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+Lemina and we’ve only just got shot of Carillo whose wages are in last years figures too.

Great, so we agree then! Well done you. The rest of your post is irrelevant as your initial point was the answer to that point is another job somewhere else, something we all agree he'd get. Congratulations on arguing the toss over something you actually agree with. Even by your standards that's an extreme level of idiocy.

you could always just answer a very simple question, rather than making yourself look ever increasingly ridiculous. If Ralph were to walk away from Southampton and his multi million pound contract today, do you think he would ever get another job in football? Yes or no will do.

so you dont think he'll get another job if he leaves us?

MLG asked “If he walks he walks away from a multi million pound contract and end up where?” everyone answered “at another club” MLG starts banging on about him getting job at a top club because yet again he’s proven to be

Err, no i haven't.

So you agree if he leaves us he will get a job at another club then. Well done.

Ralph Hasenhuttl, the Southampton manager, has a release clause in his contract which is different in value according to the club that might seek to poach him, reaching as high as £20 million should it be one of the Premier League’s biggest names. It was agreed when Hasenhuttl signed his recent deal last June, although many feel that the politics of managing a big club would not suit the Austrian. He runs the football side at Southampton with complete authority and is one of a small group of key figures at the club. Alongside chief executive Martin Semmens, Hasenhuttl enjoys the kind of pre-eminence that is rare among his Premier League managerial peers higher up the table. It has been a remarkable ride since he arrived in Dec 2018. From last season’s resurgence to finish 11th, in November they went top of the league for the first time in 32 years of the club’s history. Hasenhuttl wept in the technical area when Southampton beat Liverpool on Jan 4. Since then they have drawn one and lost seven in the league, the most recent defeat to Leeds United on Tuesday night. Yet there is a different dynamic at play to what would be the more conventional gathering of pressure on an embattled manager. The club have placed Hasenhuttl at the centre of their future, backing him unreservedly after the 9-0 defeat to Leicester City in Oct 2019 and generally he has repaid that. The question being asked now is not whether he will have to go but whether they can give Hasenhuttl the resources to keep him long enough to find a new owner who will nourish the club. In the meantime what is it that Hasenhuttl presides over? For a period, Southampton were the greatest trading club in the Premier League with young players and shrewd signings sold on for huge fees. They defined the art of renewal in their early years back in the Premier League under Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman, but now they are locked in a much more difficult battle for survival. Their faith in the manager is total, but the sale of the club hangs over everything and the crash in league form since the first game of the new year has been spectacular. Such is their current form, the Saints are not really marching anywhere CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES The club have an absentee ownership in China, the businessman Gao Jisheng, who is eager to sell. The day-to-day running is left to the executive team who have the power to make major decisions and also face down the owners if they feel it necessary. Gao is reliant upon the likes of Semmens and managing director Toby Steele, as well as Hasenhuttl, to run the club, and keep them in the league. That gives them leverage over the Chinese owners insisting on player sales or blocking acquisitions. Now 14th, the team’s form, FA Cup run aside, has been alarming even if 30 points should be the basis for safety. The performances have not been uniformly dire over this slump but the players, unsurprisingly, lack confidence. The squad is thin in places, with just two senior full-backs of which one – Kyle Walker-Peters - is injured. The January window yielded the exciting loan signing of Takumi Minamino from Liverpool but no defensive back-up. If the injury to midfielder Oriol Romeu on Tuesday is serious then that will add another concern. The demands of Hasenhuttl’s system, a narrow 4-2-2-2 formation which requires the players to run hard and press hard exacts a high physical price on a relatively small squad. The two 9-0 defeats to Leicester and then Manchester United 14 months apart have shown the side’s volatility. The squad is being pushed to its limits. Under the Covid-19 fan lockout Southampton are losing around £3 million to £5 million a month and have agreed a £75 million loan facility with MSD Holdings, currently the financier of choice in the Premier League. It allows them to cope with an extremely difficult situation and try to invest in players to move forward. The loan has a five-year repayment cycle which the club hope will give them time to find the right new owner - no easy task. There have been around five interested parties, some more publicity-hungry than others including those who are suspected of attempting to agree a deal in order that they can then attract backers. The club are also wary of heavily leveraged buy-outs. Katharina Liebherr, daughter of the late former owner Markus, retains 20 per cent of Southampton which is another bulwark against Gao forcing a sale through. Southampton are valued at around £230 million to interested bidders – more than Crystal Palace, less than West Ham. The club comes with the benefit of owning St Mary’s stadium and the Staplewood training ground and all the usual jeopardy of keeping a club of that status in the Premier League. Come the summer Southampton, like many clubs of their size, believe a strong free agent market will work to their benefit. Top goalscorer Danny Ings is holding off signing a new deal and with one year left on his contract this summer his ambition is a Champions League club. Ryan Bertrand’s contract expires in the summer. He is the club’s only senior specialist left-back. It comes back again to the club retaining what it considers to be its greatest asset - the manager - who is now overseeing his third Premier League survival season. Can Southampton keep Hasenhuttl happy for long enough for them to find the owners that will allow the club to move forward? The release clause is a deterrent against his departure although it would most likely be right to say that in the wider football world his stock fluctuates with his team’s fortunes. “A disaster” was how Hasenhuttl described the second half against Leeds, although for Southampton a disaster would constitute their manager leaving. Covid-19 has changed many of the old rules in football but never more so than at Southampton – a club in a slump trying to keep their manager, not jettison him.

