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Totally agree, been looking forward to this deal being completed all week as to my mind he looks exactly the type of player we should be signing but after todays revelations I really couldn't give a fook.

Now that would at least put a smile on my face!

and we all know what caused that sorry saga and where it ended. Maybe MR Pochettino is very cheap and him and our new director of football Diego Simeone are taking less in wages combined than Adkins?

Balls.

He is the public face and mouthpiece of the club and I hope to watch him shamble away from our club at the end of the season never to be seen again I'd taking Cortese with him but we couldn't be so lucky.

Guess that one has gone by the board then, the lad has been saved a world of hurt not having to attend that conference! Would you expect any less from our tosspot dictator

At least he had the decency not to say integrity, hope this is the first of many press conferences during which he is appologising starting with one on Monday for our thrashing at home by Everton.

Honestly rght now I don't much care if we do go down, if Cortese is going to treat the club like his personal play thing then maybe it's time he play thing got broken.

How can you say that the way I feel is total bo11ox? I just think that the club is more than bricks and mortar and the 11 players on the pitch, I liked it when our club was respected for doing things the right way and for me a part of what made Southampton FC dies today with such a disgraceful low blow.

So what is going to happen Monday will he pick his captain and then get him to choose the side? Maybe the translator will do it?

To me it does feel worse, I love the club but part of that has died today and I'm not sure it will come back. The club may have been in danger of going out of existence but today it is in danger of selling it's soul the very thing that makes us fans in the first place.

This a thousand times over, Cotese had the perfect oppertunity to pull the trigger earler in the season and the passing of Adkins while mourned would not have stirred up the outrage of every right thinking football fun in the country. Instead he waits 3 months for Adkins to be making progress and things to be looking good and then out of the blue pulls the trigger this morning the timming is bonkers but I never thought Adkins was the long term man for Cortese even if he was a good fit for the club. Saints suddenly no longer feels like my club abit like when the dunk hunter and Wilde teamed up just before relegation and weird decisions were made.

But Saints are not bigger than one spoiled Italian brat?

Screw the club, Screw the team this is not the Southampton way I hope the negativity this produces sends us spiraling back down to the championship it's the least the club deserves for stooping so low.

Yes but it's been known to happen before, if the players are hacked off and don't get the right feeling from the new man it only takes a tiny drop in motivation from a few key players for it all to fall apart at this level. Look at Spurs just before Harry went their good professional players with the wrong manager and system didn't work. Different circumstances I think the bond formed through the two promotions will be stronger than anything they had with Pardew, player like Lambert who Nigel has clearly stood by this season are going to take this pretty hard I'd imagine the reaction will be interesting.

Are you nuts, together as one only when it's something you want to be part of and I have no desire to be part of this crap.

Really hope he doesn't he seems far to decent for our morally bankrupt club if I were him I'd take the oppertunity to get a train to Liverpool for that trial afterall.

Couldn't care if he's fluent in over 8 million forms of communication he can still drop dead for all I care.

******, I hope we go down it's what we deserve. Would much rather the fans stood together and made the board and owners aware that this is not the behaviour expected of this club and we lost every game for the rest of the season than we happy clapped this nobody who's been parachuted in to the rightful place of a decent an honourable man. Cortese out, I'd rather we were back in admin.

Wouldn't surprise me if he leaves in the next two weeks, rats and sinking ships? I know if I had the choice I'd want out of this mad house!

You always spout this rubish, please point out all the clubs that have gone out and got a worthwhile value for money quality signing in already this Jan? The transfer window works the way it does for a reason all the good business is always done late not early as clubs and players hold out for more money or better options etc. Stop your continual moaning about the same things it's sad and pathetic if you really hate the club as much as you say you do then please take your 'support' elsewhere we would be better off with out you you massive WUM.

Why must you always be so negative it must make life really depressing! Yes 500K would be nice but I'm sure it would have cost as that much to install and run the heating for 12 years during which time it wouldn't have saved a single fixture so all that money would have been burnt for nothing and even now your moaning about a hyperthetical situation the game has not been called of and looking at the weather forcast for Southampton (ignoring the rest of the country!) it won't be. Get back in your box.

Technically great really thought he was a great player in our nearly season.

I would have the sash kit back as our permanent home strip in a blink of an eye!

Worry about it if/when it happens I remember Jamie White being linked with Barcelona and Real Madrid at a similar age!