Nicola Cortese

[the colonel]

I'd have Cortese back without question to put a bomb under he shite we have now. It wasn't his money but what he did have was ambition and vision. Something surely we lack today. 

[RedArmy]

If the choice was Cortese or Rasmus, i know who I’d be picking. 

[Turkish]

8 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

If the choice was Cortese or Rasmus, i know who I’d be picking. 

We do appear to have found someone who is a bigger bellend than Cortese, which is incredible 

[Noodles34]

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

[LGTL]

6 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

I think we’d have been very successful until PSR came along. But then they could have foreseen that and have already built a 100,000 seater superdome at St Mary’s.

It was just the luck of a Saints fan though to have had the club find a billionaire who seemed to genuinely love us and who was happy to spend his money on us, only for him to sadly die very prematurely. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

14 hours ago, the colonel said:

It wasn't his money but what he did have was ambition and vision.

I’ve got ambition & vision, I could make this club a success, no fucking problem. I’d be like Peter Risdale or Cortese, I’ll take us to heights unimaginable . I’ve got a great business plan, and bucket loads of self belief. I’m actually only missing one piece of the jigsaw, finding a mug to finance it…

[Wurzel]

6 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I’ve got ambition & vision, I could make this club a success, no fucking problem. I’d be like Peter Risdale or Cortese, I’ll take us to heights unimaginable . I’ve got a great business plan, and bucket loads of self belief. I’m actually only missing one piece of the jigsaw, finding a mug to finance it…

Copied directly from Ankerson's cv that he handed to Solak

[sadoldgit]

8 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

Good question. Cortese was clearly high on the narcissist scale and his behaviour could well have soured their relationship after a while. Marcus didn’t spend a fortune on us but what money was spent was spent well at the time. Would he have been prepared to spend the kind of money to secure a long term successful run in the EPL? I may have got this wrong but I think that he said that it wouldn’t necessarily be a long term project for him?

We will never know of course. What we do know though is that, if Cortese is a football genius, he seems to have escaped the attention of any football club seeking a genius CEO.

[Matthew Le God]

9 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

We were in the bottom half of League One when he died. A lot of money was invested after his death.

[rooney]

8 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

We were in the bottom half of League One when he died. A lot of money was invested after his death.

But we won the Johnsons Paint Trophy when he was at Wembley and look at the squad we had for that match.

[Turkish]

19 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

I bet we wouldn’t still be waiting for the 5 pledges 

[CB Fry]

20 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

Cortese couldn't hack it in the Prem with big clubs. He got through one single whole season finishing 14th then stropped off.

Still he went off and mastermined taking Derby to where Bournemouth are now. Oh no, sorry Reading. No sorry Forest. No sorry fucking no one.

Not one club anywhere in the world ever employed him ever again. What a fucking genius 😂

[Lord Duckhunter]

20 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

Thank god Kat got rid of Cortese then, seeing as how we finished higher than Bournemouth ever have 4 times, played in Europe twice (as opposed to none) & reached one more cup final than they have (which is again none). All since she took over. Terrible owner, I wish we were like Bournemouth, with that 9th place finish. 

Edited yesterday at 09:13 by Lord Duckhunter

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

Cortese couldn't hack it in the Prem with big clubs. He got through one single whole season finishing 14th then stropped off.

Still he went off and mastermined taking Derby to where Bournemouth are now. Oh no, sorry Reading. No sorry Forest. No sorry fucking no one.

Not one club anywhere in the world ever employed him ever again. What a fucking genius 😂

It’s not for lack of offers. Remember AC Milan approached him twice when he was with us. We were his baby and you wouldn’t swap your own child for another one. He loved us so much he could never feel that way about another club. That’s why he’s never worked in football again. 

[Noodles34]

The question was if Markus was still in charge, not Cortese. 
 

[Saint Gifford]

Always said he was the best era of our recent history. 
 

Him and Marcus had it continued who knows where we would be, certainly not where we are now. 
 

The difficult person and how everyone didn’t like him, well I don’t buy that. The price of success, total commitment and love. 
 

Rupert anyone……

[Lord Duckhunter]

2 hours ago, Saint Gifford said:

Always said he was the best era of our recent history. 
 

Him and Marcus had it continued who knows where we would be, certainly not where we are now. 
 

The difficult person and how everyone didn’t like him, well I don’t buy that. The price of success, total commitment and love. 
 

Rupert anyone……

 

The “best era of our history” 😂. It wasn’t even our  best era with a Liebherr in charge, let alone Lawrie or Ted Bates eras. 
 

Getting Southampton out of league one, remarkable achievement and even SR got us out of the Championship. The price of “success “…. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Lord Duckhunter

[pimpin4rizeal]

2 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

 

The “best era of our history” 😂. It wasn’t even our  best era with a Liebherr in charge, let alone Lawrie or Ted Bates eras. 
 

Getting Southampton out of league one, remarkable achievement and even SR got us out of the Championship. The price of “success “…. 

Our good times under Koeman was a hell of a lot more due to the good foundations and infrastructure cortese left behind. Mitchell signing the likes of mane who employed Mitchell ? 
also think there was a fair chance of pochettino staying if cortese did I think we would have been seriously pushing champions league spots 

Edited 2 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal