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Agree. Replacing Sadio will be tricky.

From that article: That in itself is an insult.

He's off to PSG apparently.

All the usual Liverpool-centric journo's reporting the same. As I've said before, I'm OK with him going, but: 1) I thought he could do better than Liverpool. 2) I would've wanted at least £35m (when you consider TV money, and they paid out £32.5m to land Benteke!)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/1332438/southampton-target-michael-mcgovern-as-back-up-to-first-choice-goalkeeper-fraser-forster/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/23/liverpool-remain-intent-on-30m-deal-for-southamptons-sadio-mane/ ^ Bascombe is well connected at Liverpool

So now that we have £10m in the bank... Can we get this one over the line, please?

There was something about him being the "mystery man" seemed to mean something.

You've replaced Jack Schitt on my ITK list

Not sure anybody could have saved Villa, to be fair.

I agree with that - I just hope he's not a "Oui" man.

Thought he deserved his own thread. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...succeed-ronal/

Claude Puel emerges as front-runner to succeed Ronald Koeman http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/23/southampton-claude-puel-emerges-as-front-runner-to-succeed-ronal/

3 years by today's standards is good going (especially for us). Will be a big loss & tough to replace. He's so effective in the big-games. I'll miss him. Nice message too. Good luck Big Vic.

Just announce it FFS. Don't see the point in holding off - we don't gain much from doing it.

He did. Although cf saint beat him. Posted this in January.

What is Silva's playing style? Had a brief look at work earlier but couldn't find anything specific.

The criteria from the Telegraph piece: I think we'd all agree with that. But ONLY if the kids are good enough. Ronald gets some sh*t for not playing enough kids, but if Chambers & Shaw were still around, I bet he would have played them.

NEW THREAD / NEW POLL (?!)

or Portugese

cf saint mentioned him in January - do you beat that?!

Crabby would be happy with this. He requested him on 6th June on the 1st managerial thread.

I think the players (assuming the club is legit minted) they want to keep would probably command similar wouldn't they? Lukaku / Stones etc will probably command similar size wages if they moved.

My favoruite thing about that story is from his wiki page: On 4 June 2015, four days after winning the trophy, Sporting announced that Silva had been sacked with just cause, for not wearing the club's official suit in a cup match against F.C. Vizela.

Linked with Forest: http://www.nottinghampost.com/olympiacos-reshuffle-could-see-marco-silva-appointed-at-nottingham-forest/story-29436277-detail/story.html