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Confirmed: Saints sign Sekou Mara

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by tomw24, Jul 21, 2022.

  1. Saints_Alive

    Saints_Alive Well-Known Member

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    Yes it's all logical and sensible and I totally get it but yet I still pine for the days of Nigel Adkin's bus when all the players were invested into the plan (although they eventually left when we reached the PL top 8).
     
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  2. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    Agree with this.
    Someone recently posted that it was good that we hadn’t (yet) lost any of our better players to other teams.
    The other side of that statement is that maybe the better players aren’t considered good enough for other teams to covet them, which reflects on the general status of the squad.
     
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  3. StJabbo1

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    The clubs those players and others came from would say they 'lost' them to us. We happen to be higher up the pyramid which I suppose is topped by Barca, Real and arguably PSG.
     
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  4. SaintMarv

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    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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  6. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    <cheers> Obviously
    Its just not how the Football Cookie Crumbles these days sadly
     
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  7. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I don’t mind that they leave. I do care how they leave. Still haven’t forgiven Van Snake. All the others including Lallana, went with my blessing, just about.
     
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  8. StJabbo1

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    Ronald Koeman's departure left a sour taste for me.
     
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  9. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Yeah, I suppose it did for me too. We seemingly had the best of him as a manager though. Poch grated more, but in a way that felt like Karma for us binning off Nigel so brutally.

    None of this **** is rational, or even reasonable
     
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  10. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

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    Of course not rational or reasonable, they're in the same bin as common sense and logic.
     
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  11. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Yeah, who needs them eh? They clearly have no place in the modern world.
     
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  12. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

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    A glance at the news headlines confirms that.
     
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  13. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Confirmed that Bordeaux will be playing in Ligue 2 next season. The Mara deal has proven to be a really good one for all parties.
     
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  14. Piri Weepu

    Piri Weepu Well-Known Member

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    Your keeps don’t like him
    Sekou Mara, Sekou Mara
     
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