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I'm glad you've finally stopped crying yourself to sleep with Corteses picture under your pillow pal.

Of course there is, up until the point we were challenging for promtion to the premier league he was doing a great job, then his ego started running away with him. He was always a bit of a disaster with commericial relationships, going through numerous sales managers demanding ridiculous amounts for sponsorship deals, treated people inside the club very badly, fell out with plenty of would be sponsors, local businesses, even managing to get himself banned from a popular city centre rsturants because he was such a Bellend as a bloke. On the football side though it was all going well. The players were happy, the were treated like royalty, we were winning, things were looking good. Then he lost his sh*t after we lost at home to Reading and it all started to unfold for him. The realationship with Adkins started to go downhill, he wanted to take control of signings, started spunking money up the wall at the training ground culminating in us having a £15m development which ended up costing £40m. Then the lack of income plus the disastrous signings of Ramirez and Osvaldo and you can see why he had to be got shot of. Its fair to see that what we've achieved whilst in the premier league is inspite of Cortese not because of him. And don't fool yourself into believing he was responsible for the early signings, like Lambert and Fonte, do you really believe and Italian banker with no interest in football would know enough about the lower leagues to bring Lambert, Jaidi, Fonte, Hammond etc to the club, all players key to our rise? Quite simply he wanted control over everything because he thought he could do a better job than anyone else who worked at the club, a classic narcissist, which was his downfall.

What a guy! Picking the team, choosing the tactics. Training the players, making the signings all along with spending someone elses money like it was a game of monopoly! You can say what you like about Cortese but he was the master as spending money, not quite so hot when it came to making it though. Still when he finally accepts the Ac Milan job they've chased him for since 2010 then we'll no doubt see a similar such upturn in their fortunes!

You haven't

Isn't it great to see the club doing so well off the pitch. Our last figures showed commercial income was up to £10m. I'd expect to see that figure double now the we've signed 3 large commercial deals recently with Under Armour, the 7th biggest shirt sponsorship deal in the premier league with Virign media and the recent deal with sportpesa with multimillion pound figures muted for that as well. It seems wreck it Ralph is doing a good job on this front and we've come an awful long way since the worlds greatest businessman, the most driven and ambitious CEO who ever lived had to give the shirt sponsorship deal to the largest recruitment consultants in chilworth.

panerai. FACT

I agree. After 4 years at the club he's no closer to being first choice than when he signed. When McCarthy joins he'll be down to third choice so he's actually further away if anything. Despite the odd half decent performance he's show little to suggest he can step up to be our number one. He'll probably end up a competent championship keeper.

The mark of a greater leader and a great human being. Able to adapt to the situation, make vital decisions at the right time and humble enough to change previous convictions if it'll be in the interests of the club or individual. Les Reeds on fire You're director of football is terrified

The only fool round here is you pal, as you prove time and again. Think about it dumball, why would the player and agent want it dragging out? Certainly Mane and Van Dijk would have wanted the moves pushed through as they'd have got substantial pay rises. The agent would want it to happen as he'll get his cut. The only reason for it not to happen is so saints can keep the money in the bank longer saving a few quid along the way. Had we had Van Dijk involved in July we'd have progressed in Europe and got the four points we'd have needed to champions league qualification. Saving a few quid in wages has cost us Big time yet we never learn.

We like to leave our big signings right to the end of the window as these tend to be on the highest wages so the penny pinching board can save paying the big money out over the summer when they're seeing no ROI. Its a risking strategy and we've got lucky the last 3 years but we've also missed out on some top targets due to the sake of 5-6 weeks wages. We will pay for this strategy sooner rather than later, our luck will run out.

He was one of our best players when he wanted to be, about 4 or 5 times last season. People forget that for a lot of the season he was very very average, during one of his suspensions a lot of people felt Romeu had done well enough to keep his place in the side. He's a vey good player on his day but his day for us were few and far between for us last season. Romeu is a good player and with a full preseason under his belt and a year in England we'll see more from Claise this season as well.

The new Yohan Folly.

When you say part of, do you mean cooked for someone who was out there?

Not quite pal. Don't you think it's strange though that they were charging through the streets of Western Europe when they thought a cartoon only a small percentage of France would know about made them look bad. Yet a murder spree in the name of Islam raises little more than a murmur.

When are the planned marches by Muslims from all of those opposed to these killing by their own? They managed to organise them in hours when there was a cartoon about that they didn't like. Surely all these killings are making them look far worse than a cartoon, you'd have thought they'd have been bursting to show everyone how much they oppose them.

No way is he worth £12m, what are we doing now giving this clown a new deal. Yet more evidence Les Reed is clueless and doesn't know what he's doing.

I think there is already a thread for this sort of thing *locked*

On a serious note Duncan I've bought all your books and they're all excellent.

Did you berate her for not running the club for the fans anymore?

"Pal" twice, you've hammered me there!! So you think a £24b deal suddenly happened in less than two weeks, it was never on the cards before. You've also ignored the FACT that clearly overseas companies are investing in Britain, they're going to at least double the UK based head count over the next five years creating over 4,000 jobs. If anything this is a good news story. But call me "pal" again, that's your knock out blow, pal

Yeah because it takes less than two weeks to sell a company the size of ARM for £24b, deal of that size happen that quickly all the time

I think in people's desperation to appear as lovely, caring people who love everyone they've got confused about what they actually believe in. Take homosexuality for example, one minute they're telling is how great it is gays can get married the next minute they're defending a religion where homosexuality is forbidden.

I take it your wife has forgiven you for posting on here then?

There is no way click insect was a club plant. He was an absolute loon who got caught out pretending he went to matches when he didn't. He was anti Koeman from the early days and also posted slagging Pelle off at half time on his home debut. He was always having digs at the club about transfers, wages and net spend. He disappeared off there when someone found out he ripped people off selling dodgy x-boxes or something like that.