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Good luck to him. I sincerely hope he earns his bonus for keeping us up.

Come on Les, pull the magic rabbit from the hat. Get Thomas Tuchel in and surprise the whole world. Whatever you do, don't; a) Give it to Kelvin Davis/Francis Benali/Matt Le Tissier or anyone else with a sentimental history with the club b) Give it to Harry Redknapp, coz he will do it for free for the rest of the season (with a big bonus if he keeps 'em up) c) Give it to the cheapest option available. d) Give it to someone who cannot stand up to you or the rest of the Board. We need balance and wise governance, not the Les and Ralph show. thank you

You never know, the new manager playing two up front may take the pressure of him a little and he may find the back of the net. He needs to, because the thought of our record signing being ousted from the first team, by a returning Austin, is quite depressing.

Some of the names may be underwhelming, but wind the clock back 48 hours and we would have all taken that. I would rather be underwhelmed, with a remote chance of staying up, than watch the same mistakes game after game and go down.....

This is brilliant. It's like summer come early... I want somebody inspiring. The biggest sodding name we can buy. (and not Redknapp)

Can we still qualify for Europe, or am I being overly optimistic?

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSss

If they don't sack him today, I will think the club's season ticket renewal letter will be met by a comparable level of disinterest in my house..... Unforgivable mismanagement from the top down.

Tell that to the Liebherrs.....(although I do concede they will be in a truly small minority of football club owners). Equally, maybe he bought it as a very public way of extracting money from China, without the hoops that he would normally have to go through. Who knows. It doesn't make a lot of sense in any direction at the moment.

I put it down to a change in culture. English football clubs are very quick to pull the trigger against the manager. This is only logical if nobody else is contributing to the team's success or failure. Chinese culture, especially in business, is much more longer term. Decision making can be based on what is going to happen in the next decade, or next 30 years, rather than the next 10 weeks. Perhaps Mr Gao sees the beginning of the end of the premier-league cash cow and is happy to bail out of it now, reduce the wage bill accordingly and rebuild for a post-cash-cow era. Then again, perhaps he just doesn't have a clue and thinks he will make himself unpopular by firing the manager. Ultimately, he is the majority shareholder. The buck stops with him. He must be happy to continue with Pellegrino, otherwise he would pull the trigger.

Decision at 5pm today. I would be surprised if Police/Council want this to go ahead. There's about 4 inches of snow across Southampton, which is enough to stop everything. Fan safety walking to the ground will be a problem. Keep your eye on the news this afternoon

There's a Persian rug shop in the Triangle, obviously he'd buy it from you at the lowest price and sell it at the highest, but he is a good guy and would talk to you sensibly about options/cleaning, best place to sell it....etc

I think we lost all rights to bleat on about fit and proper persons when we allowed a court confessed briber to take ownership of our club...... It just shows how little influence football fans have over ownership and how completely useless the FPP test is. Money talks, it always has and it always will. Even if you have to snaffle £5m from your wife.... Come on, we've all done it.......maybe just on a smaller scale....

In fairness he has a point. We all live to our means and if you earn £50k per week, you will live in a multi-million pound house and probably have a mortgage like the rest of us. The stress of seeing your income cut significantly due to relegation is enough to keep anyone awake at night....... (My heart bleeds for all of the poor little lambs. Doing what they love and getting paid a mint for it. What a terrible life. I suggest they jack it in and go and work in Sainsbury's, it will be less stressful for them). #Snowflakes, could've been penned for Premier League footballers.

I had us third bottom, but with Brighton on 34 points staying up in 17th place. I don't think it will need many more than that, but we have to win our winnable games........and we could really do with a win against one of the big boys..

Does anyone know for a fact if season ticket sales were down under Puel? I have heard, third-hand, that season ticket sales were exactly where we would have expected them to be, so Puel going was not down to a potential decline in gate revenue...... Either way, we appear to be stuck with this clown for a while yet. Win-one, lose two, keep your job, get relegated with thirty odd points.....

From the Red and White Kop, some of these comments about Lallana could have come from us lot; He needs a shave, a haircut, a shower and to get himself fit. He looks like an angry homeless person at the minute. No one who looks like that is going to play well. Should have got a red for the hair, beard and general scruffiness alone. : Looking back through Klopp's time at Dortmund you will see many first choice players getting phased out at 29/30 and then gone from the squad completely by about 32. Ralf Rangnick at Hoffenheim was doing this even earlier at around 25/26/27. It seems high intensity pressing relies heavily on fast-twitch muscle fibres and once a player peaks at 27 you need to start planning to replace them in the squad over the next few years if not sooner. Based on that and Lallana's struggles with injuries and fitness this season, I would be surprised to see him nail down a starting XI place in our side again. Which is a shame as he is one of my favourite players and perhaps the best (only) proper needle players we have now Coutinho is gone.

Get in. Well done boys

5 fecking minutes.....

come on boys......

Come on Saints, ten minutes plus added time. Dig deep.

At least we did it our way.....

I can't forgive Hughes for not moving down here when he was playing for us, we had to fly him down for training every day...... Presumably that would be the same if he was boss?

Yes I do, you are right. I appreciate that I made an analogy that implied that recently sacked football managers need to find the next gig before the money runs out. I should have made the analogy more along the lines of "being out of the media limelight thus reducing their capability of landing the next job". Keegan left Newcastle with an alleged £10m contract to pay off. He never worked in football management again. Howard Wilkinson left Leeds in 1996, hung out for the best job possible and fairly quickly disappeared off the radar. You need to be up front and central to be desirable in football management. (Unless your initials are MP, you're Argentinian and fancy s stint in Hampshire)

This is so simple for an unemployed professional football manager. There are about 400 jobs in Europe that could interest you. Of those 400 jobs, 395 of them currently have an employed manager. If you are an unemployed manager you have two choices, take one of the 5 jobs, or wait (and not earn any money). Of the 5 jobs that may attract you, I can almost certainly guarantee that the English Premier League job pays the best, both before tax and after tax. Take the premier league job, who cares how long for. simple. as. that. We could recruit Bilic/Hughes/Silva etc in a heart-beat