Article: CONFIRMED: Mauricio Pochettino replaces Nigel Adkins as Saints manager | Southampton FC, Football

Wherever you go there are certain clubs which are often the fans'
'second' team. I'd mention Norwich, Everton, Southampton; and not
so much now, Newcastle.
It could be that in one fell swoop that 'status' is about to disappear.
From the outside I can't see what Adkins has done wrong, and, more
pertinently, what anyone could have done better. And as for the here
and now, you're shaping up well and finding your feet, after a slightly
shaky start, in the Premier League.

 

who gives a **** about PR? If you do, then you are very much a "customer" and not a supporter.

 

Ian Thurmwood all of a sudden sticks up for Adkins? whatever next. A lot of haters have changed their colours. I haven't, I loved Adkins, very disappointed. I still support Saints though. Blue line. move on.

 

Is it true that Pochettino was the manager of a ladies team?

 

You all hated BFS until he got you up. Go read your own board.

 

Do you think the new man will do as well with the same team as Nige would have had for the rest of the season?? It's the timing that baffles me the most. I would have been thoroughly disappointed if he would have been sacked at the end of the season but could have accepted it but this just seems like he's playing Russian roulette

 

Yep and Nigel Adkins was a physio, and Sam Allardyce is a ****ing crook.

 

He also injured Owen as a player, I see see it as a good thing.

 

First management job, then 3.5 years as head coach at Espanyol. In his first season, he joined Espanyol when they were bottom, 8 points from safety, with 10 games to go...they finished 10th...so he's used to relegation battles.

 

I agree as Nigel would have kept us up I'm sure. Espanyol were in a far worse position than us when MP took over, so we should be alright with the new manager as well. I hope.

 

What are you on about? I've always supported Adkins and never called for his head! Get your facts right.

 

Ian, your last paragrapgh highlights it perfectly for me. The thing is when he and Markus bought the club they bought a business with great assets on the cheap. The ultimate aim being to turn a profit which would only come through success on the pitch. Their vision of playing a certain way throughout the club and progressing academy players into first team regulars would have been applied to any club they bought.

This is why you don't recognise this Southampton FC. Its not the one of old. It is ran as a cut throat, win at all costs business. With no room for sentiment. The spat with Le Tissier, no longer using the prgramme sellers, playing hard ball with local business's, freezing out the press photographers from games and yes sacking Nigel; are not what we would have expected from the Southampton of old and how our club fitted into the national perspective. This is the price we have paid for being rescued by a billionaire with serious ambitions. I just hope he can deliver what he wants because I don't think many people will stomach all of this without the success.

 

Dear Mr Cortese,
I would like to thank you on behalf of all Southampton fans across the UK and around the world for, not only horribly mistreating one of the nicest people in English football, but also alienating nearly every single supporter of Southampton Football Club around the globe.
Nigel Adkins managed to take a club that had been mistreated by previous owners with no self belief in it to a club that has, through a new found optimism, challenged the top clubs in Britain. Nigel Adkins changed the way the fans thought about the club. Before Adkins' appointment we were a club that never quite reached its potential; under Adkins no Southampton fan saw a limit to its potential and success. Nigel Adkins took a club in a very dark place and worked, something that can only be described as, a miracle.
I would like to add that the new manager will have our full support but we will never feel the same about you as a a chairman or a man in the way that we did before the sacking of Nigel Adkins. The sacking of Nigel Adkins can only be described as a monstrous betrayal. I hope that this decision does not cost us our deserved place in the Premier League because under Mr. Adkins I, and 99% of other Saints fans, believed that we would have stayed up. Thank You for summing up everything that is wrong with football in this day and age.


Summed everything up, couldn't agree more.

 

To make amends make sure your lot don't bottle it today or you will get some stick.

 

Not really, i am very much a supporter, my comments were more to point out what a waste of money employing a PR Advisor is when you have someone like Mr Cortese in charge.

 

I don't want these revisionists speaking for me, thanks.

 

Think a few people need to get a grip now, we don't even know how Adkins was sacked.

 

Well firstly, the last time I checked the top 6 clubs got into Europe automatically, often 7. But no, you don't recognise this Southampton, because your vision of what Southampton is/should be is clearly different to that which Cortese sees and wants to create. He wants a club that can compete with those north of us in the table right now. As far as I'm concerned, that ambition is a good thing. I'd rather have that as an aspiration than the Southampton you're clinging on to.

 

Except he forgot the most important thing...it was ML and NC who saved our cub and provided the money for Adkins to work with. Not saying that sacking Nigel wasn't harsh, but he was not the saviour of the club...he managed the club after being employed by Nicola. He gave us two wonderful years and some good results this year...that was what the letter should have been about.

 

All very good points, but when push comes to shove, do you want success or failure, whatever it takes?