Their arrogance has been strange. It started as "we should have Mourinho / Simeone" (and still is to an extent) to "look how at how much bigger our club is that we can steal away a manager that we don't really want". All very odd
Les Reed would have already thought of the possible replacements the day Koeman signed for Saints. That's how he works.
... and no apologising for remaining positive until the FACTS prove you wrong Just plays into the hands of the cynics who are wrong more times than they would have us remember. How come believing something positive and being wrong is 'naive' yet believing something negative and being wrong is just being a 'realist'? I can't say I'm not sad but every new drama in our march upwards leaves me with just a little more belief in our club We should be singing songs about Katerina, Ralph and Les
I genuinely feel quite proud of this board, as we've actually been on the whole incredibly sanguine about this whole thing. No meltdown to speak of at all. I don't know if that's a reflection on this situation, a trusting of the board, or the fact we've kinda got used to this crap now, but either way, well done Not606 crew!
They've spoken to Everton. They're just back tracking now because it looks bad. I wouldn't be surprised if it drags another few days. In fact if I was Les, I'd procrastinate on the compo and permission to speak while we beavered away on the replacement. Then announce ours very quickly after Everton announce Koeman. No need for niceties now.
Indeed. And if the board really are thinking about Howe at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually in relation to him being the future replacement for Ron's replacement, rather than being Ron's replacement. Whether it's one target, or three targets, or whatever, I am absolutely confident that Les has this under control.
I expected it was made up before even searching but someone else above seemed to bite as well with the "if the tweet is true". Made me doubt my initial assessment
Why are people on this site being so positive when everywhere else is in meltdown mode? Is it because we haven't the remotest idea of what is actually going on?
Didn't the board tell us that they always have a list and knew who they wanted when Poch left & Koeman signed. That won't have changed. Bingo. If we sign someone as soon as Koeman officially leaves, we come out of this looking very professional. Perhaps even a double press conference to announce Koeman leaving/new guy coming in if we can get the timing just right.
Good tip. Perhaps this should not be a sunday morning pursuit then And hidden comic talents are better than the other forum where the not so hidden talents seem to be wailing, teeth gnashing and finger pointing (thankfully they don't post here)
It seems to me that the vast majority of football fans are over reactive idiots who go into meltdown at the drop of a hat. Throw in that obviously quite a lot of our fans are getting increasingly frustrated at us losing players/managers every year and you can see why there would be this reaction. Thankfully it seems that here we have mainly level headed posters who can see both sides to things and don't massively over react (well apart from Tom in the heat of the moment)
