Players and managers come a go all the time. When I switch off Corrie and put the football on, I tell an irate Mrs AberdeenSaint that football is just a other soap - it has good guys, bad guys, terrible acting, sub-plots, conspiracy, despair, elation etc etc. So some players don`t want be here anymore - fine, we`ll get players in who do. I`m really excited in what the next episode will bring. Never boring being a Saints fan !. I don`t see how an exodus of a few players can be blamed on KL - we are a victim of our own success, and I`d rather not have players here who aren`t 100% committed.
we're gonna win the league, we're gonna win the league, and are you gonna believe us, and are you gonna believe us, and are ya gonna believe us..........we're gonna win the league. Ronald is our leader, Ronald is our leader, na, na ,na ,na......oooh......na, na ,na ,na. Clapping happy are we Cheer up you supporters of this club that is about to be top spenders in Europe this pre season.
If you all wear sandals, clap your hands!... If you all wear sandals, clap your hands!... If you all wear sandals, All wear sandals, All wear sandals, clap your hands!... If you're a happy clapper, clap your hands!... If you're a happy clapper, clap your hands!... If you're a happy clapper, You're a happy clapper. You're a happy clapper, clap your hands!... RK & EK wouldn't have come here without certain guarantees of funds to invest into the squad....
I used to like your contributions, yet now you lower our beautiful game to the level of a soap trash I am shocked
Another reason- If we don't sign anyone before the season starts, Saints will be the team if choice to start with on FM15. No players and £100m to spend....
You`re right, and I apologise unreservedly - I will never lower the tone of this enlightened Forum again.
We have had ups and downs and, in the time I have watch Saints, it has been mainly average or worse. At this moment, we are in the EPL, have a quality manager, a stable board and 70-100 mill to spend. We had a great last season where we were admired and we basked in glory as several players became internationals, but that was one season. Imagine if we had just got promoted and we had been told we had Ronald Koeman as manager and he had a small fortune to spend...we wouldn't be sitting here crying right...we'd be excited. So reasons to be cheerful: 1) We are not for sale to some dubious chancer 2) Have a quality manager 3) Great academy with new facilities about to open 4) Money to spend...no sign of administration 5) A new season to look forward to.
Your previous apology is noted, but aren't soap operas merely life made large. Everything that happens in soap operas - save for Booby's resurrection in Dallas - can happen to people, just not usually to a small group of people in a confined space all at once. Football provides so many parallels with our day to day lives. Right now we are going through a family break up. The bleakest moment of my Saints supporting life - the great crash of 2009 - started the process that has given me such fantastic pleasure as a fan. If there isn't a life lesson in there, then I've mis-read it. So reasons to be cheerful: 1. Our little unfashionable club is set to become the most talked about club in the EPL 2. We'll be seeing new stars who will want to get in our shop window so that they too can follow Lallana et al. 3. They will be committed to self-improvement, and in doing so they'll be pushing this club up the table. 4. It might need a couple of waves of this, but it will reach the point where we won't be a passage to a brighter Premier League future because we will be that future Relegation? Come on. We still have the nucleus of a good side. Add to it, and it's just going to get better.
Yes, the fact that is that the top sides paid little attention to our players on our return to the Premiership. It's a measure of how much they have improved that there were so many call-ups and hence more interest. We have a wages structure based upon balancing the books. Whilst you can in theory refuse to sell a player, the good news is that the players are going for top dollar. Who would have rejected an offer of £25m for Lallana 12 months ago? Sooner or later, the real world will have to rudely interrupt the fantasy finances of the Premier League and then the future will indeed be red and white.
About 10 years ago (of not more) I was in the pub on Christmas Eve, big group of us, all horrendously drunk - I came up with the ridiculous idea that seeing as it was gone midnight, we should ring Kylie, put her on speakerphone and sing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". So I did. Forgetting that she'd be in Oz, where it was midday and she was sitting by the pool with her family. So we sang it. She hung up. Sorry Kylie
Also with Koeman if we get a few Feyenoord players in they will want to stay. They all love the guy specially Clasie.
All we have to do now is let Jay go when he is fighting fit [I'm so grateful to Southampton FC for helping to bring me back to full strength... blah, blah, but I'm now signing for anybody else] and then I can put away my faux enthusiasm regarding England and their hopeless internationals. Yet another reason to be cheerful.
If he can do it at Feyenoord who is to say he won't do it here. I'd rather have players wanting to play for a manager then a chairman.
Just a *thing* on that one - he may be an exception, but Punch wasn't particularly a fan of, or enamoured by NC, even after the reconciliation. He was however always incredibly positive and appreciative of MP, even when he was basically told he wouldn't be playing (sorry, don't believe the family reasons after all). He said that MP was absolutely honest and up front with what he was doing and he respected him massively. Let's not get caught up in the cult of NC thing too much - the players played for and loved MP equally as much (if not more).
