06 Jul 2014 11:56:47
I have just read an article on Newsnow and the article is saying Everton are ready to match our offer for Tadic. Does the Ed's or anyone know of any truth of this article?

{Ed001's Note - I don't know anything about that.}

1.) 06 Jul 2014
Ffs wish this board would pull their finger out! Tadic should have been signed a week ago!!

2.) 06 Jul 2014
Agree but saints penny pinching like usual will ultimately relegate us from epl

3.) 06 Jul 2014
Nonsense. Koeman is still new. The World Cup is still a distraction. Clubs, players, agents are still jockying for position.

Its only the beginning of July. You can't just force players to sign for you. The club has to make the right decision. A 10 million pound player might cost the club 30 million over the course of his contract.

Southampton also need to know who is staying and who is going. let's sort out the futures of Schneiderlin and Lovren first.

Saints will have around 50 million to spend on fees. That needs to be spent wisely, not just to appease impatient fans

4.) 06 Jul 2014
Dont think kl/lr estimate the drop in turnover/revenue if we come out of epl, its disgusting that the decision withhold bonuses has started this monumental failure in the making, holding back on say £15m in bonuses which could couple with losing £100 from dropping out of epl such short sighted and shows current board ARE out of there depth, I agree I want us to b well run well budgeted club not like man c/ psg/anzi but in all my life I've never seen a team loose 5 first teamers let alone survive, lot of people on here deluded to think we will survive with rowe/targett/Gallagher/isgrove, we had smallest outfield squad in epl last year, fact,, we need 7 new poss 8 if spidy goes and at least 4 of these need to be able to hit ground running and quality with the likes of Witsel/Tadic/perisic not with the likes bentner/ings/samaras, very peed off disillusioned saints fan

5.) 06 Jul 2014
You get these problems when clubs are run by people who know nothing about football.

6.) 06 Jul 2014
Remind me the background of cortese before he joined.

My understanding is the the day to day football is run by reed not the board as they also understand they don't have the knowledge to make football calls hence why reed oversea the Koeman signing- one which will prove a perfect fit for us saints, so I for one say back of the board let them breath and well who knows we might we be liking the new look saints in a month or so. Or do we want to over pay over the odds for players like Liverpool have and seem keen to continue doing so. Koeman needs some space and time to do deals that are long term players for us not just quick fix to make us think everything is ok. Chill relax and watch the jigsaw slowly fall in to place as what I heard its happy days ahead

7.) 07 Jul 2014
Yes but wheels shouldve been put in motion sooner, they knew mopo would most likely leave so they should have had options not mince around and wait 3wks, now the problem is getting people in and getting them to gel in 40odd days, we cannot afford to have a bad start in epl

8.) 07 Jul 2014
07 Jul 2014 09:49:28
Couldn't agree more dsj. Seems to me it's always been the same with this shall we, shan't we buying policy. A bit like being in a shop and there's only one item you want left, by the time you dither about making your mind up this long arm comes over your shoulder and grabs it!