Saint86

How is this saints related?

Calm down. I don't anyone has said he is the fat korean guy's dad

So. This year, Les says that no key players are leaving. Do we all believe him?

Please ban eelpie for trying to sensor free speech on the interweb. Thanks.

No, he means Vieira It interesting isn't it. AR10 said that the new man would be in and possibly announced today. Yet other ITK posters are saying that we are interviewing another manager today, and interviewed Vieira 2 days ago. I am inclined to believe Forester and Manji as they are reporting information not currently in the press.

So repeating what is already in the press in that it will be announced this weak?

Les has hired Koeman and Puel. So at best, he is on a 50% success rate. And a lot of people would argue he got unduly lucky with how Koeman turned out. Add to that the fact that we completley lost Poch under his watch. I think it is very much a "head in the sand" mentality if people do not seriously look at Les' role if he we have another bad appointment this summer. Thats purely an objective viewpoint. I personally think he will appoint a good manager and we will have a good season. Worth also pointing out that the main reason we are in this mess is because the fan's turned on Puel IMO. And we turned on Puel when really he was failed by the board with regards to playing staff and transfers. I think you can definitely argue that Puel's failures are Les' failures also.

They were removed from the club.

I would actually be rather excited if we went for him. Frustratingly he'll be gone to arsenal within 2 seasons if he does well though.

They were struggling and at the bottom when he started...

The fan's wanted him replaced with a better manager. Are you going to be this miserable all summer?

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The home shots look photoshopped. So i deduce that Yoshi is staying?

Most of the players are leaving, so we don't have any kit photos....

You guys love it really

Have they been taken over yet?

So the council spent £10m on the refurb, and the fire proof cladding costs circa £2 more per square metre. So somewhere in the region of £5-6k. You still think this is down to the council underspending on the cladding to save money? 5K on 10million? Yeah right...

Imagine the wages he could command in China. Not saying he will go there... but imagine.

Sounds like Ronald!! ^_^

We should be looking at Cairney!

Or VVD, Pelle, Tadic, Cedric, Bertrand etc etc etc.... Remember that Liverpool post that got quoted as us ****ing away their investment in us.... When they then sign Mane for a 350% profit.... I honestly think our fans are mental sometimes. Redmond for £10-12m is an absolute bargain in today's market, and one of our better players by far. My god, people think we are blunt with him on the pitch... we'd be a damn site worse without him.

Fulham or Sheffield Wednesday Manager for me. Reckon both are on the shortlist.

Honestly? Given the ridiculous wages we'd have to pay them, the fact they aren't anything significantly better than what we have, and the fact that both would block homegrown/academy players... I'm astounded you would sign them?!?! What do you reckon their wages are, 100k-150k... I'd rather stephens gets game time than Smalling, and I'd wager that the change in ability is not worth the costs involved between yoshi, stephens and smalling. Then for Delph, who's spot does he take, JWP, Redmond, Davis, Boufal... Its just not worth the money. No way. Get better for cheaper, or play kids. Also, when we signed Bertrand we had a gaping hole in the team following the sale of Shaw...

If we have a repeat of last summer we'll be in a relegation scrap this year... Imagine flogging that many goals from the team again, we just wound't score next season

Like last summer So far the board have done okay tbh. They manned the feck up over VVD, and they're trying to make positive moves over the management. Still have a niggly feeling that the uncertainty over the club has already cost us in the transfer market (with regards to incomings). Hopefully they appoint a quality manager and the transfers start rolling over the line.