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Lot of talk of Koeman seeing out his contract, should we be trying to tie him down to a new improved and longer term contract!?

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I would be surprised if he stayed any longer than his contract of 3 seasons. I imagine the two factors that would be in the mix on that front are the Barca and dutch jobs being available. Holland would be already in WC qualifiers in 2017, so it slightly shifts towards Barcelona and wether Enrique stays around. I think to improve chances of him staying longer we cant afford to lose anymore top players before the 16/17 season.

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  pluto said:
I would be surprised if he stayed any longer than his contract of 3 seasons. I imagine the two factors that would be in the mix on that front are the Barca and dutch jobs being available. Holland would be already in WC qualifiers in 2017, so it slightly shifts towards Barcelona and wether Enrique stays around. I think to improve chances of him staying longer we cant afford to lose anymore top players before the 16/17 season.

Pretty much this. Think he is an honourable guy and will see out three years, but I don't expect more given the average tenure of a PL manager. Like Swansea, the structure of our club is built to cope when he leaves and the continuity of backroom staff and our football philosophy is what ultimately provides the stability. I think Eddie Howe will be our next manager personally.

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I think Koeman is a decent guy who will see out his Saints deal and move on. Seems well suited to the Prem, and would not be surprised to see him stay in England and manage the likes of Liverpool or Spurs.

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I'd still like to see him at least offered a new contract, Let's him know he's valued, shows that "Ambition" we all crave and also if a big club does want him we won't be seeing him walk away for free ! People were moaning about us letting our players run their contracts down but seem consigned to let it happen with one of the best managers we've had?

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  simo said:
Lot of talk of Koeman seeing out his contract, should we be trying to tie him down to a new improved and longer term contract!?

 

Not a cat in hell's chance of Ron extending his contract IMHO

 

He won't want to stay at a mediocre mid table Prem team, only geared to being a Feeder Club to the Big Boys. SFC has very limited AMBITION, or can't anyone see that yet ?

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  simo said:
Lot of talk of Koeman seeing out his contract, should we be trying to tie him down to a new improved and longer term contract!?

Perhaps it would be better to see how we get on this coming season before we try to extend his contract. Giving him an extra year or years before we know how he will cope with second season syndrome would be foolish. In any case, a PL manager lasting 3 seasons is almost unheard of unless its Mr Grumpy Wenger.

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Two things:

 

1. Koeman is an "honourable guy" if he were to see out his contract yet we complain about players doing the same.

 

2. Ferguson once let it be known that he was retiring and performances suffered.

 

This will be a difficult one for the club to manage.

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Too late. He just realised that pre-season is the be all and end all of football, and decided to quit after the final whistle.

 

The club were hopeful of keeping him, but it turned out that RK was just stringing along Les Reed during the twelve seconds of Injury time.

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  Guan 2.0 said:
Too late. He just realised that pre-season is the be all and end all of football, and decided to quit after the final whistle.

 

The club were hopeful of keeping him, but it turned out that RK was just stringing along Les Reed during the twelve seconds of Injury time.

 

Jesus, long time no see.

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  SaintRichmond said:
Not a cat in hell's chance of Ron extending his contract IMHO

 

He won't want to stay at a mediocre mid table Prem team, only geared to being a Feeder Club to the Big Boys. SFC has very limited AMBITION, or can't anyone see that yet ?

I think everyone can see you are a swivel eyed idiot.

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  SaintRichmond said:
Not a cat in hell's chance of Ron extending his contract IMHO

 

He won't want to stay at a mediocre mid table Prem team, only geared to being a Feeder Club to the Big Boys. SFC has very limited AMBITION, or can't anyone see that yet ?

 

We all know that you can't see it, but please don't try and speak for the board, as I very much doubt that you really have much idea of how they think.

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When has Koeman ever stayed beyond 3 years? He's in the process of using our club and handing out favors to second rate Dutch players and old cronies. This is not a manager like Pochettino who's building for the future. If we sign the likes of Vaar I know which team I'll be supporting this season. Same old Pelle and Tadic and I won't be sitting around while Koeman keeps playing them both the entire season.

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  ART said:
When has Koeman ever stayed beyond 3 years? He's in the process of using our club and handing out favors to second rate Dutch players and old cronies. This is not a manager like Pochettino who's building for the future. If we sign the likes of Vaar I know which team I'll be supporting this season. Same old Pelle and Tadic and I won't be sitting around while Koeman keeps playing them both the entire season.

 

Yeah, building so much for the future that he was checking out other clubs in his last 6 months. If that isn't building for the future, I don't know what is.

 

Enjoy supporting Arsenal/Man Utd next season, they're welcome to your looney tunes rants.

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  ART said:
When has Koeman ever stayed beyond 3 years? He's in the process of using our club and handing out favors to second rate Dutch players and old cronies. This is not a manager like Pochettino who's building for the future. If we sign the likes of Vaar I know which team I'll be supporting this season. Same old Pelle and Tadic and I won't be sitting around while Koeman keeps playing them both the entire season.

Box of frogs.

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  ART said:
When has Koeman ever stayed beyond 3 years? He's in the process of using our club and handing out favors to second rate Dutch players and old cronies. This is not a manager like Pochettino who's building for the future. If we sign the likes of Vaar I know which team I'll be supporting this season. Same old Pelle and Tadic and I won't be sitting around while Koeman keeps playing them both the entire season.

 

He was building his own future.

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  Fan The Flames said:
So not nailing down RK is the new stick to beat the club with, what is wrong with you guys.

 

To be fair, if the club announced a one year extension of his contract, it would be a disaster because we are on the hook for way too much additional money if it doesn't work out or because it is too short an extension. I have no idea which way it would go.

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  pluto said:
I would be surprised if he stayed any longer than his contract of 3 seasons. I imagine the two factors that would be in the mix on that front are the Barca and dutch jobs being available. Holland would be already in WC qualifiers in 2017, so it slightly shifts towards Barcelona and wether Enrique stays around. I think to improve chances of him staying longer we cant afford to lose anymore top players before the 16/17 season.

 

I agree about the emphasis on Barcelona but if this does not appear likely to be availavble in 2017 then I suspect he might extend to 2018 as there is always a major managerial shuffle after the World Cup. You never know people might even be clamouring for him to weplace Woy, if he lasts that long (not that I expect RK to be interested in the job).

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  SaintRichmond said:
Not a cat in hell's chance of Ron extending his contract IMHO

 

He won't want to stay at a mediocre mid table Prem team, only geared to being a Feeder Club to the Big Boys. SFC has very limited AMBITION, or can't anyone see that yet ?

 

And you are a Saints supporter? :lol:

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  SaintRichmond said:
Not a cat in hell's chance of Ron extending his contract IMHO

 

He won't want to stay at a mediocre mid table Prem team, only geared to being a Feeder Club to the Big Boys. SFC has very limited AMBITION, or can't anyone see that yet ?

 

Why do you always capitalise AMBITION?

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  norwaysaint said:
Is it right that, if Koeman finishes this season with us, he'll be the first saints manager to complete two seasons with us since Dave Jones?

Sounds about right. Amazing even Nigel didn't complete two seasons start to finish.

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  norwaysaint said:
Is it right that, if Koeman finishes this season with us, he'll be the first saints manager to complete two seasons with us since Dave Jones?

and before that it was Branf**t. Not always a good thing.

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