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FarehamSaintJames

FarehamSaintJames

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4 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

That didn't happen.

He literally came out in an interview with the BBC saying the club wasn’t for sale. It was when the club was in negotiations with in his words a “reputable brand” in regards to sponsorship.

Turkish

Turkish

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1 hour ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

He literally came out in an interview with the BBC saying the club wasn’t for sale. It was when the club was in negotiations with in his words a “reputable brand” in regards to sponsorship.

That’s right it was Lotus and he fucked up the deal and we ended up without a sponsor he made out it was because we couldn’t find one worthy of us or something went scrambling to Aap3 🤣

we also lost a shirt sponsorship deal for the academy team because he tried charging ridiculous amounts 

He also fucked up the kit one year and ended up with that shit addidas template which you could buy for about £20 without the Saints badge on it 

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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16 hours ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

The other thing with Nicola Cortese was that he didn’t take any shit in the media.

A number of times there were rumours of a new takeover or the club for sale or something, and within 24 hours Nicola Cortese was out in front of a camera putting the record right.

 

I don't recall a single rumour of a takeover or "club for sale" in those years.

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franniesTache

franniesTache

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16 hours ago, Turkish said:

I cant believe that he did any of those things, he was a great guy and the club was his baby. You wouldn't do that to your baby would you.

It really was his baby, and he cared so much he took specialist advice from someone who knew all about babies called Louise Woodward 👀

Turkish

Turkish

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it's a bit of shame really that they have got so much so badly wrong from managerial appointments, transfers and off field stuff as if we still had Livremento and Lavia along with Fernandes, Dibling, THB and Ramsdale you've got the start of a really decent young team. It's shame that so many other decisions have been absolutely dreadful

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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1 hour ago, Fabrice29 said:

Do you ever post the links to where you get your info from out of interest? 

When they're from links yeah, if it's from a message no, search my posts.

 

I haven't seen Bournemouth wanting Baylee Dipepa in the media or links, so didn't post any.

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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14 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Dragan on Talksport ar 12.00 today apparently....

He seems to have a link to Jim White. Manji was reporting that he was kicking chairs around in hospitality on Saturday in frustration (Solak, not White). Be interesting to see to what extent frustration comes across or whether he’ll put a face on it. I hope they ask about the WP progress for Spores.

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Mr X

Mr X

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56 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Dragan on Talksport ar 12.00 today apparently....

The only thing we wanna hear is that the club is for sale to find more competent owners! 

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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Here are a few snippets:

- Juric is an ambitious manager, here for the longer term. He WILL be our manager next season, there is no situation where we break in the summer and the plan is to continue. Appreciates we don't have the right squad for his style and we will continue to remould so it fits him better. 

- We have had no football structure since Jason Wilcox left (no shit) and we are working on building an entirely new football department to oversee things and make us competitive.

Then the usual about how he loves the club, wants to make it work, passionate etc.

Let's see where the next 18 months lead us...

It does once again raise massive alarms around SR's flip flopping between philosophies, we've basically gone backwards to needing a team similar to the one we had under Ralph, after we've spent 18 months taking that apart to build a 'passing' team. A very confused club, it has to be said - hopefully with Dragan at the helm he can now direct his frustration into making things right, fully hands on, rather than waiting for Kraft or Rasmus to do the work.

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lambtiss

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31 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

.... we've basically gone backwards to needing a team similar to the one we had under Ralph, after we've spent 18 months taking that apart to build a 'passing' team. A very confused club, it has to be said

So, we could have just kept Ralf and given him the effin money he was crying out for to buy a quality striker, good goalkeeper and creative midfielder. 

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BranfootsLoveChild

BranfootsLoveChild

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2 hours ago, miserableoldgit said:

Dragan on Talksport ar 12.00 today apparently....

Jim White goes on as if Solak is one of his best mates. Whites a tosser anyway. So far up these peoples backsides it's laughable. 

 

miserableoldgit

miserableoldgit

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3 minutes ago, lambtiss said:

So, we could have just kept Ralf and given him the effin money he was crying out for to buy a quality striker, good goalkeeper and creative midfielder. 

I have said it before and I will say it again.....I would have a properly supported (by the board) Ralf back in a heartbeat. He was a beaten man at the end because he didn't get the proper tools that he needed to do the job.

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Dusic

Dusic

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By PL Club Owner standards it was a pretty decent interview, he comes across fairly well and didn't say anything that was too ludicrous.

He is obviously a connection of Jim White but bit of a shame to only get to hear this thoughts through something like this.

Phil Parsons as CEO has been extraordinarily quiet this season.

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West end Saints

West end Saints

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41 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Here are a few snippets:

- Juric is an ambitious manager, here for the longer term. He WILL be our manager next season, there is no situation where we break in the summer and the plan is to continue. Appreciates we don't have the right squad for his style and we will continue to remould so it fits him better. 

