trousers

Pardon my idle curiosity but did this Jack Schitt chap used to post on here or has he only arrived on the message board scene since the inception of the Sotonians message board?

I'm still sticking with my "Koeman helped engineer new contracts with release clauses for the players he was keen to take to Everton with him" conspiracy theory, and its that 'loophole' that the club are now trying to plug. Highly unlikely I know....

Humble apologies. I'll print out a few Mensa application forms and hand them around

Only if you throw people with an IQ of sub-50 into the mix.

He missed out the "and backdated" bit. What an utter cesspit of a club.

They really are more deluded than Pompey and their fans, aren't they? (Things you never thought you'd hear yourself say #182)

Plausible IMO

* Trousers hands over conspiracy theory baton *

Me? Tamper with source material?

Everton ‏@Everton NEWS ALERT! @D_gibson4 has extended his contract by two years to 2018. #EFC. #bigclub #ambition

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Except that there aren't any bookies offering odds on him. Oh, I see what you mean...

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/koeman-announcement-set-delayed-until-11449659

http://soccer.nbcsports.com/2016/06/09/how-ronald-koemans-southampton-tenure-unraveled-quickly/ (apologies if already posted - don't think there's anything particularly new in it)

Fair point. I'm just starting to get a little bored with the whole thing so have resorted to making up wacky theories

Vitor Pereira doesn't even make it onto that list of 69 managers, most of which are highly unlikely. Makes it even stranger that The Echo have plucked his name out of the blue IMO...

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Carlsberg don't do ideal candidates, but if they did... Surprised this chap has seemingly been below the radar up to now. New poll please mods!

I see there's a connection between Pereira and AVB. How about the possibility of them rekindling their management partnership at Saints ...? #clutchingatstraws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Pereira_(football_manager)

Bingo!

This. Or at least close this one and just use the 'new manager' sticky. IMHO of course

Indeed. Chronologically, what event came first? The news that Koeman had changed agents or the Les Reed 'contract talks going well' video...?

Seems a bit odd for the Echo to randomly throw in a hitherto un-mentioned candidate at the end of an article about De Boer, doesn't it? A plant from the the club perhaps to gauge reaction? (oops, sorry, forgot the 'conspiracy theory klaxon' that time )

# conspiracy theory klaxon # Maybe (in a far fetched kinda way), Reed discovered that Koeman was about to do a u-turn on his contract talks with Saints due to having his head turned by the Everton offer. So, the club came up with the idea of Reed doing a "contract talks going well" YouTube video so that the outside world (including us fans) will see that Koeman is the 'villain' in all this and that the club have done nothing wrong. Without Reed's video, would we have known how far down the line the contract talks were between Saints and Koeman? So, rather than the Reed video being an embarrassment to the club, it could be viewed as designed to show Koeman in a bad light.... No? Ok, perhaps not. I think I'll have to trade these tablets in for something more powerful