OK folks, before it goes anywhere, let's keep suggestions of delusion out of the conversation. Ta. Keep it civil, even if you can't be sweet.
I think the point is that we wanted Koeman to continue, but not at £7M per year. So, we refused to match the offer. The very fact that this refusal to match Everton is out there shows maybe Koeman would have stayed if given enough cash - so it is not Everton he is desperate for, but more cash.
Have come into all this new stuff surfacing about 3 hrs late.... Don't spose you've done one of your trademark summarys....?
I would take that 'report' with a big pinch of salt. Koeman is gone either way, so as a Southampton supporter I genuinely don't care where he ends up, it could be Real Madrid. It's m'eh to me. The bottom line is this. Ronald Koeman as a football manager is not worth £6 to £7 million a year. You pay him £6 to £7 million a year when he gets you to the Champions League positions after his first season, not in hope of. I am now going back to the thread that is important to me with regard to Southampton FC, The New Manager thread. This thread is dead, it is an ex-thread.... That is all.
Well, not nice, even if factually accurate. I think it scuffs up against keeping it civil rather hard.
Never try to explain anything to your enemies they wont listen . You don't need to explain anything to your friends.
The problem for Koeman is that leaving us after one more season could have put him in line for jobs that he was said to want, such as Barcelona. He could leave Everton after a few years, but he has put himself out of the running in the short term. Of course it is entirely possible that he believes he can do a real job with Everton and get the title and into the CL. In that case, it does make sense.
Makes a lot of sense on any number of angles. I don't care if he goes to Everton or not, I really, really don't. In fact I hope he does because they'll likely find out pretty quickly that he's not all that. One thing I do know, I don't want him back at Saints.
Put it this way, it wasn't someone I bumped into for a coffee who had some unknown connection with Soton. The info I got on this issue was from an impeccable source (who's currently away on holiday btw, so I have no current information on the situation) and if you go back and read my posts on the subject from the point I joined this discussion weeks ago, you'll see that the timeline inaccuracies in the post from Jack **** cast doubt on the entire content.
Exactly, his source is ofcourse several times more trustworthy than anything we could ever have to offer. Their sources are obviously massive for such a big club.
