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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/marian-pahars-southampton-interview-pep-guardiola-manager-depression-mental-health-a8661086.html

The fans pretty much made his position untenable. The reality also was that Puel was the 1st manager to be dealt with the post-Mane & Pelle Southampton attack. Subsequent managers have nearly relegated us -- We are still suffering for having not actively replacing them.

Exactly. We were led to believe lots of players wanted Koeman gone. Then Puel. Then Pellegrino. Now Hughes. The same under performing players.

No idea if true, but makes a bit of sense as it's so rare for a 1st team player to play for the U23's.

Tremendous. Ings suffers injury set-back. Bertrand also a doubt.

Final 4 is down to: - Les Reed - Kevin Thelwell (Wolves Sporting Director) - Mark Warburton - Matt Crocker (Ex-Saint) Source: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11700/11566856/ex-southampton-vice-chairman-les-reed-among-final-four-for-new-fa-technical-director

SSN: Les Reed on a 4 man shortlist for Technical Director of the FA.

Hate them when they are terrible... Hate them when they are brilliant & then leave! The life of a Saints fan is a painful journey.

Probably still waffling on about what sort of structure we want.

That wasn't deemed good enough at the time. History shows Claude in a much more favourable light.

Hughes was quite clued in during the Gao takeover. Good that the owner can't wait until we have a Technical Director in. Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/paolo-sousa-in-line-to-replace-mark-hughes-as-southampton-manager-q5bbd0h86

Moyes & Carlos Carvalhal both did previously, I believe.

7-0 Smallbone hattrick.

6-0 Tyreke Johnson hattrick.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/nov/28/mark-hughes-southampton-var-whinger

I'm sure it's happened more than I can remember, but it seems like it's been absolutely ages since a first team player played for the U23's.

If Monaco are having a big fire-sale, I'd take Michael Emenalo as Technical Director in a heartbeat.

I think DT mean't we should have him up front rather than coach

You've heard Ralph get interviewed? I can't imagine he does anything quickly.

Never happening. Lukaku hasn't scored for a million months and I bet he gets at least 2.

It's not what I'd do. It's what I think will happen.

Hoedt assist sweepstake?

I think a change will be made after losses to Utd & Spurs. A new man in place before Cardiff away.

If the Telegraph article from Sunday is to be believed, I'm not sure a narrow loss on penalties in the reserve team cup is enough to force a sacking.

I remember saying in the summer that after selling Tadic, Elyounoussi was going to have to hit the ground running. Yeah. About that.