Ken Tone

Presumably by the way, we would also happily release Adam,like we did Rickie, to return to his boyhood club, his first and only true love ...Bournemouth?

This. It's about time bloody footballers learnt that a contract is a contract.

No he hasn't GS. He has a record as a WUM

Some humour at last!

Much easier or fly to/from Southampton/Amsterdam though ...why london? Unless you can get a posh seat there, and he's not prepared toix with the hoi poloi on Flybe?

I'd be happy with koeman, but let's hope that whoever they appoint will arrive soon, and put his foot down over selling players

Panic on the main board and boredom here. How things have changed Where's a good old-fashioned East European crook ( sorry - obviously I mean saviour) when you need one?

When you come down to it, what manager is there who has a completely successful record, apart from those who have little or no record? They've all got flaws, as did Pochettino. Koeman's career win ratio is well over 50% btw, including his only poor spell, when he was at Valencia . Pochettino's record with is was what 35%? Different leagues, different circumstances yes, but Koeman's record includes CL, and Benfica, Ajax, Valencia, Feyenord etc are not Mickey Mouse clubs by anyone's standards.

That's the spirit!

Maybe they don't send their evenings looking at internet rumours like us sad gits on here?

Yeah ...saw that. So if we really are turning down anything less than £30 million for AL, will the hysteria over the Board having a fire sale stop?

Thanks. And what about the claim that the Times reporter said it was happening?

Could someone please translate this for us non-twitter users?

Must make Koeman a strong contender . Most Dutch speak better English than most English people.

I read somewhere that he said his English was good enough to speak to the players, but not yet good enough for the media. So about the same as Pochettino when he arrived then.

IMO I doubt he will manage any Ui club soon. He's more likely to spend some time as a TV pundit and maybe manage abroad for a while, then come back to a big English club in a few years time. The only trouble for him is that the spurs vacancy will come too soon. Still ,maybe he can get it after pochettino's successor has been sacked.

Except that Spain didn't actually own them, it was just that the pope said they could have all that half of the world (with of course no real authority to say so) .... And the Americans had thrown off the few people of mixed descent who were living there before 1833 because they were pirates who had attacked their whaling ships, so they were unoccupied. Oh and we didn't recognise Argentina as an independent country until 1825, and of course never accepted the pope's right to allocate them as he pleased. Oh and there is some evidence that an Englishman first discovered them a century or two before Spain claimed them, but to be fair that is disputed, mostly by the French who also claim to have discovers them but gave them up to the Spanish when the pope said so. Apart from that, and about another page full of disputed claims, your analysis is perfect.

Well I got the B - E- E bit, but what were all those other words about?

which just goes to show that guardian readers don't vote?!

I see the Guardian says that McLaren is not under consideration, at the end of the article about Pochettino wanting AL at Tottenham (no CL - no chance) http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/27/mauricio-pochettino-new-tottenham-manager

Not sure quite what point you're making. That table would imply what we all know. Spurs area bigger club than Saints ,but not all that much bigger, and not a top 4, champions league club. They'll make the Europa league (that MP said was a of no interest) in some seasons and not in others.

I'd have been happy with Laudrup till I read the stuff about his departure from Swansea. McLaren would suit me, but perversely if he did come to us, I'd be worried about his willingness to leave Derby so soon. What price loyalty then?

He is a promising young manager to be fair, and he might well turn out to be a good PL manager, but he supposedly turned us down a couple of years ago, and then went to Burnley where he wasn't very happy, so returned to Bournemouth, so why would he come here now?

I am amazed at the mass hysteria on here about Yakin. He may well be a good manager, and if he is appointed I won't complain ,but really, what are you all basing this enthusiasm on? He has done well so far in a very short managerial career in Switzerland ...... ....that's Switzerland for goodness sake. Is their league even up to Scottish standards?.... and yes his team once beat Chelsea. I'd be happy enough with any of the *big* foreign names mentioned , but to be honest I'd really prefer a British manager ....someone who shares our cultural standards, or at least understands them. To read people on here slagging off the likes of McLaren, who was once rated as the best young manager in England, or Moyes ... once considered good enough to become Man united's manager ... beggars belief. No one is completely flawless, or let's face it, they wouldn't be available for us.

looks pretty good *recent* record to me http://www.transfermarkt.com/ronald-koeman/profil/trainer/439