At no point did I say the attendances were the sole reason the club is bigger. Each time I used them it was in response to a Hull fan's point about attendances. Okay. Since England won the World Cup in 1966 (48 years ago) Southampton have been in the top flight for 37 years compared to Hull's 3.
Because Spurs are more attractive than Saints in the pecking order. That doesn't automatically mean Saints aren't an attractive job. The next Saints manager will have a huge budget which will be even bigger if some players leave, a squad that finished 8th, a new £30m upgrade of the training ground to move into this summer and one of the best academies in the country to work with.
??? whats the point in having a huge budget if your selling your best players which you'll never be able to afford to replace thats the reason your previous manager left. Who would want to work with owners selling off your best players?
Southampton have a significant number of players good enough to play in the Champions League and earn Champions League level wages. Southampton are not able to offer them Champions League football. It is for that reason why they might leave, not because the owners are selling off players because they want the cash. The chairman and director of football have confirmed all money received from player sales will be added to an already large transfer pot for the next manager.
Forget Saints - according to Ladbrokes Brucey might have a chance at the England job. http://news.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/foo...s-shot-england-job-world-cup-awry_199627.html
i don't think you will be better if/when you lose your best players. You were better last season, no doubt. It's this coming season I'm talking about. Lambert - Gone Shaw - Going Lallana - Going Etc etc You also have a CEO running the club Katharina Liebherr - knows nothing about football. How keen will she be to squander millions? Millions of her families wealth?
Southampton executive director Les Reed... “We are closing in now on our preferred candidate,” Reed told Southampton’s YouTube channel. “When it was actually announced that Mauricio was leaving we were inundated with enquiries but by and large we were amazed by the level of applicant who wanted to show interest in the job, “We had possibly six to 10 candidates on our ongoing research list. We were delighted that by the time we got down to the final four, all four of them had been on our list originally. “Things are going well and I’m hoping – what takes time with these things is the paperwork – but I’m hoping that we can get that sorted very quickly and the fans will be excited about an announcement coming up sooner rather than later.” Sounds like they've pretty much agreed a deal with someone.
Even without Shaw, Lambert and Lallana Saints have a better squad and starting XI than Hull. They also have a healthy transfer budget that will increase even further if they sell the likes of Shaw and Lallana for circa £50-60m. Katharina Liebherr is the owner not the CEO, she lets others run the club for her. Since returning to the Premier League the club under her ownership have spent £73m on players and over £30m upgrading the training ground. She has owned the club for 4 years since her fathers death and despite what you may have read in the press she is very interested in the club and is continuing to invest. The man in charge of football at Saints is director of football Les Reed. Since he joined the club Saints have climbed from the bottom of League 1 to 8th in England. He clearly knows what he is doing.
I believe that they will announce the new manager on Monday when he gets back from his holidays. But most of the prospects are actually on holiday, so it seems. Koeman looks nailed on as far as I can see.
I'm not convinced. Take those 3 out of the picture and make a team out of both squads, I think it would look as follows McGregor Elmohamady Chester Davies Rosenior Aluko Huddlestone Meyler Brady Long Do Prado Edit: also, is he a silly director of football that has the final say on any transfers (what a ridiculous position) or is he just overseeing everything sort of like a chairman?
Assuming that quote is recent, I would be astonished if he is talking about SB. He mentions being amazed by the level of the applicants. Surely, given where Soton are in English football, that means people with title winning records and Champ League experience. He also talks of the fans being excited. I think SB is an excellent manager, but he would know that excitement wouldn't be the fans reaction to SB, esp after bigging up the quality of the applicants.
So... Boruc Clyne Chambers Lovren Fonte Schneiderlin Wanyama Rodriguez Ramirez S.Davis Ward-Prowse Cork Osvaldo Wouldn't improve the Hull team in terms of ability? Really?
