Matthew Le God

The academy system didn't start until circa 1998.

1/5 is the best you'll get at the moment... http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/southampton/next-permanent-manager

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Indeed, Brighton for example... - announced Sami Hyypia as manager on 6th June - his first press conference was on 12th June

Saints have a good number of players good enough for the Champions League, but not enough players of that quality to actually get there themselves as a club. 8th is where our squad should finish and that is where it did, that doesn't mean the likes of Lovren, Shaw, Rodriguez, Lallana, Lambert, Schneiderlin couldn't play for a Champions League challenging club.

They finished 4th in one of the best leagues in World football last season.

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 29s We’re pleased to confirm that #SaintsFC will welcome @bayer04fussball to St Mary’s on Saturday 9th August at 5pm BST.

The club are going to announce another game today.

Perhaps she thought you could be the next Andy Murray...

On what is that based? Les Reed has said they have a preferred candidate and are in the process of doing the paperwork with him. Do these random musings people keep having really require their own threads each time a Saints fan goes into an unsubstantiated panic?

The world is going to implode!

Overrated perhaps, but he clearly isn't "crap". Plenty of crap managers with huge resources fail to win things. He still has a very impressive CV which is significantly better than any Southampton manager of the last 129 years before, during or after they took the Saints job.

Doing well in the German top division with Mainz and getting them into Europe is more impressive than doing well in the Norwegian league.

??? Do you mean Tuchel?

It would be foolish for him to do so. You can list the names of non-selling clubs in world football on one hand.

The interviewer was a club employee, he isn't going to give a director of the club a Paxman style interogation.

Jim Lucas ‏@Jim_SFCMedia 2m Sat down for a long and detailed chat with Les Reed earlier. Full interview coming to http://www.youtube.com/southamptonfc later. #saintsfc

His English is fine, it improved a lot during the 4 years at Chelsea from 2000 to 2004. Here is an interview he did with the BBC's Football Focus in circa 2008 when he was Juventus manager... [video=youtube;u-f3Xt6E_r0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-f3Xt6E_r0

Today...

The public. To say he struggled is very harsh, especially if you think Danny "Bambi on Ice" Welbeck was better. Welbeck isn't remotely close to Lallana in terms of being comfortable on the ball, Welbeck struggles to get the ball under control let alone do anything constructive with it.

Does that extremely brief cameo count as Le Tissier's 9th England cap?

Saints current strikers... - Sam Gallagher (inexperienced) - Dani Osvaldo (mentalist) - Jay Rodriguez (injured) We are likely to need more than one new striker this summer.

Even without Lambert we still have a stronger squad and first XI than every team below us.

The old training dome cost £1.25m in 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/4909032.stm