You are My Bitch now Jose
So, another quiet pre-season for Saints then. My last blog was up to the point where
Liverpool apologised for being scummy twats….
The latest update to the Virgil van Dijk situation came
on Friday 11th June when Yahoo sports published more details of the
alleged tapping up. I use the word alleged in the context of it definitely
fucking happened.
It was all what we knew already, the text messages, the
meetings but in addition apparently Virgil was sent a load of videos with
details of exactly where he'd fit in to Liverpool's current team. As if that
wasn't fucking obvious anyway as he be fitting it in between Milner at left
back and Matip at centre back, in the space currently occupied by the man
currently looking for a new gardener, Dejan Lovren. I can imagine Klopp's voice
overdubbed on a video of Liverpool fucking up at the back. "Virgil Ja! you
play in the position that useless cunt Lovren is supposed to be in".
The role of the Wasserman Group, the agents for Virgil,
was painted in a really unfavourable light as well as they apparently want him
to move to Liverpool because it gets them the biggest fee for their services.
Yeah, they've done a really great job for their client and his football career haven't
they? There are much better clubs than Liverpool that he could play for. In fact, if I was in any position of power at
one of the proper big clubs, I’d be questioning whether I’d deal with the
Wasserman Group.
The other snippet that that was revealed was that Virgil
thought that he could kick off and Saints would cave in and sell him for £50
million. The Yahoo article categorically stated that this was never going to
happen. Every player has a price but
don’t take the piss.
The information is attributed to a source close to
Southampton. As the whole of the football media seems to be Liverpool biased or
ex-Liverpool players and it's lovely when the boot is on the other foot. I can
only laugh at the thought of Liverpool is owners and that wanker Klopp,
squirming as more of this comes out.
They probably really don’t need to be being linked to Dusan Tadic as
well. This in my opinion is because the
media are too stupid to realise that there is unlikely to be any business
between Saints and Liverpool. The main crux of the stories seems to be the
belief that Dusan has a £13 million release clause. This story came up in January when he was
linked with Arsenal and again a few months back when he was linked to West
Ham. West Ham I could see but there’s no
way he’s moving to a top 6 club. Agent
talk. If the FA could just get on with
issuing Liverpool with the transfer ban that they clearly deserve and should
get, then we could all sit back and laugh.
Meanwhile, Virgil has taken being badly advised to a
whole new level by tweeting a picture of himself looking out of the window in a
moody and fed up manner, whilst lying back on a private jet. I thought
footballers were supposed to be more savvy about social media these days. I'm
sure he would've gone on a course or something at some point where they
would've said something along the lines of posting a sulking tweet whilst sat
on a private jet is not going to make anyone feel sorry for you, in fact it's
just gonna make you look like a right cunt. “Woe is me, I only earn more in a
week than most people earn in a year and I only have a small private jet. I
want mooooooore…. I wanna big private jet. How can a man live with just a small
private jet for fuck's sake?”
How to Make Yourself Look a Complete Cock on Social media
Still, it’s the working mans game and all that.
Talk about hero to zero. He's obviously spent the whole
of his time injured plotting to get away from the club that was nursing him
back to full health. What a complete wanker.
Just another wanker. Another
Lallana, another Lovren. If you’re a
Saints fan and you don’t agree with this yet then it’s only because he’s still
our player. If he played for any other
club and was behaving like this – you would not be so forgiving. Remember kids, the name on the badge is more
important than the name on the back.
Finally, after what seems like and unnecessary three week
wait, Claude was fired and the wait for a new manager officially began. I covered the reasons I thought he should be
fired here:
It was an open secret that he was going and one can only
assume that a new manager has been identified and there are just the
formalities to sort out. As I said in a
previous blog, I was of the opinion that Claude had to go but he leaves with no
damage to his CV and good luck to him. A
decent guy but not right for Saints or English football in general. I’m a bit surprised that we’ve actually
sacked him as opposed to him being mutually consented citing family reasons
etc. There’s a rumour that I’m about to
start, that Claude has been tapped up by Liverpool to be Klopp’s number 2 to
try and improve Liverpool’s attacking play against deep defences cos Klopp
clearly has no idea.
Claude’s exit was in keeping with his year in charge in
that it was understated and somewhat shambolic.
He showed his class in a statement thanking everyone which he didn’t
need to do. It showed if proof were
needed that he was a decent guy but it just wasn’t right. I’m guessing the review was to see if there
was common ground between what Claude thought of the season and what Les Reed
thought of it and I’m guessing that there was no way forward. In my opinion and looking back, his days were
numbered from the moment the final whistle went against Hapoel Be’er Sheva at
home. That certainly seemed to be the
turning point with the Board and some of the fans and players.
