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Episode 189: For Sale?
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Southampton – As rumours report we are for sale for £125 millions we talk about how likely we think that may be, what may come of it, and what happens if we do get sold.
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and as always today joined by my good friend, wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch.
00:00:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
are you doing mate?
00:00:21
Zak
Yeah, it's too bad, mate. It's too bad.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're back on a Saints related podcast. We waffled a bit about mostly Wrexham. yesterday It's got to be said, but but that we're back.
00:00:30
Zak
Somehow.
Is Southampton Football Club up for sale?
00:00:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
There is some breaking news at the time of recording from TalkSports Simon Jordan that the club might be up for sale. I'm sure that things will develop on this, but do you think there's any reality based in that, Zach?
00:00:49
Zak
Well, the Daily hat Echo apparently had heard rumours and then obviously asked the club and they have been furiously denied by the club. And then you've also got... But they were essentially... The the article, bless them, it was trying to make a whole lot of goal out of what is essentially some guy heard a rumour.
Investment Logic: Why sell now?
00:01:09
Zak
But there's potential talk of them being unhappy in their investment and the fact they've spent all this money and wanted us to get back in the Premier League and wanted us to stay in the Premier League. And... I don't know how much i play into it, and i'll I'll tell you why, and I'll give my reasoning understanding.
00:01:24
Zak
The amount of money that they've invested into out of football stuff seems like a complete wasted investment if they decide to just get rid of it, unless they can sell it at bigger profit.
00:01:34
Zak
And the rumoured price tag is 125 million, and they've spent 100 million to get us. I don't know Yeah.
00:01:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Plus investments, right? 100 million was the initial buying price, plus whatever they've put in to get to the point where we're
00:01:43
Zak
Yeah.
00:01:48
Zak
Yeah. so So if they're trying to make £5 million, pounds let's say that, it seems like a very crazy kind of way to do it. that's that's That's my first point.
00:01:59
Zak
My second point is the fact that they have also gone through the the pain of trying to apply for sort of planning permission around the area of St Mary's. knocking all of that down and and they're trying to essentially evolve the area around St. Mary's Stadium into a commercial hub, right?
00:02:18
Zak
So restaurants and and shops to try and make the matchday experience a bit better. But on top of that, also turn that area into an economic hub for Southampton, which as we know, as as much as we we love our hometown, is a bit of a struggle with very much sort of, in in my opinion, one of the cities that were completely lost in the whole world.
Regional Economy and Political Impact
00:02:39
Zak
regeneration of the North and the focus on the North and the whole quote unquote leveling up. That was wonderful. And it's, you know, good for the the North to be sort of, but but the South coast, because it's just assumed all of it's Tory blue, we'll be fine. So that has kind of been left behind and you can see that with the debt. And I know this is probably a bit more political and a bit more sort of financial than we'd usually talk about. But I think my point is, why would you go through all of the pain of having to talk to councils and do all of that stuff?
00:03:06
Zak
if you were just then going to sell it on for like £2 million paid profit at the end of the day.
00:03:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I mean, since that initial proposal, Zach, we've not heard a huge amount.
00:03:10
Zak
it could...
00:03:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Could it be that the council have turned around and said, absolutely not. And now they're trying to cash out on their investments.
00:03:22
Zak
but perfectly acceptable. and the The other thing could be as simple as we we got up to the Premier League, they were really excited, they thought, okay, well now we're back in the Premier League and then realised we've crashed out again and don't want to go through the the pain of doing it twice.
00:03:35
Zak
And I could also kind of understand that. It just seems like it is... the The only way that I could see them deciding to sell it is a very much cut your losses. But also, they've invested a lot into the future, right? We've talked about this before with like, they've brought in Spores. Unless Spores turned around and went, there's nothing I can do with this club. What was the point? They've brought in a lot of players from clubs that they are also still going to own. and If it's they're just getting rid of Southampton, are they going to keep the other clubs? I very much imagine so because they seem very invested in the Turkish club.
00:04:06
Zak
I don't know how invested they are in the French club, but it seems like... you know they will continue as the entity sports republic? Is it just going to be they get rid of Southampton? there's There's a lot of factors factors at play here.