Arrests in ground equal something like 1 for every 1 million person that attends matches. Yet with every incident making headline news with usual tutting and shaking as heads with enough is enough comments from the likes of Gary Linekar, even when in a number of occasions nothing has actually happened and the charges get dropped. You'd think that every match has thousands of fans throwing bananas on the pitch and making monkey noises at every black player for the full 90 minutes. A racist person at football does not mean football is racist.

👏 sorry yes didnt read the first line of your post 🤣

Interestingly a few months ago there were quite a few championing Stephens as being a potential good defensive midfielder, yet not a single person has suggested him playing there during our injury crisis. Sums it up I think.

I assume this is a joke?

Great manager, great style of play but think bigger clubs than us will want

£20m for a striker who has become one of the best in the premier league. What a great deal it was don’t you think? Or would you have preferred Haller for £45m?

It isn’t, 4 weeks to see the impact, a week to give notice, everyone criticized the government for relaxing too quickly before, now they’re criticized for relaxing too slowly, it’s laughable. I’d like everything to be opened up tomorrow too, I’m desperate for a round of golf and back to the gym, but I think they’ve taken a cautious and measured approach a rightly so.

Do you think Howe is the right fit? Seems like another nice guy, we’ve plenty of those on the pitch. We need an inspirational figure, a proper leader, Ralph has been that guy in the past but something isn’t right now. It’s not like no one is trying or the players have downed tools, or even they aren’t good enough. The trouble is I can’t think of any better that would come here.

First game an FA Cup quarter final at Dean Court?

We are due a good result v neverton. The boys will be like wounded tigers. Everton won’t want to face us on this for, of the back of a good win themselves. 2-0 Everton.

Great BBC there to see our improved form continue with will set us up nicely for the new forest derby v Bompey (LOL) the following weekend.

Which might suit him, part of the reason for their decline is supposedly his inability to handle some of the egos of big signings. That said I don’t see him as anything better than Ralph. Ralph ain’t going anywhere anyway, he’s got the full support of the board and we can’t afford to sack him.

He wasn’t out thought by Steve Bruce. Their 3 goals came from 3 cock ups, with 10 and then 9 men they simply stuck everyone behind the ball and defended well and we weren’t good enough to break it down, it was hardly a work of tactical genius.

Okay so when you mentioned Redmond along with others who could play in central midfield to stem the tide, then going on to claim that any midfielder should be able to do the job of another midfielder just as affectively as they're all proffesional footballers what you really meant you were just listing our midfield players. Got it. Not sure why you've argued to toss about it for nearly a day then if that's all you were doing.

What amazing run of results? THey've only won 4 of their last 15 league games. Up until they beat us there wasn't much between us in terms of sh1te form

He was one of your suggestions to play centre midfield to "stem the tide" when the game was going against us yesterday. Even 16 or hours later it sounds utterly ridiculous, but i guess you know that.

Great, glad we agree there isnt any evidence and that the two incidents to tried to link are completely unrelated. Well done Timmy.