Laudrup alledgedly in for managerial position in Celtic!

Apart from 3-5 CL games per season it's a huge step down in terms of competition.

 

I reckon Malky Mackay will fit Celtic better and Laudrup would do a good job at Southampton.

 

I worry for Soton, with the manager gone how many players will stay? Lallana might have stayed but now, with today's news?

 

I think Poch has gone because the players are being sold

 

Oh, I was thinking he left because Nic left as chairman.

 

True. Looks like they overspent getting into the top 10 and now are happy to sell their best players to balance the books a bit (that's the impression I get anyway...maybe a Southampton fan can give us the lowdown).

I think whoever takes the job is still going to be left with a solid foundation though...and I think Laudrup would be capable of plugging the holes with some good value transfers. He'd be able to offer players higher wages at Southampton. I think it would suit him.

Danger is though that everyone expects them to keep getting top 10 and class anything less as failure.

 

If the players reportedly leaving go, Southampton will not get top 10 next season and the new manager will be on a hiding to nothing as I don't think they will give the manager much money to spend.

 

Had a look on the Saints board and they've done a poll of who they'd like to get it. Result....

1) Murat Yakin (ex FC Basel boss....by a landslide)
2) Frank De Boer
3) Ronald Koeman (Wanted to manage us)
4) David Moyes
5) Michael Laudrup
6) Nigel Adkins (...the return)

Apparently Laudrup tops a poll in a local paper....but the guy being backed in with the bookies is Koeman (a local caddie has tweeted that he took him for a round and claims Koeman told him he'd met a director).

My hunch is it will be one of Yakin, Koeman or Laudrup...Yakin makes a lot of sense. Saints have Swiss owners, might have tapped him up in anticipation of this scenario.

 

If Laudrup signs for either Club do you think a few of our players would go.............

 

not a chance pgf, they dont want to work under him again It would be the reverse of the saints players wanting to jump ship...

 

I think one or two would ....Ash and ......

 

With the money Soton are making on sales,they're mire than capable of improving their current squad!

 

Michu!

 

I think this is the start of that woman who inherited the club sells the players ready to sell the club.
She's looking to cash in.

 

Maybe, or maybe she wants more (football and money, that is).

 

This is just the start of the clubs that will enquire about Laudrup , opportunity will run rampant for a great manager like Michael .

 

It could well be another "Moyes at Utd" scenario.

This may sound like a stupid thing to say (easy!) but is it worth any club outside the "big boys money clubs" appointing anything other than a solid, rather than spectacular manager? As in this case he's been snapped up by the big boys by showing too much promise, leaving Southampton unstable. A good place to go for the new manager but uncertainty after good progression. Is there a case for a seasoned but unspectacular manager who'll be at the club long term? At what point does the club's ambition overtake realistic potential? And remember I'm talking about teams who will never break the top four or five without a billionaire.

We all know (most?) fans have unrealistic ambition! I guess it's a hoping game as much as anything

 

Thanks aswan - about to log into all your accounts using 123456789. Cheers.

 

They already tried that. LOW said they didn't want to devalue their league.

 

I think Celtic would win the Scottish league even with a 5-year old in charge. There is no competition at all. They could just save the money and not bother with a manager. There has been talk in the past of them joining the Prem, but I don't think tehy would because they prefer to be No. 1 in a crap league, then No. 30-40 in a good league. They'd be nobodies if they played in English league. I wish we could play them in a friendly.