Some of them for me...Mane and Pelle especially as they worked well together (with Shane and Tadic). Shaw...perhaps not because he needs to work harder. Koeman...no, because he treated us so badly and it looks like we had the best of him. Lovren...not have him back now, but he could have been a better player if he'd stayed here. Fonte....sad he left, but again we'd had the best of him. Clyne, Wanyama, Lallana and Morgan....yes, but then we wouldn't have some of the players we've got now. Never go back is often a good adage.
It was very strange when he suddenly changed his mind....perhaps he asked for more money and was turned down unless he signed a longer contract.
Can't really say that either have got any better since they left, Lallana's goals and assists aren't anything to write home about and Clyne has dropped out of the England squad.
I think it related to transfer budgets and who we would replace etc. More than anything. Just speculation on my part though.
Koeman also sacked his agent reputedly because he wasn't informed of the Everton offer....apparently his agent just said that RK was happy at Saints (based on what he had been saying). May be just a rumour though.
I find it quite funny that he claims he left because of "more ambition", yet showed in spectacular fashion that he has no clue what to do with "all that ambition".
I wouldn't have him back. He's already shown what he can do in a side without a big frontman to lead the line. He doesn't know what to do. Plus, as much as we could do with a new #10 - we don't need four of them.
Everyone knew that the "ambition" quote was hollow, he never took that job for football reasons it was all about the ££££££s. After what he said about people chasing money on national TV as well.
So the Lying Dutchman rolls out of town. Did like Ronald but I think his job with us was made quite easy by inheriting the team from Poch?
Ambition always means more money...whether in wages or to spend on other players. Talk of lack of ambition makes me spit feathers....all clubs have the same ambition...to do as well as they can. What varies between clubs is timescale....not ambition. Saints would like to win the league as much as the bigger clubs, but the bigger clubs have the money to consider it in the short term, whereas smaller clubs take tiny steps. Berating Saints for lack of ambition is wrong....what managers and players mean is that they can't wait. The truth would be more like: I can't make Saints better by my skills alone....I need a lot of money.
As for their new manager, I'd be worried if I was a Burnley fan. Although Dyche has got something special going on at Turf Moor, I think he'd be brilliant at Everton.
Half of that team left in the Summer before he joined. Ronald did a good job for us, let's not re-write history. He brought in a lot of good players in his time here.
He had to go for overseeing the worst transfer window in history. But don't worry, they will take years to recover from it.
Back to back record league finishes and European qualification, regardless of anything else. You can't argue with that.
