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SaintsRoyalty

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3 hours ago, Turkish said:

Throw in the dwarf complex and you’ve got a right little dictator 

Did he take your lunch money? Seem to have an unhealthy dislike of him.

2 hours ago, Badger said:

From what I remember from the time Cortese wasn’t sacked or kicked out. But he wouldn’t stay with Katherina Liebherr and her team overseeing the club, and its finances. Why ?

I agree about our improvement under him, but shame he wasn’t prepared to remain and work with KL and her team. 
 

Interesting he hasn’t appeared at another club in the last 12 years. 

Agree it’s weird he didn’t work for another club but I bet banking is way easier. Can’t remember exactly but didn’t they tighten the purse strings and therefore torpedo his plan for us. Fair enough it’s their money and there was talk of him getting a bit lose with it but we could have been Leicester. We were certainly tracking to be an outside but credible shot for the title. Will always fuck me off that Leicester pulled it off basically copying us. Ok they had the ridiculous luck with their squad staying fit and towards the end the refs and media wishing them home but I believe they admitted as much that they copied our blueprint. They just had the balls to see it through. We got les Reed and shit the bed. If you want to talk about a wannabe dictator how about that nob? Can picture him reading a paper about Cortese and saying wait to they get a load of me.

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pimpin4rizeal

pimpin4rizeal

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3 hours ago, Badger said:

From what I remember from the time Cortese wasn’t sacked or kicked out. But he wouldn’t stay with Katherina Liebherr and her team overseeing the club, and its finances. Why ?

I agree about our improvement under him, but shame he wasn’t prepared to remain and work with KL and her team. 
 

Interesting he hasn’t appeared at another club in the last 12 years. 

Tbh is it that rare for chairman’s or CEO’s not to appear at another club ?  He was liebherrs man and Marcus pretty much left him to run it as he wanted. Such a shame really Marcus had to die as cortese was doing everything right  kat just wanted her asset back really never really had any intention to do anything with it 

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Dark Munster

Dark Munster

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On 06/01/2026 at 12:40, Badger said:

 

Not sure Cortese would want to return with Dragan overseeing the club. 

If Cortese did return I know Rasmus would be his first order of business.

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the colonel

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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. 

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Turkish

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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 

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Noodles34

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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. 

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LGTL

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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. 

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Lord Duckhunter

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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…

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Wurzel

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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

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sadoldgit

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 😂

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Lord Duckhunter

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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. 

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Turkish

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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. 

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Saint Gifford

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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……

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Lord Duckhunter

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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 “…. 

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pimpin4rizeal

pimpin4rizeal

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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 

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Lord Duckhunter

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3 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

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 

We’d have probably gone bankrupt. He’s a short arsed Peter Risdale. 
 

If you think players & managers would have turned down Liverpool, Utd, Spurs and Arsenal to stay under a Cortese inspired Southampton, you’re deluded. Leicester won the league and couldn’t keep anyone except Vardy. The rebuilding job that Kat, Les Reed & Koeman did after Cortese left was remarkable. His “foundations” all fucked off. 
 

Amazing how a guy who would have taken us so far, and did so well hasn’t been snapped up by another club isn’t it? 

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pimpin4rizeal

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1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

We’d have probably gone bankrupt. He’s a short arsed Peter Risdale. 
 

If you think players & managers would have turned down Liverpool, Utd, Spurs and Arsenal to stay under a Cortese inspired Southampton, you’re deluded. Leicester won the league and couldn’t keep anyone except Vardy. The rebuilding job that Kat, Les Reed & Koeman did after Cortese left was remarkable. His “foundations” all fucked off. 
 

Amazing how a guy who would have taken us so far, and did so well hasn’t been snapped up by another club isn’t it? 

His foundations hadn’t fucked off though, Mitchell I’m pretty sure was behind the mane and vvd signings, reed himself was a cortese guy too not to mention a ton of the players like fonte wanyama and majority who had been here a long time.

kats man was Krueger and it’s pretty laughable if you think he was better. Yes we did replace well at the time but it’s at least partly due to what cortese left behind even idiots like kat and Krueger don’t destroy that instantly

regarding poch https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/22552344

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trousers

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Just pondering, as one does...

Did Cortese's pros outweigh his cons?

I can't help feeling that over the last few weeks we were crying out for someone who could've given Gibson a good run for his money in the 'bastard' stakes... 

