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Sounds like you found some bitter Dutch fans Only time will tell.....

More than happy. Has a better record than Koeman, he knows the Premiership too.

Christ I hope he is better teaching a young keeper how to cover his near post than he actually was/is whilst playing then But I agree with the sentiment, he should be involved in the club for many years to come in some capacity.

Hard to name a manager who hasn't been sacked several times to be honest.

Or just telling them who the new manager will be and that he will discuss their futures with them when they return. Over to you Ronald......or whoever......

As is Hoddle

No, its the private conversations telling these guys they would be better off at a top club that worry me......and that is the only concern of any England or International manager and has been for years. Then when they don't get a regular spot in that club's starting eleven they aren't happy cos they don't play enough !

Koeman is certainly the type of appointment that can put this firesale talk back in its box. I really hope this happens. The agent quote is very encouraging.

He is one of the more reliable yes. He is a Saints fan, he wrote the Saints Cult Heroes book a few years ago.

Think he means he was openly talking about going to United at the PFA awards.

The BBC reporter who flew out to Milan to interview Cortese the other week.

Blackmore has got it from Ben Smith, direct word for word tweet almost !

You do when you get subjected to the England training camp regime and have people like Gerrard in your ear and from reading between the lines the England manager and probably coaching staff saying how much better you would be at a big club old son blah blah blah. Thats whats turned him, not some bloody faffing about from people like Reed and Ralph who he probably doesnt see from one day to the next !

Not from a big club thats true, but this is different, as people have already pointed out no doubt Gerrard is in his bloody ear all the time, he hears what they earn, what life is like at a big club etc etc and for some reason now the Champions League is the be all and end all of what a player wants to play in ! Not so long ago wasn't it his dream to play for England and he has managed that, and done it whilst playing for Southampton. But now a competition on a Tuesday night which lasts a couple of months if you don't get out the group stage is the icing on the cake ! Its crap. He was quite happy to sign a four year deal with Saints, quite happy to see his salary increase with every progression the club made and now he wants his loyalty rewarded by being allowed to eff off to Liverpool. Thanks for that Adam.

Absolutely. I was prepared for MP going, I am prepared for Shaw and Lallana. But Rickie ? I mean all the best to him but the heart has just been ripped out of Southampton for me.

Will this be one of those Liverpool say 4 million, Saints say 8 million and the truth lies somewhere in between I wonder ?

I assumed, probably wrongly, that Ralph was more or less saying that players will only be sold when its right for the club. I took that to mean,unlike in years gone by, that when we have a replacement not just lined up but a deal signed and sealed we would then and only then sell Shaw, Lallana etc. Seems that might just be wishful thinking on my part.

It just gets worse

As one of if not THE most sensible regular poster on here I find it strange that you are slagging off the board barely 24 hours after Ralph's interview because of something that looks like a great hoax by someone changing their Twitter account to the name of a Liverpool Echo journalist.

Yeah i know but Sky didn't when they ran with the story !

Why are you ? A lot of Sky Sources turnu out to be local journos close to a club.

Wotte and Portaloo a few years back you mean ?

Don't hold your breath. That is a very romanticised view of the current board to be honest. Cortese doing that, yes. Ralph and Co ? Nah