New Ownership Debate: Lessons from Other Clubs
00:04:18
Zak
I know that there's a lot of people that will probably throw their hands in the air in celebration.
00:04:23
Zak
It's because you know they they want to get rid of them.
00:04:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Most people have very short memories.
00:04:26
Zak
Yeah, because it's it's who who would who would replace them, who would want to come in during a time. If they came in and purchased us, would they have the the power and desire to want to put us back in the Premier League?
00:04:38
Zak
We've also heard from multiple different owners over the years that that's what the aim is. And then you end up seeing what's happened at sort of like Reading and you know other clubs that are slowly sliding down the football pyramid,
00:04:51
Zak
pyramid not due to or any fault of their own. You're watching managers not get paid and other people not get paid and all of that kind of stuff is is awful, awful to see. So yeah, but I think those those are the big things for me is it it seems like it's a it would be mad to invest a bunch for the future and then randomly just go, no, I'm i'm done with this now. We're withdrawing all our investment.
00:05:14
Zak
But also from like a worldwide standpoint, like I would have never have said that there would be tariffs on stuff, right? Because you would have started speaking to me about tariffs six months ago.
00:05:24
Zak
I'd be like, oh, what those things that they used in like the eighteen hundreds that That is paraphrasing. But my my point is, is that the world is in in many different ways is extremely volatile in comparison to previous.
00:05:38
Zak
There might be more things going on behind the scenes than we know. There might be people deciding to pull their investments, change their investments, put their money into what they consider to be safer options. And honestly, is football at this day and age a safe investment?
00:05:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:05:51
Zak
There you go.
00:05:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
but why definitely
00:05:52
Zak
Yeah.
00:05:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, 100% isn't for a number of reasons, but specifically the league we're heading into... think we talked about it off the podcast and we'll probably get a full podcast out of it whilst we're making content when there's no football happening.
Financial Instability in Football
00:06:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
But the budgets and the particularly the wage to turnover ratio in the championship for most of the clubs down there is is physically not sustainable. it is...
00:06:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that technically speaking, the the league is insolvent because if you add up all of the assets of the values of the clubs in the league and take away the amount it costs per year, that there's it loses money as a league every year, which is isn't it?
00:06:36
Zak
It's like the isn't it like the most lucrative second league in the world, right? Something like that, which which says a lot.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:42
Zak
But it's it's one of those things where if we did the same thing again, where we we go we come down, we go straight back up, and they don't have a good enough plan or something goes wrong and we end up in the same situation. I'm wondering if they just don't want to invest in that yo-yo.
00:06:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:06:58
Zak
is There's something that must be difficult to...
00:07:02
Zak
if you're If you're looking at it from just a money perspective, it must be difficult to see your profit margins in those areas when they will completely bounce around year after year after year after year.
00:07:15
Zak
And you could easily understand why someone would go I can do all of the work to build it, or I could just not. And this is where that part of insecurity in my mind comes in where I like to think that they've said the right things, they're starting to do the right things, but also...
00:07:32
Zak
they could just flip on its head and drop it, drop us, you know? And I think that's where some of the problems come in in general with, with club ownership. And we know we don't really have the, the boom of Chinese owners like we did sort of eight years ago, where, especially where just, just the way that China's economic policy works now means that they, they wouldn't allow that anymore.
00:07:50
Zak
And they are no longer going to be, you know, that was, that was during the time they were go to be this big footballing superpower. Right. And that kind of dream very much died. I think, can't remember. think BBC did a fantastic article about how that was such a big thing, but then there was a lot of corruption in the league and then a lot of corruption with the ownership systems and all that kind of stuff.
00:08:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:08:07
Zak
I just don't see... I can't see why, when you've invested this much, you would then bundle out at the last minute. But also, because of the current state of economics, I'm like, flip side of that, maybe everyone's just scared and we'll do weird, crazy things. And maybe getting rid of the football club that is potentially going to be a loss maker would be a good thing for them. I just would be very, very cautious about being excited as to what's next.
