Sportsnet590 interview with Ralph Krueger

[Smirking_Saint]

  Avenue Saint said:

How does it make you feel that the majority of this forum think you are an idiot?

 

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He loves it

[trousers]

  Goatboy said:

Are you ok?

 

Will be a good post for him to refer back to when back in 'normal' mode...

[CB Fry]

  Toon Saint said:

Doubt it. He was interviewed for Chairman position but obviously didn't get the job. Seems strange that he would then be offered the lesser (though obviously still v. important) position as director of football.

 

He doesn't have any experience/expertise in that role either - not that that has been an issue for us in the past - but RK's interview does seem to suggest that whoever is appointed will be a 'football expert'.

 

Was he interviewed? Do we know this for sure?

[Andy Durman]

  Window Cleaner said:

Perhaps that's why Hodgson is at most of our games of late. Jack in the England job after the WC, sporting director at Saints.

 

I like your thinking, but isn't he a dinosaur in modern football?

[Toon Saint]

  CB Fry said:

Was he interviewed? Do we know this for sure?

 

Well for chief executive position anyway:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/22/southampton-appoint-gareth-rogers-interim-chief-executive-nicola-cortese

Edited 18 March, 2014 by Toon Saint

[Window Cleaner]

  Andy Durman said:

I like your thinking, but isn't he a dinosaur in modern football?

 

 

I don't know, he certain has tremendous experience and expertise, been on loads of UEFA and FIFA commissions and seems to go to a lot of our games just now 2+2=7 no doubt.

[Toon Saint]

plop

[Charlie Wayman]

We seem to have got ourselves one hell of a guy here, with his background and CV you have to wonder why he's settled for a football club, why not Chairman of a Footsie Blue Chip?

[david in sweden]

  Window Cleaner said:

Anyway rare would be the case where a 65 year old and a 54 year old went to the same school at the same time, unless it was one of these complete schools where pupils range from 5 to 19 or so.

 

 

I looked at this too, but it may have been used as an allegory. My take on this is : I've heard this type of comment myself in speeches and presentations.

 

Not that they physically attended the same " school " at the same time, but that they both had careers that followed a similar pattern and had similar experiences (although in different sports)

 

and so in a way, they both understand the problems / situations.

[Badger]

  buctootim said:

Do we really need an Owner, Chairman, CEO, Director of Sport, Les Reed and Head Coach? Seems one or two posts top heavy to me.

 

Owner won't be involved in day to day running, so its the others who have to overlap.

 

Where has a high profile DoF, or DoS actually worked ? it is an area that would give concern.

[DuncanRG]

Thanks for the summary. All sounds very good - English football fans are bound to be sceptical of Director of Football types but I have faith in our guys to do things properly.

[Bucks Saint]

  Badger said:

Owner won't be involved in day to day running, so its the others who have to overlap.

 

Where has a high profile DoF, or DoS actually worked ? it is an area that would give concern.

 

Barca, Bayern?

[dubai_phil]

  Gruffalo said:

I'd be interested to know just how far he's willing to go to export 'Brand Saints' Stateside and how, in an ideal world, he sees it all panning out.

 

Has he expanded on this at all ?

 

He's going STATESIDE?

 

Krueger OUT!

 

Doesn't he know that the BIG money is in the Middle East what with Qatar & The World Cup? He should be orgainsing Friendly games against Real & Barca & Citeh over here at Barasti not nancying around 15 hours flying time away.

 

Selfish sod..............

 

 

[dubai_phil]

  Charlie Wayman said:

We seem to have got ourselves one hell of a guy here, with his background and CV you have to wonder why he's settled for a football club, why not Chairman of a Footsie Blue Chip?

 

What a damned shame we never found a guy from a different sport with a cracking track record before (and since) earlier.

 

 

Oh...........

[Lallana's Left Peg]

I do wonder where a Sporting Director fits in with the role Les Reed is fulfilling.

 

I heard somewhere that most football based departments report to Reed - medical, Academy, scouting and so on. Naturally they would then fall under the remit of the Sporting Director, in fact I am pretty sure Reed fulfils that role now. Bit weird for Krueger to talk about that role and not mention Reed.

