VectisSaint

Let alone an ex-member of the old board.

Yep, 1 out of 1, 100% in 4 years. Or maybe it was 1 out of 2 or 1 out of 3 or 4 or 5. How many did he turn down? Don't know, but even if he only let one go that's 4 less than Kat has let go in the last few weeks.

and then proceeded to prove him right. He should never have left in the first place, but thinking him coming back now would solve anything is wishful thinking. KL has ****ed everything up, she should have sold to Cortese's backers when he wanted her to, no skin off her nose now, but as far as we the supporters are concerned things are now well and truly screwed. We got our club back, but sadly it is a shell now and there is nothing inside except for some nice stripy shirts and a decent manager who must be looking for the nearest exit door. I see he posted a nice pic on Twitter of an empty training ground.

Leave it until the transfer window slams shut at which time there will be nothing to do to short out the problem. Wake up and smell the coffee, faith is one thing, blind faith is quite another. Maybe you will be happy to watch a team be humiliated in the PL and eventually be relegated, but most true supporters are not, and are well and truly ****ed off that we have gone from being a very well run club to a shambles by one fluke of birth. Markus must be turning in his grave. They say you can choose your friends but not your family, illustrated well with what is happening to Saints.

Probably about the least likely scenario one could possibly imagine. The fact is that we have a bunch of amateurs running the Club who have no idea what they are doing and how to operate in the PL, they have made mistake after mistake proving that they have no desire to match the ambition of Markus and Cortese and the players along with the departure of their liked manager have seen the writing on the wall as have many supporters and voted with their feet. It really is quite simple and was likely to happen when someone inherits a business they know nothing about and for which they have no real passion - though I think no-one really expected the level of incompetence being displayed right now.

And you accuse someone else of "not being the brightest". God save us from the lunatics.

Clearly neither, he has been told what to say by the incompetent owner/board. Bloke is being undermined at every juncture, and the owner and faceless directors don't have the bottle to say anything just keep putting their fall guy forward. Really has become completely pathetic that we are now owned by a complete joke and managed with her board of incompetents. I really would not be surprised to see Ron leaving very soon, and I suspect Les may walk as well. At that point you know we are totally screwed.

I'm sure he already knows, its not rocket science. Guess he will also find out soon enough that Pelle is better than Lambert

This. What does Kevin Davies know about what the board is doing? Seriously, it really is some kind of joke when we are told things are OK because a Player who played for us 11 years ago says the Board knows what they are doing. But all the happy clappers pounce on it and lap it up.

Not sure why a westerly wind would be a problem, unless you live in Brighton

Remind me again about the "added bonus of being young and English"? I guess you mean ripe to be sold to top English Club in 12 months for hefty profit after he has had half a good season in the PL.

Thank you for illustrating and confirming my view that there are a bunch of complete divvies on here. Its perfectly clear to anyone with a couple of brain cells that Les is being undermined by the amateur shambles of a board under our current owner. You really think it is Les who is selling all of our players. Mate, if you think that then I feel very sorry for you. All the members of the first team were perfectly happy to be here when Les was here all the time through the Cortese era with either Adkins or even more so with Pochettino. What has ****ed off the players is KL and the hockey coach and the German faceless one who don't know what they are doing and have pulled the plug on the ambitious plans that were in place. Reed is off around the world trying to sign players for us, to replace the ones that are going/have gone, and he is having a tough task persuading people to come to join a club that is clearly now beginning to look like a sinking ship. I think if Reed were to walk ( and I could understand if he did) that might be the straw to break the camel's back for me. While Les is still around there is a chance that despite the Board rolling over and having their tummy tickled by other Clubs that we can at least get something in to give Ron a chance of at least avoiding relegation.

There are some right divvies on here, Reed is the only board member with a football brain, without him we would be completely screwed.

