SuperSAINT

If all this turns out to be true, it must be written into SaintsWeb lore that anyone who changes agent before contract talks is definitely leaving!

- Frank De Boer will be early favourite for sure. - Jorge Sampaoli is the Chile fella. Plays in a very "poch-esque" style. - Funny you mentioned AVB... Had a hunch when I saw his name listed that he might be a target. (I *think* he's out of contract in the summer too). I'm interested in this rumoured "New direction" that Guan eluded too. I wondered if that included a potential coach change.

Is AVB out of contract in the summer? Or did he sign a new deal?

Who's your top 3, Clarkey? (Hypothetically)

This is getting close to ear-lobe spotting & Poch in steak restaurants isn't it?!

Claiming "sources from both clubs": http://www.espn.co.uk/football/everton/story/2885135/ronald-koeman-close-to-agreeing-deal-to-take-everton-job-sources? (No quotes though)

Wijnaldum before that (Jury still out on him, but I'm convinced he'd have been great for us - Squad-wise, I'd happily trade him for Ramirez/Juanmi)

Impressive!

Looking at the Everton shortlist (minus Ronald) to see who (in theory) we might get linked with: - Unai Emery - Manuel Pellegrini - Frank De Boer - David Moyes - Roberto Mancini - Paulo Fonseca - Ryan Giggs - Diego Simeone - Quique Sanchez Flores - Andre Villas-Boas - Martin O'Neill - Quique Setien - Mark Hughes - Lucien Favre - David Unsworth - Steve Bruce - Carlos Carvalhal - Didier Deschamps - Jorge Sampaoli - Louis Van Gaal - Eddie Howe - Avram Grant - Jurgen Klinsmann - Gary Rowett - Joachim Loew - Marcelo Bielsa - Sean Dyche - Steve Evans - Gary Neville - Phil Neville - Mark Warburton - Tim Sherwood - Laurent Blanc

It's so tricky to interpret what's going on. I go back to Guan's post a while ago where he said: Maybe that's what's happening? Maybe Ron doesn't want to sign up, and we don't want situation so we've allowed him to talk to Everton. A lot probably lies with the Everton Billionaire who is an unknown factor. We don't know if he's going to lay £100m down in cash to rebuild (without selling) and thus will offer him the rumoured £6m salary.

I don't disagree with that choice at all. (Or Tuchel, but he's not leaving Dortmund for us!)

I hate when rival ITK's get involved. Reminds me of the Toby situation.

I think a stadium name change to St Maryland could be in order?

Anything new here? http://www.vi.nl/cookies/?u=http://www.vi.nl/nieuws/koeman-op-weg-naar-everton.htm

The Sun have a report. (But purely based on the Dutch bloke's tweet)

Source?

Hopefully it's not downwards or backwards.

The lingering doubt I have about all this is when Guan has mentioned a couple of times about not being surprised if we let him leave this summer.

I'm going 80/90k. Deserves more than Osvaldo & Ramirez.

Yes. Scored again tonight too.

This is breaking news to me! I had no idea MLG wasn't a full member!

Good to see a decent club listen to our signing recommendations Wonder if he's a replacement for Henrikh Mkhitaryan?

60/70k IMO

Ndong was first mentioned back during the January window as well. http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/stoke-and-southampton-given-10m-price-for-latest-target

YES