Never thought I’d agree with Moyes but he is no nonsense and very organised. I think some of our prima donnas, if they’re still here, would “benefit” from some very straight talking.
Grealish had no history of success in the PL at the time. A grand total of 1 PL goal to that point in his career. He also wasn't on 100k a week, as JWP almost assuredly is.
Our main signing this coming season has to be the manager. More important than anyone else. We have spent so much money on players fees and wages over the years, I've never understood the cheap approach with managers. Apart from Pep and Klopp, all the other managers in the Premier League are on less than £9M a year. Saints waste way more than that on some dud players transfer fees, why not put the money towards a top manager? The duds may not be so bad with a top manager in place!
I can see West Ham parting with Moyes, even though he’s kept them up. Presumably Palace won’t give Roy a contract, so they’ll be looking. Leicester will want Potter if they stay up. If Everton stay up, will they continue with Dyche? Unlikely he’ll be sacked but he’s hardly impressed there. Spurs need a manager, and while I don’t think they’d go for Potter or Rodgers, they could poach De Zerbi or Frank or someone like that, then all of a sudden those teams need someone. You then have teams who will start badly and sack their manager reasonably early into the season, so they could both just wait to see what comes up that isn’t free now. Long post short, there are many options and potential options that are all better than Saints, which is why I think it would be a statement from SR if we appointed either one of them.
I’ll say again, a new & the “right” manager is the most important IN by a country mile. That will have such a major influence on who stays, goes & who we can attract.
Here's my prediction. We manage to hire Potter and comfortably win the Championship. However, after a scandal comes out against Southgate, Potter leaves after guiding us to promotion, and becomes England's new manager, and we are back to square one again! It's the Southampton way. Lol
Here is my prediction: SR sit down with Mr Southampton - JWP. They ask him what he wants to do, if there is anyone they could realistically bring in as manager. They then go get their man(or woman). Anyone who wants to bail, can leave, anyone who wants to fight to get back to the Premier League can stay. We keep JWP, Alcaraz, Tino, Sulemana, Lavia, ABK. We extend Theo's deal, we persuade Tella to stay, recall Smallbone and use the youngsters more. The new manager absolutely tears it up winning the Championship by record points total. JWP then carries on for us in the Premier League and smashes Beckham's record!
Heh, waking up is honestly probably better that than the other option, which is "then the Football League makes an example of us because we flouted the financial rules in an utterly unprecedented fashion, with the resultant in-season points deduction consigning us to remaining in the Championship and touching off an inescapable financial death spiral".
Charly Alcaraz has played approx. 800 minutes of Premier League football. He's scored 4 goals. If he were to have an injury free season, and play every minute, that would equal 17 goals for the season. (And this is in a goal-shy team bottom of the table!) What is this kid going to do in the Championship? Please Charly, stick around. I need this.
I hear Chaplow has been fired as manager from Orange County SC. Saints should approach him for a coaching role so he can coach some much needed grit into the team. Actually, **** that, with JWP most probably leaving we should bring him in as player manager. He would soon sort the wheat from the chaff
I think he was the highest paid, by about £1M above all the “mid range” managers. The usual suspects & big 6 we’re definitely above. Think he was about 8th highest paid.
I actually don't think we'd be a bad move for any manager wanting to give their career a shot in the arm. Whilst we've spent quite poorly in terms of achieving results, there aren't many you'd say have gone down in value. most of Lavia, Salisu, ABK, KWP will leave. But that's £100m worth of revenue. JWP will do what he feels he needs to and he's earned that but that would be more. That's more than enough to cover relegation costs alongside parachute payments. We've then still got a great pool of young players, a sprinkling of experience (will need more), rapid wingers, a 6ft7 striker and a Pl2 side with a handful ripe for promoting. A manager who can get the job done but with the vision to also put things in place for the Premier league and we are sorted. What's Bielsa up to these days? Always liked Brendan Rodgers. (it will be Jesse Marsch won't it)
Yeah, I think under SR, we are well equipped for the Championship, more so than we were for the PL. I would imagine the 6 kids that we signed in the summer won’t be on a very high wage scale anyway. So with the sale of JWP(?), KWP, ABK, Lavia and Salisu plus the odds and ends, we should be able to retain our most creative players like Alcaraz, Mara, Tino, Sulemana, while giving our own academy players the opportunity of first team football. The manager that can fix our problems is out there and if SR and Ankersen have learned anything, it is you can’t just sit in front of a computer feeding it data hoping to find the next Pep or Klopp and ending up with Nathan Jones. I remember Cortese flying out to Spain to watch Philippe Coutinho and coming back with Mauricio Pochettino. Ankersen should be out there too attending games with his team of experts and observing our next manager in action, they might learn something.