He's surely got to have been a better helmsman than what we've got now? (Yes, low bar I know, but...)

Pull my thoughts to bits in...3...2...1.... Go! :)

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Osvaldorama

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10 minutes ago, trousers said:

Just pondering, as one does...

Did Cortese's pros outweigh his cons?

I can't help feeling that over the last few weeks we were crying out for someone who could've given Gibson a good run for his money in the 'bastard' stakes... 

He's surely got to have been a better helmsman than what we've got now? (Yes, low bar I know, but...)

Pull my thoughts to bits in...3...2...1.... Go! :)


Yes. Absolutely. 
 

This lot are soft and inept and ill equipped to run a business in such a cut throat industry 

Saint86

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1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:


Yes. Absolutely. 
 

This lot are soft and inept and ill equipped to run a business in such a cut throat industry 

You only have to look at the club trajectory under Cortese and after Cortese. He saw us to back to back promotions and a Wembley final win in the 3 seasons post his arrival. He bought in Poch, and the squad, coaching, and scouting setup he oversaw gave us the momentum in the following years to break into the top 8 and europe. He spent other people's money is the most common criticism levelled at him re the football club... all i can say is that can you imagine where we'd have been if he'd been spending Solak's money...

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Noodles34

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10 hours ago, benjii said:

I was trying to remember why he banned newspapers. Can anyone remember?

He knew that the tinternet was the future. 

SaintsLoyal

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3 minutes ago, Deanovski said:

Weird take. Would have cortese back in a heartbeat 

why ? he did nothing apart from show he was an obnoxious scumbag, i suggest speaking to benali and many other staff that had to put up with him.

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Gloucester Saint

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10 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Jeez we must be in a bad place to see Cortese crop up again.

Les Reed put a good framework in place before he went mad, ousted Ronald and though he had re-invented football. That’s why Cortese’s behaviour wasn’t an issue on the pitch, but was costly on the Staplewood renovation project which is why Kat removed him. 

That framework is missing with SR and needs to return, hence why a senior football consultant on a few hours a week would be essential if SR are permitted to carry on as owners by the FA and EFL.

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Deanovski

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5 minutes ago, SaintsLoyal said:

why ? he did nothing apart from show he was an obnoxious scumbag, i suggest speaking to benali and many other staff that had to put up with him.

Cool. Were we successful?

Paulwantsapint81

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Cortese would have signed off on the spying but then sent the hotel & travel expenses to Gibson while getting proper mafia style legal representation 

 

He was an absolute arsehole but he was our absolute arsehole

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Mboto Gorge

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On 21/05/2026 at 10:09, Osvaldorama said:


Yes. Absolutely. 
 

This lot are soft and inept and ill equipped to run a business in such a cut throat industry 

Even Lowe was  a far better businessman and chairman than these fucking clowns 

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Turkish

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On 21/05/2026 at 12:05, benjii said:

I was trying to remember why he banned newspapers. Can anyone remember?

He wanted the media to buy photos produced by SFC rather than use their own they had taken. He also got the hump with some criticism in the papers. He made himself looks right cock as they started to refer to us as South Coast club and had to grovel back to them. 

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bpsaint

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9 minutes ago, Turkish said:

He wanted the media to buy photos produced by SFC rather than use their own they had taken. He also got the hump with some criticism in the papers. He made himself looks right cock as they started to refer to us as South Coast club and had to grovel back to them. 

My favourite stories of little Nicky both came from you I think.

One that his little teaspoon that he treasured went missing, and he had loads of staff turning the boardrooms upside down looking for it.

The second was that he had he own private toilet installed up in the offices and some poor bloke used it without NikNaks approval and felt the little man’s full wrath.

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Turkish

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14 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

My favourite stories of little Nicky both came from you I think.

One that his little teaspoon that he treasured went missing, and he had loads of staff turning the boardrooms upside down looking for it.

The second was that he had he own private toilet installed up in the offices and some poor bloke used it without NikNaks approval and felt the little man’s full wrath.

He took people off this day jobs to search for his missing spoon some quite funny stuff on twitter at the time see below 

So many stories the guy was an unhinged narcissist. Could be charming and funny one minute and a complete bellend the next. Getting himself banned from the Corriander Lounge was a good story too 

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Turkish

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18 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Cortese's ruthlessness was on another level... 

 

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He needed to be more ruthless with his stylist that jacket is vile 

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