Galapagos Saint Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 Saints, scouts and Cortese are defo doing something right...if you look at the players we have signed or almost signed since the summer: Buttner: Terms agreed with Saints, then a-GREED with United at 11th hour Michu: Heavily linked with Saints well before anyone else (we missed a trick there) Gaston: Beat Spurs and Liverpool to his signature Clyne: All the "big" clubs courting him...chose Saints Forren: On trial at Liverpool, targeted by Everton, 11th hour signing for Saints Coutinho: About to sign for Saints(?) over Liverpool All this points to highly successful scouting network, a confident chairman and a massive leap in our profile that in the transfer market we are competing with (and beating!) the "big" clubs. Brendan Rodgers must be hating us right now, but I'd say our upward curve has crossed over Liverpools downward spiral and we are now a more enticing prospect to potential signings. After decades (90s & 00s) of selling off the family jewels, scraping the bargain basement, signing has-beens and obscure foreigners we are now entering a phase, more like the early 80s, of a high-profile, high-ambition football club. Very exciting indeed Combine all this with the best youth academy in the land and a fantasic training system and facilites (Rickie. Spider, Cork, Fonte all converted from good League One players into excellent Premier League players) and I would say THE FUTURE'S BRIGHT...THE FUTURE'S RED AND WHITE (PINSTRIPES) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stug76 Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 It's happening!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 I heard today that one of the main reasons for Adkins' dismissal was because bigger players didn't want to come play for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 I heard today that one of the main reasons for Adkins' dismissal was because bigger players didn't want to come play for him. Not surprised tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughnutman Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 Don't forget there's also been links to the likes of Thomas Ince and Wilfried Zaha as wel who are both now being tracked by the likes of United and Liverpool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharktopus Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 The title reminded me of Ian Holloway's famous quote following a scrappy win against Chesterfield... "To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee" To adapt, basically we want to be signing the fit birds and not the uggo's. In this world, Gaston Ramirez would be an A-list Hollywood celeb, perhaps a Jennifer Lawrence from Hunger Games, young up and coming etc blah blah. Whereas players like Tommy Forecast for instance would be the equivalent of an extra in Corrie who buys a paper from Norris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 Saints, scouts and Cortese are defo doing something right...if you look at the players we have signed or almost signed since the summer: Buttner: Terms agreed with Saints, then a-GREED with United at 11th hour Michu: Heavily linked with Saints well before anyone else (we missed a trick there) Gaston: Beat Spurs and Liverpool to his signature Clyne: All the "big" clubs courting him...chose Saints Forren: On trial at Liverpool, targeted by Everton, 11th hour signing for Saints Coutinho: About to sign for Saints(?) over Liverpool All this points to highly successful scouting network, a confident chairman and a massive leap in our profile that in the transfer market we are competing with (and beating!) the "big" clubs. Brendan Rodgers must be hating us right now, but I'd say our upward curve has crossed over Liverpools downward spiral and we are now a more enticing prospect to potential signings. After decades (90s & 00s) of selling off the family jewels, scraping the bargain basement, signing has-beens and obscure foreigners we are now entering a phase, more like the early 80s, of a high-profile, high-ambition football club. Very exciting indeed Combine all this with the best youth academy in the land and a fantasic training system and facilites (Rickie. Spider, Cork, Fonte all converted from good League One players into excellent Premier League players) and I would say THE FUTURE'S BRIGHT...THE FUTURE'S RED AND WHITE (PINSTRIPES) Yup, thanks for that Jordan/Tom But of course you are right. After all, it was all in NC's business plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 We were never actually interested in Michu, was agent talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trader Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 I heard today that one of the main reasons for Adkins' dismissal was because bigger players didn't want to come play for him. Like Coutinho? He obviously doesn't want to play for Pochettino again either. So that didn't work then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 26 January, 2013 Share Posted 26 January, 2013 Players will play anywhere if you pay them enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 It seems that some of the fans have fallen for Cortese's smoke and mirrors already. There is absolutely no evidence - as yet - to suggest that MP has all the connections and a flood of top class internationals will come to Saints. We are still a relatively small club and it will be very difficult to get the likes of the Brazilian lad to join if clubs like Liverpool want him. The propaganda machine seems to be working, and I, for one, would like to wait and see. Using the "bird" analogy, MP is an exotic Swedish girl one has met on holiday. Her long blonde hair, blue eyes, and lovely figure are much more captivating than the heavily tattooed, fat, control freak girlfriend back at home. But can she cook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 It seems that some of the fans have fallen for Cortese's smoke and mirrors already. There is absolutely no evidence - as yet - to suggest that MP has all the connections and a flood of top class internationals will come to Saints. We are still a relatively small club and it will be very difficult to get the likes of the Brazilian lad to join if clubs like Liverpool want him. The propaganda machine seems to be working, and I, for one, would like to wait and see. Using the "bird" analogy, MP is an exotic Swedish girl one has met on holiday. Her long blonde hair, blue eyes, and lovely figure are much more captivating than the heavily tattooed, fat, control freak girlfriend back at home. But can she cook? Nope, no evidence at all on Mo Po http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4764653/Mauricio-Pochettinos-biggest-fear-That-Sir-Alex-will-hate-his-wine.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 We were never actually interested in Michu, was agent talk.[/QUOTE] right Dibden, a typical ruse by agents is to name drop a few other clubs, and try to push the deal to an early conclusion with the favourite..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 (edited) Nope, no evidence at all on Mo Po http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4764653/Mauricio-Pochettinos-biggest-fear-That-Sir-Alex-will-hate-his-wine.html from all I've read.....it seems that MP has some sort of star-status amongst fans, players and media types in Spain.....despite having struggled with the penniless Espanyol club for several years. Its no surprise that few people in England have heard of him, as most Brits' experience of Spain is a two week sun-holiday, and watching Barca and Real on the box. Of course he's "unknown " to most of us , but it doesn't mean he's without talent just because of that. Wednesday will be a real test for his new tactics. Time will tell but he may be more of a revelation than even Cortese imagines...? Edited 27 January, 2013 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 Like Coutinho? He obviously doesn't want to play for Pochettino again either. So that didn't work then. Ah, so that was the reason.... until last Friday Coutinho was going to sign for SFC until he heard about the manager change. His decision had nothing to do with Liverpool's league position, current team building, record of trophy wins, possibility of European football next season....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swannymere Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 Saints, scouts and Cortese are defo doing something right...if you look at the players we have signed or almost signed since the summer: Michu: Heavily linked with Saints well before anyone else (we missed a trick there) No trick missed at all, he already had a working relationship with Laudrup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 I heard today that one of the main reasons for Adkins' dismissal was because bigger players didn't want to come play for him. Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli Posted 27 January, 2013 Share Posted 27 January, 2013 Ah, so that was the reason.... until last Friday Coutinho was going to sign for SFC until he heard about the manager change. His decision had nothing to do with Liverpool's league position, current team building, record of trophy wins, possibility of European football next season....... On twitter it's alleged that we were interested in the summer before we signed Ramirez and that recent connections to saints we just the vendors efforts to enter a bidding war. Very little point debating this 2 weeks into his tenure tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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