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Redmond is English, and is an attacker, two massive premiums.

Let's not pretend Howe is some pillar of loyalty, he jumped ship and failed and was incredibly lucky that Bournemouth were willing to give him a second chance and he has it about as comfortable as it can get. If I was him I wouldn't be leaving there in a hurry.

I'm not very excited by the prospect of signing Nathan Redmond, never have been, but come on lads £11million really isn't a lot of money anymore. Ross McCormack cost Fulham £11million. Having said that, offered the chance I wouldn't have signed Long or Bertrand either and they've both turned out to be absolutely fantastic, so hopefully this is the same if it happens.

I actually quite like that haha. Away kits should be reserved for the horrific I think, the more garish the better in my opinion.

Hodgson has been mentioned so thankfully that rules him out. Joachim Löw?

I'm willing to be underwhelmed if it is in the form of a manager that I don't know much about. Moyes/Howe would be disappointingly underwhelming.

Home kit is beautiful and surely achievable. Love the away kit but can't imagine we'd have anything like that, sadly.

And having sold Hummels, Gundogan and by the looks of it Aubameyang, I guess it's his chance to now make that team his own. We can dream though.

Please don't say stuff like this, I can't have my hopes raised that high it's not good for health

As has been mentioned, very strange for the Echo to mention this Pereira guy given that it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere and he's not on the odds list, perhaps a hint on behalf of the club?

I presume that means that's because we want them to be then rather than due to a lack of interest on their part? Interesting.

Sounds like the exact job description for a Saints manager!

I'm surprised you can even spell FFP coming from where you do.

He has done a great job at Bournemouth, but he didn't at Burnley. They also aren't the minnows that everyone makes them out to be they have spent a fair bit on their way up. A Bournemouth supporting friend of mine says he has too much loyalty to some players (Grabban as an example). He might be a great manager and may prove that elsewhere one day, but plenty of managers 'click' with a particular club and can't replicate it elsewhere. Curbishley and Charlton off the top of my head.

You are actually mental. Stones over Van Dijk? Get your head out the papers and watch a game or two.

No one cares

I hope Ron gets a good reception when he returns, afterall who wouldn't want to manage the first club to install under soil heating and dugouts? :lol: :lol: :lol: surely one of the greatest ever posts on this forum and it didn't even come from one of us!! Oh whoops, maybe they'll add that accolade onto their long list of achievements too

I'm struggling to decide whether Ron is brave or cowardly. Is he brave because he's risking a great reputation that he has recently built himself in order to take on a challenge of making a really ****, ageing squad better whereas if he had sat tight he may have had a big club calling, so his career really depends on how this job goes you'd imagine. Or is he cowardly because he thinks he can't get us any higher than 6th and it'll be a lot easier to take the 12th place team higher up the table (even if only by a place or two) than it would be the 6th placed team, whereas taking us backwards may have made his stock lower. Interesting to see how it goes, but two things I do know after this affair is that Everton are really, really annoying, and that I hate Merseyside as a whole, not just Liverpool. Exciting summer for us ahead though, under Poch we really never knew for sure where we would head, now we've been there before and we're a far more attractive proposition you'd like to think this time round it's going to be good fun.

Does anyone know what this magical 'ambition' actually is? What is the ambition of Everton? no one ever follows on from just saying 'ambition'. Is making the manager of the 6th placed team in the Premier League, the 6th highest paid manager in the world ambition? or just stupid?. A real big club would've gotten a real big club manager.

To be fair Chelsea's kit this year is quite different, very old school with the lion all over in, but Liverpool's has been virtually identical every season.

1 league title, 2 league cup's and a Champions League semi final at City (yes I know they had the resources to possibly do more but it wasn't a failure). But I look more at getting to a CL quarter final with Malaga after selling a lot of their best players amid financial crisis (which he decided to stay through) and only losing to Dortmund who went on to reach the final and if I remember rightly there was some controversial decisions that lead to them going out that night. He's not amazing, but he's very good, and has a CV way beyond most of what we've appointed in the past, so the dismissing of Pellegrini on here is surprising! But I do accept that his age may be a factor in why the club don't want him, just don't think it should mean that us as fans don't!

BREAKING NEWS: Update from Sky Sports News LIVE from Goodison Park and St Mary's: "It might be today, but probably will be tomorrow, we know absolutely f*ck all" Seriously bored of Sky. As for "we spoke to some Southampton fans on the street, here's what they had to say: "money talks, that's all he's going for", "yeah it's disappointing because he said he'd stay but we've rebuilt once we'll do it again", "don't know why he's going when he's built this team to be on the brink of something special but [cut off whatever he was going to say next]" and then shoot back to presenter in the studio "ooh they're not happy!" - Three fairly ambivalent reactions suggesting we're not that devastated but they still try and drum it up to be another crisis for us. **** off.

Simeone it is then

I know it sounds stupid because we were relegated and therefore lower than them for about 8 years, but obviously a large chunk of the Premier League era we spent outside it so in terms of seasons we've spent competing in the same league as Everton we have finished above them almost as often as they have us in the Premier League era (like I said, I'm talking about directly competing in the same league). Strange bunch, honestly didn't register on my radar until a couple of weeks back, now they're making Liverpool look almost likeable, almost...

For me too!! And I have absolutely no idea why, I don't even know that much about the guy but it just seems uninspiring for no apparent reason, strange.