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What was he then if not just an employee? Perhaps let's put it in his terms instead, a department head. £2m makes him the highest paid chairman in the country presiding over a premier league club with commercials revenues no better than Watfords. People will argue that it was because of him we have four players in the England squad, yet I don't recall Adam Lallana or Rickie Lambert reminiscing about how Cortese spent hours on the training ground coaching them on how to find space, take free kicks and penalties and teach them our high pressing tactic which has won so many plaudits. The coaching staff are the reason why we've had four players in the England squad. People will argue the he took us from league one to the premier league, so perhaps on that basis we should make Lallana, Lambert, Schniderlin and Fonte the highest paid players in the country in their positions as without their creativity, goals, interceptions and defending we might well have not made it to the premier league. Will Les Reed be the highest paid director of football in the country as he too was instrumental in our rise up the leagues? I very much doubt it. Why did we sack Adkins, surely he should have been the highest paid manager in the country, Afterall, he took us from l1 to the premier league. Instead of being given a £10m a year contract he got the sack and airbrushed from history. The fact of the matter what Cortese was just an employee, one that on paper did a good job but a CEO is also responsible for generating income as well as spending money. despite paying himself champions league wages his performance in this area was very much midtable championship.

The trouble with threads like this is it makes reminisce about the good old days when this forum was amazing and makes me miss the good posters that don't bother any more and you can see why.

How do you know? You claim you've had me on ignore for ages. So you're either lying about having me on ignore or making this up. As a little FACT Ive only posted on 7 of the 40 threads currently on the first page of the main board, less than a quarter, so your 'drowning the forum' statement is a complete load of bullsh*t. Mor evidence of the mugs on here being hysterical tarts.

The old spring well, skipton road, Harrogate. Last time I checked the didn't issue infraction points for saying something the bar staff didn't like.

Very true steven. One of the comments that always makes me laugh is when posters demand the mods take action against certain people. Seriously, are people not grown up enough to ignore something they don't like or have enough conviction in their own view point to argue it out.

Who are the trolls? It seems to me anyone that has an opinion different to the status quo to dares to question someone else's is immediately labelled a troll.

Quite. It's all very strange how this is being spun. It's standard stuff for transfers to be paid over the duration of the contact, does no one remember the backslapping when Cortese was meant to have got Arsenal to pay the full fee for Chamberlain up front? The "debt" from transfers will be that the likes of Ramirez and Osvaldo wont be worth what we paid for them but this wont be anything like £27m.

Not sure why some of you are so dense you can see through all this. Six months ago you lapped up every pro Saints story coming out of that paper, salivating over every word. Now the same source is running negative story after negative story, they were the ones who were most critical of Cortese being shown the door, they were the ones who are have done a huge about turn from us being a model club with a glorious future, to one where everyone wants to leave and is a shambles. Why do you think they are running these stories? What is the huge coincidence between what happened pre January and post January??

Easy job anyone could do, yes?

Lets hope it doesn't all go Alan Pardew if he signs it.

I was insulted, then I remembered it came from the dullest person ever to have broadband.

What do you f*cking think? You shouldn't take everything you read on a mongboard seriously chewbacca.

At least as good as.

Charlie Adam £4m done.

Sell Osvaldo for £8m Buy Marteen Steklenberg £4.5m Stephen Caulker -£9m Aaron Hunt - Free Wilfred Bony -£20m Squad for the first game -----Steklenberg Clyne Lovren Caulker Shaw Wanyama Schniderlin Lallana Davis Hunt --------Bony Subs Boruc Fonte Chambers Cork Lambert Ramirez Ward Prowse When Rodriguez is fit he'll come back into the side ahead of Davis.

What about 89/90 and 2002/03?

Not quite the same was it.

Looking at MPs post match interview yesterday whee he completely ignored the question I think they've agreed or been told not to,comment unless they have to, so standard, siting on the fence answers are order of the dsy.

Not quite sure why no one has mentioned chambers for England. He's been keeping Clyne out of the side all season. Why the Clyne bias then?

Should be a good game, two teams with the pressure off who play good football.

As ridiculous as loads of people saying yesterday that Clyne, who has been second choice here for most of the season go to the World Cup based on a couple of decent performances recently?

He needs to be in a better team. Sunderland have been awful since he's been there. He's still a kid and playing regularly in a better team would come good.

Response to the first question, brilliant. Under promise, over deliver. Don't shout from the rooftops about want you're going to do, shout about it when it's been done. Anyone can talk about being ambitious and tell people what they want to hear.

Do you ever report back to the family what a bunch of bed wetting hand wringers there are that post on here?

Isn't it time to cash in on him?