

The word on the street in Abuja is that Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki will be part of the set up as well.

Game set and match then. Toodle pip.

My contacts in Zimbabwe close to the club have confirmed to me that it is likely that possibly Les Reed will leave this summer.

So in summary we are not unique but, err, we are unique in a particular unique subset of clubs doing the same thing (strategy X) but better than/slightly differently to us (we, alongside those other clubs do strategy X but only we do execution Y, all the others do X/X because they are better than us). Which, by extension means we are unique among all clubs because no one else does X/Y because we are "pretty much the only club" doing it. You can get your head around that, can't you? And, to confirm, the subset if clubs that you have bundled us in with, and complaining do things better than us are Atletico Madrid, Burussia Dortmond and Chelsea. So you keep saying and saying we are unique and I'll keep saying we are not unique. Yeah, you ain't none too bright.

Here we are then. I've removed all the references to Dortmund, Atletico and Chelsea as you don't want us to be anything like them after all. Weird you wasted those sentences on them. Anyway, here it is. Let's look at it again, nice and slow... "We're pretty much the only club club trying to pursue this strategy that doesn't spread a wider net when recruiting replacement talent" Nope. Still utter, utter horsesh it. And just so you understand my conjunctions and sh it, let's be really clear here. Southampton Football Club are not "pretty much the only club" to do anything in relation to transfer business. We're not unique on any measure. We're not singular compared to any other Premier League, Championship or major European club. There's nothing we do, on player recruiting, retention, coaching, scouting, contracts, buying, loaning or how we pose the unveiling pictures on the website, that we would be "pretty much the only club" doing it. . So soz and that but how about get some perspective.

Ekon? He con.

Brett from Cameroon.

The African Dream is alive.

Green needle.

White and Gold.

I admire the little man's 100% record in his dealings with the top 7.