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If it is to get better pay, or to wait and see if better terms are found elswhere, I agree with you. But if he is taking advantage of the situation to try and negotiate a longer contract with us, I could understand him.

It might not be pushing for better terms, it could be for a longer deal.

Yeah, I would guess his agents (because they are all greedy, evil bastards 😉) are telling him to wait untill after the World Cup, as a good WC would give them more options and better grounds for negotiating. Or, he could end up injured, and without a contract. Massive gamble

You really are looking at every little bit of info concerning this through a glass half empty, aren't you? I guess you really want him to stay, and maybe that is the reason you think like this? I think it's 50/50 if he signs or not. We don't know how he really feels, and in the end it is now his descision.

Thats just a date for player registrations. Deals can be done and dusted before, their licences etc won't be transferred until after that date. So, yeah, you're right, they are officially our players after that date.

So, so happy!

Don't stop there. I've been boasting to all my mates that he is the best keeper in Europe! But that might be somewhat swayed by the fact I have gone from watching Bazunu to him each week...

I was going to say the same. This is not the way to go. That is OK if we are going for mid table with a chance of sneaking into the playoffs.

The difference is that they know it is being watched/available. If they had anything to hide, or something special to drill - they wouldn't have streamed it, or they would have done that another day. In my mind, Arsenal streaming the last training has nothing to do with spygate, and any comparison is meaningless.

We probably won't hear anything about the FA investigation and potential lawsuit until after the FA have given their verdict. So we will plan with Tonda as manager until the FA gives him a ban, and then we will continue to plan with Tonda as we go through appeal etc, and by the time all that is over, the season has started and we have again promoted a new manager from within (Garner or Lallana)... SR don't need no help damaging their image! 😉

I agree with you, and I don't think Tonda will be our manager next season even if the players, club and many supporters (including myself) want him. The interesting part is that the club has begun to leak stories like "the players are behind Tonda" and "Tonda was not the instigator". I guess they are trying to sway the narrative to better suit what they want/plan (Tonda to stay).

Nope. I think they can take as long as they damn well please.

Wait a minute... What was all that talk earlier about them being close to figuring out the flux capacitor? Keep believing Hypo!

Well, I guess their silence has worked in the sense that there are fewer pitchforks around. We as a fanbase are cooling down a little. I don't mean this as to say that they are doing it right, just that most people want instant answers and info, often a bit to soon 😉 And that the only statements they can make at this time are the kind of statements that doesn't really say anything (but again, they should be doing that). In the end I just do not have any confidence in them being on top of this with a good plan. So the silence is just another sign of their incompetence as leaders...

None? Is that an option? At least not any kind of response we would want. We might get a short statement saying that Tonda is on gardening leave/suspended pending the FA investigation. Or they might wait until the verdict from the FA is official. And there will be a kit launch and season tickets sale like nothing have happened... This is what I expect from them (not what I want)

Lovely!

If you wish the new Southampton manager to be Answer me these questions three Will you play a back five? Will you play Bazunu in goal? Will you play Archer as the number nine? If the answer to all three is no - the job is yours!

I live on “the continent”, and not a single person I have spoken to has called the club cheats, and said that the cheating part is bad for the reputation of the club. But everyone is making fun of how bad we are at spying. They have seen the photo and can’t stop laughing. I’m receiving a lot of banter about how amateurish we are, but nothing about us being a morally bad club or cheats.

Arrogance and incompetence is a bad combo... but sadly fits very well with all we have seen from SR. They will continue to to make poor decisions, and I have zero faith in them handling this difficult and crucial period in a good and competent way.

With our karma he will be the new Oleg Salenko of the World Cup, and be off before it's over 😄

Good post, but to me it just sounded like something he would have said to make the questions go away - not that he was sitting on some jucy revelation. And that if he really wanted to talk about it, it was just to say that he didn't know/it common practice on the continent etc...

Just invite them to come watch our training.

The media being all over this is no surprise. They want controversy, and they have little interest in talking about football. They gobble up shit like this. Players don’t care. This game is big enough as it is. Let’s do the job, and get back with a good result for the second leg!

I read that the wrong way at first, like you speaking to a wheelie bin, and now I can’t get the image of a man arguing with wheelie bin’s out of my head.