CB Fry

Heaven forbid anyone is named in a corruption scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/07/england-sammy-lee-bolton-transfer-deal-appeal-court

If Gardos goes then we do have a vacancy for a Eastern European centre back brought in for circa 6 mil to never actually play. Florin performed that role with aplomb so this guys got quite the boots to fill.

I've no doubt he's proved himself in just under 50 games in the Polish league.

Wikipedia gone early.

Didn't Les put a brilliant coaching team together? Superb. And so brave to overlook Sammy Lee's utter clusterfu ck of a managerial career when he turned eighth place Bolton into relegation certainties in a matter of weeks winning once in eleven disastrous games. Typical Les to look beyond that, and my how it paid off.

Just a fat scouse ***** who was at the club for five minutes. A total irrelevance and couldn't give a tinker's chuff whether he ever even entered the city boundary again, let alone rejoined the club. Irrelevant, move on. We'll be on to the Dodd/Williams love-in, next, right?

Me and the guys from the South-East Derbyshire Illegal War Appreciation Society will be passing a motion to decouple our branch from Corbyn's Labour party forthwith.

Mauricio Pellegrino, the complete coach who hates losing and frets when he wins https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jun/24/mauricio-pellegrino-complete-coach-southampton-manager?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard Good read. Key takeout: call him Flaco.

So that's a no then.

You're talking utter sh it. There are plenty of clubs that could get gates like ours - just above 30k - if they were in our position. Derby, Forest, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and so on. Getting 30k as a mid-table Prem club is pretty p iss easy if you have the stadium capacity - it's not some miracle driven by our huge fanbase. The true measure of a fan base is not the drivel you're writing about social media. It's asking what our core fan base might be when times are tough. Give us, say, two drab-ish seasons in the Championship and we'd be in the mid-twenty thousands. 23k, as low as 20k. Derby, Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Wolves, Norwich, Leeds can match it by being drab Championship teams now. Some, despite being achieving pi ss all over our Championship attendances. All those clubs achieve the same level of attendance we would get if we were there. And the reverse is true, they'd all be 30k just like us if they were 8th in the Prem (if their stadium allowed it). So, as usual, you're utterly clueless. Found anyone saying we are a "really really small club" yet? Thought not.

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I liked it when you took the moral high ground and said when we finished seventh that anyone accepting mid-table as being good for a club like Southampton had been "brainwashed" by Les Reed. Later you were back on this forum, after we'd finished eighth telling people that mid-table was good for a club like Southampton. Laughable.

You mean have two really successful seasons? Fine by me.

Funny you should mention SISU isn't it, as some of us remember your keyboard thumping caps-lock hrld down raging FURY AND ANGER that we didn't sell to them way back when. SISU were the saviours of the club who were going to INVEST IN THE TEAM remember and you were their biggest fanboy weren't you, swivel eyes?

This is like a survey in the Framley Examiner.

Old swivel eyes is back.

It's Ryan Giggs I feel sorry for.

What has impressed me with the club, yet again, is how we have done all this business in private. Completely bowled over by the surprise announcement at half four today. Well done Saints.

Yeah, yeah we've only got him because we're desperate and Garry Monk and Silva and every other available manager turned us down. Les Reed is clueless or something.

Three year deal so all the chat about long-term commitment/5 year deals was predictable nonsense. And a good thing too. Welcome to our second Maurico. Be the legend.

Who wouldn't be a gamble? Big Sam?

Oh, gotcha.

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You seem to be jizzing yourself over people looking at info from a number of sources and drawing a perfectly reasonable conclusion on the balance of probabilities. You want to wait for the official club announcement, fill your boots.

Me too. What is in his favour, compared to the typical Carlos Managerio-types off the Watford production line, is that he already has experience of the dressing rooms of the English game. It won't all be new to him like it was for Puel. All in all feels like a sound, if not thrilling, appointment.