Southampton

[Gors Buster]

The Downes signing alone meant he was way up on the ledger.
Key and Darling were his also.
O’Reilly and Ogbene would have made him look like King Midas.

Missed Nathan Wood off that list, we had a decent ROI there.

 

[Itchysphincter]

Sorry, but that's bollocks.

I've acknowledged on several occasions, despite my dislike for his style of play, the fact that his side at least had a backbone and a set of balls, something our sides of the last three years have lacked. I don't like the guy but the one thing he can do is organise a side defensively and he won't put up with laxity.

By contrast, you will never hear the Martin-hatred brigade concede an inch of ground. Hell, even a millimetre is too much for them.

Not much to agree with there. Cooper’s team was the most cowardly I’ve ever seen. Shithouses the lot of them, the image of the manager.

 

[Smurph]

And Fisher.

Ha ha quality keeper

 

[Smurph]

Downes was his and I know for a fact that Key was his work.

Ah, can't argue with those in the inner circle of the transfer committee.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Ah, can't argue with those in the inner circle of the transfer committee.

* Taps nose.

 

[Smurph]

* Taps nose.

Wink Wink

 

[Gors Buster]

Ah, can't argue with those in the inner circle of the transfer committee.

It’s not via our club that I know.
Well documented around the January that Martin had been to watch him twice.
Are you saying that Watson signed him?

 

[Smurph]

It’s not via our club that I know.
Well documented around the January that Martin had been to watch him twice.
Are you saying that Watson signed him?

I'm saying it was probably more a scouting team signing rather than it being all down to Martin seeing as we signed the lad in the summer after Martin had left

 

[Gors Buster]

I'm saying it was probably more a scouting team signing rather than it being all down to Martin seeing as we signed the lad in the summer after Martin had left

Was there a scouting team around that time?

 

[Smurph]

Was there a scouting team around that time?

Of course there was, you already know the answer to that question.

The club rarely operates where the manager is the one who signs the player.

It doesn't matter what you say, it will never convince me that Russell Martin signed Josh Key.

 

[Gors Buster]

Of course there was, you already know the answer to that question.

The club rarely operates where the manager is the one who signs the player.

It doesn't matter what you say, it will never convince me that Russell Martin signed Josh Key.

Speaking of his maiden transfer window at Swansea at a fans forum in March, Watson said: "There were no scouts (at the club), no processes, no nothing. "There wasn't a single person in the building, so the recruitment over the past few years, prior to us coming in, was almost on a whim. That couldn't last."

 

[Niigata Jack]

Of course there was, you already know the answer to that question.

The club rarely operates where the manager is the one who signs the player.

It doesn't matter what you say, it will never convince me that Russell Martin signed Josh Key.

"The club rarely operates where the manager is the one who signs the player."

Try telling that to the numpty that is the Res on the SI site he's still giving Cooper pelter's for not signing Gyökeres

 

[Smurph]

Speaking of his maiden transfer window at Swansea at a fans forum in March, Watson said: "There were no scouts (at the club), no processes, no nothing. "There wasn't a single person in the building, so the recruitment over the past few years, prior to us coming in, was almost on a whim. That couldn't last."

Like I've previsouly stated there isn't anything you can post on here that will convince me Martin was solely responsible for the signing of Josh Key.

 

[Smurph]

"The club rarely operates where the manager is the one who signs the player."

Try telling that to the numpty that is the Res on the SI site he's still giving Cooper pelter's for not signing Gyökeres

That fella is purposely on the site to wind people up, how anyone responds to him is beyond me. At the time I'm pretty sure there isn't a single person who would have signed the lad based on what we saw whilst in a Swans shirt.

The swans didn't sign a player based on the ask of a manager who was no longer at the club in the case of Josh Key.

Some people are desperate to act as they know more than they really do. It's a strange phenomenon of a football forum.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Did he (The Res) used to be on here?