Mallagroth

That's swung it for me then on the referendum vote, let's get away from these idiots.

Love it if true... so i've chosen to believe it as gospel.

We could go and take Sam Allardyce for 7M... and then spend ages gloating about it. So no its not ambition its pretty tin-pot. So much so that I'm actually deeply suspicious you are Evertonian and more likely from the ****ehole down the road. You sound like someone who has lived in the shadow of your closest neighbour for years and after years of misery have to hold onto the slightest shred of a chance to make yourself feel less insecure. Actually yes I guess you could be either club...never really noticed the similarity before. You don't **** fish up there as well do you?

Confident we will once again be singing WTFILN. Its fast becoming our anthem.

Cheers buddy. Enjoy the Monkeys Paw. See you when we are all on your Everton forums in the course of the next 12 months.

So that's 2-0 to Dusan Tadic for manager battles then.

Well done Everton and congratulations. You've got yourself a solid manager in Koeman who knows how to recover from a huge losing streak mid season. The one thing we've always liked the most about Koeman is that he's honourable, trustworthy and a man of his word. Good luck. Also woot let the new era begin! My super keen switched off a few times last season, especially during that target man hoofball period until Pelle got injured and Shane Long luckily stepped up. Whoever comes in it will be a bloody interesting ride again next season. In isolation the only real loss to next season would be Sadio, (who may well be going), but I like the sound of this 40M pricetag we have on him. Means there is a chance he will still be here.

How dare you bring a reasonable suggestion like that into this turd flinging competition.

Leicester got lucky and Saints have been lucky past two seasons and 'it wasn't competitive'. Fingers in ears pretend those seasons didn't happen and there isn't a trend... lalala... Liverpool or Man Utd will win the league.

Don't worry too much, the manager doesn't choose new signings by himself and that process will be in motion. Ron was always going to have a couple of weeks off as well so nothing is a problem yet. If we still don't have a manager by end of fortnight then we should start to get worried.

If it's between FDB, AVB and Pellegrini then so be it. I'd personally rather FDB but I trust the board more than my own knowledge on these matters to get the right man to fit with the clubs vision and personality.

You're fighting a losing battle CB. The shutters are closed, the Meltdown is on. Don't you dare try and use facts and reason. Next phase of meltdown is 'why couldn't Les get Emery, what a bumbling idiot'.

Or this?

You've been waiting to do that for ages haven't you...

Probably De Boer who we wanted ahead of Koeman previously but he wasn't available then. We may take a punt at Emery but like you lot we are probably not yet in his league. AVB is probably in the running. Pellegrini as a big outsider.

Whats likely is that Koeman is getting assurances that the next stint as Holland manager is his and how long it is likely to be until that comes to fruition. From there he can negotiate his length of contract with whichever parties he wants, most likely Everton. Even if Erwin is a sticking point with Everton, Koeman is gone now on principle. Most Saints fans have also made it clear they don't like the way Ron has behaved over this and quite fancy a manager upgrade anyway. So win, win all round... well for us anyway.

Oh please tell me its true, I will cry with laughter.

Give people some credit, he did just win the EL. However I didnt know half as much or that he was interested in leaving Sevilla until Everton went in and I'm sure thats true of many. Regardless of that, my choice is FDB same as it was 2 years ago.

The idiocy of spouting off in the media about how much your transfer kitty is. Ignoring the advice of all the other board members at Everton who wanted a different guy in. Koeman is not a 7m manager no matter how you try and spin it. We've watched enough games and seen his tactics to know that. Ridiculous. Also you do nothing but make wild assumptions about how ****e saints are and how doomed we are. There is nothing to be jealous of with Everton, we have better players, a stable and sensible wealthy owner, a better management team, a better recruitment structure, a better academy. The only thing Everton have over us is 'History' which puts them low down on a list of many other clubs who beat us with that useless indicator of current success including Leeds. Now Everton looks like at this moment they have secured a better manager but I expect that issue to be rectified in a matter of days. They may well have more money they are willing to spend than saints for now but A) I don't believe all of the hype and B) I don't think it will mean anything at all. Not everyone has cottoned on yet, which is good news for saints, but money alone cannot buy you the premier league title anymore. The league has been shifting in the same direction for the last 3 years. A squad can only consist of 15 first team candidates or unrest sets in. Our league can buy most of the best players in all leagues around the world (which isnt a boast but a fact) and there's more than enough great players in the world to go round. But the smaller clubs don't need to pay as much as the big clubs, 15M is a lot of money to clubs across the rest of the world. So mid table clubs are picking up 3-4 really good players for 10-15m or 1-2 excellent players for 15-30m per season using guile and recruitment investment. Top clubs are buying 30-50M players whose actual skill level may not be vastly different or consistent. Some 'rich' teams throw the sink at their teams and buy 6-8 players of mixed value. This also doesn't work because half the season is lost gelling a vastly newer team together and dealing with the associated dressing room hierarchy shuffle. If you can see where i'm getting at over the course of 3 seasons that gap gets smaller and smaller and suddenly, money doesn't buy that much of greater quality unless you are getting your Messi, Suarez and so on into a squad. When you then apply those magical levelling qualities of football, that extra gap that all that mega money bought can vanish in an instance; injuries, poor ref decisions, dressing room drama, poor/good runs of form, extra competitive matches to play in the season, suspensions, international duty etc. Clubs like our own that have invested in the infrastructure of combating the latter elements such as injuries whilst sensibly investing in a couple of players that can be eased in are now reaping the rewards. Losing players is the nature of the game at our level because wages and prestige is still a factor. But we lose two, replace them equally or better and buy one and we steadily get better overall.

Great post and completely agree it doesn't add up. Someone supposedly so savvy acting like this. An earlier news report suggests that the other Everton officials wanted Emery as well. So it seems this guy doesn't like being told no and it seems to be more important to keep his pride and rich image even if it means ignoring the opinions of his 'team'. As you say someone with that much 'mega money' doesn't need to boast about it, get lots of attention and swing his **** around to prove it, they just get on with it and do it for as cheap and quietly as possible. This guy is I reckon is on a par with the Hull and Cardiff chairman and mainly looking for an ego trip and a tour in the headlines. The 'mega money' those clubs boasted about having didn't go too far too soon.

owned him there

I wish Redknapp well... as in I hope he drowns in the bottom of one.