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tomw24 said:
He's only managed in the French League which is so so weak. I have massive doubts over his ability to adapt to managing in the PL. If he was joining a bottom half team then maybe but he's going to have to get us in the top 10 at least, plus get us into the EL knockout stages. If he proves me wrong I'll be happy but surprised. Massive risk Saints. Massive, massive risk.
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And Koeman managing in the even weaker Dutch league for 3 seasons and getting sacked pretty much everywhere else he went, wasn't?
 
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Hope he proves me as wrong as can be, I just hope his French accent isn't to strong, don't think I could handle hearing that every Saturday !
 
I know we are all happy clappy now, but we definitely do want to do everything on the cheap. if Puel comes he needs to be backed with some big signings.
 
Koeman only did sustained good work in Holland and got sacked pretty quickly in Spain and Portugal (despite cup wins).

Adkins hadn't properly managed outside of Scunthorpe. Pochettino had only ever managed Espanyol.

Not really too concerned about Claude's experience being in France. Especially when he's done well with all four clubs.

Time will tell.
 
KingslandSaint said:
And Koeman managing in the even weaker Dutch league for 3 seasons and getting sacked pretty much everywhere else he went, wasn't?
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I don't agree that the Dutch league is weaker to be honest. PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord all competitive at the top. France it's PSG and everyone else. And Koeman had experience of managing in La Liga. Bringing in a manager who has only managed in one weak league is a big big gamble.
 
tomw24 said:
I don't agree that the Dutch league is weaker to be honest. PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord all competitive at the top. France it's PSG and everyone else. And Koeman had experience of managing in La Liga. Bringing in a manager who has only managed in one weak league is a big big gamble.
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The Dutch league is proper **** if you watch it. I was unfortunate enough to catch some of it on SS5 while waiting for MLS games.

(yes, MLS is bad too)
 
tomw24 said:
I don't agree that the Dutch league is weaker to be honest. PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord all competitive at the top. France it's PSG and everyone else. And Koeman had experience of managing in La Liga. Bringing in a manager who has only managed in one weak league is a big big gamble.
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True. But Koeman got sacked in almost every other country he managed in, came here and was a success. You just can't tell.
 
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- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
Koeman only did sustained good work in Holland and got sacked pretty quickly in Spain and Portugal (despite cup wins).

Adkins hadn't properly managed outside of Scunthorpe. Pochettino had only ever managed Espanyol.

Not really too concerned about Claude's experience being in France. Especially when he's done well with all four clubs.

Time will tell.
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The law of averages suggests that we're going to fail with a gamble at some point. We should have gone for Pellegrini IMO. And as for doing well at all 4 clubs, he managed Lyon when they were in their prime before PSG became loaded. Not exactly a huge task to do well with them. Nice he had a win rate of 39% over 4 years. Needs to be higher at Saints.
 
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tomw24 said:
The law of averages suggests that we're going to fail with a gamble at some point. We should have gone for Pellegrini IMO. And as for doing well at all 4 clubs, he managed Lyon when they were in their prime before PSG became loaded. Not exactly a huge task to do well with them. Nice he had a win rate of 39% over 4 years. Needs to be higher at Saints.
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The law of averages would also suggest that Pellegrini is due to carry out a **** job somewhere, if you want to get into law of averages.

Law of averages don't really count for as much as some people would like to think.
 
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saintlyhero said:
Fair enough, we have always reinvested what we've earned in the transfer market and players are getting new contracts.
We're not big spenders, but the club are not being run like cost saving is the be all and end all.
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No, I don't accept that. We cannot continue being a sell-to-buy club. That is not good business and if it was Rupert Low doing it you'd all be up in arms. We are bringing in huge sums of money now, and we need to show we can do more than break even. If not, other clubs simply recognise we buy to sell and keep raiding us every summer. I am sorry but this summer is now a pattern and it will not lead to top half security.
 
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tomw24 said:
The law of averages suggests that we're going to fail with a gamble at some point. We should have gone for Pellegrini IMO. And as for doing well at all 4 clubs, he managed Lyon when they were in their prime before PSG became loaded. Not exactly a huge task to do well with them. Nice he had a win rate of 39% over 4 years. Needs to be higher at Saints.
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I don't think we would have paid him enough or promised him enough in transfer funds. We rejected him before he could reject us.
 
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