 

Maybe I am reading too much into it. But it doesn't seem to be a role that could be distinguished from what Reed is doing now.

 

And it is also a role that will heavily influence whether or not Pochettino will want to hang around. I was hoping that him getting on with Krueger would be important but maybe it is far more important he gets on with the Sporting Director now.

[Saint J 77]

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

[Roger]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

I'm sorry how can you say that it's clear our best players will be sold? Nowhere in that interview does he say anything about that. Doom merchant.

[Roger]

He said le tiss was the best player in club history !

[moonraker]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

????? where did this come from ?????

[LostBoys]

  jasoneuelllfanclub said:

Joe Kinnear is unemployed at the moment

 

Love it

[niceandfriendly]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

The interview we are discussing didn't give off this impression at all. The only thing he said regarding our young players was this "We want to retain our young players".

[CB Fry]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

As others have said, the interview doesn't make that 'pretty clear' at all.

 

Secondly, can't actually remember a specific occasion when Cortese had 'stuck two fingers up at a the big boys'. Which player and which club, when? I don’t think we've had a formal bid from anyone, except Lambert/WHU which if we believe some reports NC was quite keen on anyway, and either way the player said no.

[Goatboy]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

:lol:

[CB Saint]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

i was wondering where Glasgow had gone.

[lifeintheslowlane]

Ahh yes as we all know it's not what he does say...but what he doesn't...and there's plenty he doesn't say for "Saint J 77".

[Glasgow_Saint]

  Saint J 77 said:

An interesting interview. Seems pretty clear we can expect to see our young players sold off as soon as they show any promise. We all pretty much suspected Luke Shaw would be off in the summer, although very disappointing its no great surprise. The question is how many other players will we lose while we wait for the building up of the commercial arm of organisation. It could take a while as there is a huge gap that needs bridging. I know this sounds a more realistic vision for Saints than the Cortese vision but I sure do miss his stubborn approach regarding selling of our talent. It felt great sticking two fingers up at the big boys when they came in to bid for our players. I just hope the sponsors the board have have lined up turn out to be one of the best deals financially the club has ever received.

 

  Roger said:

Doom merchant.

 

  moonraker said:

????? where did this come from ?????

 

  niceandfriendly said:

The interview we are discussing didn't give off this impression at all.

 

  CB Fry said:

As others have said, the interview doesn't make that 'pretty clear' at all.

 

 

  Goatboy said:

:lol:

 

  CB Saint said:

i was wondering where Glasgow had gone.

 

  lifeintheslowlane said:

Ahh yes as we all know it's not what he does say...but what he doesn't...and there's plenty he doesn't say for "Saint J 77".

 

 

 

Classic SWF gang mentality interpret comments positively, get a few “post of the day” smiley faces :) – dare to interpret comments slightly negatively and lynch mob immediately pounce and show once again…… Opinions are allowed – just make sure they are positive!!

 

#predictable

[trousers]

  Glasgow_Saint said:

Classic SWF gang mentality interpret comments positively, get a few “post of the day” smiley faces :) – dare to interpret comments slightly negatively and lynch mob immediately pounce and show once again…… Opinions are allowed – just make sure they are positive!!

 

#predictable

 

 

#textbook

[trousers]

I see that the official Saints facebook and twitter accounts have changed their avatars from the black and silver Saints badge to the standard colour version. Ralph's first move?

Edited 19 March, 2014 by trousers

[KelvinsRightGlove]

  trousers said:

I see that the official Saints facebook and twitter accounts have changed their avatars from the black and silver Saints badge to the standard colour version. Ralph's first move?

 

Does it make me a total heathen to say I quite like the mono-coloured versions?

[buctootim]

  trousers said:

I see that the official Saints facebook and twitter accounts have changed their avatars from the black and silver Saints badge to the standard colour version. Ralph's first move?

 

I thought it was quite pointed when he and KL were photographed stood next to the colour crest when Ralphy was appointed.

[buctootim]

  KelvinsRightGlove said:

Does it make me a total heathen to say I quite like the mono-coloured versions?

 

Yeah but more homo erectus than Mel Gibson.