MP Presser Tomorrow

[Minty]

@alex_crook: Pochettino indicates Tadanari Lee is available for transfer #saintsfc

[Bewildered]

IS ti really any different to what Adkins used to say?

 

yeah adkins would just give waffle about right players, improve the team, cards close to our chest etc etc and never confirmed or denied anything, though sometimes i wonder how much nige knew himself

[Turkish]

i didnt' think it was the Southampton way to comment on media speculation?

[Bewildered]

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport 2m

 

Pochettinho wouldn't be drawn on Banega, Damiao, or Osvaldo but said "they would all be really happy to come to Southampton".

[Colinjb]

@alex_crook: Pochettino indicates Tadanari Lee is available for transfer #saintsfc

 

It's clear he isn't good enough for our present ambition.... but still can't help but feel a little disappointed about Lee's time here. As much for Tadanari as for anything he could have offered had injury not interfered.

Edited 4 July, 2013 by Colinjb

[Bewildered]

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport 29s

>> #saintsfc Pochettinho continued on Banega Osvaldo & Damiao: "..but perhaps we don't have a place for all of them".

 

Seems obvious we won't be signing Banega AND wanyama, or Osvaldo AND Damiao, either or situations.

[Toon Saint]

Good stuff. Probably not a bad idea to publicly re-state our 'ambitions' in transfer market if Wanyama is wavering. Interesting quote about the club 'managing' information about good players as well as the 'timing' of the deals - perhaps a sly nod to Wanyama's sh*t stirring agents.

[Olallana]

Jim Lucas ‏@JFBLucas 5m

Good to hear from Mauricio Pochettino. Here's a teaser of something we're working on for next season... #saintsfc

 

I asked if it was Live press conferences on Saints Player....

No answer but he marked it as a favourite....

[Colinjb]

Jim Lucas ‏@JFBLucas 5m

Good to hear from Mauricio Pochettino. Here's a teaser of something we're working on for next season... #saintsfc

 

I asked if it was Live press conferences on Saints Player....

No answer but he marked it as a favourite....

 

That would be useful. Hopefully Saintsplayer will work on Apple devices (through the default browser....) next year too.

[Hatch]

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC

MP: "Right now, our main concern is preparing for pre-season. We can't think about seven or eight weeks down the line." #saintsfc

 

Shouldn't 7/8 weeks down the line be exactly what they are thinking about.

[Bewildered]

http://t.co/Zw3FdA9Xw0

 

mp on wanyama and transfer goals

[DuncanRG]

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC

MP: "Right now, our main concern is preparing for pre-season. We can't think about seven or eight weeks down the line." #saintsfc

 

Shouldn't 7/8 weeks down the line be exactly what they are thinking about.

 

It can't be top priority. Bringing in one or two players doesn't mean much if the squad you've got isn't ready to compete.

[DuncanRG]

Double post, woops

[bpsaint]

Was hoping he'd be talking in English by now....

[Bewildered]

Was hoping he'd be talking in English by now....

 

can't blame him here to be honest given the subject at hand and that anything he says will be reprinted all over the world. doubt mp would want to get his words wrong and say something that could be misconstrued then quoted repeatedly in the nationwide press.

[buctootim]

can't blame him here to be honest given the subject at hand and that anything he says will be reprinted all over the world. doubt mp would want to get his words wrong and say something that could be misconstrued then quoted repeatedly in the nationwide press.

 

I don't buy that. He been here six months. He should be using English in all Saints related dealings. If anything being new to English gives him more leeway in being reported than others managers.

[Dig Dig]

I don't buy that. He been here six months. He should be using English in all Saints related dealings. If anything being new to English gives him more leeway in being reported than others managers.

 

Does it matter?

[Toadhall Saint]

Does it matter?

 

Not to me. He will get there in the end. I mean English is such an easy language to learn after all. Feck me I'm still learning.

[Olallana]

So, some people are still stuck in the "he should talk english".....

 

He can speak latin for all I care, as long as there´s a good interpreter and he speaks a language that players understand....(which in everything in and around the team is english)

[Matthew Le God]

Press conference of just over 24 minutes is now on Saints Player...

 

http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3228560/date/20130704180600/page/0/name/Pochettino's-First-Pre-Season-Press-Conference

 

As is a roughly 6 minute interview with BBC Solent...

 

http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3228525/date/20130704172900/page/0/name/Manager:-Our-Preparations-Have-Gone-Really-Well

[buctootim]

So, some people are still stuck in the "he should talk english".....

 

He can speak latin for all I care, as long as there´s a good interpreter and he speaks a language that players understand....(which in everything in and around the team is english)

 

So you agree he should speak English then

[Olallana]

So you agree he should speak English then

 

He does with players. I probably wasn´t clear enough for you....

