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The Taliban obviously need to be dealt with but why the hell should it be our problem? The terror threat is world-wide yet the British and the Americans are the mugs who shoulder most of the effort. We should withdraw all our forces now and let some crap-hole like France send a decent amount of troops - we have done more than our share as usual. We are just a small island on a big planet, we're not a colonial power anymore. The more we stick our noses into other people crap the more of a target we become.

They should be in a rush IMO, every day without a manager harms our chances next season.

I don't think here is any real chance of Adams being Saints manager, it's more likley his name was fed to the media by the club to lower expectations - with all the talk of Strachan, Coppell etc. By threatening us with donkey Adams they know we will be over the moon when Cotterill is wheeled out.

What exactly did Woodward do whilst he was at Saints that improved the team? What exactly did he do that proves that a good rugby coach can easily be turned into a good football coach?

Apart from being ******, that's irrelivant as it's in a completely different sport.

I couldn't give a rats arse if he managed pompey or not, he's just a really really bad football manager. You just have to see his interviews to know he doesn't know what the hell he is doing, he talks complete nonsense.

I saw no evidence that Woodward could contribute anything at all, he was a complete and spectacular failure. "Later that summer, Sir Clive entered the world of football, joining Southampton FC as Technical Director. Less than six months into his new role, he was promoted to the position of Director of football, a position he held until September 2006, when he accepted the newly created and tremendously exciting full time position with the British Olympic Association." The above illustrates perfectly the Woodward brand of bull****, which many, unfortunately lap up.

I don't think it's a case of top players don't usually make good managers, more a case of it not mattering if you were a great player or not. There is naturally going to be more average players in management simply because there are more average players around. Experience is obviously important, it makes sense that players who have been journeymen and played in different leagues have a more rounded experience. There is no set formular, personality and understanding of the game is very important though IMO.

Take 10 points of Leicester last year and they still would have finished comfortably in the playoffs. So according to some on here we can hire any monkey and the playoffs will be a certainty. Or maybe Pearson is actually a good manager?

I would say we definitely need: A first choice left back, leaving Mills as cover. Cover for James at Right Back. A replacement for Saeijs, along with Perry, Thomas and Lancashire that should see us OK for CBs. A left sided midfielder - Holmes is perma-injured. At least 1 striker with pace - depending on who we keep out of BWP, Rasiak, John ect.

According to the people who slated Pearson, anyone can get a team with money promoted from League 1. So surely it doesn't matter who we appoint as manager, we will get into the play-offs regardless.

The Premiership is dull beyond belief, it's only a matter of time before people stop bothering to buy Sky, especially with the recession taking effect. We already know that the top 4 will be Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal in some order - who gives a ****. Following them will be the bunch of perpetual loser top 4 wannabies - Spurs, Villa, City and Everton. The rest of the league is complete shat, crappy little clubs like Wigan, Blackburn, Hull and portsmouth desperately trying to keep hold of their share of cash. People will start turning off soon, take Sky's money away and the whole tower of cards will come down.

Due Diligence shouldn't take 6 weeks, something fishy must be going on.

The thread title is "What was Cortese's motivation.." Saints are obviously a potentially good investment, it's not exactly been a secret that we were up for sale.

You have to say that Strachan is the perfect choice. Not just because he's a hero round here already but because of what he will bring to the team. Strach would install fitness, motivation and organisation. His sides play at a high tempo with a strong work ethic, combine that with strong financial backing from ML then getting out of League 1 in 1 or 2 years shouldn't be a problem.

on loan?...

We spend the whole summer banging on about what a great buy SFC would be (potential Prem club with great stadium, facilities, fan base, history for a snip etc), now we question the buyers motivation!?! Only on here.

No one spends millions of their own hard earned cash on a football club only to place it in the hands of a alcoholic skate retard.

Hoddle didn't hang around long enough to judge. At all his other jobs (Swindon apart) he started off well then just faded into mediocrity. If he had stayed at Saints the same thing would have probably happened. He's a good coach but his record in the transfer market and his man management ultimately let him down as a manager. Not in Strachan's league IMO.

Until the deal is done and the money has changed hands anything can happen in these things - as we well know! I wouldn't take much notice of Fitzhugh's "well placed source" either, there have been plenty of well placed people on here coming out with all sorts of rubbish. Chances are the Arab will buy them.

Bit harsh on Wotte but the right decision IMO.

If I was Leibherr I would get Oldknow to fill one of those big dump trucks full of used 50's, drive down to Warsash and get Strachan to sign a 5 year contract.

Funds being transferred my arse. Unless he's driving from Switzerland in a dump truck full of notes it shouldn't take this long to transfer funds.

I think you're misunderstanding the 75% thing. It doesn't matter if the creditors get 1p in the pound or 99p as long as 75% of them agree to what they are getting. I think the swiss will be buying the lot.

If our new owners have a bit of cash then it would only take a phone call. It would be way easier and cheaper to extent SMS than it would be to build a stadium in portsmouth. Also Southampton is a bigger and better location.