Combined Liverpool Southampton team.

With the manager gone i am not so sure. Hearing rumours that they will get moyes.

Calls of man overboard will be heard across the south coast

 

Most of those players were there before that manager too though. I certainly think a few will leave but it won't be the exodus the media are predicting. Of course, if they lose Lambert, Lallana, Shaw and Lovren then it'll take some repairing too.

 

I'm almost agreeing with UIR here, though not for the "anything to have a go at LFC" reasons, obviously.

This is what I hate about modern football. Saints have a couple of good seasons and the vultures descend and rip their team to pieces and fly off with a couple of bits each.
It happens whenever a "lesser" team gets a decent group together- it's all down to money, and it just inflates the gap between the wealthy clubs and the rest. It keeps the top clubs at the top and prevents any well-run lower teams from crashing the party.
This isn't what football should be about, for me.

 

Well seeing as you're not a top six club, there's no need to worry yourself now, is there.

 

There seems to be deeper issues than merely losing the manager. That's just a symptom of the problem. We just don't quite know what the intention if the board is. Who they appoint as manager is key now and will tell is if their stated ambition still exists, or whether they're on a fire sale....

 

Genuine rep

 

The Wummer wummed.

 

I don't think we've ever seen a eight, nine or ten player fire sale though have we? Can't see it happening, it would be suicidal if it happened.

 

I see the point but I'm not responding because he (and Tobes) is doing their usual anti-Liverpool thing

 

This is a pain in the arse, tbh. It prevents us from having a sensible discussion about relevant footballing issues.
The "you're **** whatever you do" attitude ruins debate, imo.

 

Yes, that would be disastrous. How we respond to your 'take it or leave it' offer for Lallana should tell us what we need to know. Our somewhat overly verbose new chairman has said that no players will come or go before the new manager is appointed - the day after he said that the Lambert bid came in, and we can probably understand that. But our 26 year old heartbeat and captain? That would be a different story (and would suggest we can't believe a word we're told).

 

Id on't think it prevents it, just ignore it if you don't want to join in.

 

Would you be happy with £25m...?

 

no such thing as loyalty any more as players feel they need to cash in while they can and earn as much as possible, like the ****s are poor any way lol.

even some clubs abroad, cant remember name now, well know ones though(sporting maybe?), that produce talent and sell to survive, imagine the teams they could have had if any loyalty from both sides (club and player) was shown.

i know we are part of this mess ie taking saints players/manager, but i don't think this saints team are that far off spurs to be honest, so odd move by the manager.

saints are probably similar to us in they take 1 step forward but 2 backwards lol, just lucky we have a bigger attraction and budget compared to them i suppose so we don't see the full effect as bad.

 

Oi... I didn't have a 6th point. Can't think about that one yet.

 

I did look it up, but couldn't find anything... is it something to do with interior decorating?

Yours,

A southern shandy drinking (you missed that bit out) pansy ..... PS. you seem to like it on this board

 

I know we don't really agree on this.
The problem is that the thread gets hi-jacked, it drives away people who want to make a sensible contribution, and you're left with yet another slanging match.

Anyway, this isn't the place for this discussion so I'll say no more on it here.

 

Not sure about United, but I am worried about the top 6 coming after some of them. European football can be quite a lure

 

Genuine rep

 

In market terms that's probably about right for him, but there's a 25% payment we need to make to Bournemouth that causes an issue. This isn't about the £ though - we've been told that no players need to be sold, and also just told that nobody will be sold prior to a new manager being appointed.

If we then go and sell our captain (regardless of price) prior to that point, purely because you guys have made an ultimatum, well it raises some seriously uncomfortable questions.

If we tell you to bugger off, then perhaps the board begin to win back a little of our dented faith.