 

In press conferences and with media I could not care less what the language is.

[The9]

It's clear he isn't good enough for our present ambition.... but still can't help but feel a little disappointed about Lee's time here. As much for Tadanari as for anything he could have offered had injury not interfered.

 

I think his Saints days were numbered as soon as we got a Japanese player who hadn't had a couple of big injuries who could speak English and was a little more essential to the squad.

[The9]

So, some people are still stuck in the "he should talk english".....

 

He can speak latin for all I care, as long as there´s a good interpreter and he speaks a language that players understand....(which in everything in and around the team is english)

 

I think he should be speaking English in press conferences by now, I think pretty much everyone had assumed he'd be doing so when the new season began. He doesn't seem to struggle to speak it during matches, but if he's not confident speaking it in front of the media, how accurate are his instructions going to be on a match day in a pressurised time-critical environment ?

[Toon Saint]

I think he should be speaking English in press conferences by now, I think pretty much everyone had assumed he'd be doing so when the new season began. He doesn't seem to struggle to speak it during matches, but if he's not confident speaking it in front of the media, how accurate are his instructions going to be on a match day in a pressurised time-critical environment ?

 

Hardly the same is it? Issuing instructions to a group of players he works together with every day, or conversing with a group of journalists (many he is probably not familiar with) all eager for a story.

[VectisSaint]

I don't buy that. He been here six months. He should be using English in all Saints related dealings. If anything being new to English gives him more leeway in being reported than others managers.

Maybe you should stick to your native tongue, clearly isn't English from this snippet.

[Black Sea Saint]

I don't buy that. He been here six months. He should be using English in all Saints related dealings. If anything being new to English gives him more leeway in being reported than others managers.

 

I've taught English professionally for the past 8 years. You can't learn a language in 6 months.

[Dan83]

I thought there were rules about publicizing interest in players under contract at other clubs?? Aren't Saints in breach of this with today's press conference?

[Dig Dig]

I thought there were rules about publicizing interest in players under contract at other clubs?? Aren't Saints in breach of this with today's press conference?

 

Not if we have permission to talk to the players/agents.

[Dan83]

Not if we have permission to talk to the players/agents.

 

Good point.

[Pat from Poole]

I've taught English professionally for the past 8 years. You can't learn a language in 6 months.

 

Que????!!!!???

 

Seriously, I really cannot believe this. You are virtually belittling your profession.

[Turkish]

I've taught English professionally for the past 8 years. You can't learn a language in 6 months.

 

I learnt Portugese, Italian and French in 6 months mate.

[sad saints fan]

I am from Portswood and still cant understand them basset boys.

[Black Sea Saint]

Que????!!!!???

 

Seriously, I really cannot believe this. You are virtually belittling your profession.

 

Not at all. The Common European Framework for languages breaks the learning process down into 7 levels, each take around 120 hours to complete. Of course, most learners need more time at the mid levels to really master the language. In order to do a press conference in a foreign language you would need a very good level.

 

I would imagine MP is a pretty busy guy, how much time he can dedicate to learning English who knows. But let's say it's 5 hours per week, it's going to take him about three years.

[sandwichsaint]

Interesting snippet at the weekend, friend of ours is a well known TV footie person (you would know the name) and he was at Poch's pc last week.

 

He said his English hasn't really improved since last year, he said it did improve slightly over the season from when he started but where he has been away in the summer for a few weeks he lapses into his own tongue at home and hasn't been using English in the way he would 'at work' ie around the players. Said Capello was exactly the same - he could use enough English to get by on the training ground, but was never committed enough to learn the language to communicate confidently with the press. He doesn't expect Poch to be using English in the media any time soon.

 

Also says the hype around the club is real, we do have the money, we do have the ambition; he expects us to do very well this season and be in a position to sustain it.

[110_Persaint]

I learnt Portugese, Italian and French in 6 months mate.

 

BSS is 100% right. We get a lot of international students at uni and they find learning English VERY difficult. By the end of their first year can barely construct a few fluent sentences consecutively.

[Summers]

 

BSS is 100% right. We get a lot of international students at uni and they find learning English VERY difficult. By the end of their first year can barely construct a few fluent sentences consecutively.

 

"Two Snakebite's please?"

[emerson massey]

 

BSS is 100% right. We get a lot of international students at uni and they find learning English VERY difficult. By the end of their first year can barely construct a few fluent sentences consecutively.

 

English is a very difficult language to learn, we have very unique sentence structures and spellings

[buctootim]

English is a very difficult language to learn, we have very unique sentence structures and spellings

 

Correction. It is a very difficult language to learn to speak perfectly without errors. Most English people never master it either. To learn English well enough to make yourself understood, pretty easy compared to most.