I might be jumping the gun a bit here and boy do I hope I am but if MoPo goes and the star players sold how many of us are going to believe a word the Saints board say in future. After what Les Reed said a month or so ago gave me hope I just want him to have the Balls and back it up not just say what we want to hear. Cortese said nothing but I knew we were in safe hands I just hope we still are.
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Firstly even if Pochettino goes, the players are contracted and if the board want to keep them (and they say they do), they should be able to.
If Pochettino or any of the players are sold, the board will have some explaining to do, and a situation to deal with which I don't suppose they want, but I hope they have prepared for. It would be incredibly naive not to.
There's really no way to judge them yet though, as despite all the stories, nothing has actually happened that requires them to act.
Reed probably said what he believed was true at the time...and is probably true still....we don't have to sell and there is money to spend. Sometimes though you have to make the best of a bad job (if people angle for moves)...a large sum of money reinvested in more players could benefit us in the long term...though I'd rather keep Shaw and Lallana. Nicola would probably have kept everyone together for another season, but everything can't have been sweetness and light or he wouldn't have been shoved out. I'll give the board the benefit of the doubt, but they do come over as a bunch of grey men.
If they had, you'd have even more rumours and even more vociferous complaints about the lack of action from the board.
more?
if they could have given a message without caveats maybe it would have been worth it.
more?
if they could have given a message without caveats maybe it would have been worth it.
I think realistically, you're never in a position to do that in football without a risk of ending up with egg on your face.
Ahhhhhh you got me.
Clicked into this thinking it might be interesting.
I was wrong, same old stuff about people leaving or not or who said or didn't say something.
Clicked into this thinking it might be interesting.
I was wrong, same old stuff about people leaving or not or who said or didn't say something.
I'm not sure Cortese ever had to deal with a situation like this one. Who's to say what he would do now.
i might not have been on the ball at the time with club press releases, but I remember stony silence when pardew left, silence until pochettino had already replaced adkins (even then really **** all said), and I don't remember anything from cortese about chamberlain.
glad to be corrected.
No, you're right, but the fact he ducked out of the limelight at difficult times would probably be considered more of a negative by most. Leaving Pochettino to face the maelstrom after Adkins' sacking, alone, was perhaps not his finest hour.
There was a lot less press interest in the Chamberlain transfer. I think we have done well to keep Schneiderlin (whom Wenger has long admired), but I don't recall Cortese ever really being under any pressure to sell anyone else (Fulham's interest in Cork doesn't really count).
Agree and add to this, that he didn't really have to deal with something that he wasn't semi-controlling. He was in control of the Adkins situation and when Chamberlain made it clear he was off, he was in control of the negotiation.
how much more or less in control are we in with our manager or players this transfer window?
granted the managerial changes were from the opposite side of the table, but the chamberlain deal looks no different to me.
i'm not arguing that it was any more effective in the end result. though there was press speculation our air of invulnerability held up until oxo's dad told everybody his son should go to arsenal.
from hofstetter to reed to krueger there has been a negative connotation to take from each of their public statements and it's only fed the fire IMO.