If a deal was close and the club were usurped by Liverpool... how is that a clanger by Les Reed/Saints? Liverpool are a significantly wealthier club, offering bigger wages and Champions League football. That isn't a "clanger", that is the reality of football when a richer club makes a player an offer.
What makes you think the club set out with the intention to sell them? Bids coming in and then accepting those bids is very different from actively looking for a buyer.
Based on what? Having an injury last season does not automatically make him "injury prone".
It is not unusual for clubs to release a video interview after a managerial appointment.
Pellegrino, Puel, Koeman, Pochettino, Adkins, Pardew etc etc all had one.
To reach the quarter finals requires being in the top 2 of a group with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia and then a last 16 match vs one from Poland, Senegal, Colombia & Japan. We are not so dreadfully poor that those set of results are unlikely.
That is not reflected in their wage budget...
2016/17
Ajax wage bill = £35m
Saints wage bill = £112m
Saints can blow Ajax out of the water for wages. I doubt they'd come close to what we pay Tadic.