adrian lord

Why is it offensive to question her motives as owner? She is not Mother Theresa, but a Heiress to billions who never needed to work a day in her life.

For Sale: One very well appointed and highly regarded Football Academy, excellent location in southern England, and with a magnificent annual yield of exceptional talent and financial income. A modestly-sized football club annexe is also part of the estate parcel, suitable for publicity purposes and showcasing Academy products to the market. There are some liabilities and covenants on the latter, largely related to a protected colony of tens of thousands of rare-breed 'fans' that flock to the site every 2 weeks in the winter. POA, please contact Katerina Liebherr.

Kruger, it is becoming clear, is merely a waxwork stooge appointment.

Koeman can't possibly have signed up for this. Gone by end of the week a possibility, but will have done very well to see in the New Year at Saints.

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He's simply trying to sow the seeds of discontent in the Man u dressing room, and rile van Gaal to boot.

I find this scenario seductive, but the only incongruent bit is the appointment of Koeman. Find it hard to believe he's get conned, and if he has, he will be out by Christmas if not a lot earlier.

Fragile, and could never play 90 mins at best of times.

I'll raise to £51.

The academy is KL's source of pocket-money: no way will she close such an incredibly profitable machine down, it would be insane. It is a licence to print money, that academy.

Can't see Koeman lasting much past Christmas.

precisley - those chumps are simply doing her bidding.

Talk about profit-taking by KL...! Either she's: 1) selling the club, and asset-stripping out the software first, or 2) playing a very high-risk business model of hoping we can stay up on a shoestring, forcing through a new Academy generation every year, and flogging them at inflated prices every pre-season. If it is option 2, then we are perennially going to have no ambition as a football club and primarily be an Academy. In fact you can start to see the sense in this if you are a business-woman and not a fan. The risks though are relegation and/or the Academy having a few generations of relative flops. I guess she thinks the parachute-payments mitigate relegation risk.

If we get raped at Anfield, our humiliation will be complete.

I can see us vying with the likes of WBA, WHU and Villa next season, trying to keep out of the relegation fight at this rate...

School holidays....

You're right. Galling it is that all we have to show for it is tea, sympathy, and fading memories of a once naive team that had blossomed, grew in stature, and played some great football and for the first third of the season walked near the summit.

When we beat Liverpool at Anfield on the opening day, Koeman will be hailed as "..the Dutch Old Master.."

It will all end in tears.

"...Saints Dutch revolution..."

I bet it's a quicker queue than the concourse at St Mary's...

Excellent - that **** arrogant journo met his match -almost like an Alan Partridge interview, you'd swear it was a set up, hilarious.

I suspect that the grammatical and structural crimes in the article were actually a result of this copy being on the website rather than the print paper itself, and set out by some work-experience teen, not the author themselves. If you read the Daily Telegraph website (or any other national daily for that matter) you will find the proof reading and layout to be well below print standards.

Definitely going to develop a Dutch accent now overnight.

Suckers can **** off. Taste of their own medicine. One damp squid of a year for Lallana and co in the CL then back to the Europa scrapheap!