- We have had no football structure since Jason Wilcox left (no shit) and we are working on building an entirely new football department to oversee things and make us competitive.

Then the usual about how he loves the club, wants to make it work, passionate etc.

Let's see where the next 18 months lead us...

It does once again raise massive alarms around SR's flip flopping between philosophies, we've basically gone backwards to needing a team similar to the one we had under Ralph, after we've spent 18 months taking that apart to build a 'passing' team. A very confused club, it has to be said - hopefully with Dragan at the helm he can now direct his frustration into making things right, fully hands on, rather than waiting for Kraft or Rasmus to do the work.

I didn't pick up the backing of Juric as strongly as you did. I felt he said 18 month contract, whichever division - not there is no way he won't leave 

miserableoldgit

miserableoldgit

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11 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

I didn't pick up the backing of Juric as strongly as you did. I felt he said 18 month contract, whichever division - not there is no way he won't leave 

I wasn't mentioned, but I thought it was mentioned when IJ was employed,  that part of the contract was a "review" of the contract at the end of the season i.e. an 18 month contract with a 6 month review.

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lambtiss

lambtiss

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1 minute ago, miserableoldgit said:

I wasn't mentioned, but I thought it was mentioned when IJ was employed, there that part of the contract was a "review" of the contract at the end of the season i.e. an 18 month contract with a 6 month review.

I thought that also

ApprenticeBillionaire

ApprenticeBillionaire

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I almost wish Semmens ahd gone with Da Grosa.

There were some serious red flags with that guy, but I can't imagine it would have been anywhere near as bad as SportsRepublic have been,

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goodymatt

goodymatt

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4 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

I almost wish Semmens ahd gone with Da Grosa.

There were some serious red flags with that guy, but I can't imagine it would have been anywhere near as bad as SportsRepublic have been,

Wasn’t he the guy that destroyed Bordeaux? They are now in the French 4th tier. It really could have been much worse than having SR as owners, we could have our club leveraged with debt and never far from financial oblivion. SR aren’t the most competitive owners but we can thank Semmens for not selling to Da Grosa. Not sure he would have  even passed the fit and proper test in reality.

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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28 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

I almost wish Semmens ahd gone with Da Grosa.

There were some serious red flags with that guy, but I can't imagine it would have been anywhere near as bad as SportsRepublic have been,

No evidence to suggest Sport Republic have anything but good intentions for the club. The issue is inept recruitment which hopefully Solak taking over as chairman and Johannes Spors overseeing recruitment will resolve.

Da Grosa had red flags for good reason! Wouldn't want him anywhere near the club.

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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27 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

No evidence to suggest Sport Republic have anything but good intentions for the club. The issue is inept recruitment which hopefully Solak taking over as chairman and Johannes Spors overseeing recruitment will resolve.

Da Grosa had red flags for good reason! Wouldn't want him anywhere near the club.

Here’s an MLG post I agree with. Solak has made some horrific mistakes including putting Ankerson and Kraft in roles for top leagues they have/had no right or place being in. Hopefully the Home Office sorts out Spors permit and the club gets a new scouting team because that’s been rotten since Les Reed and Ross Wilson.

Da Grosa would have no better than Pinnacle - that was another sign MLT’s common sense radar had gone.

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SaintsLoyal

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1 hour ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

I almost wish Semmens ahd gone with Da Grosa.

There were some serious red flags with that guy, but I can't imagine it would have been anywhere near as bad as SportsRepublic have been,

Semmens didnt have much say really as Kat Liebherr and here advisor had got to know Solak in Switzerland.

Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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I think to be fair we could be a lot worse off than with SR, even though they’ve made some horrific mistakes which I think Solak has acknowledged by saying the football dept has been badly eroded (or words to that effect). Hindsight is a wonderful thing and moulding an entire club to a particular philosophy where the quality of player has not matched the aspiration, has severely failed. It’s going to take a huge investment in time and money to turn things around and we need to be prepared for that not to happen next season with an immediate promotion. The risk of course is that another failure of substantive proportions could see us dive deep into Championship relegation territory again, just like Derby are doing now. Let’s hope Spors gets on-board asap and knows what the fuck he’s doing.

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FarehamSaintJames

FarehamSaintJames

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On 27/01/2025 at 21:56, Matthew Le God said:

No evidence to suggest Sport Republic have anything but good intentions for the club. The issue is inept recruitment which hopefully Solak taking over as chairman and Johannes Spors overseeing recruitment will resolve.

Da Grosa had red flags for good reason! Wouldn't want him anywhere near the club.

As much as I would love to disagree this is pretty accurate.

Sport Republic’s problem has been quite simply arrogance in that they can rush the process and not involve footballing brains along the way.

You can’t run a football club without footballing brains running the show. 

This has then knocked on through the club with the recruitment and the structure.

This now needs to be rebuilt. Again.

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