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That message currently reverberating round the world that we are a massive and strong club due to our 8th rather than cup final and 11th finish shows no sign waning.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50158-Cortese-behind-stories-in-the-media

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50158-Cortese-behind-stories-in-the-media

You strike me as a passat blue motion kinda guy col.

So Ralph confirmed today he was offered a contract and it wasn't a made up Internet rumour.

Didn't hear it but great Reading, confirms my faith in Ralph and the board that not only are they still driving the club forward they are doing it with the best interests of the club at heart in a fan friendly way.

What exactly did he say on that?

Agreed. We would be a very good club to manage. Well placed in the premier league with a good squad and some more talented youngsters coming through. A great reputation as a go to club for any talented young player in a lower league or europe and without the intense pressure applied by the previous chairman of wanting champagne results on beer money. We now have a board with a more realistic aims, in many ways we are more attractive to a manager than ever before.

What have they acted amatuerishly on?

I wont consider him a proper chairman until he mentions offering to stay behind and help clean the team bus or offered to buy all the fans a pint but wasnt allowed by the oppositions chairman.

Okay fine, so you'll believe some rumours, just not all of them, especially when they fit with your stance of the board needing to grow a pair. I'm glad we got that straight.

Have we had any confirmation on this from anyone at either Saints, Liverpool or Man united? Where is your proof? Please provide your source. Im sure you must have one as they must be more than just be rumours and paper talk if you believe them.

So you dont believe Liverpool are interested in Lallana and Man United in Shaw?

Good point, that one line shows why Corteses was talking out of his arse and all the suckers on here that believed him probably still believe in easter bunnies.

Fine, you dont believe he was offered a new deal, instead choosing to believe that the board have done nothing and need to grow a pair. Rumours are just rumours, or something...

You dont believe they offered him a deal and just let him wealk out then, fine, dont believe it.

Yep, they offered him a deal, he didn't want to sign it so they made him resign. What else could they do? I know that wont fit in with the demands for pressure and statements from some on here but if someone doesn't want to be here, afterall he did threaten to quit twice before, then they dont want to be here. Ambiton and vision are words that are banned about here a lot. Yet the ambtions that have changed are that of the players. This time last year Adam Lallana had his wedding booked for this summer, he was that certain he wouldn't be in the England world cup squad. A year on he's in it, linked with champions league clubs and contracts worth double what he;s on here. That would have happened if Cortese was here or not, it would be financial suicide to offer him the same deal as they can and if you cant offer them what they want and thye can get it elsewhere what choice do you have? No vague promises of champions league football one day is going to counteract an offer of it tomorrow, with one of the biggest clubs in Europe for twice the money you're on. It's no wonder his head has been turned, yet some are blaming the board for lacking ambition. Cortese can spout of all he wants and fans can believe what he says about everyone being here if he was still here, how ambitous he was, but the fact of the matter is he was never tested and quit before he was able to be.

If people had said 18 months ago we were bringing David Moyes in to replace Nigel Adkins the ambiton and drive of the chairman would have been lauded. He was grossly underqualified for the Man United job which would have been the toughest challenge even for the most successful of managers. He's a great manager for a club like us and like you say wont jump ship quickly or even be considered for a bigger job after the Man United fiasco. He made some good astute signings in Arteta, Lescott, Baines, Cahill, Jagiekla etc. if we want someone to stick around for 5 years and establish us a top half club then he'd be a good choice. If he's on the boards radar, wants the job or we'll pay him what he wants is another matter.

He also did it on a very limited budget and had to sell before he could buy for many years. Yet some people are turning their nose up at him because it's fashionable at the moment to make him out the be a clueless clown.

This.

Do we aspire to be a top half club that reaches a cup final and has an outside shot at the champions league and sometimes breaks into the top 6, or isn't that good enough for you?

He doesn't need to, they've got something like 20 odd players out on loan, very good ones too. Anyway just saying, should we get him as manager and should Chelsea want to loan him out then we'd surely have a good chance of getting him, which would be a good thing as he's quality. Two hypotheical scenarios.

Another plus of getting Yakin is that we would have a very good chance of picking up Salah when Chelsea loan him out next season.

Yep, he did say a while back that if the Liebherrs wouldn't back him then he know plenty of people that would. I wonder where they are.

We we will never know because you say he quit when the tapped was turned off and the "Vision" fell apart. You can speculate at what might have happened all along. The fact of the matter is that you believe once Kat pulled the credit card away after losing faith in his decisions after supporting him on the signings of "Gashton" and Osvaldo he was off. So his vision depended entirely on the support of the person who is still there and you are claiming is part of rabble representing a leadership vaccum.