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Lovely stadium. Huge fan base. Just goes to show, only money counts in football these days. Saints are small time in so many ways compared to teams like Ajax, but in the ways that count these days (Money...) we are so much better off. Kinda' wrong, really.

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That's what I was thinking, pretty certain his an Athletico player.

 

Only went to Atletico last season (from Ajax) and missed his official goodbye then. Presumably decided to double up with Blind's

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Toby left Ajax for Atletico and hadn't had a chance to go back, seemingly.

 

Dutch clubs like a good send-off, so they invited him back because he had a great record with them.

 

Obviously with him now being sidelined, he could go there and it was fine with both TA and SFC.

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Played for them 128 times, be a bit like us doing it for Steven Davis. OTT if you ask me.

 

Well, from what they posted on their Twitter account, explaining why they were thanking him - they said he played 186 times.

 

They've listed the following honours too...

 

3 league titles

1 Dutch cup

1 Johan Cruyff Cup - (community shield)

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I think one of the reasons he came to SMS was that he wasn't playing for Athletico .....(or not often enough anyway).

 

It sounded to me like he was persuaded that he would like playing for Ronald Koeman too.

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Played for them 128 times, be a bit like us doing it for Steven Davis. OTT if you ask me.

 

He also came through their youth system didn't he? Would be a bit like us doing it for Shaw if he'd played a couple more seasons and won a few trophies.

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Played for them 128 times, be a bit like us doing it for Steven Davis. OTT if you ask me.

 

I would say he deserved it too. Great player. All he ever does for Saints is get stuck in.

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Not strictly Saints-related, this past weekend Toby went back to Amsterdam for his 'official farewell' from Ajax.

 

Classy stuff, nicely done.

 

 

Can't imagine us doing this for any of our ex players - we'll still be sulking about them leaving several years on! Can you imagine if we gave Adam Lallana an official farewell?! It's really nice they do this though.

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