New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 11:36 - May 24 with 2107 views | PatfromPoole | Have we been stripped of our 15th Place Trophy? DRAGAN OUT! | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 11:54 - May 24 with 2073 views | Butty101 |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 11:36 - May 24 by PatfromPoole | Have we been stripped of our 15th Place Trophy? DRAGAN OUT! |
Give the new owner a chance Nick says......... Yet he still bangs on about Nasty Nick. The success we had after Nasty Nic left was funded by selling the players that where already at the club.... | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:35 - May 24 with 2009 views | SaintNick |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 11:54 - May 24 by Butty101 | Give the new owner a chance Nick says......... Yet he still bangs on about Nasty Nick. The success we had after Nasty Nic left was funded by selling the players that where already at the club.... |
I didnt bang on about Cortese aside to say eveyone went into meltdown after he left, I offered no real opinion on his time here. The message is clear, give those a chance to show what they can do before you pass judgement | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 13:24 - May 24 with 1929 views | SonicBoom | Well the owners must be decent because Brentford had a lower profile manager, supposedly a squad with less quality, and a smaller budget and they finished above us! | | | |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 14:52 - May 24 with 1837 views | MytchettSaint |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 13:24 - May 24 by SonicBoom | Well the owners must be decent because Brentford had a lower profile manager, supposedly a squad with less quality, and a smaller budget and they finished above us! |
No, that’s not possible. No one could achieve more than Ralph has done with less, we keep being told. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 15:01 - May 24 with 1824 views | saints__fan__73 |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 14:52 - May 24 by MytchettSaint | No, that’s not possible. No one could achieve more than Ralph has done with less, we keep being told. |
With such PL greats as Forster, McCarthy, Bednarek, Stephens, Lyanco, Diallo, Elywotsit, Djenepo and the goal machines that are Long and Armstrong it's baffling we are not challenging for the CL. I'm sure a change of manager would have us firing on all cylinders and the new boss will get that lot challenging Spurs and Man Utd where a squad of that caliber should be. #ralphout | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 23:39 - May 24 with 1636 views | MytchettSaint |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 15:01 - May 24 by saints__fan__73 | With such PL greats as Forster, McCarthy, Bednarek, Stephens, Lyanco, Diallo, Elywotsit, Djenepo and the goal machines that are Long and Armstrong it's baffling we are not challenging for the CL. I'm sure a change of manager would have us firing on all cylinders and the new boss will get that lot challenging Spurs and Man Utd where a squad of that caliber should be. #ralphout |
You keep accepting he’s just been dealt a sh1t hand and it’s only Southampton holding this tactical genius back from the Real Madrid job…. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 09:46 - May 25 with 1496 views | saints__fan__73 |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 23:39 - May 24 by MytchettSaint | You keep accepting he’s just been dealt a sh1t hand and it’s only Southampton holding this tactical genius back from the Real Madrid job…. |
No one said he's good enough for the Madrid job but when the club is consistently last in net spending and the club constantly sells it's best players and replaces them with inferior players (Armstrong for Ings (sold the week before the season started), Diallo for PEH, Lyanco for Vesteergard, etc) fans must be mental to think we should be competing in the top half. The owners (new and old) have only one ambition in life, not to be relegated, and there are plenty of clubs who spent far more than us in the PL but were relegated. It's a miracle we haven't gone down given how badly Semmens and the owners run the club but if we don't make changes on this front we won't dodge the bullet forever. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 11:25 - May 25 with 1470 views | MytchettSaint |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 09:46 - May 25 by saints__fan__73 | No one said he's good enough for the Madrid job but when the club is consistently last in net spending and the club constantly sells it's best players and replaces them with inferior players (Armstrong for Ings (sold the week before the season started), Diallo for PEH, Lyanco for Vesteergard, etc) fans must be mental to think we should be competing in the top half. The owners (new and old) have only one ambition in life, not to be relegated, and there are plenty of clubs who spent far more than us in the PL but were relegated. It's a miracle we haven't gone down given how badly Semmens and the owners run the club but if we don't make changes on this front we won't dodge the bullet forever. |
And I didn’t say that I expected us to be a top team challenging for Europe, but that didn’t stop you being sarcastic enough to try and make out that was what I was inferring when you quoted my post previously….. I’ll repeat if again so you might understand it. Ralph has had a sh1t hand dealt to him with what he’s had to work with. But my issue is with his selection tinkering and game management skills. I appreciate some people think he’s the new messiah. I don’t. I’d like my team to show a bit of bollox and fight when things aren’t too well. Not down tools every March. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:11 - May 25 with 1423 views | Butty101 | I suspect the new regime will be no different to the old one. They had the chance to make a statement in January and get Broja in or something similar. Dont forget we still had circa 15mill left over from the summer spending | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:43 - May 25 with 1377 views | franniesTache |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:11 - May 25 by Butty101 | I suspect the new regime will be no different to the old one. They had the chance to make a statement in January and get Broja in or something similar. Dont forget we still had circa 15mill left over from the summer spending |
I mean they've literally said that but for some reason no one is taking any notice of what they've actually said "Kraft said: "We will be an active and engaged owner, but we will not be starting any revolutions. "We were attracted to Southampton because it is already a well-run club that follows a clearly defined strategy." | | | |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 19:21 - May 25 with 1180 views | PatfromPoole |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:43 - May 25 by franniesTache | I mean they've literally said that but for some reason no one is taking any notice of what they've actually said "Kraft said: "We will be an active and engaged owner, but we will not be starting any revolutions. "We were attracted to Southampton because it is already a well-run club that follows a clearly defined strategy." |
