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I still find it hard to believe its taking this long. At the end of the day its, surely, pretty much Les's decision (I'm pretty sure the Ralph and Kat will just go along with his opinion on footballing matters) he must have known for a while whether he wanted Puel to stay on or not.

Tadic to Italy? http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=BDIGeneric&aid=C98EA5B0842DBB9405BBF071E1DA7651077B1B5B&tid=7106CF3316864AAFB9985F7A33B36F7D&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thesun.co.uk%2fsport%2ffootball%2f3716897%2ftadic-being-lined-up-by-inter-milan-to-replace-ivan-perisic%2f&c=14591243568308476708&mkt=en-gb

What one decent season with Swansea, one bad season, and then failure to get promoted with Leeds not exactly the stuff of legends is it?

I think Yoshida has shown he is a decent PL cb with regular game time. I have no problem with him playing regularly next season.

Any day now. LVG to announced as our new manager the same day VVD goes to Man City for 10 million less than our 70 million asking price...

what's that saying?.... oh yeah be careful what you wish for no point replacing Puel if our only option is crap like Monk

I thought we wouldn't except less than 70 million seems man city are 10 million short...

Is that better than Koeman (allegedly) ditching training so he can go golfing in Spain...

Your assuming Saint-Étienne are going to pay us. If Puel spoke to them it will only be because we told him he has no future here so why would Saint-Étienne pay us and why would Puel take the job without compensation? Puel can just wait for saints to sack him take his compensation and Saint-Étienne get him for free.

Behave if we don't want Puel (and by the way I'm happy for him to get another season) there is no good reason to drag this **** out for the sake of what for todays PL sides is chump change. Are we still going to be scrabbling around trying to sort the manager, like we did last summer, when the transfer window opens. Just so we can rinse a bit of cash out of some French team and save some imaginary face. Not often I have anything good to say about Watford but they knew they didn't want their manager canned him fast moved for Silva and are now probably already sorting out the plans for next season while we wait on a bit of compensation.

Because our business model relays on us being able to sell to Liverpool....

Why would anyone agree to that? If city rate him that highly they should just keep and loan him out or play him.

Why does the club need to save face?. They weren't worried about saving face when they sacked Adkins. In this situation they would actually become more popular with the fan base by canning Puels arse would they not?

It is if we want him out. And why would anyone compensate us if they know we want to get rid of him? Look it's pretty simple either the club want him next season or they don't. If they don't let him go and get someone else in. If they want him to stay then they won't be asking for compensation from anyone.

Don't know we wouldn't just pay up his compensation if we no longer want him. Trying to get out of giving him what he is owed pretty small time ( if that is what's going on)

They are only 10+ million players because the transfer market has gone bonkers. 10 million isn't even very much for a PL player just look at what the big boys are spending now. A lot of our players are pretty average for the PL.

why are we not all over that deal?

Yeah because most of them lack quality. Boufal, Long and Jrod were guilty of coming on as subs and being absolute horse turd on numerous occassions. Who ever the manger is next season the current squad needs some serious work in midfield, attack and GK and that's assuming the defence isn't sold off this summer as well.

Why would we **** about? If we don't want him we should pay him off and have done with it . No club is going to pay us to take a manager that rumour suggests we are going to can anyway.

That will be the Zaha they flogged to Man U, who failed spectacularly, and then they re-signed him? Palace is his level I doubt any of the big clubs were ever that interested

My guess is most ITK stuff people post on here comes from players I doubt Les (the only person who really knows what is going on all over the club) is in the habit of sharing info with people down the pub or the golf club.

Strange logic how many clubs announce the manager is staying? and why would 1 matter? The Club sacked Adkins, who was probably one of the most popular mangers we have had in recent times, with out batting an eye lid about how it appeared. If anything given the general consensus from the fan base sacking Puel would probably be seen as a good thing. 2 shouldn't be an issue isn't Les supposed to be the King of succession planning? If he had decided to replace Puel you'd have thought the decision would have been made weeks ago and the wheels would have already been in place to bring in his replacement. If they aren't that probably means the club weren't looking to replace him.

That makes no sense. If the club told Puel he won't be here next season why would he not wait to be fired, get the compensation he would be owed, and then get another job? Also why would saints just not fire him we don't need and easy out. Considering the drop in season ticket sales and the rumours of players leaving if Puel stays it would have made more sense for saints to sack Puel a couple of weeks before the end of the season to send out a message to unhappy fans and players. There seems to be little reason to drag this out unless the club were happy for Puel to carry on.

Apparently. We received as much money in tv rights as barca and real Madrid http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=BDIGeneric&aid=C98EA5B0842DBB9405BBF071E1DA7651530FFE51&tid=A1B87A3F787B40B9800EA8BBC8939F1F&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.as.com%2fen%2f2017%2f06%2f02%2ffootball%2f1496388002_966302.html&c=2666358307741493667&mkt=en-gb