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Blimey, he got a bloody good send-off from Feyenoord when he announced that he was leaving...

[video=youtube;EC0t8RhGalE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC0t8RhGalE[/video]
 
I would say not as they only appear to have started looking last week and I read in another post from couple of days ago that he hadn't been contacted yet
 
Don't know if true but... Some stalker has just pointed out that Koeman's nipper has just followed Saints official twitter...(just read this on another forum).
 
Oddschecker shows Koeman shortening to 10/11 on William Hill and Bet365, between 5/4 and 6/4 on other firms. Time to put something on him on a site where he's still odds against, if you feel inclined.
 
Okay, hear me out on this one.

Let's say that Les Reed is actually pretty good at his real job of evaluating talent, but the players hate him. Let's also say that Krueger is also pretty good at his actual job of handling non-football stuff, but the players don't respect him/care because he's not a football guy. When MP was here, it wasn't a problem because players mostly interact with their manager and they liked MP.

Koeman has the stature as both player and manager to talk to the players and win their trust as well as stand up to Reed and Krueger if need be. Reed and Krueger maybe don't even care because they have their titles and money and get to do what they want to do instead of having to deal with those pesky, whiny players all the time. So that stabilizes the whole front office/exec vs players situation. Maybe Fonte and Cork still want new contracts, fine. Sign 'em. Probably not a big deal.

We probably still lose Shaw, but we get 30m. We manage to hang on to Lallana and the others. This gives us 80m in transfers. Koeman convinces De Vrij to come here at a cost of 15m. We replace Shaw with a boring LB who doesn't have Shaw's potential but is probably close to as good as Shaw is now or at least average/solid by PL standards for 10m (and we could probably do this for much less, honestly).

We've now got a stable club, a manager who could reasonably be as good or better as Pochettino. We've accomplished the goal of bringing in a CB. This leaves us still with 55m to bring in an awesome striker, and let's say a young, promising GK who doesn't mind being a backup for a year or two. 20m should bring us a pretty good striker, and 10m should bring us an good, young GK. And we STILL have 25m to spend should we wish on any other interesting opportunities come our way.

That's kind of exciting, isn't it?
 
ChilcoSaint said:
Oddschecker shows Koeman shortening to 10/11 on William Hill and Bet365, between 5/4 and 6/4 on other firms. Time to put something on him on a site where he's still odds against, if you feel inclined.
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Glad I put a punt on at 4/1...... (If he joins of course).
 
I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
Okay, hear me out on this one.

Let's say that Les Reed is actually pretty good at his real job of evaluating talent, but the players hate him. Let's also say that Krueger is also pretty good at his actual job of handling non-football stuff, but the players don't respect him/care because he's not a football guy. When MP was here, it wasn't a problem because players mostly interact with their manager and they liked MP.

Koeman has the stature as both player and manager to talk to the players and win their trust as well as stand up to Reed and Krueger if need be. Reed and Krueger maybe don't even care because they have their titles and money and get to do what they want to do instead of having to deal with those pesky, whiny players all the time. So that stabilizes the whole front office/exec vs players situation. Maybe Fonte and Cork still want new contracts, fine. Sign 'em. Probably not a big deal.

We probably still lose Shaw, but we get 30m. We manage to hang on to Lallana and the others. This gives us 80m in transfers. Koeman convinces De Vrij to come here at a cost of 15m. We replace Shaw with a boring LB who doesn't have Shaw's potential but is probably close to as good as Shaw is now or at least average/solid by PL standards for 10m (and we could probably do this for much less, honestly).

We've now got a stable club, a manager who could reasonably be as good or better as Pochettino. We've accomplished the goal of bringing in a CB. This leaves us still with 55m to bring in an awesome striker, and let's say a young, promising GK who doesn't mind being a backup for a year or two. 20m should bring us a pretty good striker, and 10m should bring us an good, young GK. And we STILL have 25m to spend should we wish on any other interesting opportunities come our way.

That's kind of exciting, isn't it?[/QUOTE

It is . I just think that right here right now we need a steady hand .

Moyes for me .
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