He was a guy who saved us from oblivion, his time was too short. What he did for the club was nothing short of miraculous. Yes Nicola was undoubtedly the catalyst for all the major progression funded by the Markus billions. It was a fantastic journey, but we all knew greed would take us eventually. We have players earning way more than what most of us could ever dream of and it's still not enough. A manager comes along inherits a team with great potential, makes a name for himself based on that and f's off. You make your bed. If you don't want to be here. Go If only Markus could see how they're respecting his legacy
Are you suggesting that he wouldn't be proud of his daughter? I think she has every intention of looking after SFC because of the pleasure her father got from it.
Suggesting he would be more than proud of her and what they're trying to achieve still despite it all!
Just the name of this thread is a timely reminder that nothing really matters anymore, as long as we have our club, no sorry... Markus' club because after all we are still here because of that man and it is still his club. There's only one Markus Liebherr, One Markus Liebherr, walking along singing our song, walking in a Liebherr wonderland Thanks Markus
Exactly mate, they come. They go. But we will always be here for them as will Markus. The board have had to deal with a difficult time with people who believed their own hype. It was inevitable I guess. Katharina liebherr is on our side as was her father <3
Great thread, and as FLT says, a timely reminder of where we were just 5 years ago, and where we could have ended up but for Saint Markus RIP.
Throughout the last 5 years there have been only three events that have been beyond the club's control. The worst of these was losing Markus himself. It could have all folded in upon itself there and then, and indeed for a moment I thought it was going to. Looking back, one could see that Markus was an ill man from Day One. From the first moment he walked down those stadium steps, with his arm aloft, he looked so jaundiced it was unbelievable. I wasn't really surprised the day his death was announced, only initially shocked and very sad indeed, because by then we'd done the Southampton supporter thing of taking someone to our hearts because they'd noticed us and supported us, as a club. It was the Southampton way of things, to have potential success snatched away, if not by a rival, then by any other means going. It seemed as if circumstances were doing their utmost to keep Southampton FC from achieving just a little something. Even Cortese said he lost the will to carry on - just for a couple of weeks at least. But Liebherr had insisted that Cortese should run the show because he knew it would be in safe hands, and it was a mark of their friendship that Cortese never let the seat by his side be filled by anyone else. I believe I heard that someone once wanted to sit in that spot and they were quietly shooed away to the next seat. If anyone doubted the ambition thereafter they were proven wrong on every count. We lost Oxlade-Chamberlain for the Championship campaign, where Cortese took the shirt of Arsenal's back, and we barely noticed OXO's absence. We charged through the Championship by having a team some said were too good for that division. Perhaps they were right, but what does that matter..? Surely almost every team that wins is too good for everyone else..? And losing Pochettino, where incidentally, a last bit of Cortese contract writing got £2M out of Poch's pocket. By goodness he must have hated it here to pay himself off. What is that going to do..? I've a slight feeling he's going to be the loser because he jumped for the big pay-day when the bigger achievement would have been to stay. He'll find out that of all clubs, Spurs aren't patient and their Chairman certainly doesn't take prisoners. We're 5 months down the line from the last direct link to the Liebherr/Cortese partnership, which led to a vision, immense ambition and huge momentum. The next couple of months might decide whether we carry on with renewed vigour, renewed faith in those who run the club, and that the legacy that Markus left will not be wasted.
