Joe Shields leaving? What the hell is happening???

[stevy777_x]

Per Fabrizio Romano’s tweet

https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1580231695042609153?s=46&t=juU0eLMKN7EabElfHRbisg

 

[stevy777_x]

 

[saintrich]

That was short lived! 

[Saint Matty 76]

Thanks for spending £50m on kids from City, Joe.

[The Kraken]

🤣

There goes our recruitment strategy.

[FarehamSaintJames]

What a signing. Expect Lavia to go there next summer after our relegation then. 🤣

[FarehamSaintJames]

1 minute ago, The Kraken said:

🤣

There goes our recruitment strategy.

You mean we had one?

[The Kraken]

Just now, FarehamSaintJames said:

You mean we had one?

Well, yeah. It was mostly sign some kids he’d worked with before, granted.

[Ted Bates Statue]

Christ. One transfer window and he's had enough of us already. I thought it was bad enough when we were good and haemorrhaging staff.

Oh well. Thanks for landing that striker we desperately needed.

On the positive side, that means at least someone this side of September thinks we actually had a decent transfer window. Maybe there is hope for us after all

 

[Convict Colony]

fucks sake, unless we get a striker in exchange this is unacceptable

[Saint Garrett]

Well that’s all very strange.

[DT]

What an absolute shambles we are as a club. Utterly ludicrous. No direction, shit manager, awful team. And now no prospects

[Dorchester Saint]

What the fuck is happening at this club, who’s in charge? Are they trying to make us the laughing stock of football!? 
 

 

[hypochondriac]

Really? What a joke if so.

[DT]

Bloody Potter shitting on us now too...

[HarvSFC]

So, that’s the set-piece coach and now Shields leaving us already after joining in the summer. Doesn’t look too great from the outside looking in. Not liking the project?

I guess we could have a bit more variety on our signings again now, after a summer of raiding Man City’s youth department. 

Expect Chelsea to add ABK and Lavia to their squad in the not so distant future.

[hypochondriac]

Absolutely ridiculous. Shambles. Like a crappy B&B etc etc

[DT]

Guess they think that's the cheap way of getting Lavia rather than have any honour whatsoever. Horrible club, Chelsea.

[FarehamSaintJames]

Can I put myself forward for his job based on my gaming history? My transfer business on there has been adequate 🤣

[Maggie May]

If Chelsea have come in for him with that role, how can you blame him going for it? 

[DT]

Embarrassing. Deserve to go down.

[hypochondriac]

I'm starting to think we will be going down his year now. Lots of things falling apart at once. 

[SotonianWill]

clubs a joke at the minute, lets all have a meltdown it's happening again. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

Unless there is a mass clear out coming, but what a shambolic time for it to happen (if that is the case).

All I can say is I hope we don’t get Forest’s head of recruitment who has just been sacked… 👀

[The Kraken]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

I'm starting to think we will be going down his year now. Lots of things falling apart at once. 

Certainly doesn’t seem like a harmonious camp.

[Convict Colony]

6 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

fucks sake, unless we get a striker in exchange this is unacceptable

What if this was a secret agreement all along, chelsea knew city wouldnt let him go to chelsea so they chucked us some money to get him and funded our spending with the proviso that he joins them in the WC break.

[Miltonaggro]

Bloody hell, the Sport Republic revolution is going swimmingly.  Pochettino has clearly requested his own man, Juan Job. 

[HarvSFC]

I guess his legacy was liking that Benfica striker’s Instagram post.

[LiberalCommunist]

Hang on, why is the club being hammered for this?

Clearly he has had an offer 'too good' to turn down. He doesn't want to see if his 'buys' are good enough, he does not have the patience.

Well, I say fuck him. And if Chelsea want them next summer, lets hope we are still prem quality so we can rip them of........a little. 

 

Loads of shit to beat our club down with right now, this, I'm not so sure. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

1 minute ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Hang on, why is the club being hammered for this?

Clearly he has had an offer 'too good' to turn down. He doesn't want to see if his 'buys' are good enough, he does not have the patience.

Well, I say fuck him. And if Chelsea want them next summer, lets hope we are still prem quality so we can rip them of........a little. 

 

Loads of shit to beat our club down with right now, this, I'm not so sure. 

This. It’s a shame but if I got offered more money to go elsewhere I would. 🤷🏻‍♂️

There does seem to be a habit about people not sticking around at the club currently though.

[SuperSAINT]

Chelsea already have amazing youth recruitment. 

[Toussaint]

I’ve said it on other threads, my felling is there is conflict in the upper echelons of SFC

[Fabrice29]

1 minute ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Hang on, why is the club being hammered for this?

Clearly he has had an offer 'too good' to turn down. He doesn't want to see if his 'buys' are good enough, he does not have the patience.

Well, I say fuck him. And if Chelsea want them next summer, lets hope we are still prem quality so we can rip them of........a little. 

 

Loads of shit to beat our club down with right now, this, I'm not so sure. 