00:08:35
Zak
if that is the case. But at the at point a time of talking, to be clear, this is a rumour from just a guy on the radio that,
00:08:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
The Piers Morgan of football, Simon Jordan. Speaking of polarising figures, an absolute mouthpiece of talk sport and not someone that I put much credence in, let's put it that way.
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, well, let's move on from that, but first a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:09:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
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Potential Managers: Who's on the list?
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
back. Okay, so assuming that Sports Republic do stick around, we've got a much more pressing decision coming up in our near futures act. And that is who's going to take over. Now, I know you've got some episodes lined up where you look at that in some real depth, but i want to briefly talk to you about a new name that's come to light.
00:10:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Former Man United co currently the manager in Minnesota and I have completely forgotten his name and don't have it on the screen in front of me.
00:10:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to say it's Eric someone, but he, I'll get it. Uh, whilst we get your opinion, but he, he's been apparently interviewed for the job, of the new manager, which I mean, puts into repute anyone who thinks that the decision has been made and is there.
00:10:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
What are your thoughts on that? Is that like another potential unknown that might come good? or
00:10:40
Zak
so So you're talking about Eric Ramsey, yeah? Football manager?
00:10:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you, yes.
00:10:43
Zak
Who is, oh, that's upsetting. Almost a year older than me. go It's one of those things that, for me...
00:10:55
Zak
It's just a bit sort of out of left field. like And again, we expected some left field picks, right? Because of the state the club are in and who wants to come here. and And we've already talked before about established names and things like that.
00:11:09
Zak
Maybe I'll do an episode on this guy. It's getting very difficult to keep track of keep track of who I should do episodes on. Because I'm kind of low-key basing it on the odds at the moment, because, you know, bookies usually know first, that as greg Greg will tell you, working at the bookies.
00:11:24
Zak
So, yeah, it's a very strange thing.
00:11:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
house never losing for a reason. that
00:11:28
Zak
did just say that he I did just see here that he worked alongside Kieran McKenna as well at the university the university football team in Loughborough, which is... Weird coincidence, but yeah, I mean, if it's one of those things that might end up being well for us, then fine. But I just always have this worry now about how pragmatic managers will approach taking control of our teamers.
00:11:52
Zak
And that's why, so far, what I've quite liked and what we've discussed about with Rusk and Alana, not that I'm saying they're issuing for the job, but who knows, is that they have taken each game as it comes.
00:12:03
Zak
and prepared for it as best they can. I will admit they had a very Jurich-esque moment at the end of the game against Fulham by deciding that we're going to try and play for the draw and try and bring on defensive substitutions.
00:12:15
Zak
Very, very strange to me. I feel like we could have carried on going, bringing off Matias Fernandes. Of all people, unless he's got a knock, don't understand why you'd do it.
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, yeah, looking back on it, like, he was he was visibly tiring at that point.
00:12:28
Zak
but There you go. But then we do have outfield players.
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
but and And you have yeah yeah you have to question, like, was there a correct decision? Maybe not.
00:12:37
Zak
No.
00:12:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
and You know, any of those players that we brought off the bench would have been in the same position where they have to come on against better opposition and warm into a game quickly. Yeah.
00:12:47
Zak
but That's not very nice to talk about Ryan Fraser like that, mate. Really?
00:12:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
but i'll just I'm just saying that Matty Fernandes is far and away our best player at this season and they're big shoes to fill.
00:12:57
Zak
Yes, no. So replacing that player, replacing his his shoes on a football pitch.
00:13:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tired or not.
00:13:03
Zak
But, you know, i understand that they have to make the decisions with the the team that they've got. and And that's true. But it my point, my overall point around this is, they have played with a bit more pragmatism. And I think that I worry about any manager coming in and wanting to mold what they've got into their own weird philosophy. And I don't know that much about him.
00:13:26
Zak
And when I do these sort of research episodes, it depends like, Oscar was very sort of adamant. He thinks that role would be a good fit, and I think maybe that's the case from a statistical standpoint, and given that he's got the ambition and things like that.
