Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,638
I fancy Saints have made the right call. Their stock is still high despite a woeful end to their 2016/17 campaign. They'll be able to attract a decent manager and kick on again.
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Southampton sack manager
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beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,464
yes but is Palace job favorite for Sean Dyche?
HastingsSeagull
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6 clubs in a league of their own, then Everton, so Southampton basically won the 'real' EPL again but sack their manager? Style must be everything!
W.C.
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- Oct 31, 2011
- 4,927
Very true. Are Palace any nearer finding a manager? Apart from popping in here I'm taking a break from football and had forgotten they didn't have any one in charge.
Sussex Nomad
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The sacking rumour has been around for days, I read about it yesterday. They aren't our rivals, even though South Coast, but I have to say I would want to take their business model on board, they aren't a sack manager type club, lost their last two, like their youth to other clubs for nice prices and yet still manage to stay a stable Prem club. I hope we end up like them.
brighton terra
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I'm hoping they'll poach Eddie Howe from AFC Bournemouth and leave my plucky little local team up the creek without a paddle!
This looked like it was coming for a while. After that League Cup Final, their home form was dismal so not surprising some fans started to lose faith in Puel. Only scored in one of their final 7 home matches - and that was to beat Palace which hardly counts, as we all know.
Easy to slate foreign owners but they've been good so far for Saints. An end of season decline like that can bring big problems the following season if it's not addressed.
Easy to slate foreign owners but they've been good so far for Saints. An end of season decline like that can bring big problems the following season if it's not addressed.
nicko31
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You keep constantly asset stripping your club, at some point its going to catch up with you. Doesn't your owner want out?
He was extremely dull though and that was reflected in the football. I have a southampton supporting season ticket holder colleague who said the same. 17 goals scored at home in a season....... They've been very lucky with Koeman and Pochettino previously.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
In what way? They've made themselves an attractive place for young upcoming players knowing the club take a pragmatic view if big offers come in. They're obviously spending on scouting and transfers as they manage to find and develop excellent replacements for players and managers that leave. If selling an injury prone full back for £30m is asset stripping, I'll take some of that!
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I find Southampton incredibly boring to watch flat packers in flat pack stadium.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
They club sell on players - it's how they survive, so Mane & Pelle went and the new manager only gets a year to gel a new forward line (in which he rejuvenated Redmond) finishes 8th and doesn't get anymore time to improve things / bring players in? Seems completely barmy.
A Palace team that was beating the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool you mean?
el punal
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Yep. A 'manager' who was more interested in his own white shoes, disco dancing, personna than maintaining discipline in the ranks. Result? A crash dive into relegation from a respectable 13th league position the season before. Oh yes, we got to the FA Cup final and that was great, but also fortuitous and it took away the sour taste of an abysmal season.
Incredibly harsh, I don't know who they think they are these days. It's such a difficult job when you lose your best players every summer. Add in this season they had some really bad injuries - they were without VVD and Austin for most of the season and Gabbiadini missed a lot- and still had a very successful season.
I think they're in for a very tough season, their squad looks weak without VVD and Bertrand, they're going to need to buy incredibly well and the youth production line is not proving as successful as it was. Add in no one knows how it's going to go with their new owners and I honestly think they could be fighting relegation this season.
As for football being boring etc, be careful what you wish for - see Norwich and Chris Hughton.
I think they're in for a very tough season, their squad looks weak without VVD and Bertrand, they're going to need to buy incredibly well and the youth production line is not proving as successful as it was. Add in no one knows how it's going to go with their new owners and I honestly think they could be fighting relegation this season.
As for football being boring etc, be careful what you wish for - see Norwich and Chris Hughton.
nicko31
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There's no new investment that why Koeman left and went to Everton. From a business point of view its well run
Bowers-sfc
forever red, never blue
- Feb 20, 2011
- 234
Not sure how we are asset stripping. We sell our best players regularly, yes. We can't compete with the wages the 'big 6' will pay. When we have players who deserve European football on a regular basis, how can we stand in their way? We buy cheap, we improve, we sell high. That's been the way for us for as long as I can remember. Until it stops working, il be happy. Every year people say it will catch up with us and so far, people have eaten their words.
In regards to the owner. She has publicly said she can't fund the amount of money we need to get us where she or her father wanted us to be. She doesn't want out, she will only go into a partnership with the right party, who ever that may be. I have no reason not to trust her to make the right decision in the best interests of the club.