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He's fucked us here. How he's defended our club is almost as bad as our defending in our last PL season, maybe worse.

Hes got to go for the top end of the football to gain any respect at all for me. If they don't then not only do theyfuck everything up, they also are ok with cheating and have no morals.

Ahah.

I expect (hope) he is done by CoP tomorrow, and today was all about due diligence and legal bits.

Fell into a trap, hook.line.and.sinker.

You reckon the players are going to want to play for the guy that robbed some of them of their dream of playing in the Premier League? After nearly all of the hard work had been done? I’ve had this argument on and off throughout the day with people but must be living in an alternative universe. Are there still fans advocating for Tonda to be manager next season? Even after this final damning report of him bullying an intern into spying despite claiming he didn’t know it was against the rules? Like the gross misconduct and bringing the club into disrepute charges weren’t enough 🤯 His job is more untenable than it was an hour ago.

Yeah, he's going to get banned and he's going to get sacked. There's no point going on about how we suffer from being the "honest club" when we've just been hammered with the biggest punishment in British football history. There you go, we got a massive bollocking, we're not the nice club anymore we're the naughty club. Fucking great. Go us. Either way, sending young interns off to spy on the opposition when we had easily a top 3 squad in the division was fucking stupidity. So Tonda can get fucked for that. Not dishonesty, just stupidity.

The fact Tonda hasn’t been sacked yet says everything you need to know about the club and how it’s run Anyone with half a brain cell would have got rid by now before those submissions were made public

I think they went for the clowns rather than the juggler....

I support two teams, Saints and England. Both have (had?) German managers. This week Tonda has had the whole Spygate thing, and Tuchel is naming an England squad with Jordan Henderson in it in the year 2026. Can we sue the EU for blatant acts of sabotage?

Parsons should be clearing his desk too. Totally failed to defend the club adequately and kept stepping on rakes while we were under investigation

Go now, you out-of-depth, slithery, cucky hoover-botherer.

The bloke is incompetent with reading all that and what else transpired. Solak must be thinking what the hell is going on with this Club.

Its the generation for your now mate, he'll probably sue us for damaging his mental health, take a year off and get a big pay out. No minerals

I get what you mean, he’s a top coach. But are we going to stick with him, and then he gets banned by the FA in a month or two and then we’re stuck without a manager or a plan when the season is starting? We’re still one of the wealthiest teams in the league. We can attract a good manager.

Because many of us suspect that there is much more to our intern turning up at Boro than has been revealed. Agree we have behaved like rank amateurs but there are strands of this that leave a lot of questions unanswered.

He won’t have a choice, the leaks are emerging and corporate wagons circling. Will be gone by lunchtime tomorrow on gardening leave.

More from the Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7298364/2026/05/21/tonda-eckert-southampton-spygate/?source=user_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.PaAH.ixqdfFaGhEJB

Is he gone yet?

Yes, sorry!

There are so many holes in this, even a college defence could have pulled this apart. WTF have we been doing?

I think he’s a brilliant manager but shit will stick. It’s obvious this whole debacle was endorsed by Tonda/ spors/ analysts. “Oh but he didn’t think it was illegal in the uk” what bollocks 😆. Oh sorry I didn’t realise I couldn’t sell my child, it’s legal in Afghanistan though! Clear them out and restructure. Also, I don’t know about the rest of the saints fans but I don’t feel particularly proud of the fact my club allowed this to happen. Not sacking them sends the message we don’t care.

Yep, and fund the new manager right up to the last penny of what PSR allows. If Solak is serious about making a go out of this shambles and regaining any respect, he needs to dig very deep in his pockets or sell up. He dodged responsibility when this came to light just like he always does. Parsons has been pathetically naive and weak, but Dragan should have flown straight in having hatched a plan with the HR, Legal Directors and employed a top tier sports legal firm before Gibson even got up and running. That moronic conversation doesn’t even happen in the first leg.

Sounds as if he didn’t grasp the seriousness of the offence, and thought an all too matey confession and saying ‘sorry’to Middlesbrough and all would be okay, albeit with a fine. Unfortunately he probably flagged up how feeble the clubs response would be. To the point that Middlesbrough saw the green light to go for the jugular.