00:13:38
Zak
But then I also worry about where they sit ambition-wise, because I just don't think that a lot of people see... Southampton as their final destination. And that's fine as long as they actually try to build something here and don't jump ship, first of all.
00:13:52
Zak
And I think what this is actually saying more about me than anything, Greg, is I think I'm going to be hugely paranoid about who takes charge because I can't really think of a manager since probably Hasenhutl and maybe...
00:14:07
Zak
Russell Martin during the time that we weren't losing. Admittedly, there were a lot of draws in there. That has made me sort of have a lot of faith specifically in that manager and not be consistently worried they're going to do they're going to put a foot wrong.
00:14:22
Zak
Obviously, Koeman beforehand as well, but even he had his like run with bad games. So yeah, it's just... I say that like Hasnahil didn't have two 9-0 losses.
00:14:34
Zak
So, yeah, wrapping it up, I think that my you know regardless of who I talk about in the past, and i don't I don't know where I'm going to be to be comfortable, right?
00:14:47
Zak
And for every time they get it right, they seem to get it wrong two or three times more. And that's just not under Sports Republic. That is looking back at when we brought in Sparky. when we brought in Pellegrino, who people might may or may not remember.
00:15:01
Zak
He was the one that brought in Carrillo, I think his name was, the striker that never scored for us that we spent the most amount of money on up until we bought Sulemane. So, yeah, I think that I am always going to be a huge sceptic.
00:15:15
Zak
So with an unknown like that, it would be like, I'd like to do my research. Maybe I'd feel a little bit better, but I always wonder what their plans are behind the scenes.
00:15:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:25
Zak
And again, i just don't think that you're going to give me a name because and it made me think a lot. And i'll tell I'll tell you when. It was when you were sort of like, oh, well, you know, I'd actually be genuinely right with Big Sam. And then you're like, what names would you actually be happy with? And I'm sat there like...
00:15:39
Zak
Eddie Howe, like six, seven years ago, maybe? Not even Eddie Howe now. You have to get Jason Tindall with him, who I've also seen at one point links us, which was a very very weird... Again, some of the links that you're seeing are nuts.
00:15:54
Zak
So, who knows? it just seems like, well, if you've got Lallana and Ruskin that are leading the team currently, and they're doing a right, why what would convince you to take a massive gamble on an unknown manager from the MLS?
00:16:08
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00:16:30
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If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description and learn more about Zencaster. Okay, and we're back. I can't remember if we talked about this on the show or we're offline, and that's the problem with how much football we talked, Zach.
Interim Managers: Ambition or Stability?
00:16:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think that Rusk and Alana, if we give it to them, it just shows a lack of ambition in a different way, right? Like you say that it's, why would you take a risk? Because you've got the known quantities there and you know, they'll be all right and they'll do this. But but actually it's not going out and getting, be it an unpromised talent or a potential superstar or a known quantity manager.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just, well, they're they here, they'll do.
00:17:19
Zak
i think no I think it's less than that. You've already talked about this already. This is a pre-pre-season. for For me, this is a job interview. that You've been given charge of the team for the rest of the season. Show us what you can do with the current team the way that it currently stands.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:17:33
Zak
Because then, say he takes charge and they they both take charge together and then they're given resources and they're given players to scout. Players will be scouted by Spores and they'll be told and and then they kind of come to some sort of agreement.
00:17:44
Zak
That's better in my opinion, than randomly pulling in some guy off the street that's never even heard of Southampton that will say, oh, it's been my dream to, and they always say, manage in the Premier League. And that's what, you know, Juric was the same. It's always been my, be he took the risk to come here to manage in the Premier League. He didn't come to take the risk to manage Southampton. And like, it's one of the things that is frustrating is that, you know, I understand that we are seen as as nothing more to a lot of people than a project.
00:18:11
Zak
And the thing is, as you know, for both of them, it would probably mean something more than that. So I guess, i don't know how I've managed to talk myself into this, because if you told me before their first couple of games in charge that this would be where my stand, what might the hill that I've been dying on currently was, I wouldn't believe you, right?
