Daft Kerplunk

Not sure on the timing but VVD said he's looking forward to next season apparently after the RK news was announced.

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Completely agree, it makes us look small time when actually, the whole club's football structure is about moving forward regardless. By the words of the ITK comments today, we'd be moving onwards anyway with or without Ronald. He's been important for us but not as important as the next appointment will be. I don't hate, or will never hate him as he's been part of getting us back in Europe and becoming among the new European elite.

Everything in the papers comes from somewhere. And that somewhere is usually a leak from someone involved on one the interested parties. In the case of Wanyama, it could be Spurs, the agent, or even us. The Mirror even has its own ITK now with Ronald and I'm pretty sure they started breaking the Everton/Ronald interest.

Paco Jemez certainly an interesting candidate. Likened to Poch in many ways, and his mentor Bielsa.

No, my season ticket is purchased to watch Saints, regardless of who is leading or playing for the team

My guess would be that we can't talk to anyone yet because Everton still haven't sorted things out with Ronald so technically he is still our manager, and if we talked to anyone else we'd possibly lose out on the 'compensation' we will get. Just a thought but it might explain it. FDB does sound like he'd be perfect from watching those earlier Ajax videos, particularly where it concerns bringing academy players through.

Neil Lennon is ruled out as he's joining Hibs

Whilst I don't really truly understand Koeman's decision to go to Everton apart from the money, there are things that can be read between the lines about what direction Les wanted to go in and how Koeman would have known he had to take an opportunity elsewhere. I am gutted he is leaving as he is a big character in football but I can't hate him as there are always two sides to any story and he has just overseen two very important seasons in our history. What I am more interested in now he has gone is who replaces him and whether we can get our man in good time for preseason and not allow players (and their agents) to get twitchy.

So we are keeping the biggestist most massivist club in the whole world other than Spurs waiting until Les announces the most ridiculously good replacement and we can all laugh at some of the noisy and rather silly Everton fans who are delighting themselves with our perceived situation and how next season they will be challenging for the title.

How about Fonte as player manager?

Has no one mentioned Hoddle?

My guess is that this is what the club want back. Koeman has bought some good times but one assumes that there is probably a wish to get back to the programme. I'm not overly worried, and like when Poch took over, actually quite excited about a new potential dynamic coach coming in. It still works that the club get Ronald to be the bad guy and a new exciting direction is set. Things move fast in football and if RK doesn't believe in it or no longer fits in, I'll say thanks to him for the past two years which have been really good and look forward to the next appointment.

Done, good survey and will no doubt provide interesting results.

From the ITK snippets that have appeared, the glowing praise from Les about Poch and the non-praise given to RK after the season was done, I definitely think Les and the board were looking at another manager/coach/department head some time ago. Ron is going to move on and he will be the bad guy in it all when really, it has probably been on the cards anyway. Reed may, as someone suggest above, a Machiavellian character but football is a dirty business and to move upwards, we need dirty players at the top to compete. It will clearly be dressed up that we (SFC) are the victims and the large majority of fans are going to play ball and hate Ronald. Nothing wrong with that as football feeds itself on this sort of thing. The big bonus for the club is that they get to move on and make the decision they wanted to without having to fire anyone and make themselves look bad. A win win situation if ever there was one.

No to Moyes, McLaren or this type of manager. Yes to someone who wants to continue and build upon a project, and importantly promote youth. We can't afford he bigger names so we need to bring them through, even if those are those we buy from elsewhere and improve.

Or we've played a great hand to get rid of him making sure the blame is all on him disguising our true intentions to get rid of him as alluded to before. Les was hardly gushing of Ronald come end of the season and was very supportive of the work Poch had done whilst here. I'd suggest that this might turn out better than expected for Les and co.

So if (and when) RK goes: He was offered a better deal by Everton, which no one could deny him taking if we weren't matching his ambitions for the football side of things He can see we can't offer him the things he wants on the pitch. No point in blaming or hating him. He's done very good things whilst here just like Poch did. No point in blaming the club either as: They can't offer more money and they can't afford to keep or attract new players to add to the squad whilst keeping those already here. We have a rich owner as people keep banging on about (on Twitter at least) but she's not throwing money at the club so that's a non-argument. In fact it is irrelevant or we'd be investing in a stadium expansion at very least so we could compete better. The most disappointing thing about it is that it happens too regularly to us and despite a certain arrogance and largesse that we will be fine, if not better off, that cannot easily continue. It is constantly destabilising and that's not helpful when trying to build a team. Unless of course, this is what Les has wanted all along and there is another plan, which could be plausible.

One thing is for certain, social media plss takes and belittling of other clubs rarely goes well!

If they're insiders, maybe they are on holiday like many in football at the moment.

If RK leaves because he's going to get a chance to fulfil greater ambitions, that surely says more about SFC than him and you couldn't hold it against him. Of course, Maybe Les is actually happy to let him go, which according to something someone else posted, might be the case anyway. Either way, things will play out the way they are meant to, and hopefully if we do have a meltdown, it ends with us being in a better position again come the end of next season!

They can c**t off!

That is a delightful strip

No surprise if he goes and most importantly, him leaving for a decent amount may mean we can keep others and sign some new talent ready to prove themselves. If Wanyama and Pelle are the only ones who leave this summer (of the key first team squad) and maybe Juanmi if he is not in the plans, and we bring in others to challenge places then it will not be a bad summer. Hopefully we will get our signings done first so the perception is not of another meltdown in the media, however far from reality that is. It is a narrative that sticks sadly. This is the summer we can change that.

All sounds very positive, especially if things have moved to contracts. Must mean Ronald is happy with the ambition shown or it would have have got that far. *may I qualify that by ambition, I don't mean spending a sack load of money, more that he likes how we are thinking we can progress, be it a mix of keeping existing players, developing the youth further and signing some quality additions.