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I do sometimes wonder about our fans.....turn the clock back 5 years ago and look where we were. Have our board let us down with managerial appointments???...most definately not......would the like of Pellegrini have been remotely interested in Southampton??....definately not. He is interested now because he recognises an extremely well run club that has been making steady progess year on year. I trust the board that they are choosing a manager that fits everything that is good about our club. I don't want a BIG NAME manager just because they are that, a big name. I want a manager that buys into the clubs vision and yes the "Southampton way".....if that turns out to be Puel he will get my backing.

Quote Originally Posted by Le Goddard View PostWe are interesting in signing a City youth player. All i know is that they're on a crazy amount of money for someone so young. Not sure if we'll match their wages.hmmm, so we are being linked with a City player just as the gossip hots up on Pellegrini becoming manager.....could just be a co-incidence or has Pellegrini said look i want you to sign this lad??

I nteresting we are being linked with a city youth player just when the Pellegrini gossip starts hitting fever pitch....something in this Pellegrini gossip ??

so we have held talks with a manager of a country currently in the Euros....really:mcinnes:

Totally agree with the above. The board have known this has been coming long enough to have identified suitable replacements. He has gone, lets move on.

It will definately be somebody who's body will be in Southampton but his head almost certainly somewhere else!

The board have known for the last two seasons Wanyama was probably off.......I would be surprised if a replacement has not been identified....and yes get rid now. Pelle is like marmite.....last night he showed why so many of us love him, he is passionate and so understated by so many Saints fans....however i think we should cash in now!

We need to appoint a manager before we can go signing players......would we really be bidding for players before we even know who the new manager is and if he is remotely interested in said players!!!

Please don't be put off coming back by some of the reactions you are getting on here. Some people on here have taken it very personally what RK has done (if he is about to sign for you) and just can not accept he would go to a club outside the top four. I like to think that once the dust settles that any of my fellow Saints fans would be more than happy to have a reasonable discussion with you....at the end of the day we are all football fans and as you have put it you have have been very entirely civil in your comments. I still think far too many football fans in general believe in loyalty and the word of men like Koeman when they say they will honour their contract. Me....i stopped believing that dream many many years ago and know there is no such thing as loyalty or honour in the modern game. Money talks....end off!

How many years of continued success have we had now??....How many managers have either been moved on or have moved on themselves?.....and yet we continue to be successful. Why? we have a very attractive club for any manager, run properly and will not sell all its silver on the hope of buying immediate success. I have said it before and i will say it again.....both players and managers come to us because we are an established, very well run club in the best league in the world where stupid salaries are paid. We pay players and managers more than they were previously earning and then a bigger predator comes along and ups those offers......PLEASE don't try and sell me this it's all about ambition tosh because it's not!.....It's all about greed and once you accept that you can move on and get excited about who will be our new players and manager.

honestly cannot believe for one minute we are even interested as the wages alone would he would be on would disrupt the harmony of the squad. And if i were to entertain this for one moment and except Saints were willing to pay mega bucks for him....then surely we would be better off paying big wages to Wanyama and Mane to keep them here??!!!

To be honest this post hits the nail on the head. The majority of footballers have no loyalty to the club they play for. They come to us because we are willing to pay more than their previous club and then want to leave us because another club are willing to pay even more....it really is as simple as that. Yes it ****es me off seeing us lose 5/6 players every season ...but hell i've got used to it and accept this is part is part of the modern era where footballers care not about actually playing football but how big their pay packet is even if it means sitting on the bench most of the season at one of the bigger clubs.

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Get in Punch!!!!

I really cannot understand why our own fans slag him of so much. 21 years old and he is almost a seasoned pro already the ammount of time he has been around the 1st team. I for one am delighted he is signed up for another 6 years.

bloody get in!!!!

hurrah

surely Utd can only improve because they are playing like a team with nothing at stake.....Man City fans must be loving this!

this is brilliant watching Spurs implode

Pelle was sat with Rickie Lambert and Dan Harding this afternoon

For what it's worth i think this is the likely scenario. Koeman is an honest guy and would see out his last season with us unless he has a personal agreement with the club that he could go if the Barcelona job was offered. Now whether he signs an extension to his current contract or not depends on several things from his perspective. 1/ Has another BIG club shown an interest in him and muted they will take him at the end of next season knowing he will honour his current contract 2/ Are our board actually wanting to extend his contract....personally i hope so 3/ If the board are wanting to keep him are they prepared to back him even further (as much as Koeman wants) I think by the end of this summer the board will know exactly whats going on and whether RK is staying beyond next season or not. I fully expect they will be making plans for the next manager in then IF not already. Sometimes i don't think us fans give the board as much credit as it deserves.....the club is no longer run like some Mickey mouse outfit as we have previously experienced.

A couple of weeks ago i thought it was all over.....not now though, i think Leicester are going to get caught at the death!!!!

That Imbula is absolute carp.....thank god we did not buy him!

I'm not saying i wouldn't have Oxo back or Morgan if he was available.......but there is no way on gods green earth either would come back here. It would be seen as failure on their part to return and a step down....also the money they get paid means there is no way Saints would pay anything like it. I really don't think it is realistic to think ex Saints players would return here.....i know it has happened in the past but i'm not expecting either anytime soon.

we were bloody awful and i only watched the second half! Absolutely clueless, we created nothing. How the hell can you play 90 minutes of football and never look like scoring???......well Saints obviously know the trick to it!