Dr. Kucho

What an absolute waste of talent. Could have been a good Premier League defender but for his attitude, assuming it’s his attitude.

We’ve had Shields, Wilcox, Spors and whoever did the transfers between their appointments, and all make similar mistakes in going for cheap talent instead of proven players. When you look at when we went down to league 1 in 2009 we did a good job in recruiting (yes not every player was a hit). We bought the league top scorer (Lambert), a proven defender (Jaiidi), Hammond, convinced Fonte to drop a league and built a team of experienced along with young talents like Lallana and Schneiderlin. Resulting in promotions and the best time I had in supporting Saints (started supporting in 2002).

Don’t know, possibly the board and whoever is part of it. It’s just strange that we’ve had different directors of football and all seem to make the same mistakes.

I am under the impression that Spors doesn’t have free rein of who he wants to buy, but has been given a profile of players he should look for. You don’t have to be a football expert to conclude that to get promoted you look at the best players in the league for the core of the squad and maybe a few young talents to develop. Like we did in L1 and the championship under Liebherr.

On the exception of Fernandes today’s squad was made up entirely of Championship quality players.

Still has to work with the second worst Premier League team ever. You can’t repair the damage that’s been done in just a few weeks over the summer.

There you go, https://archive.ph/jZe6O

His older brother Charlie Setford is a Saints fan, don’t know about Tommy. Charlie Setford is still at Ajax but so far hasn’t played for their first team, even though their nr 1 goalie is 41 year old Remko Pasveer.

Thank you for sharing. Only listened to the last part when he spoke about his time with us. And a little spoiler, best managers were Ancelotti and Koeman, worst Pellegrino. And talks about a big bust up with Hasenhuttl.

There’s a flight arriving at Girona from Bournemouth at 13:49 CET. It departs at 11:00 GMT. Someone near Bompey airport at this moment?

Do you mind sharing that running drill Newcastle did? Or posting a link where I can find it? Cheers.

I know his cousin and father through work, his parents live 5 minutes up the road from here. That said I haven’t seen them in ages so I am not much use and can forget entering the CoT.

Pleased with Still becoming our new manager. Let’s hope Spors can give him the players he wants and we can shift some others. Looking forward to the new season.

Talking of Wotte, he now coaches HVV, an amateur football club in the 6th tier of Dutch football (only the top 2 are professional).

Mods can we have a poll who we want? With Rohl, Still, Cleverly (please not but has been mentioned quite a bit) or someone else.