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We've come out with some attacking intent. THAT'S why Pellegrino is the new Alex Ferguson/Lawrie McMenemy.

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Kane has scored 47 goals in the time since Shane Long last scored a goal. Brilliant.

Well, Shane Long is starting and that can only mean goals goals goals.

Which posters? Which posts? (hint: there aren't any. At all.) That's lucky, because no one does.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Someone got a shoehorn for Christmas. Leicester City are now in the elite group of big clubs that get all the decisions? Okay then.

In fairness at least one poor sod gets sacked around Christmas every year. Monk already gone, Hughes probably would have if he's lost yesterday. Managerial sackings - it's a Christmas tradition as old as indigestion.

You sure thats not the one of Pellegrino saying that he has their backing in the post-match interview? That's not quite the same thing.

I imagine Les is going through, at length, all the information we have on the multiple candidates we have for our impending managerial vacancy. After all, we have tracking and monitoring them all for three or four years.

At least when we brick up all the borders to foreign workers, the agricultural industry will know where to come for expert cherry pickers.

Did a brilliant job when he was here. Him along with Les Reed got the club reaching higher and higher heights that I didn't think was even remotely possible under previous regimes. Helped the club go from strength to strength peaking in that sixth place finish. Brilliant. Right man at the right time. While I have no doubt he could come in and secure us in this division this season, I'm not particularly comfortable with how it would pan out longer term. We need rid of Pellegrino but I don't want to go back to Koeman.

Maybe he's been not well for a while and him and the club have agreed it's better to turn it in. Maybe fu cking that. Newsflash: he's an assistant coach. He doesn't need a spin machine to cover up the "real reason" behind his departure because no one, anywhere, gives a flying fu ck that he's left. Except of course for a few flat earther conspiracy idiots on this forum, desperate for an angle to cream their knickers over.

Monk has been proven to be full of sh it recently so not interested. Its only utter retards on this forum that think there is any need whatsoever to fabricate a story to cover up Eric Black leaving. If he's done anything wrong, do a one line statement. Not difficult. You want to be gullible because Les Reed is howwible and evil and scheming and everyfing then that's that's your simple-minded lookout.

If you think there's some massive conspiracy to cover up the departure of a fu cking assistant coach then you're even more thick than I thought you were.

What do you think the real reason is then? Why does a football club need to fabricate a story for the departure of a managerial assistant? It's not that important to lie about is it?

At least 80. At very least. And then move him to the role of honourary life president. My only wish would be he is still about at 90 to see the unveiling of his statue. I'd make it different because Les is a different kind of Saints legend to Ted Bates . I'd put him on a plinth with small figures of the key players of the Les era all around him, listening at his feet. Les era players like Fonte, Lambert, Morgan, Lallana, Billy Sharp, Tadic, Pelle, Virgil. The kind of players when you say their name you immediately think "thanks, Les".

Look at his little happy face.

The machinery industry is not the construction industry. That's not "semantics", they are different sectors. If its the same why don't JCB have loads of real estate projects on the go? Or the Black and Decker corporation? After all, its all the same innit.

Pellegrino is as good as Diego Simeone now? Bold statement. Just for context Simeone won the Europa League in his first season at Atletico. In his most recent La Liga season Pellegrino trundled to ninth place scoring barely any goals. But you go girl, Pellegrino is the next Simeone.

I thought Markus and, by extension, Katharina have nothing to do with the running of the Liebherr corporation? And even if they did, their core business is not construction, it's construction machinery. Liebherr don't build urban developments. And even if we accept a) Katharina suddenly being involved in Liebherr group and b) Liebherr group suddenly become real estate constructors then it still doesn't explain why she sold to the Chinese to do their own construction. And, let's put aside the usual counter argument about why anyone needs to buy a football club to develop brownfield sites in a city when they could just buy the brownfield site on its own and get on with it. I'm starting to think Ultimatt doesn't know what he's on about.

He won't leave mid-season but it's hardly deluded to expect a Celtic manager to come here. In recent history we'd be the highest ranked club an ex-Celtic manager has moved to in years. Highest ranked by a mile. 2nd tier Middlesbrough (twice), Bolton and some Finland nobodies in the last decade or so. But yeah. So deluded. Wow.

Except in the seasons following that we finished 7th and then 6th, qualifying for Europe two seasons in a row, and then Wembley cup final and 8th yet again the season after? I know you Cortese Cultists hate it bit it happened and it was so, so good. Strength to strength. Cortese's highest league finish, ever? 14th.

The idea that a new director of football would come in and not start looking to replace the first team manager within a very short timeframe is laughable. It goes on like this Reed will sack Pellegrino. If it goes on like this and Gao sacks Reed, his replacement will sack Pellegrino.

Pellegrino has two coaches hand picked by him to support him. Adkins brought in Crosby, Pards brought in Wally Downes, Poch has Perez, Koeman brought in his brother, Puel brought in Planque, Strachan brought in Pendry. Basically at Saints the opportunity is there to bring in your own people to support, within a reasonable framework. So if he doesn't have someone he trusts to give him the advise he needs then I'd say that was entirely his fault and yet another fu ck up in a management tenure strewn with fu ck ups.