Fran's right! Rodriguez's agent is former Burnley player Ade Akinbiyi. Reporters, namely Alan Nixon said AA was in Southampton since Sunday night/Monday morning talking to SFC representatives about a contract.
Why come on to a football discussion forum and tell people there is more to life than football? There is no harm is discussing rumours over the off season, for me it's a good lunchtime distraction. Maybe if you don't want to discuss football maybe you shouldn't look at football related threads on a football forum....just a thought.
So now someone else has come in for Rodriguez. Our problem is that we love so easily. I'm going to mentally give up on him...if we get him fine...if we don't we'll spend the money on someone else. He is dead to me
Nixon says he has checked with the sources he had, the other club is West Bromwich Albion. However he says they have not yet made the bid, they are just "lurking". He says he thinks if it comes down to Saints or West Brom he'll chose us as our financial offer is likely to be far stronger with better facilities.
If only life was that simple. We will probably have a few more named targets that don't end up getting on the bus before the window of opportunity closes.
Abramovich has made a few signings like Torres and Shevchenko, but in English football Chelsea are the exception rather than the rule when having a chairman who has such personal wealth. There is the odd director of football who recruits but unaware of one at WBA.
Not having a manager has a disadvantage though in that a player can't be sure he will be what the new manager wants.
JRod is probably just hanging on in case another club is prepared to pay him more than Saints before deciding where which club has "more ambition"
Sources tell me that there will be a major development in this situation at 17:41 GMT, Tuesday June 5th. Damned autocorrect, that should read sorcerers. There's a group (coven? flock?) of them that have taken up residence in the bushes across from my apartment, and they're always shouting all manner of nonsense. But in this news-starved season, I thought that you might like to know nonetheless.
You've become too accustomed to us being big boys! In the Premier League we're not nearly as attractive as we once were, there are bigger, more beautiful girls in this club than us.