00:18:29
Zak
I'd have been like, no, but then also...
00:18:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm a bit baffled by it as well, mate, because although they're probably on form, arguably like the most points per game from a manager we've had this season, they haven't won a game yet.
00:18:44
Zak
yeah But then how many other managers have won games for us? Ruud van Nistrooy came into Leicester, got them to win twice, they did nothing. They even score a goal at home. The problem is is you don't know if it's just because of the state of the league. And from from our perspective, it's like it must be pretty impossible to try and manage the players that we have.
00:19:02
Zak
yeah They have played two weird different systems of terrible risk-reward football that hasn't worked for them. Their confidence must be completely shot to pieces. The good players we do have are being picked at like but with the vultures already circling.
00:19:16
Zak
Where like you had Man United in Dibbling's debut against Man United straight after that game. We even had it on the crossover, mate. You had on the crossover. I wasn't on that one. They were talking about, we'll take that Dibbling up.
00:19:29
Zak
we' were already getting We were getting picked apart despite that. Ramsdale, everywhere but he was sold in December, January. Half our players then disappeared. You've got to think that I think that it's almost working miracles.
00:19:40
Zak
The fact they've even got points. I didn't expect us to get anything between now and the end of the season. I kind of expected us to go down without even a whimper. So the fact that they have even managed to get enough motivation to get draws is baffling to me.
00:19:53
Zak
Like that that's that's where I'm at. and And also you don't know what they would be able to do when backed.
00:19:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:59
Zak
Whereas you bring someone in, it goes Pete Tong, we get rid of them again in January. And as i said, also for me, maybe that connection to Southampton is more important than I initially thought.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i don't disagree don' disagree with with what you're saying. And I hope that whatever happens, that they stay in and about the place. I think there's a lot to be said for especially specifically Adam Milano, who's so familiar with the system, to to be a part of any set of coaches that come in and do it. But I just think that Spores is going to be so keen on setting...
00:20:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know It's going to be the first manager that's his appointment. right no
00:20:45
Zak
Yeah, I get you.
00:20:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going to want to stamp his identity on it and make the decision that's his. and I think that the blokes that were already here are good enough. You should have given it to them in the first place.
00:20:57
Zak
Isn't as ambitious.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not that statement.
00:21:00
Zak
No, and you're and you're probably right. And I and i will have to has to get over that. And that will be that. I think it's what my mind is. If you roll back to when Martin was fired and we had our busy episode where we were all hyped up and it felt like I was on a sugar rush because we were in a podcast when we were doing a post-match review and the news literally dropped in front of us.
00:21:20
Zak
I said, maybe we need to go out and get someone that's just completely unknown. and We've never heard of. And then all the names started coming out and people were talking about role back then. And then out of nowhere, this, this random creation bloke called Ivan Juric gets, gets hired. And we're like, Oh, they've hired this guy. And then, and then we did the episode and we were talking about, Oh, he's got this heavy metal style of football. Maybe it's going to be really exciting. And, Oh, they've got all these plans. And then, and then he, and then we actually watched the football happen. It was like, okay, well it wasn't that bad a loss. So there's like, okay, that was a bad loss. Okay. That's a bad loss. That's a worse loss. What's What's happening here?
00:21:49
Zak
And it's, it you know, and obviously we knew that was a poison chalice from the start. but Maybe having a whole pre-season and a season would be different. I don't know if that's the case with Juric because, you know, he kind of had that aroma and still managed to mess up his Roma job. So both jobs he's had this year, he's done practically the same thing.
00:22:06
Zak
So... I think it's it's it's me as like, I want almost, do you take that abundant level of caution? Or I think if if the goal is to come straight back up from the championship next year into the Premier League, I think you're right.
Stability vs. Long-term Success
00:22:21
Zak
We need a big bang appointment. Something's going to be exciting, something with a project, something to build on. And, you know, maybe Rusk and Lallana are there in a support pass capacity. Maybe they're not.
00:22:32
Zak
if their plan is stability long-term and they kind of accept that there might be an inevitability that we stay the championship set next season, I think that they might go with the stable option. Now, I don't think that that's ambitious and I don't think that's exciting, but we've also talked a lot about football survival.
