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david in sweden

david in sweden

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I really don't know why some of you bother with Saints you obviously hate everything about us, and find it it hard on your blood pressure. The same names who have had doomsayer posts over many a subject these last few years, are once again shouting the loudest, and trying to convince all and sunder, that we should all adopt a 'chicken licken' thought process. Me personally, at 60 years old, I have seen us in good clothes and rags, but at all times, we stood tall, and will do so again. Those that don't want to play for Saints, well, let them go, same with some of you so called 'fans' (short for fanatics by the way), not liking it at the mo, then sod of and support some glory team, Saints will be better of without you.

 

 

......we're the same generation Gingeltiss, and I agree with every word. Well said.

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david in sweden

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A football team is a funny old thing to paraphrase Jimmy Greaves, one minute it is performing far better than everybody expected because the blend/chemistry between the players is top notch then for no apparent reason it can't buy a result. It's where we are, towards the end of the season after Rodriguez was injured we were basically one paced and struggling to score. Lallana now says he was watching Liverpool, he hadn't been tapped up had he? we were pretty poor at home to Liverpool, coincidence? Lambert was a good player on borrowed time but the Liverpool interest in him virtually finished him as a Saints player.

 

Shaw was a no brainer once he played for England, he was going, the offer was too good for a left back, still work in progress, for both him and the club.

Now Lovren kicking off, £25m is a good price for him good riddance. Schneiderlin may stay, I've not heard of a serious bid yet. Usual Spurs crap and Arsenal targeting Khedira as no1 allegedly. At least he has spoken to Koeman.

 

As far as I am concerned players who don't want to be part of our team will do more harm than good and would make it impossible for the team to perform at it's best. All the squad have got to want to play for us, there is no room for malingerers.

 

As far as Lovren is concerned and as Liverpool appear desperate again we should inform him not to report back and we will let him know in due course where he will be going as we are bringing in a replacement. £25m and he can join Liverpool, otherwise as things stand he has played his last game for Saints and will be loaned out unless things change drastically and he wants to play. Put the ball in his court.

 

good post Derry!

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Viking Warrior

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Excellent post derry . I enjoyed reading that

 

A football team is a funny old thing to paraphrase Jimmy Greaves, one minute it is performing far better than everybody expected because the blend/chemistry between the players is top notch then for no apparent reason it can't buy a result. It's where we are, towards the end of the season after Rodriguez was injured we were basically one paced and struggling to score. Lallana now says he was watching Liverpool, he hadn't been tapped up had he? we were pretty poor at home to Liverpool, coincidence? Lambert was a good player on borrowed time but the Liverpool interest in him virtually finished him as a Saints player. Etc etc

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david in sweden

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Excellent post derry . I enjoyed reading that

 

Lambert was a good player on borrowed time but the Liverpool interest in him virtually finished him as a Saints player. Etc etc

 

......I'm sure few of us would deny him a career end like that, PLUS we get £4 million (and the mysterious add-on's) for a 32 y.o. player who many thought to see end his playing days rotting on the subs. bench

 

A win-win situation..eh ? .

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VectisSaint

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......I'm sure few of us would deny him a career end like that, PLUS we get £4 million (and the mysterious add-on's) for a 32 y.o. player who many thought to see end his playing days rotting on the subs. bench

 

A win-win situation..eh ? .

3.5m, after the payments to the Gas and was it Macclesfield or Stockport.
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Three things where the Board have struggled are:

1. The silence. After the last game of the season when press speculation was rife about the manager and various players leaving, the club made no public announcements for at least two weeks. Fans were concerned at the time and comments were made by The Echo about the 'silence'. Bids had been received and could have been publicly rejected. The failure to state that players would not be leaving if the manager left, may be why the players, and not just the ones subject to the bids, thought the door was open for them to break their contracts.

2. The sale of Lambert. There was no reason to sell Lambert, on the contrary there was every reason to retain him while the club appointed the new manager. Selling a player just because he would like to play for a different team sent the wrong message to the football world and to the club's players.

3. Failure restate the vision of the European Football project with sufficient force. Passing comments in Les Reed's interview may have been intended to convey that message but it did not carry enough conviction to indicate the Board (of Katerina) were really determined down that line with the clear vision set by the former chairman.

The club tried to recover the position, initially with the interview by Krueger, but that failed badly. The interview was all presentation and no substance. Krueger made statements that seemed unlikely when he said them, such as implying that the club would announce the names on the manager short-list, which patently, no responsible organisation would do, and what he said about not selling key players proved not to be the club's true position.

 

Given the massive sum received from The Premier League for prize money and TV money, it is hard to believe that the club had a financial need to sell any key players. On the contrary, fans were told before any players were sold that there were already funds available to strengthen and players had been identified. Those players in the squad on long contracts could all have been required to see those contracts out. Any player refusing to do that would have damaged his own career far more than he would have damaged the club, so any threats of 'striking' could have been confronted. As we can now see, having failed to take a strong line has weakened the Board to the extent that many people no longer believe what they are told and it appears that goes for the players as well as the fans.

 

Only the Board can know what they will do now. They can fight to keep the remaining star players who want to leave and that remains an opinion now just as it always was with those who were allowed to go. Or they can clear out those who want to leave and make a fresh start. The second option isn't where many fans would have wanted us to be and it might mean a difficult season ahead, even if several new players are brought in, but it could be in the best long-term interests of the team. One proviso though, this situation must not be repeated. In future the club must make it clear that when a player signs a contract he will be held to it until such time as it is in the club's interests to let him go and then they must stick to that.

In the meantime, as well as the two signings that are being speculated on, which, early on Monday morning remain only speculation, the Board need to get a move on and sign several others to boost the squad and to do so BEFORE the season begins. Points dropped in August are not recoverable by bringing in players in September, but the people running the club will know that well enough. Hopefully.

 

Succinctly put

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Smirking_Saint

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Amazing how many people are just looking for anything they perceive to be incorrect or wrong so they can criticize the board.

Absolutely pathetic

 

Im pretty sure nobodys just looking for anything. Its not like the new board have hit the ground running, perhaps there was nothing they could do with players leaving but regardless it happened under their watch. Can you imagine the crap on here if it happened under NC ?

 

Regardless, most are just adding everything up. Ill make my mind up at the end of the window

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Im pretty sure nobodys just looking for anything. Its not like the new board have hit the ground running, perhaps there was nothing they could do with players leaving but regardless it happened under their watch. Can you imagine the crap on here if it happened under NC ?

 

Regardless, most are just adding everything up. Ill make my mind up at the end of the window

 

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sadoldgit

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Why would anyone be upset about that? Odd.

 

Odd? They seem to want to believe that he wasnt going to sign for us even though there was no evidence that he was signing for Everton. Gave them a change to whinge some more and make allegations that the Board dont know what they are doing. Ring any bells now?

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