Goodbye Jay?

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Lff said:
New, big name manager, new team, new plan. Not a ridiculous scenario. The old team did well for us, almost got us to dream land, but couldn't quite get over the line.

So, we start again, not from Division One with a 10 point reduction but from 8th in the Premier League and with a shed load of money. How many league clubs are there? All but about 6 would be incredibly envious of our current situation.

Who knows why everyone is jumping ship. As always in football there are 3 sides to very story and the whole truth never properly comes out.

Trying to forget about the past and concentrate on the future for the minute, the problem seems to be the speed, or lack of it, of our incoming transfers. It took long enough to get the managerial situation sorted and now every transfer just takes a ridiculous amount of time when we really don't have the time to spare.

I don't want them buying players for the sake of it. They have to be the right people but I think we would all calm down a bit if we could get some new names IN for a change. The two we have got in seem like decent signings but we need more of the same and quickly otherwise the moral of the remaining few will surely drop at just the wrong time.
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Lff, great post and about how I feel. I knew we'd agree on something :)
 
I’m trying to see the positives in all of this and I’ve come up with a few.

Egil Ostenstad said in his reply to my tweet, the key is the appointment of Ronald Koeman. It’s harder for a new manager to impose his ideas on a team if he comes in to a full roster of players and no money to spend, then he has to work with what he’s got. The situation Koeman now finds himself in is he has space in his squad and an abundance of funds to spend building from the ground up. He has already added two of the best Eredivisie players from the last two seasons and has made it clear that more signings are imminent. We desperately need defenders and Ronald is one of the best and most respected defenders in our generation. The only thing against him now is time. Believe.
 
NorthernIrishSaint said:
I’m trying to see the positives in all of this and I’ve come up with a few.

Egil Ostenstad said in his reply to my tweet, the key is the appointment of Ronald Koeman. It’s harder for a new manager to impose his ideas on a team if he comes in to a full roster of players and no money to spend, then he has to work with what he’s got. The situation Koeman now finds himself in is he has space in his squad and an abundance of funds to spend building from the ground up. He has already added two of the best Eredivisie players from the last two seasons and has made it clear that more signings are imminent. We desperately need defenders and Ronald is one of the best and most respected defenders in our generation. The only thing against him now is time. Believe.
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And with the added problem that the said full roster of players believe they've just lost a manager who could walk on water. Koeman could well be happier with what is going on than we imagine...apart from the tight time scale. He was asked recently about coming in and having to deal with a lot of problems...he just smiled and said that it wasn't a problem as he was an experienced manager.
 
Brilliant post Lff, I made the same point a few weeks ago, although not as well as you put it. You are right, the key thing now is to get some players in, the right ones, and build the team up. Less than 3 weeks to go before Liverhampton, it'll be a tough task, but I reckon the morale in the squad will be up to it and they'll be raring to go. And you know what? If the team get us to mid-table or better and we have a similar clear out next summer, I won't care half as much, because I have learnt that the important thing at the centre of all this **** is Southampton Football Club, and that will go on no matter what happens to the humans involved.
 
Waits until he is fit enough to take a medical, his agents put out to the media that we offered Jay a 5 year deal so that suitors can come in quicker, and maybe worst of all the Physio team have spent 4 months with Jay getting him back on track, all for nothing. Thanks Jay.
 
KingslandSaint said:
Waits until he is fit enough to take a medical, his agents put out to the media that we offered Jay a 5 year deal so that suitors can come in quicker, and maybe worst of all the Physio team have spent 4 months with Jay getting him back on track, all for nothing. Thanks Jay.
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That makes for grim reading and may not be too far off the mark unfortunately.
 
Osvaldorama said:
Sky bet have suspended betting on Jay to Spurs.
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With us/team losing so many players in a transfer window is unprecedented.

To sell a player who is in the middle of recovering from a cruciate injury will also be breaking new ground!!!! Christ I'm flabbergasted, surely Daniel Levy wouldn't sanction the best part of £20M for this??? Its got to the point I've now gone past being surprised at what the next instalment will be.

I'm sure the bookies are right, Spurs will buy a player with a cruciate injury, absolutely crazy. Hopefully Jay will join a long list of players who were never quite the same player again after cruciate surgery.
 
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