That’s not the same as saying: “We won’t be investing any money in the club over and above buying Gao’s shares.” Depends on how one defines a revolution, I guess. I hadn’t interpreted not having to sell players any more before we can buy as a revolution. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 19:31 - May 25 with 1157 views | dirk_doone | It's begun in earnest with the sackings of Kelvin Davis, Dave Watson and Craig Fleming. It always struck me as very amateurish to have those three as first team coaches. It looks like the Club is going to become more professional in the way it's run. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 05:59 - May 26 with 976 views | saint68 |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 19:31 - May 25 by dirk_doone | It's begun in earnest with the sackings of Kelvin Davis, Dave Watson and Craig Fleming. It always struck me as very amateurish to have those three as first team coaches. It looks like the Club is going to become more professional in the way it's run. |
Id be more than happy to see Ralph go and be replaced by Vincent Kompany, if we're looking for a new era then Kompany would be my choice currently. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 06:31 - May 26 with 951 views | PatfromPoole |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 05:59 - May 26 by saint68 | Id be more than happy to see Ralph go and be replaced by Vincent Kompany, if we're looking for a new era then Kompany would be my choice currently. |
Kompany linked with Burnley, I see. I’d rather have him playing at CB in our defence…… | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 06:39 - May 26 with 943 views | saintwizzler |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 05:59 - May 26 by saint68 | Id be more than happy to see Ralph go and be replaced by Vincent Kompany, if we're looking for a new era then Kompany would be my choice currently. |
See what Saints Fan 73 thinks. He’s the man with all the answers. Please let me know what his verdict is. | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 09:23 - May 26 with 837 views | saints__fan__73 |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 06:39 - May 26 by saintwizzler | See what Saints Fan 73 thinks. He’s the man with all the answers. Please let me know what his verdict is. |
My verdict is that you're a little bit special! x | |
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New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 10:12 - May 26 with 762 views | franniesTache |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 19:21 - May 25 by PatfromPoole | That’s not the same as saying: “We won’t be investing any money in the club over and above buying Gao’s shares.” Depends on how one defines a revolution, I guess. I hadn’t interpreted not having to sell players any more before we can buy as a revolution. |
our transfer policy will remain the same, Martin Semmens has gone on record saying it. Although the way Southampton recruit won’t drastically change — they will still be targeting players of Tino Livramento’s ilk after the success of the teenager’s £5 million move from Chelsea last summer — the current structure of the board is being altered. Southampton Football Club currently sits under the umbrella of St Mary’s Football Group Ltd, meaning two separate boards have two different purposes. “We have a St Mary’s Football Group board, which I would call the ownership board,” Semmens explains. “Rasmus and Henrik will sit on that, as will Dragan. “Toby (Steele, the managing director) will be going onto the board because they (Sport Republic) have seen the partnership between us. Katharina (Liebherr) and Rolf (Bogli) will also be on it. That group will be about strategy, other clubs, how we interact and future budgets. “We then have a football club board, which operates the club day to day, and that won’t change.” | | | |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 10:21 - May 26 with 738 views | Sadoldgit |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 12:11 - May 25 by Butty101 | I suspect the new regime will be no different to the old one. They had the chance to make a statement in January and get Broja in or something similar. Dont forget we still had circa 15mill left over from the summer spending |
Perhaps they were waiting to see how things panned out before making any big decisions? Seems a sensible approach to me. They will have a much better idea about what is needed and the way forward now rather than making some knee jerk decisions early on. | | | |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 10:28 - May 26 with 727 views | SaintNick |
New Era Begins At Southampton Football Club on 10:12 - May 26 by franniesTache | our transfer policy will remain the same, Martin Semmens has gone on record saying it. Although the way Southampton recruit won’t drastically change — they will still be targeting players of Tino Livramento’s ilk after the success of the teenager’s £5 million move from Chelsea last summer — the current structure of the board is being altered. Southampton Football Club currently sits under the umbrella of St Mary’s Football Group Ltd, meaning two separate boards have two different purposes. “We have a St Mary’s Football Group board, which I would call the ownership board,” Semmens explains. “Rasmus and Henrik will sit on that, as will Dragan. “Toby (Steele, the managing director) will be going onto the board because they (Sport Republic) have seen the partnership between us. Katharina (Liebherr) and Rolf (Bogli) will also be on it. That group will be about strategy, other clubs, how we interact and future budgets. “We then have a football club board, which operates the club day to day, and that won’t change.” |
You are right Semmens did say that our transfer policy would not differ greatly, but he also said that we would now have the ability to fine tune it and do things quicker. Our transfer policy if implemented properly has been successful, it fell down around 2017, when we started to look for the players a step up, from those brought before, we spent higher transfer fees and wages, but ultimately bought dross and Les Reed paid the price for that. The statement “We then have a football club board, which operates the club day to day, and that won’t change.” is a little misleading, it can be taken that this is the board that decides the footballing side of things, to a degree yes, but I take it that operating the club day to day is more about bringing in revenue etc not about signing players We now effectively have Rasmus Ankersen calling the shots, the ownership board is deciding the strategy and budgets etc. The transfer strategy will change slightly, we have Ankersens knowledge on players Brentford were watching, when he was there, he didn't restrict signing to those 27 and under, he saw the need for experience, so I think this will be a subtle change | |
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