00:22:49
Zak
And again, if we if we aim to go straight back up next season, They better hope to all of the deities that they care about in the sky that they have a p plan to stay in the league that is solid.
00:23:01
Zak
And if that all rests on Sporz, and Sporz has said it will all rest on him, and then he gets fired, but and then it collapses, what's the worst thing that could happen, you know?
00:23:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. I guess if they don't have to pay a big amount for a manager or any sort of severance required from their ex-club and keep with what's at the club, that's arguably more money that we could spend on somebody might score us some goals.
00:23:24
Zak
what is to here here's another Here's another thing that we haven't really thought about or really discussed. If they are planning to install some sort of, i don't know, Southampton way again, Spores' is way, the Spores way, what is to stop Ruskin and Alana being there over the summer, establishing the system they want to play, and then, because they've had to pay a bunch of compensation, not had pay a lot of money, they can bring in a manager, say, in November.
00:23:49
Zak
December, they can bring in somebody because like the other thing is that I don't think they're going to want to make a rash appointment. And theyre they're showing that because they are taking their time. So that is, I feel like that is the most unpopular way of doing it
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just not give him a pre-season, not give him a proper transfer window. That sounds awful, honestly.
00:24:06
Zak
It does sound awful, but like it is also something that I could see us doing in the sake of stability. And and the stake of the sake of stability is a thing that they have to be thinking about. And rolling back to earlier with like, are we up for sale?
00:24:21
Zak
No, but...
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
If the right offer comes in, maybe.
00:24:24
Zak
Yeah.
Risks of Unknown Managerial Appointments
00:24:25
Zak
so So, yeah, I, as you can tell, I have, I have lots of thoughts and feelings on it all. And most of them are just confusion. And I don't, I struggle to see what the right way is going forward because everyone's saying, Oh, it's roll this. But then again, it it could be someone completely out of left field.
00:24:43
Zak
And if it is someone out of left field, it's going to be, it's going to take a lot for me at this stage to want to put my trust into data and analytics and statistics and when we have been burned by that a lot recently.
00:24:56
Zak
So I think it's just, again, I'm just paranoid, Greg.
00:25:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Optimism for the Future
00:25:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And on the other end of the spectrum, Zach, I'm fully in for whatever project we're at.
00:25:05
Zak
yeah
00:25:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're winning the championship next year.
00:25:09
Zak
Heavy metal George Ball. Let's go, baby. He comes back, does a second spell. Maybe we'll get Nathan Jones again. He's doing Ryan Chalden. or Or the other one, which I've seen on the Saints marching, is Hasenhutl again. And to be clear, I'm not doing a manager profile of any of the previous managers we've had. You can just check their Wikipedia for that. Or
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Next up on our profile, potential Saints candidate, Russell Martin. Right.
00:25:32
Zak
next or alternatively, a manager je who has lost 9-0 twice in the last couple of years.
00:25:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that is just about all we've got time for today.
00:25:40
Zak
man.
00:25:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you very much for joining us. Let us know on the socials. Is there any name that would be appointed as manager that would make you happy? Let us know.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Drop as many outlandish wild names as you can at us, and we'll make Zach do profiles on all of them.
00:25:58
Zak
not some out advice not sam not sam allardyce we're not getting big sam greg no we're not no we're not i've promised that i've promised everyone that i will shut this talk down we are not taking sam allardyce and now i let you back to you outro
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll take it. I'll take it. I think there are worse points.
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
right Well, until then, we will be back tomorrow as we start to cast our eyes
00:26:22
Zak
on who our next potential manager could be, because tomorrow will be my manager profile.
00:26:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:26:26
Zak
Then we will do.
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes. Thank you.
00:26:28
Zak
Alas, we do not have a crossover due to lack of availability from our Leicester partners.
00:26:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, until then, we'll be back. Thank you very much for listening. As always, Zach, thank you for joining me.
00:26:39
Zak
Thank you, mate.
00:26:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll see you tomorrow.