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Martin Samuel: Saints past sell-by date for Koeman Selling players catches up with every club eventually. Southampton may have defied gravity again this season but Ronald Koeman knows it cannot last. The process of renewal that takes place at the club every summer, with fine players leaving and fresh recruits arriving, cannot succeed indefinitely. Eventually, a mistake will be made, and Koeman has decided not to be around when it happens. That he is joining Everton, a club that finished 16 points and five places below Southampton last season, is telling. Everton have been sellers, too, and may be again this summer if the right offer comes in for John Stones or Romelu Lukaku. Yet that would only put Koeman in the same position as when he joined Southampton. Five players were sold that summer, but the new manager simply used the money to construct his own team. He could do the same again at Everton. If Stones fetched £40m, say, Koeman might believe he could be adequately replaced for half that. Lukaku, Everton's top scorer, would be worth even more and Koeman will surely have received assurances about Everton's ambition, sale or no sale. At the very least he will get any transfer money to spend, plus more, and will be shopping at a different end of the market. Southampton are a well-run club, offering Europa League football, but while they continue to sell each summer, they will remain a stepping stone rather than a final destination, for managers and players.

You're forgetting they won the league in 1987, as long as they stick to signing players born in the late 1970s they'll be fine.

Edit.

Manuel Pellegrini a shock contender to replace Everton-bound Ronald Koeman at Southampton http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manuel-pellegrini-shock-contender-replace-8115980

Mane scores for Senegal as they qualify for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/676696/Everton-Southampton-Boss-Ronald-Koeman-Talks-Roberto-Martinez-Transfer-News-Gossip

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/southamptons-everton-target-ronald-koeman-8110971 Martinez? I guess we'd get a cup run (& relegated)

I prefer a summer freak-out in the odd years.

Everton should pick up some bargains this summer, it's not as though Chairmen will think they have £150m burning a hole...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-tottenham-transfer-target-shane-8077118 Alex Crook

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-willing-pay-manager-target-8076616 John Cross

15:40 Mane could stay at Southampton We've got some news coming out of Southampton this afternoon, courtesy of Sportsmail's SAM CUNNINGHAM. He reports that Sadio Mane's exit from Southampton is far from decided, with a source close to the player revealing he appears to be changing his mind about wanting to leave. It is believed he recently bought a house in the local area and, despite being all set to go in January when Manchester United made an offer which Southampton turned down, his exit is not so certain now. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3612192/Transfer-news-LIVE-Manchester-United-Arsenal-Liverpool-Chelsea-plus-Premier-League-Europe.html#ixzz49tYMLh57

How many starts/minutes?

by Alex Smith x2

http://www.salzburg24.at/red-bull-salzburg-suspendiert-sadio-mane/4065841 https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/salzburg/sport/fussball/fc-red-bull-salzburg/sn/artikel/red-bull-salzburg-mane-tanzt-aus-der-reihe-118689/&prev=search

If they win they qualify for the group stage of the Champions League, lose and they go in the group stage of the Europa.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/7162441/Southampton-plot-10m-swoop-for-Anderlecht-star-Dennis-Praet-but-face-stiff-competition-from-Leicester.html

Shane Long?

MOTD goal of the season vote.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/36288728

So funny.

"Everton are a sleeping giant. It's not just the trophies it's the whole history, the founders of the Football League status, Dixie Dean the other many great players to have played for the club, Goodison Park being the first 3 tier stadium in Europe, their whole standing in the game etc. Southampton have spent a lot of time in the lower leagues and have won only one major trophy in their history the FA Cup in 1976. They're famous for Jimmy McCalliog (the scorer of the goal that won the FA Cup) and Matt Le-Tissier. That's it. Nothing there really.Like it has been said in a previous post if Everton want Koeman he will come. He would be mad not to. JAYMULL, 29 minutes ago "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3587806/Everton-target-Southampton-manager-Ronald-Koeman-succeed-Roberto-Martinez-charge-Goodison-Park.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-target-southamptons-ronald-koeman-7957130

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/7138349/Tottenham-boss-Mauricio-Pochettino-lines-up-Liverpool-star-Adam-Lallana-for-summer-reunion.html Snakes & Lallanas, up to second, back down to eighth, up to second......