sadoldgit

Lovely gesture. For me it would be the British Heart Foundation. We lose far too many people to heart disease at an early age. All causes are good though. Or perhaps send it straight to Ron? He clearly feels he is short of a bob or two!

I have just read what he actually said. " Will he go? I guess Everton are a big club, if we can use that expression. I don't know why we say that because they're not in the top six, Southampton are. Its not a straightforward decision." Spot on, whether we are "bigger" or not isn't an issue. We have certainly been a better club for the last couple of years.

Koeman to Everton. Chambers to Watford. I hanker for the good old days when our people would only go to the top clubs.

Having just finished 6th that seems to say it all. Would we have finished so high if we had played many of the young players we have now? No. They clearly are not up to the standard of the likes of Shaw. You play them if they are good enough. You don't play them just because they are from the youth system.

Loving many of those comments. Well done Motty!

Yes, he has gone on another holiday. I sh*t you not! Word is that he will not be unveiled until he gets back!

If we appoint David Moyes I will actually buy a season ticket so that I can return it!!

It isn't happening. I has been a giant hoax! Oh and he has gone off on another holiday so it looks like nothing will be said until he returns.

If they had published a list of the hottest women footballers there probably would have been an outcry about sexism. I think we should complain!!!

No Rooney on that list? But also no Ronaldo! He wont be happy about that!!

I was thinking about this scenario earlier. I assume as we hold his contract he cant work for anyone else unless we agree to let him go? It is almost worth it for the "up yours" value to pay him for doing nothing for year!

yobbos

There was a meltdown two years ago. There was a meltdown last year. A meltdown has already started this summer and will be underway properly when a few players leave again. No one is saying that people have to be positive about everything, just wait until things pan out before you decide that the end of the world is nigh.

Oh come on Dalek, we all know that you really want Hoddle back!!

And often hard to watch too!

greaves

It was called a meltdown because that is exactly what happened. Despite not knowing what the outcome of losing certain personnel would be a number of posters made all kinds of insinuations about the club and those who run it. I can remember a number of unpleasant remarks made about Katharina and her weight. Others were equally vilified. "Meltdown" and "bed wetters" summed it up perfectly.

Exactly this. People in any walk of life want to better themselves, no more than in professional football. Samuel writes as if selling is the model on which the club is run ignoring the whole big fish eat little fish ethos. Even Leicester, after their brilliant season, don't look like they will keep Vardy. Players and managers leave us because we have been so relatively successful and that puts people in the shop window. If we were crap no one would look at us twice.

Yet Koeman has done better than him for us and Pochettino has still not won anything. How do we know he wasn't prepared to honour his contract? He might have said that he would see out the last year and the club might have said if that is the case we need to part company. No one on here has a clue what is going on so why not wait until there is an announcement and some facts before jumping to conclusions?

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nelson

It isn't all about money as you will find out when your supposed £100m goes nowhere and you struggle again next season. Top quality players will not want to go to the likes of Everton. No European football. Likely to lose a number of your so called better players in the summer. Good luck with all of that.

This all sounds very interesting. Where is your evidence? We have seemed to keep players and staff. Players and managers leave clubs all of the time yet the mighty Les has nothing to do with them, so what gives?

Unless he said he would stay and see his final year out and the club decided that if he planned to leave then they would rather it was now. be we can speculate all day long, fact is we don't have a clue what is going on.

Why do you just crawl off of your lilly pad when things aren't going so well? Just curious.