So – who are we getting?
The name on seemingly everyone’s wish list was Thomas Tuchel who has
just left Dortmund. I just wondered if
post-Dortmund, he was going to able to handle the white-hot atmosphere of the
Kingsland/Chapel corner. I couldn’t see
Tuchel being the man for a couple of reasons – one is that he’s a spiky
character who would clash with Les Reed and the other is he’ll be waiting for a
bigger job. Personally, I want a manager
who gives the board and players a hard time so I’d have been happy if it was
him but Tuchel ruled himself out.
Les has to get this appointment right so another
underwhelming one won’t go down well – but whilst Roy Hodgson is still out
there…. The short list now contains Mauricio Pellegrino and Frank de Boer. If Pellegino is a cross between Mauricio
Pochettino and Manuel Pellegrini then he’ll do.
The
fixtures came out and boy, do we have to get some points on the board early. Our first 12 games are all
winnable with only Man United at home against the clubs that finished above us
last year.
With Swansea at home up first, we then got another home game straight after, as our first away game has now been switched. It was
supposed to be at West Ham and their virtually free ground but the World
Athletics Championships is on there. It finishes a full week before the
scheduled game but that's not long enough to convert the ground for football. It seems that the retractable
seats are in fact just a big pile of scaffolding and Karen Brady and the Dildo
Brothers are searching the yellow pages for a better deal so it takes 11 days
to convert the ground. Wankers. They should get fined for not having a ground.
I'm
pissed off because we've agreed to switch home and away games with them so now
we start with two home games and we have something like five aways out of 6 in
March. I can't go to the switched game as I'll still be on holiday. I won't get
my money back on the ticket exchange because August games don't sell out. There
will be many more who can't go to the new home date than those who couldn't go
to the original March home date. We’re
just fans though so oh well.
Aside
from that, why have Saints agreed to it? We're always dodgy at the start of the
season due to having a new manager and the March away run is now a nightmare,
coming in top of the December nightmare when we have all of big guns in the
most congested period, as usual. Fume.
We've
got a new kit, same as every year but this year the Home shirt is an 80s
throwback to the thick white band of the Air Florida / Rank Xerox kit. Keegan,
Channon, Moran, Armstrong, Williams etc. The animated video to accompany the
launch was amusing, culminating in animated Maya Yoshida kicking an animated
Evil Genius in the face. The fact that the Evil Genius looked like Ronald
Koeman is purely coincidental I'm sure. There were sly digs at Pompey and
Liverpool in there as well and Animated Fraser saved everything. Virgil hardly
featured... I wonder why, seeing how he's captain and all that.
Any likeness to any person living or dead is purely coincidental
A
couple of days of rumours and general ridicule of Ryan Giggs’ right to even be
mentioned in the context of getting a Premier League managers job. Ryan says Southampton would be a great job
for him to start his managerial career at.
Fuck Off round your brothers house you twat. Talking of twats, the Liverpool media
Cuntshow kicked into gear again. Firstly
there were articles about them asking Saints if we’d softened our stance on
Virgil. No reply from Saints. The John Aldridge, has-been Scouse Gobshite
clearly suggested that Virgil should go on strike to force a move to Anfield. This is exactly what he advocated when
Sterling wanted to move to Man City, Suarez wanted to move to Barcelona and
Torres wanted to go to Chelsea. Only it
wasn’t of course. Interestingly he still
works for Liverpool which you would hope the Premier League will notice. As far as we know, the tapping up
investigation is still going on and to paraphrase Kevin Keegan, I would love it
if they got a transfer ban, love it…. the cunts. Isn’t it funny that Lallana and Lovren and
now Virgil van Dijk all have ‘strike action’ strongly rumoured with their
transfers from Saints… what’s the common factor with all these players and
their transfers… it’s Red and it’s Scouse and it stinks of Fucking Bins.
#Cuntwatch
Back
in the real world it became a straight choice between Mauricio Pellegrino and
Frank de Boer. On Thursday 22nd
de Boer was announced as imminently arriving at Crystal Palace and on Friday,
the seemingly inevitable happened and Pellegrino was revealed as the new Saints
manager. On the face of it I’m pleased
with this and some very respected people have made encouraging proclamations of
his ability, flexibility and style of football he likes to play. His opening statement of wanting the fans to
feel engaged with the team every week was decent as that has definitely been
lost this season just gone. Bring it on. Let’s hope he hits the ground running.
So – never a dull
moment in a standard summer for Southampton FC.
Wasserman Media Group were also implicated in the sacking of Derby County chief executive Sam Rush for gross misconduct and the FA's ongoing inquiry into Darren Wassall being employed by Wasserman and Derby County at the same time.
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