But does it look like that? I just spent a while on twitter and huge numbers of Liverpool fans feel their club has been put over the barrel with Lallana. I read a lot of comments about how Liverpool simply don't improve on offers and they think it seems desperate to pay £25M for a player who "looked ****" yesterday. There are always two perspectives to things. Or more. The only negative things we've heard have come from a national press that hates the little man - particularly us. I will panic like everyone else if we get a ****ty manager in and he starts bringing in journeyman frees.
I understand why we went ahead with Rickie's deal. If it was decided that he was going (and to a club of his dreams), it would have been petty to stand in his way for peanuts. However, I'm hoping that we stand firm on Lallana because we haven't yet fully decided to sell him with a new manager coming in. The money offered is not even serious money in my view....especially if he has a good World Cup.
Indeed, why would we want to sell Before the world cup. If he has a decent tournament you could add a few million to his value, if he doesn't have a good tournament then nothing lost. Reject straight away the latest offer.
Don't know what manager we will get, but I'm pretty sure that we will continue to try and get good players in. We are still in a good financial position compared with our last period in the PL. Some of those players may not work out (happens all the time), so we should keep the core of last season's team...and I would start with Lallana.
- Manager - First Team Coaches - Youth Team Coaches - Sir Rickie That looks bad to me. Villa lost Martin O'neill, milner, John Carew, laursen to injury and Bouma in one season a few years ago and they went from 6th to 16th in a season. Like everyone is saying though, we just have to wait and see the next move.
Is it hysteria? I've been supporting Saints for nearly 60 years. This team seemed our best chance since the early 80s to actually win something, now it seems it's main components are being dismantled. I agree the sale of SLR may have been good business, I agree he may have wanted to go but would he have wanted to go if he thought there was a chance of winning a cup or 2 with the club he is currently with? I await the next developments with nothing but trepidation, last summer I reviewed the press each day to see who we were possibly going to sign. The exact opposite of the experience this morning. I don't feel hysterical, just very very sad and betrayed..
Managers always take first team coaches with them. We don't know anything about the youth team thing - but we do know, as others have pointed out, that none of the usual guard have attacked the board over it. In the past, LeTissier and Benali might have said something, but they haven't. So I am assuming it has a reason. Sir Rickie is going home. None of that looks all that bad to me at all.
Am I panicing? No Am I angry...VERY! I understand Rickie wanting to go to his own club and see why we would accept an sensible offer...£4m? Cheap especially when we have to pay off The Gas Heads I will accept sadly the loss of Luke...£30m for a left back is a ridiculous offer and he can be replaced without seriously damaging the team (not by Swansea second best LB) and that this income is spent of strengthening in more important areas But Adz...no way for no amount of money. He is absolutely fundamental to our style and success. The fee of £25m is crap, just look at what Spurs spent last summer on absolute rubbish, Fallani? etc etc. The board are not coming out of this smelling of roses at the moment and for me they have a chance of getting back some respect with their actions over the coming weeks as I am not interested in what they say following this weeks RK debacle. Phew...that's better! Thanks for the opportunity to get that off my chest...LoL
Well Matt and Franny used up so much energy in casting Cortese in the part of the devil, that to suddenly start digging in to those who vanquished him would make them look rather silly.
I am not so concerned about the Club, it is in flux and is a total unknown quantity at the moment, so I cannot make any relevant comments. I am concerned about the state and health of some of the so called "supporters", there doesn't seem to be anything positive about them at all. They seem to be believing everything the Daily Mirror prints, accepting every bit of uninformed speculation that is put up by WUMs, Trolls e.t.c. The Club isn't helping by not addressing any of the problems and they are not telling us the situation as it is.
This x1000 Some people need to get a grip and realise that most players want to achieve as much as possible in their limited careers moneywise and trophywise, and no matter how much the club says "we are aiming for European football" until we get there there is a good chance that players who are good enough to go will move to the bigger clubs. The time to go into mass hysteria and meltdown would be if we sold Shaw, Lallana, Lambert etc and signed nobody or a load of crap on the cheap.
I don't quite know why some posters on here are asking for others to get a grip. This is a very upsetting moment for several posters and some of them can't hide it. Provided we are all civil with each other and don't start abusing one another or another poster's stance then I'm sure we'll all get along just fine in the end. We've come to the end of an era. For some people it takes a little time to adjust.
I think the problem is more that we are selling our best players at a time when we only need a few extras to mount a serious assault on the top six. I'm not sure we'll ever have a better chance than next season but that seems to be slipping away by the day.
Have we come to the end though? From what I can see the board are still saying very similar things to what Cortese had been saying. "We want European football" being the bottom line. We have just come off the back of a successful season where we were hailed from all the corners of the footballing community for how we played, how talented our team is. Even if Cortese was still here we would have had all these rumours flying about, and we will just never know if the players heads would've been turned even with him still at the helm
Not hysteria or meltdown as far as i'm concerned. I never had great expectations with Saints regarding results. But i'm very unhappy with the departure of some of my favourite personnel. I liked Pochettino, the way he set us to play made me confident we can take points from every match, even if that was not always the case. I also enjoyed to watch the way we were playing. And Ricke, what to say? Probably my favourite ever Saints player, a true legend and one of the most lovable guys in football. I feel heartbroken by his departure.
Well, I agree that it is the end of an era. The problem is that we don't know what will follow and whether Saints have peaked, to be followed my a decline. Personally, I don't think that this is the case and I am sure that the management is sincere in its stated aims. It remains to be seen whether they can deliver of course, but I don't panic easy. The same "Mr Angry and Mr Despair" characters were freaking out when Pardew was sacked, Adkins was appointed, Adkins was sacked and now this. What we going through now is far from the worst time we have endured. It took me months to get over the relegation from the EPL- although the drop into L1 didn't hurt anywhere near so much for some reason. We will just have to wait and see, but I think it will not be as bad as some fear.
Agreed, you'd like to think we were being 'nice' to Rickie rather than Liverpool in that instance and being flexible in order to give him his dream move. I've no problem at all with that, given the circumstances. Completely different situation with Adam, we need Kruger et al to be true to their word and do what's best for the club. In short tell Liverpool to stick their ultimatum up their arse! They've a cheek to make it (if indeed they have) given the bargain they've just got for Rickie.
