Thetownend.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8983286.stm

Decent manager at this level but hardly the marquee name the fans were hoping for.

Personally I think they should have gone for Poyet as he is undoubtably the best manager in this league.

Martin O'Neil.....ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Oh dear. They'll be going mental

Nowhere near a done deal by the look of this

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Adkins has NOT yet signed for Southampton

Iron Chairman Steve Wharton​SCUNTHORPE United manager Nigel Adkins has NOT yet signed for Southampton.

And the likelihood seems now that he will not be going to St Mary’s.

First thing today the club put out a statement saying Adkins and his right hand man Andy Crosby had agreed terms to join Southampton after talks yesterday.

It was subject to the two clubs agreeing a compensation package.

But Iron chairman Steve Wharton exclusively told the Telegraph that the deal had not gone through.

“The situation is that Nigel and was given an ultimatum last night by Southampton to resign and accept their offer, said Wharton.

“But Nigel was not prepared to do that. He wanted to walk out of Glanford Park with his head held high and everything agreed.

“I have tried to contact the Southampton chairman today but have not been able to get hold of him.

“I was not prepared to roll over and let Nigel leave for nothing.

“I wanted some compensation for what I felt he was worth. It was only a modest amount.

“From a selfish point of view I will be happy if Nigel stays with us.

“But I also feel very sorry for Nigel if this was a move that he had set his heart on.

“The Southampton people have been very difficult to deal with.

“They are probably not the right sort of people for Nigel to be working with.

“But at the moment I am not exactly sure what the situation is until I have talked further to Nigel.”



Pisses me off the league allow tapping up on managers like that to happen. If you do that with a player you are in alot of trouble but with a manager it don't matter?

Not any more. SSN are reporting that Southampton wanted Adkins to 'resign' from Scunny, but he refused saying it is up to the clubs to agree a compensation package.

They have now withdrawn the contract offer.

Fully agree, but clubs should really come to an agreement re compensation before letting their manager talk to another club.

Sounds to me the Saints Chairman is doing another wonderful job in regards to this

What a bunch of cunts. Who do they think they are?

Much bigger than they actually are now?

True.

I so hope we do em saturday

The new Lids perhaps. Too good to play in this tinpot league I guess!

What a cunt that Chairman sounds!

Haven't you heard, Southampton are a massive club - far too big for this division


















Not

I thought they were after the erstwhile 'Family Stand'.

I expected Phil Brown ex Hull manager to go there - bit reputation, big ego, and unattached

I suspect the Soton fans are impressed with their chairman's ability

How brilliant would it be if they got Gus Poyet...

I personally cannot see how anyone could work for that dickhead of a chairman.

I did laugh a few days ago that SSN said a source at Saints said that 2 Premiership managers applied to take over at Saints, and were willing to drop 2 divisions. Bollox.

Lawrie McMenemy?

I heard that but thought they said 2 ex Premiership managers had applied, I too can't see anyone willing to leave the Premiersship to join them...pie in sky.

No they said 2 managers that were working in the Prem willing to drop down...and that they 50 applications, quite a lot from managers currently employed.

I personally think this 'source' probably came from the Chairman direct. Either that or they've employed Baghdad Bob.

This should at least ensure they have no manager in for Saturday, at least not one that's gonna have any say over how they play. What a joke they are.

Adkins deserves praise for his professionalism by the looks of it, not that the same can be said of the other party.

How much money would TEFers need to put on Poyet with one bookmaker to get the odds shortened enough to scare the shit out of a few Brightoners?

Fair play to Adkins. That's what I will say. Good news for us with Saturday in mind.

What, like when Wilson was unveiled a few years ago here? He never even made the game at Orient, but the players (And the fans) responded to the news and got a great result.

Dear oh Dear

Anyone else in the queue ?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11743_6366993,00.html

Whoever goes there now is only an afterthought after Adkins turned them down.

It'll have to be a 'yes' man...Graham Rix anyone...

Southampton are a mess, I hope we can capitalise on it somehow. That's all.

Adkins didn't turn them down though. He actually says he wants the job but only if compensation is paid to Scunthorpe. Apparently there is still a chance he could get the job.

Doubt it, Southampton withdrew the offer after he said he wanted to do things the right way. Obviously not the Southampton way under Cortese

Just the headlines tell a story...

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/

I see they are still dreaming of Martin O'Neill, as the poll suggests.

Talks of a compensation package:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8983286.stm

Cortese seems to have turned in to a complete twat since Liebherr died.

Sacks Pardew, seemingly because he just felt like it, who had been doing a decent job and would most likely have got them promoted. Offers the job to Adkins, then can't or won't agree a compensation package with Scunthorpe so demands he resigns. Adkins refuses to resign so he withdraws the offer. Then he offers the job to Howe who turns it down. Then offers the job to Adkins again.

I'd be surprised if Adkins, or any half decent manager, would want the job now with all that shit going on.

I suspect he was always a complete twat but Liebherr was perhaps restraining his worst excesses

It's taking them a long time to agree a compensation package, they will end up with someone like Paul 'Huge Ego' Ince and claim he was no 1 choice and then claim they offered the physio job to Adkins not the managers job

I heard of the 2 premiership managers was Carlo Ancelotti

I heard they want Charlie as player/coach.

Adkins has been confirmed as their new manager. His interview on the Football League Show made it quite obvious what he wanted to do.

Well at least they waited until after our game.

Not sure how I'd feel about that if I were a Saints fan. Obviously did well for Scunny, not been a league manager for that long in the grand scheme of things though.

As long as he's shit at Saints, that'll be OK.