Maybe not completely impossible. Although I wouldn't argue strongly against that. But certainly impossible the way we tried to do it. I think the only way you have even a sliver a chance is to hang out a midtable for many years while constantly churning out profits. Come in tenth, sell a guy for big money, replace with academy product. Over and over again. Market the hell out of yourselves in every country. Sort of creep up the table bit by bit and increase your club reputation and assets slowly. No one takes notice if you go in through the back door. But we tried to kick in the front door, guns blazing with our sexy squad of hyped-up youth and attractive football. So of course the big clubs noticed. And once they started to make a play, we didn't have nearly the assets or the stature to fight them off. We acted like a big club before we were a big club and that will always get you slapped down.
I wouldn't put Everton in there. So far behind the other 5 and it is a gap that I can't see them breaching, but yeah general point is correct
Fair enough, I would put Spurs and Everton at much of a muchness, both a long way back from the other 5. It is kind of depressing thinking about it, and makes you wonder what is really the point in it all.
I said something similar about the pointlessness of it all earlier in the summer. I always doubted how possible the "dream" was but for a while I thought we might just possibly be that something crazy that would have to happen, and knew that at the very least we were going to try and make something crazy happen. It kinda looks like that's gone out of the window though.
He didn't technically say it, and a number of us called him up at the time for using bullshitty non committal statements. Of course some members (there's a prize for anyone who can guess the main culprit) took issue with that, buried their heads and trusted that definitely nobody would be sold.
ive just been told it was les reed who said it, trying to find the article now http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/10062014-video-les-reed-summer-update-1629389.aspx
Les Reed said something similar on a few occasions, but he always finished with weasel words about doing what was best for Saints.
His line was always that we won't sell anyone we didn't want to sell, so I guess we really did want to sell our whole team.
It would seem after Cortese left there was a major communication breakdown with MP and squad to the point they are/were all hell bent on leaving. We'll never know now but I think maybe things would of panned out better if we had appointed John Williams who had experience of running a football club. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...ef-John-Williams-in-line-for-Southampton-role
