Nolan

Being at Norwich has given Reed the added flexibility of playing RB, RM, CM or DM. His time there could potentially benefit us. At least we may have cover for RB now.

We thought we had enough with Austin, Gabbi and Long and thought Gallaghers development would be best served with game time in the Championship, rather than not getting into a match day squad. That's perfectly reasonable, especially when you're only planning to have one front man on the pitch. Hopefully with Hughes we will use formations with more forwards on the pitch at once, but being 4th choice for one place in Pellegrinos formation is crazy.

Gallagher Didnt have a recall clause, so that's irrelevant.

I'm sure coaches / managers are aware of the quality of our younger teams from training / u23 games. Enough have been broadcast on YouTube for us to realize we don't have players coming through at the moment.

Apparently West Ham laid on private jets to get the MP paper work sorted. So it's not BS. It's just our directors are a lot more comfortable than the Hammers directors.

Officially

Does it really matter? If you want examples of joint ownership look at Watford or the Red bull franchises.

Have you serious not noticed the amount of Chelsea players going to vitesse?

That explains him wanting to buy a sister club. The panic on here is excruciating.

One premier league club has bought one player since the end of the season.

Bit player? He played in 39 games for Norwich. The majority of those, for the full 90.

Apparently 13 of Reeds appearances for Norwich were in rb or rm. Could he be a squad member for that flank if Cédric goes?

Two replacements for Cédric please. As Pied is almost certainly departing.

The content of post one may be accurate. The title of the thread however....

He was employed by the club, but he wasn't on the board of directors of Southampton Football Club Ltd before then. Toby Steele was also secretary before becoming a director.

There are 6 directors of SFC ltd. Les Reed, Tim Greenwell, Toby Steele, Ralph Krueger, Martin Semmens and David Thomas. 5 of those 6 were officially appointed on 19/6/2017. The other is Les Reed. Pellegrino was announced on 23/6/17. How much influence would the new board members have had on that decision? given the rumours coming out now. Les is being outvoted by a majority of the other 5.

Les Reed being the last Remnant of the Cortese regime in the club hierarchy.

We do have links with Kenya.... https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-05-26/video-sports-pesa-southampton-football-club-kenya And we can assume that some executives may not like it when we go with someone with experience rather from the statistics of the "black box"

The hart stuff is to try and get McCarthy to sign a new deal, equally McCarthy linked with other clubs is to get us to offer him a better deal.

St Marys was originally "the Friends Provident Stadium" http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5626469.Saints_unveil_the_Friends_Provident_Stadium/ it was then amended to Friends Provident St Marys Stadium due to fan backlash. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5626401.What_you__the_fans__had_to_say_about_the_naming_of_the_new_ground_at_St_Mary_s/

He's saying the right things in the longest way possible. We'll be able to have a proper stable pre season for the first time in years.

Mediocrity? You think another manager would have had Stoke higher than 9th for three seasons.?

Seeing as the transfer window now opens on Thursday and there is a possibility that at least Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham, Everton and maybe Watford are looking at management options. We don't want to be in a bun fight for a manager.

He's taken a squad with no confidence and who have suffered constant Set backs and bad luck and got the team playing solidly with 3 at the back. He's got to points needed to stay up and the squad now are in a position to have small changes and we win games against the teams we need to next season.

Five goals (Inc a Hattrick) in the last 5.