We've also finished 2nd in the league, won the FA Cup, built sides with exciting players, and in all of that time I have never known a season where we have lost half out starting XI because players do not want to stay. So carry on with your sad outlook on life that nothing more can be achieved and watch a strong, flourishing club be decimated by a poor owner who really couldn't give a monkeys about Southampton and a bunch of amateur "directors" who know nothing about football and watch your club disintegrate. Its OK we'll still be here, and of course we'll be playing stripes so all will be well. Small minded people living in their small minded worlds with no sense of ambition and no positive outlook on life. Carry on.

WE don't know it was not good, all that happened is the nameless German finance director came in opened his mouth and said some stuff which he knew nothing about and made a fool of himself. Finances were clearly not a worry at all, just normal business with a huge amount of TV money to come in. Amateur director made a mountain out of a molehill and has not been seen or heard of again since. Nic was not sacked,he resigned because our heiress did not want to finance his plans and would not sell which would have allowed us to carry on with a committed backer. What is happening is because we have no-one at the helm who knows what they are doing and if it were not for Sir Les things would be in an even bigger mess than they are now, at least we have someone with a football brain still trying to do what is best with one hand tied behind his back.

To use your analogy, which is tasteless, the cancer remains but we are cutting away the rest of the body and throwing it away.

No, unless he is completly insane, and anyway the remark was made before Koeman was appointed.

Being an heiress does not make her a businesswoman. There is no real evidence that she has ever created serious wealth from business off of her own back. Maybe she has, but she has kept it quiet if she did. The accusation often directed at Naughty Nic is that it wasn't his money, well the same can be said about KL. She now has it purely as an accident of birth.

No he did not. He was added to the Board of the MALI Group sometime after Markus' Estate was put into the hands of the trustees, and he did become a director in that sense, but he never managed the MALI Group business in any way, shape or form. If Markus' wealth has been frittered away since his untimely death it would be a tale of catastrophic blunders, I really don't believe there is any mileage in such a thing having happened, indeed the Estate could probably be worth more now with the realisation of some of the assets that would have been sold off. All that has happened is that since KL took full control in 2013 she has realised that she doesn't want to put as much into it as her late father had done (why should she its not her love) but has unfortunately refused to sell to backers that NC had allegedly lined up who were prepared to continue the dream. She is also badly advised about who she appoints to manage the Club in terms of the Hockey coach and the German man of mystery who opened his mouth once to insert his foot and has never been heard of again since.

No they didn't, Markus was reported to be worth ~3.4bn, and this was separate from the Liebherr family.

Its what happens when the club is being run by a bunch of amateurs, poor old Markus must be turning in his grave to see what his daughter has done to the Club, but some on here will still say its OK as KL has the best interests at heart and must be good because she got rid of evil Nic. Well folks this is what happens. Its great having a hockey coach who is a motivational speaker and hasn't been seen or heard of for weeks. KL should have sold the Club to Nic's backers as he wanted and we would not be in the position we are now. Sleep walking into disaster but lets just wait until the season starts as some chumps on here would have us do, we had a minimal sized squad last season and we are now effectively down 5 players already, and who is to say who will be next? Lots of money in the bank though so all will be OK. I feel sorry for Ron, because I think he would be a top manager, but he will be left looking rather silly I'm afraid.

"Southampton have got a great reputation for developing young players – you only have to see what they’ve done with Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw to see that" So Neal, will it be Liverpool or Manure, I think we need to know which team you will be dreaming of when you are between the sticks for the Saints. Good to see though, and nice to know that if does well Torquay will get a bit of a cut, they might need it soon now they are back in the Conference

Left Back in the dressing room and Right Back behind the goal you mean? Boom boom !

We also need to replace Guly, and that just about gets us back to a par with a very thin squad that we ended up with last season. Our whole problem last season was that we had no strength in depth, well guess what it is worse now. WE can have the best first XI in the league and sure as eggs is eggs we will be found out.

We should loan him to Liverpool, that would **** off Judas Lallana and Judas Lovren. In fact he could do us a favour and glasgow kiss them while he is there.