Southampton sack Puel

League cup Final, 8th in the league and with a squad that sold its better players once again last summer.

Yet I bet the owners won't get half as bad a write up as ours did for sacking a manager who lost the last 6, ended 17th, didn't want to learn English and picked 2 keepers on the bench.

Daily Mail, over to you...(Not that I'll read it to find out.)

 

Glad we got Silva when we did.
More competition for Palace.
Win win.

 

I wonder if that's why Southampton have acted.

Although Southampton are a much bigger and better club than Palace so I doubt they are even after the same targets

Small club Palace are trying to get the likes of Hodgson, Dyche and Pellegrino

Southampton will go for Schmidt, Tuchel, De Boer and maybe even Luis Enrique

Must be horrible being a Palace fan and having your chairman lie every time you miss out on your number 1 target.

Can't wait for them to get Pellegrino or Hodgson and Parish claim that's who they wanted all along.

 

I'm sure Martin Samuel has dropped his kebab, pizza, bargain bucket and deep fried mars bar to immediately see if he can concoct a story in which this whole thing is Silva's fault. After all, in the words of the rotund one "he's the gift that keeps on giving".

 

No no, he will simply write a story stating that if Silva only waited a couple more weeks he could have landed his dream job at Southampton. He will then go on to say that inside sources have informed him that Silva is kicking himself at rushing to sign for Watford and how he regrets being there already.

 

If you pumped just a bit more hot air up Samuel's arse could he serve as a barrage balloon?

 

Schmidt has signed to coach some Chinese no marks so that rules him out.

 

There's probably a much wider pool of possibilities for all of these jobs than we're aware of.

Nobody saw the Joker coming ...

 

Tim Sherwood left Swindon yesterday, I'd laugh if he ended up at Palace.

 

Tuchel lined up you'd think,probably before Parish's next visit to the salon.

 

Palace manager thread is comedy gold, the club is a shambles the way they do things...... Fixated on bigging up the likes of dyche and hodgson and wanting to make sure the way palace play continue.. . As for Southampton seems odd to leave it so late to make a change, guess they got someone lined up, tuchel?

 

Once again, who cares? I stopped reading what the media had to say about us a long while ago. I imagine the majority of clicks for the anti-Watford Daily Mail articles are from angry Watford fans considering the majority of football fans probably don't really care.

 

If they get Tuchel then it won't look so barmy.

 

He'd be too heavy.
Enough helium so he nearly explodes would still not be enough.

 

Matt le Tissier on Twitter:

"Totally get why fans of other teams think Claude Puel was treated harshly, however saints fans and board have a deeper understanding "

Pretty sure he sat on Sky with his undereducated pals slagging us off for the exact same thing. But because it's Southampton....

 

I reckon we should sack Silva whilst we ve still got a chance of survival and get Big Sam in, to steer the ship until the end of the season and reconvene then.

 

No wonder Pozzo and him were unable to agree terms!

 

Tuchel has ruled himself out of the saints job.

 

Spot on. He did protest at the owners when they sacked Adkins. Went a bit quiet when the guy they got in turned out to be okay though.

 

Southampton, unlike Palace, strike me as the type of well-run club that would probably already have a replacement manager lined up before booting the old one out the door. If they haven't i find it surprising.

 

I tweeted him my displeasure at this and called his comment drivel.

 

Looks like De Boer is saints new no.1 target which means Palace will miss out on another no.1 target and the one all the fans want according to their tweets.

 

Nope, they never wanted him if that's the case....

 

Not sure why you added an extra syllable to 'uneducated'

 

Maybe it was a typo.

 

It would really be quite funny if we sacked Silva before the start of the season.

 

Completely get why Saints got rid of Puel, watching them a few times last season even I was wondering what he was trying to do the only odd thing is they've waited so long after the season but perhaps someone became available that made their choice easy for them.
Be interesting to see how Boufal and Gabbidini do with a new manager next season, Boufal hasn't done anything to make me upset we missed out and Gabbidini was on fire at first but got injured I believe.

Does make me appreciate the Pozzo's decisivness, saints fans had to wait weeks for confirmation Puel went and Palace fans are having to wait weeks to see who their new man is. Even if Big Sam's decision was out the blue they don't seem to be rushing the choice.

 

Sums it up that Southampton struggled to score goals last season, and according to their fans played negative football - yet they stuck 4 past us and looked dangerous every time they attacked

 

On aggregate it was 5-4 to them. I suspect they'd think we were pretty dangerous attacking them too.

 

Excellent point! Although I think even the most optimistic Hornet would admit that 3-4 at the Vic flattered us somewhat.

 

Seriously! They played us off the park on both occasions. All they would consider is how the fk they conceded that many to us in two such one sided games. You're a great poster, but your unbounded optimism is difficult to understand. We are who we are, and hopefully next season we'll challenge teams like Soton, but right now, we are not close.