Secretly glad he’s a Barca fan in case it comes down to a choice! (You’d think any player would choose Barca anyhow, but that will help).
http://www.mirror.co.uk/vauxhall/could-mauricio-pellegrino-next-premier-11405629 The Mirror suggesting that Mauricio could be the next PL manager for the push....I guess they are turning their eyes to him now a couple more obvious candidates have gone. I think it is hardly fair to act as if we sack managers readily. Two left us...so our record in our new incarnation after Markus bought us is two sacked managers.....and Adkins was under a previous chairman. The Puel sacking was the weird one....suggesting that we see ourselves as a 'big' club where a decent league position isn't good enough or the board could see a problem arising in the future. Unless we do really badly, I can't see the board being in a rush to sack another manager.....if we did, this imagined reputation might be deserved.
Well the Chelsea manager has been upset by the tabloids.......Even Klopp has been tarnished by their meanderings. Not to mention Wenger and of course the Leicester manager that was sacked who was that other one? Oh yes a certain Dutch man.......They haven’t got too many to root about so I guess our turn has come. Mind you the odds are not so good at the moment beyond New year for him. Strewth he has only had 8 /9 games........that would be a disaster for Saints it really would.
I don't see anything overblown about the article, except that it was hardly worth writing from our point of view. We knew all this. But the Mirror sells outside Southampton, so othe people might actually become informed. As for Puel, I think the last 6 games of last season put the final nail in the coffin. The final league position was OK, though no Europe, and he was really unlucky to lose the LC Final when, but for officials getting a fundamental decision wrong, it could have been a totally different outcome. Plus, one can't ignore that he was hamstrung with a poorer main strikeforce overall than the previous season. That was out of his hands. It has been suggested that He and Ross Wilson weren't the best of pals, and perhaps no wonder. No matter how well a team plays if they have their main goal scorer(s) removed they aren't going to win so many. Pellegrino has exactly the same problem, and Koeman has actually gone from Everton with pretty much the same key issue. As for size of club, substitute the word big with ambitious, and I think their implication is correct.
That was weird TSS. You had strike through on lots of that post just now... or have I lost the plot completely?
No, you're not going mad. You're right. There's a glitch somewhere. I think it may be in Firefox or it could be on the forum software. For some reason, under certain circumstances, if you choose to bracket one letter with these [ ], rather than these ( ), you can end up with a load of strikethrough after the bracketing. Normally, I use these [ ] because one has to depress the bloody shift key on a keyboard to use these ( ) and I'm lazy. But you may notice the word scorer(s) in the previous message. I had to use the rounded type otherwise everything had strikethrough afterwards. As you say, weird.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5027937/Virgil-van-Dijk-happy-Southampyton.html Yoshida saying that Virgil has settled down and is happy again at Southampton. Sensibly making the best of it is what I'd call it.
Kick-off 3 p.m GMT Saturday 4 November Southampton v Burnley Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt Fourth official: Kevin Friend
and Saints second top goalscorer this season! Get NI to the world cup next month son and it'll be Sir Steve!
'Right, so what we're looking for is a big man who can just stick up top and hold the ball up for us... Fancy it?'
