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Interesting the full article, I think there is a lot of value in what he says, interesting that we were 18months into the next 5yr project, assume KL pulled the plug on funds to get us to our destination of winning the league. Sounds like we are going to become a Lyon/Roma of the PL, sell and move on.

Full interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27498644

Don't think he was harshly sacked at WBA:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/9388972.stm "The Baggies lost 3-0 at Manchester City on Saturday and the club said a run of 13 defeats in 18 games was the reason for the decision."

Have to say I agree with G-dog regarding Yakin, after not really knowing too much about him or Techul I've read loads of articles on them and their tactics over the last few days and I must say they sound awesome. Has anyone watched Basel or Mainz enough to form an informed opinion ? Great article on Murat Yakin http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2014/04/10/4737306/the-next-guardiola-marvellous-murat-yakin-deserves-a-chance

#saintsfc former players & under-18 coaches Jason Dodd & Paul Williams are the two staff who are departing/being replaced

So some work has been getting done

Any guesses ? Les Reed Gareth Rogers Ralph Krueger Jason Dodd Etc etc

Alan Nixon ‏@reluctantnicko Protected Tweets 58s Couple of surprise departures behind scenes at Southampton...

my guess 1. Will Pochettino remain as manager? No 2. If no will we replace with a Great British Manager or a foreign manager? Thomas Techul 3. How many of our current first tea will we lose during this window? 2 4. How many 8 million pound plus players will we sign during this window. 3

I thought maya was training in toyko with the squad today with kagawa, 2nd from right, ITK FAIL

Its gets tiring worrying about multi millionaires.

I know everyone says he's off to barcelona but I am pretty sure Luis Enrique worked under Baldoni at Roma when he managed there.

I am sure the position improvement since last year has probably covered the first year of this supposed offer.

I think I've called it, from today's guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/16/didier-deschamps-samir-nasri-girlfriend-france "In a press conference on Friday, Deschamps fielded questions about his squad's behaviour. However when it was pointed out that there was a brothel 500m from the squad's Brazilian base in Ribeirao Preto, the former France captain reacted angrily."

Hang on when was Saintsweb taken over by 13yr old school girls !!

I like the idea that there is a big boys shop, its like we have got money for our birthday and xmas all at the same time and now have the cash to spend on some really good stuff. Wouldn't happen in a million years but imagine selling adz and osvaldo and we get super mario, f*cking hell the whole world would take note, it would keegan mark 2.

Not read much about Tuchel but I like the cut of his jib, sounds very Klopp esq http://www.dw.de/rule-breaker-tuchel-leads-mainz-into-a-league-of-their-own/a-17503661

This is really an investment decision if we can take the heart out of it, improved contracts for adz, luke and poch, invest in the heavily in squad say comes as a 40mil cost (guesstimate). Now what will you need to achieve to recoup that 40mil ontop of the money you have already invested. You can either (A) recoup investments on player sales overtime and we become very much like Lyon whose business model is to underpay/develop and sell at a profit players, or (B) we have to improve performance in the league to qualify I would suspect for champions league against 6 other clubs with higher revenue,crowds and fanbase. I would suggest (A) is a sustainable model which can be achieved easily and which allows for incremental improvement overtime, we like icarus have risen far and fast quickly, lets be careful to not be burn't by the sun.

hobby v business, this is a business for her but a passionate hobby for us, its a different ball game when its your cash. 100% support for what she has done and am happy to accept her decisions which i expect will be based on fact and cold hard logic, sometimes its better to not have a passionate person in charge as we have seen many a ship go down via that approach. Until proved otherwise we will always be middle of the league type club and if we play awesome football and develop awesome players I will be happy, we could be west ham and if we don't push on I think the vibe on here which could be one of anger would be purely driven by the fact some supporters had their hopes up and its the disappoint that drives the resentment, step back, chill and just enjoy the world cup and see how next season develops.

You've got a good array of christian bale gif's preferred the American Psycho one from the other day, it reminded to re-watch it again.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere, Rafa Silva, 20yr old http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-transfers-rafa-silva-potential-3532210

I am pretty sure morgan said in one of his interviews that Cortese showed him the bid offer when we were in League 1 and ripped it up in front of him and said he was the foundation for us. Edit - I knew I wasn't going mad, post from last june when morgan was a "done deal" to Real Sociedad"

In the Argie squad, 1 goal and 4 yellow cards in his 14 appearances for Newells, I would suspect he is defo on his way back to valencia unless he gets on the pitch for argentina and plays well. If mopo goes don't think we will attract to many south american's unless he is replaced by one. Personally I prefer newell's striker Ponce as a signing purely for the comedy.

How's Frimpong gonna pull birds now he isn't a footballer ?