This is from Saints web.. They've been told he's gone.
From SaintsWeb:
Completely gutted. Don’t know how else to describe it.
Been doing this for years, but can’t remember such a gut wrenching departure.
Players come and go – Part of the game and I’m old enough to understand that once a players head is turned, it is very difficult if not impossible to reverse the situation.
I’ve read on here how Lallana and Shaw would stay. They won’t and never would have, regardless who was in charge, But I always felt we had a shout with Poch and I could have lived with any of the players leaving as long as we kept him.
May be the shock of losing him to Spurs is a measure of how far we have come (Trying to find some positives) but it feels like the last five years have just come to a grinding halt.
It wasn’t just the results, it was the football. Poch is and was the real deal. A complete breath of fresh air to the premiership and I loved every minute of it.
Don’t blame the board, I am sure we did everything we could, but the footballing pecking order has spoken again, the most annoying thing, is that we were so close….so so so so close to doing something magical. The irony for me is that we were a world class striker away and at 15 million we really went for it with Osvaldo…..it just didn’t work out.
Don’t give up on Saints, we will be back.
From SaintsWeb:
Completely gutted. Don’t know how else to describe it.
Been doing this for years, but can’t remember such a gut wrenching departure.
Players come and go – Part of the game and I’m old enough to understand that once a players head is turned, it is very difficult if not impossible to reverse the situation.
I’ve read on here how Lallana and Shaw would stay. They won’t and never would have, regardless who was in charge, But I always felt we had a shout with Poch and I could have lived with any of the players leaving as long as we kept him.
May be the shock of losing him to Spurs is a measure of how far we have come (Trying to find some positives) but it feels like the last five years have just come to a grinding halt.
It wasn’t just the results, it was the football. Poch is and was the real deal. A complete breath of fresh air to the premiership and I loved every minute of it.
Don’t blame the board, I am sure we did everything we could, but the footballing pecking order has spoken again, the most annoying thing, is that we were so close….so so so so close to doing something magical. The irony for me is that we were a world class striker away and at 15 million we really went for it with Osvaldo…..it just didn’t work out.
Don’t give up on Saints, we will be back.