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Odd comments re: Saints from Ankersen

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Toussaint

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  On 14/10/2022 at 13:26, John Boy Saint said:

I was working in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago, talking to the barmen in the hotel asked about Goztepe, they said that they were an insignificant club that no one notices

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Oh, so they are bigger than us after all

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Bad Wolf

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This is being taken out of context. I think what he meant was the act of acquiring a second club (Göztepe) and thus starting the portfolio was a bigger deal than purchasing a club initially (Saints)

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Nordic Saint

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  On 14/10/2022 at 14:05, SaintsLoyal said:

Average attendance in top tier is around 10K and a bit more when the hig boys turn up.

They play in seond tier and atendances of around 7K

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Their average home gate is 4,684. When they were in the third division it was 659. They never managed an average of more than 9,000 in their history.

Dman

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  On 14/10/2022 at 13:55, Bad Wolf said:

This is being taken out of context. I think what he meant was the act of acquiring a second club (Göztepe) and thus starting the portfolio was a bigger deal than purchasing a club initially (Saints)

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That’s not what has been said at all

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fanimal

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I have been there whilst I was working in Turkey as most Turks will tell you apart from the big 3 in Istanbul only Trabzon gets close to being a big club despite Ankara Izmir and Antalya being large cities in terms of population 

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Maybe Adam Blackmore was right, is arrogant for a club smaller than one in turkey no one has heard of with an average gate of less than 5,000 to think they should be doing alright in the premier league.

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Miltonaggro

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Saints currently ranked 82 globally, Harrogate Town 634, Goztepe unlisted as don’t meet the criteria.  Ankersen needs to clarify to us small time second stream tosspots what he was on about, or indeed what he was on. 

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LuckyNumber7

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I'm hoping he's been misquoted or it's been taken out of context, as that's really not a good look from the club's owners. Just compounds the current negativity with everything else that's going on. 

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Badger

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  On 14/10/2022 at 13:26, John Boy Saint said:

I was working in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago, talking to the barmen in the hotel asked about Goztepe, they said that they were an insignificant club that no one notices

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Did he say they had a ‘kebab shop mentality’ ? 

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Turkish

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  On 14/10/2022 at 16:56, Miltonaggro said:

Saints currently ranked 82 globally, Harrogate Town 634, Goztepe unlisted as don’t meet the criteria.  Ankersen needs to clarify to us small time second stream tosspots what he was on about, or indeed what he was on. 

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So both my teams are in the top 634 in the world! 😀

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Badger

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Perhaps Ankersen has spent too long in the company of Semmens and Steele. 


Their apparent ambition for the club has rubbed off on him.

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niceandfriendly

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Sorry, but is everyone losing their minds over a tweet from the mighty “Turk Scout”, an account with a thousand followers? Has anyone heard Ankersen actually say this? 
 

I doubt he’s said anything remotely like what has been quoted. If he has indeed been misquoted he was probably saying that Gozetzpe are a bigger “job” than Southampton, ie. more effort to make them a success. But chances are he has said nothing of the sort. 😂
 

This could go down as a classic thread. 

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Toussaint

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  On 14/10/2022 at 18:02, niceandfriendly said:

Sorry, but is everyone losing their minds over a tweet from the mighty “Turk Scout”, an account with a thousand followers? Has anyone heard Ankersen actually say this? 
 

I doubt he’s said anything remotely like what has been quoted. If he has indeed been misquoted he was probably saying that Gozetzpe are a bigger “job” than Southampton, ie. more effort to make them a success. But chances are he has said nothing of the sort. 😂
 

This could go down as a classic thread. 

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Who cares if it’s true, it’s the most fun we’ve had on here for a while. Viva righteous indignation I say!

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Miltonaggro

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  On 14/10/2022 at 18:02, niceandfriendly said:

Sorry, but is everyone losing their minds over a tweet from the mighty “Turk Scout”, an account with a thousand followers? Has anyone heard Ankersen actually say this? 
 

I doubt he’s said anything remotely like what has been quoted. If he has indeed been misquoted he was probably saying that Gozetzpe are a bigger “job” than Southampton, ie. more effort to make them a success. But chances are he has said nothing of the sort. 😂
 

This could go down as a classic thread. 

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The word from Turk Guide is that he actually said  ‘Southampton are a bunch of handjobs’ - if so fair play, at least he knows what he’s up against. 

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  On 14/10/2022 at 18:08, The Kraken said:

Yuck. Sounds too much like Southgate. Harrohampton is much better.

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Call them what you want they’re both shite, boring and can’t score at the moment with the fans hating the manager, the common denominator is me 🤔

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alehouseboys

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There's plenty of Turkish news outlets quoting this as their headline and saying Rasmus 'stated' this comment.

Tbf, they have been Turkish League champions in the past and won a number of cups and Izmir does have a population of well over 4 million, so bigger in that sense. But they regularly play in front of small crowds in a smaller stadium  - I assume he was speaking through a translator who could have twisted his words to appeal to the eager audience but he should now come out and clarify what's been reported.

When they do turn up they do get typical Turkish support which is on a totally different level to anything in this country...

https://www.facebook.com/TheCasualUltra/videos/göztepe-fans-initiated-their-new-stadium-last-weekend-in-the-match-against-beşik/807091053036100/

I'm sure the powers that be at SFC would be looking at closing down large swaths of that stadium with behaviour like that (only slightly tongue-in-cheek!)

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Miltonaggro

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  On 15/10/2022 at 08:26, alehouseboys said:

There's plenty of Turkish news outlets quoting this as their headline and saying Rasmus 'stated' this comment.

Tbf, they have been Turkish League champions in the past and won a number of cups and Izmir does have a population of well over 4 million, so bigger in that sense. But they regularly play in front of small crowds in a smaller stadium  - I assume he was speaking through a translator who could have twisted his words to appeal to the eager audience but he should now come out and clarify what's been reported.

When they do turn up they do get typical Turkish support which is on a totally different level to anything in this country...

https://www.facebook.com/TheCasualUltra/videos/göztepe-fans-initiated-their-new-stadium-last-weekend-in-the-match-against-beşik/807091053036100/

I'm sure the powers that be at SFC would be looking at closing down large swaths of that stadium with behaviour like that (only slightly tongue-in-cheek!)

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But they’ll never be as big as Harrogate Town! 

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