Sportato

As you posted; sigh A really good summary LTL & I realised any anger I have, has been replaced with total depression. There were a couple of soundbite gems which did raise a simple tho. Thanks.

 

New Sportato up and running. Doesn't say much that we don't already know, but thought I'd better do something, plus I thought TIOON7 would appreciate the title.

https://www.sportato.net/post/it-s-the-hope

 

and good feedback from Adam Blackmore too on Twitter

 

With an invitation to the fans’ panel thrown in!

 

Two in a week. It's a madness. And you may well conclude that, as I try and convince everyone that all isn't as bad as it might seem.

https://www.sportato.net/post/reasons-to-be-cheerful-pt-1-3

 

If the almost inevitable happens, there will of course be great anger and heartbreak from the fan base. That is understandable, and we’ll all feel both to varying degrees. However, those of us who have seen it all before, some of us three times, know it’s not the end of life as we know it.

1974 was grim, but look what happened in the following 10 years, with a great manager and a fairly generous board backing him with some astute transfers. If the board had given just a tiny bit more, we could have sealed our place in history.

2005 was awful, and things didn’t really get much better until:

2009, the club on the brink of extinction until an Italian banker and a Swiss billionaire industrialist saved us, leading to probably the most enjoyable few years any of us can remember.

So if 2023 is another of those years, we’ll have a board that is probably closer to the Markus Liebherr variety than the Rupert Lowe. Sport Republic have made a few seismic mistakes in their time, but I honestly can’t see them bailing out on us if we go down.

 

Do you think Tella will want to come back - I think he will push for a permanent move to Burnley and may throw his dolls out of the pram to make it happen.

 

Why would he? He knows he is contracted to 2025 here. If we do go down we'd be foolish to sell him given how good he's been this season.

 

That would be a shame for him to leave like that .I do think he will be bought by someone during the summer. The owners will capitalise on his popularity to make a few bob.

 

The owners will want us back in the PL ASAP (assuming we go down). We'd be mad to sell him in that scenario. Now if we stay up, it's completely different. I would be much more open to cashing in.

 

Another factor is that his value must've soared and we would surely ask north of £20m. Would Burnley be prepared to pay it? I have my doubts personally.

 

They will have money to spend though.

 

I don’t think Tella will be back if we go down. Was reading a Burnley forum and they don’t think they’ll get him as one of the big PL teams will buy him

 

I can't see that TBH. He's completely unproven at PL level.

 

Yeah it's too early for a top team to buy him, I could see a mid-table club being interested though the way that he is banging them in right now.
I'd love to see him back here though now that he has learnt how to finish, he was always a potential talent just little end product before.

 

But if he says is his preference is to stay I think Saints will try and get 25M plus for him rather than fight it

 

New Sportato up and running, where we look at why relegation is good, fun, and the best thing to happen to Saints. Maybe.

https://www.sportato.net/post/a-good-relegation

 

Nice one LTL, I think this is a good relegation if there can be one.

Iam actually looking forward to next season.

Some good memories there but in truth we have been on the decline for a while. Hughes saved us and Ralph moved us up a notch, for a while. Then we became stale and indecisiveness and mistakes have left us in a mess.

It's a mess we can put right and like you say with a mix experience with youth, and we should be an attractive proposition to get the players to bring the good times back to St Mary's again

 

Very good read again LTL, I fully believe this is the reset we need to get some good times back. As I've already mentioned the manager is the most important part of the jigsaw, get that right and there is no reason we can't have a great season!

 

It's t-w-a-t, there's no 'i' in Twat.