100% this. If you're blaming the club for this you're utterly nuts. The club and people making the decisions have clearly shown themselves to be capable of making good staff recruitment choices so far so let's back them to get this next one right too. 

[Weston Super Saint]

I've heard he just couldn't communicate with the manager.

[FarehamSaintJames]

The bed wetters are out on full force on Twitter now about this. The crying and whinging on there is far worse than on here. 😂

[Maggie May]

This is the likely scenario:

Chelsea were on the look out for a new director of recruitment.

They’ve pinpointed Shields who has a top reputation in England.

Shields wants to go as it’s a big role with a major Champions League club.

Both teams arrange compensation.

I highly doubt this is some player-esque situation where he’s kicked up a fuss to move away. He’s been headhunted. 

[stevy777_x]

It was reported in the summer that we had beaten Chelsea to his signature, so there is obviously something wrong.

I really hope he doesn’t turn the heads of our promising youngsters such as Ballard Doyle and Morgan that would be horrible.

[St Louis]

Bigger club, bigger salary, bigger budgets, live in London, etc..... of course he would leave us to join Chelsea. As would every other manager, coach, player we have or have ever had. It's modern day football. I'm sick of it. I wish we were back in the 80's/90's, when it was all so much more competitive and even.

The timing of their approach is annoying, but I don't blame our club for this. 

Edited 12 October, 2022 by St Louis

[whiteleySaint30]

8 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

The bed wetters are out on full force on Twitter now about this. The crying and whinging on there is far worse than on here. 😂

Bed wetters. Can't you see the club is falling apart around us at the moment or have you got your head so far up your own arse you still beleive the bull shit from their pr machine? I suggest you give yourself a shake and wake up. 

[SNSUN]

Could be beneficial for us. He'll continue signing youngsters, Chelsea traditionally don't trust youngsters, Saints reap the benefits of signing said youngsters. Masterstroke.

[sadoldgit]

3 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

This is the likely scenario:

Chelsea were on the look out for a new director of recruitment.

They’ve pinpointed Shields who has a top reputation in England.

Shields wants to go as it’s a big role with a major Champions League club.

Both teams arrange compensation.

I highly doubt this is some player-esque situation where he’s kicked up a fuss to move away. He’s been headhunted. 

Makes sense, especially since Chelsea tried to sign Lavia from us shortly after he signed for us. A big club with very deep pockets, why wouldn’t you want to hoover up the best and why wouldn’t you want to go there? Still, for all those who want to believe that there are huge problems in the club it is another stick to beat the club with.

[DT]

2 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Makes sense, especially since Chelsea tried to sign Lavia from us shortly after he signed for us. A big club with very deep pockets, why wouldn’t you want to hoover up the best and why wouldn’t you want to go there? Still, for all those who want to believe that there are huge problems in the club it is another stick to beat the club with.

Yeah, nothing to see here. We're in tip-top shape, right through the club. Everything is ROSY I tells ya

[Toussaint]

12 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

This is the likely scenario:

Chelsea were on the look out for a new director of recruitment.

They’ve pinpointed Shields who has a top reputation in England.

Shields wants to go as it’s a big role with a major Champions League club.

Both teams arrange compensation.

I highly doubt this is some player-esque situation where he’s kicked up a fuss to move away. He’s been headhunted. 

Or an alternative scenario , he put the word out, it went something like this…

 “get me the fuck out of this place, biggest mistake of my life, what a shit show, Ralph won’t speak to me, Rasmus hates Martin, Martin hates Rasmus, people keep leaking stuff to the press, we are never ever going to win another game, they care more about rainbows and unicorns than they do about the fans.  What have I done!” he exclaimed whilst sobbing uncontrollably. 
 

probably exactly how it went down 

Edited 12 October, 2022 by Toussaint

[saintant]

Pity nobody wants to headhunt Ralph. Wonder why.

[Convict Colony]

Isnt Shields also from London, maybe this is all just too good to be true for him.

probably tripled his salary, tripled his budget and gets to hang out with other people who watch eastenders.

[Toussaint]

3 minutes ago, saintant said:

Pity nobody wants to headhunt Ralph. Wonder why.

One of life’s great mysteries 

[Daft Kerplunk]

Whatever happens, good new arrivals leaving so quickly after they’ve arrived doesn’t suggest a model behind the scenes that’s working very well. Obviously can’t stop someone leaving for a far better club but this isn’t a one off, and it’s bloody quick for someone to arrive after a long recruitment process, then leave before the real work has been done.  Is there big trouble at little Saints?

[Toussaint]

Is he the second or third of the new regimes back room staff to leave?

[jemanson]

That's a shame.

Still, his replacement is ready and waiting for the call https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63225938

 

[Miltonaggro]

6 minutes ago, saintant said:

Pity nobody wants to headhunt Ralph. Wonder why.

Scrolling too quickly and at first disagreed with the statement as ‘nobody wants to headbutt Ralph’ - we’re unravelling lads!