Southampton, meltdown beginning?

I doubt in Jan, but possibly in the summer depen?ding on how far / if SFC fall in the interim

Hopefully it doesnt affect the squad at all, but it would be pretty incredible if it didnt
 
The difference a year makes hey? :D

After everything we went through to get back in the Prem, i thought we had shot ourselves in the foot, fair play to Cortese he was right in the end (although Adkins and MP did have almost identical Prem records after the same number of games :E)

Worth it to see Le Tissier crying into his mic come Saturday

It'll be interesting to see his reaction, they didn't get on.

I doubt in Jan, but possibly in the summer depen?ding on how far / if SFC fall in the interim

People think MP will stick around until the summer and see what happens...(1) club is sold (2) current owners continue with a new chairman (3) Cortese returns with buyers?

Who knows, too many unknowns at the moment, find it hard to believe they haven't had a longer chat other than 5 minutes before the press conference. If MP was that concerned about Cortese leaving he'd have gotten some concrete assurances regarding transfers first?
 
I doubt in Jan, but possibly in the summer depen?ding on how far / if SFC fall in the interim

Hopefully it doesnt affect the squad at all, but it would be pretty incredible if it didnt

Not really sure why, Cortese's changes won't disappear when he's gone, they won't go and throw the spare mattresses in the nearest dump because he left. He didn't take coaching sessions nor chose the team. Future improvements, things he had planned may not happen, some will, the training ground improvements won't be thrown away, again they add value to the club. Unless the owner is a bat **** crazy woman intent on getting revenge on an evil fathers favourite possession or something, she wants to sell and maintaining the value of the club gets her more money.

As I said with the manager, Cortese may be the reason he joined, but that doesn't make it a reason for him to leave, as no other managerial job will involved Cortese(currently). I can see short term changes being, lack of investment where Cortese might see it as securing/improving the club and an owner looking to sell merely see's it as money that won't directly add value to the club and thus reduces the effective profit of selling as the club is now.

Where that might hurt them worst is contract renewals and potentially losing players who want a new contract but she's unwilling to give them a improved contract.

As it stands Cortese leaves the club in a FAR stronger state thanks to many changes he has made, the direction he took with the club, the manager/players he helped bring in. Not much if anything gets worse with him leaving, the only thing they lose is potential future improvements he had planned.
 
As if things couldn't get worse, Christian Purslow is supposedly being lined up to replace Cortese.

From the sublime to the ridiculous.
 
Andy Heaton mentioned it the other night. The Mirror reported it last night/in today's paper too. I'm not sure if they've got any info on it or just going off Andy's tweet.
 
Those rumours have been quashed now, I hope the ownership is sorted quickly one way or the other. We could do without the uncertainty.
 
Aside from the fact they are currently owned by a billionaire, and that a billionaires plaything makes it insanely different to a millionaire's plaything which most clubs are in reality?

Hehe. True. The Leibherrs invested in moderation though, unlike the owners of Chelsea or Man City who are throwing 100s of millions about every summer.

I guess the only alternative to being owned by the mega rich is being demonstrated a few miles east. That doesn't look like much fun. :eek:
 
I don't think there will be a meltdown but it depends a bit on who (if anyone) buys the club of course.

Saints are five points behind 8th place i.e. mid-table mediocrity and that is about the best you could hope for regardless of who they have in the boardroom (barring a ridiculous sugar daddy) or indeed in the dugout. To be fair to MP he has 'proven me wrong' in the sense that I didn't think sacking Adkins was the right move, but whether he stays or goes in the summer will not fundamentally decree the long-term future of the club in my eyes.

I suppose the Cortese situation is slightly unusual in that you don't very often see a relatively 'unknown'/non-football man come in and make such wide-ranging changes whilst at the same time seemingly being generally well accepted.
 
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