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Never wanted Hughes anywhere near Southampton when he managed Stoke BUT as soon as he came in and worked on installing belief in the players and getting them to play a more attacking game he won me over. Hell we even attacked Man City a fair bit which was both surprising and encouraging. The passion he showed was fantastic and I just get the feeling he’s a good fit for Saints and vice versa. To get Stoke to 9th three years running isn’t to be sniffed at, I don’t know what went wrong there and I don’t care. With two or three quality signings we should be looking at that 8/9/10 th spot which after the near disaster of the season just gone will do more than just fine.

on holiday ?

The same thing crossed my mind a couple of days ago. I think it shows the degree to which the people that run the club arent in touch with the fan base or real world come to think of it.

thanks for the info

you’ve got that right

Well if they **** this up I just don’t know where they can turn. The supporters, the majority at least, are happy with him, the players seem to think he’s the bees knees.....even Ralph has a nickname for one of his assistants ! its a touch worrying as to why this hasn’t been done and dusted as yet....if at all !

A prime example of Ralph acknowledging things need to be done quickly due to the transfer window shutting 9 August..... 10 days and counting since the last match of the season.....these lawyers are fkin slow. It’s not Brexit ffs

Tonight or tomorrow evening I would guess. Saints like an evening announcement !

Agree with all that

I keep seeing this criticism of Hughes last set of transfers at Stoke but do we know they were solely his choices or do they operate a board/selection panel like we appear to ?

Megson ! :lol:

A good World Cup will see him gone......a bad one and he probably stays

well he did pretty well in saving us this season and by getting them to play a style of football much more watchable than the previous two managers so I’m not sure what you base that logic on. If you told me six months ago I would be happy with Hughes as manager I would have laughed at you but fairs fair, he came in, did what very few expected and kept us up. For that alone he deserves a chance.

which is pretty much what Jeremy Wilson has said in The Telegraph not an hour ago

umm, tough one

must be bloody annoying to have a bull**** post dis-proved by the club’s favourite insider journalist within 13 minutes

They will in China

aside of your flippant, sarcastic response the fact is that Bertrand has been good enough to play for England all season bar the last friendly when he was injured. He hasnt let them down - didnt he score in one game ? - yet now he isnt good enough to be in the squad. Southgate said the decisions have been made over the long run not just the past few weeks. In the case of Bertrand Out - Rose In that is obviously bull **** !

you are a bit of a strange one aren’t you ?

He's far from clueless. Not many Chairman will come out at the end of the season and admit to making mistakes etc. For once its a good interview. Feel a bit sorry for him really, when everything was roses in the garden it was Reed who couldn't wait to get in front the cameras. When its gone all to **** Ralph has to step up to the microphone !

At least the penny appears to have dropped about the ****e we’ve watched for two years prior to Hughes coming in and re-igniting “The Southampton Way”

Surprised they aren’t after Pep, Klopp or Pochettino !

hope so, and that shouldn’t be a problem. Pelle, Tadic and Classie were obviously Koeman signings. Pied and Boufal were Puel signings and the non scoring centre forward from Argentina was Pellegrino’s wonderful call

This doesn’t quite fit with the Reed is going in the summer rumours which seem to be taken as gospel.

Totally agree. The way he threw the young keeper Lewis under the bus in that game was also shameful. I often wondered if that was the moment he lost a lot of the senior players tbh.