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I'm sure Spurs covered the 2 mil compensation/release fee.

Not a chance that would happen. Lets just keep very fond memories please.

MP woke up this morning a multi-millionaire. You can't blame him for falling for that - it is the way of the world and it is just a career for him not a life long love of Saints like the fans have. We need a really good new manager pronto.

It's pretty horrific that we are now retreating to a position of praying Dejan and Morgan don't go...

Yea, Koeman's managerial career has largely fizzled out. Prefer the Turkish fellow.

Koeman top of the Oddschecker, Yakin second.

The calibre of the new manager will be the only real statement the Board can make.

We should sell to anyone but Spurs - **** em.

Is this Stalinist Saintweb? Is no discussion, let alone dissent, of The Glorious Owing Family allowed? Get ready to rescind the BEPs in time...

While Richmond did his argument no favours by his OP prose - which was clumsy and palpably angry and petulant - the vituperative backlash fails to notice that there is more than a kernel of truth in what he says. Kat inherited her late father's dream - but it is becoming clear that she does not share that dream or the will to drive it forward. The lack of focus and direction since she took over, and now the imminent fire - sale, all point to the possibility of her balancing the club's financial books prior selling the club after a 'decent interval' has passed after Markus' death. Cannot blame her - why should she persist with something she's not really interested in, doesn't really understand, and, medium to long term, is very high risk financially?

We are Saints - we have a long glorious history of punching above our weight and bringing in and developing players far beyond our apparent reach. We need to adopt a similar approach to mangers. We need a glamorous, youngish guy with charisma, not the deadbeat, dead hands of the likes of Mackay, Lennon, Hughton, Poyet.

Spurs are the Graveyard of Managers.

Which he clearly ain't, so now it will be dominoes..

It wouldn't be so bad, but I have no confidence in the the Hockey bloke and the daughter who suddenly inherited her dad's very expensive and difficult to understand hobby to appoint an appropriate replacement.

Oddchecker have Poyet, Petrescu and Lennon and Mackay in that order as top 4 favs...can't say I am excited by any.

Poch leaving makes Shaw and Lallana's departures pretty much a given. Possibly others too. MP was always a rapaciously ambitious careerist, and he realises that the new Board do not meet his ambition. Simple business really.

Kai Tak was wonderful, such a romantically scary way to be introduced to HK. I like City Airport for stuff out of London.

I'd have him back if he had investment to bring to the party too. He is a bar steward, but he would be our bar steward.

What is immediately apparent is how, compared to blue riband events such as the FA Cup etc, this game the tickets are allocated to the clubs and their real fans rather than corporates and freeloaders and tourists. Proper atmosphere around the entire stadium.

Not learned anything.

Nothing happens until after the World Cup. I suggest closing the forum til then to spare us all the agonising.

I reckon Lallana's staying. Nothing the man has said or done recently suggests anything other.

Wenger to 4th Official: "Can't you do something - my cultured artistes of the beautiful game are being bullied and kicked off the field by those clod-hopping yobs from the North?"

Yes, leads can come too early for underdogs. What you need is to take the lead at 82 mins.

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