Yes! I was copying Ashby at first and then half way through I was thinking "that's not right" And a quick shout to the wife asking her to spell it for me, confirmed it. She said: "F-a-t-l-e-t....."
Right so how many out of MP, TA RK have we actually resigned when we were led to believe we're likely to sign? If they thought they would and told, but they didn't how is that delusional? Was it spin? I am not criticising the board completely just wish I could believe them more about key individuals wanting to stay than go. Unfortunately they don't seem to want too. I generally think everybody at SFC should be very proud of what they have achieved.
Swansea fans know everything. They were all on here in our first season back telling us how to stay in this division and how they had now settled remember? I don't think they know we aren't some club that has come from nowhere to join the elite. Someone tell them we were here for a few years before so we know how to stay in this league for...........erm............5 years.....WOW they've been here years.
I dont think the board can be called delusional. Every time they have put out a video/PR clip, I would imagine they either 100% believed a contract would materialise or were doing it to apply some external pressure. In either scenario, they knew what they were doing and were under no illusions. It's not their fault if seemingly honourable people act like snakes.
That's two people who've noticed [can I stand the attention.? ], but I don't think they're staying. I might give them another design or go back to the full Italian Red.
Exactly! By the way - I didn't call them delusional it was the way the posts came out oddly when I quoted Ashby. It made it look like his post was mine.
The second stain. That didn't work. Oswaldtwistle, that did. Ashley's ain't Implants Ronaldo emanating (RK as one word).
And the fact that of the posts I tidied up, between You and Ashby, I also tidied up the spelling on occasion.
Personally, I think Koeman thought that money was nice, but not the master, and found that when sufficient was dangled in front of him that he leaned towards it being so. However, someone did come up with a decent footballing reason. Koeman was at the end of 3 years and had either signed, or was about to sign an improved extension to that. He already was the best paid manager Saints had ever had. But his spectacular footballing gains were harder to achieve. Despite reaching Europe, there was a decent risk of having a poor season, with the extra heavy load. With Everton, there was a huge transfer fund and a whole lot of leeway to be had. A much easier prospect to make improvements, on the face of it. But we'll see how brilliant he is at getting the right players in, after saying goodbye to the best recruitment system in the Premier League. It isn't going to be as easy as he thinks. Still, there's always £6M per year to make him feel better. And the quick prospect of putting himself in line for his dreamed Barcelona job after a couple of years. He obviously reckons he's that good. There are several who think he's not upto it.
Not sure if this has been discussed already but I'm concerned about whether we have (and whether it is possible/legal) a clause that prevents RK / Everton from poaching our players for a period of time. The Mirror (yes I know!) are reporting that we have not managed to make this a condition. This wouldn't surprise me and if I'm honest can see Virgil jumping ship rather quickly....
