Call me sad and sentimental if you like but I am always sorry to see players we have nurtured and cared for and developed through our Academy/Youth System leave as I feel they are truly ours. As for the rest well they're all just mercenaries, they come and they go and I feel no affiliation to them. If we sold Victor I'd shrug my shoulders and carry on but if we sold Morgan I would be devastated.
Of course you would be, your wife would make you move nearer to his new team...could be France though and you'd like that.
I was glad when we got rid of that donkey Kenwyne Jones. He seemed to always miss more chances than he would take.
Glad - Mark Hughes Seeing that shrivelled old prune of a man in a Saints shirt and the endless fouls and posseesion he gave away really irritated me. Sure he was great once, but he was expensive and crap for us. About a million per goal he cost, or to put it another way, approx £5 per foul. Sad - (amongst other mentioned, Surman, Bridge & Marsden especially) I was sad when Pahars and Dean Richards left. Two players that I really loved having in the Saints side.
Thinking about it I was saddest when Killer had to leave through injury. Think he would have been a Saints great!
Hughes really upset the morale of the team as well at the time - he came in on double the wages of Tiss. Those two did NOT get on. Poor Deano RIP.
Andrew Surman is a relative of mine ,his grandad was my uncle ,and the whole family have been saints fans since at least the 1920,s ,his grandad would have been bursting with pride when he was playing for saints had he been alive and spitting nails when he had to be sold ,so for me on a personal note his leaving was the saddest. As for a player on purely football level it has to be when Mike Channon went to City was absolutely gutted ,for me still the best we have ever had at saints
I'll always have a fond memory of Kenwyne denying himself a hattrick by heading his own effort off the line.
Recently I've felt kinda sad that players like Hammond have left. Obviously needs to be playing football and won't get it at this level but the things they've helped us achieve through these last few years. Great set of players we had in the lower leagues, a shame for them to move on but no complaints about our team at the moment, it had to be done.
So glad to see you mention Killer. I expected to see him mentioned much earlier and I was all set to post his name myself before I read yours. He was bloody awesome when fit and he and Lundekvam were a formidable partnership in central defence! Such a shame to have his career cut short by injury as he could have played for a number of years.
weirdly rasiak is my favorite saints player of all time and i am old enough to remember Le tissier in his last few seasons for us
When Matty hung up his boots I was disappointed. Of course I was. Only an idiot wouldn't be. However, his time had come and I had been prepared for it. But it just shows that people often only remember the cups, the medals and the national caps, when measuring a player. Especially if they have no real idea of who they are remembering. So it possibly goes with this tweeter [or whatever you call them]: http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/a...-if-he-would-get-in-current-southampton-side/ Matt's response is understandable. However, I think he'd have to pay a lot more attention to the quality of the food he ate. In any case, today's Saints wouldn't let him fill himself up with pies. Both Poch and Cortese would have sat him down by now and told him he had the potential to be one of the greatest players in the world.
Just watched a half-hour documentary on Gareth Bale. I lasted 20 odd minutes until the hype started to be highlighted, then my interest disappeared. Bale was a good player, quickly becoming a better player with each game when he left Saints. Thing is, I couldn't remember being sad or glad of his leaving. I think it was an era of 24/7 gloom as far as Saints were concerned. There really wasn't anything to be truly excited about, even the playoffs, because it was all about managed decline. Don't even remember being that disappointed that Walcott had left either. Surman leaving piddled me off far more because I knew we were selling just because we needed the money. I was also far more saddened we'd lost Oxlade-Chamberlain than the first two. I think it was because I knew we were on the rise and we needed our best players to stay.
I was sad when Ekelund, Berkovic and Pahars left, quality creative players. Also a special mention to Surman as he didn't really want to go and we weren't selling for the usual reasons of player crap/player wants to leave. I don't recall ever being partcularly glad when a player has gone, so I would say Pulis and Forecast leaving were good days.
