Dragan is an onion. 3 more defeats incoming. We can all see it, why can’t he?

Just delaying the inevitable and making a difficult job for a new manager an almost impossible one.

Yeah, Everton and Wolves are teams we should get points from but we are going to chuck away the opportunity by leaving Martin to continue to prove he's way out of his depth. Madness.

It's nothing more than press speculation at this stage Nick and I am sad that you choose to copy it
It started as usual with Football Insider who are now quoting around the 5th date for him to get sacked y

Smoke and mirrors.

Sports Republic don’t want to own a Premier League football club in my opinion.

Each game that goes by without any further points being accumulated takes them ever closer to their desired long term objectives. .

The future of Southampton Football Club :- Championship feeder organisation for the established Premier teams.

I have never understood this football owner/management thing where supposedly the outcome of a managers future is decided by a single match or 2 matches or whatever criteria the said club or owner takes. So what happens if a manager wins the said game having lost copious amounts of previous games, so gets to stay but then loses the next 1, 2, 3 or 5 games. What happens if they draw games or say lose to a Man City 5-4 and put in a great performance? It is a bonkers approach.

As an organisation you make decisions based on performance but in the overall picture not by a single act. You either have a vision of what you have and how you want things to progress and decide whether the person that you have put in place to try and meet that vision is likely to get you there. I have no idea what SR vision is - my hunch is, that they did not expect to be in the PL this season and they have a championship outlook which frankly is where we are heading back to but it is what their vision and ambition is beyond that.

For the fans, for the players that want to achieve things, for the media that judge you as a side, and to some extent for the financial future of a club it is about results on the pitch and in that respect we are failing week in and week out.

To be honest, I think if SR was going to willingly dispose of RM and have someone lined up to replace him they would have done it by now (in much the same way as Cortese did - whether you like what he did or not). They are either just kicking the proverbial Can down the road in the hope things will change because they do not have a plan B or don't want to make the change or they are hoping the decision will be almost made for them.

Kjetil Knutsen
Now , please.

TBRFootball have been saying "next international break" since the first international break of the season. The problem is employing flops as reporters, those who can't score with proper media such as national press! No "aces"!
That said, like others on here, I don't understand the delay. Win 1 game and RM safe for the season? A point in Manchester and a contract extension?
Silly comments like SR only want to be in the Championship don't help. In fact anything we say on here doesn't help. Who reads the comments except us?
Our imput here won't get beyond here. I hardly think Dragan Solak wakes every morning and grabs his phone to read fansnetwork, just as no other manager/owner does. It's just a place people waste time and effort, make pointless remarks and finish up feeling superior. In my case waste a lot of time as it taking ages to write this!!
Whatever is going to happen will happen, Sky Sports will likely let's us know. And we can all say "I told you so" whatever we said previously on here!

I would expect part of this period is also to sound out potential replacements. There is no point in waiting for these matches to pass, sack Martin if the results don’t meet the target and then waste another couple of games with an interim manager before appointing the replacement.

The other issue to consider is that other teams that are struggling will also be looking at the November break as a time to make a manager change. Do we want to be competing with Wolves, West Ham, Palace etc for the same limited talent pool - I expect we couldn’t either financially or potential survival prospects.

Unfortunately for us fans football is now big business, particularly the cash rich PL.
SR have a ten year plan for success which doesn't just involve Southampton. They are still putting all of their pieces in place, so, with parachute payments, are able to be a yoyo club for the short term. They have, rightly or wrongly depending on your personal viewpoint, allowed RM to pick his own players, spent a lot of money & played hardball with potential purchasers, rather than give our best players away. Hopefully January will see a thinning out of the squad, something desperately needed & we will see where that leads us. I am neither defending or supporting SR but recall the ten year plan being mooted when they took us on half way through the relegation season. It's very easy to sling mud at the owners but lets remember there wasn't a plethora of potential buyers back then!
Don't get me wrong I want RM to keep us up and to see us prosper but the worrying thing is whilst we all want him to be more flexible and drop this obsession with possession, Vincent Kompany didn't do to badly after taking Burnley back down, despite being just as stubborn!

RM now hot favourite at 10/11 to be the next manager to get the Spanish Archer

Sorry, who are tbrfootball.com?

SPVW, they're self-styled "experts" on football with self-styled "top reporters" with quotes such as "the board told me"!! And often carrying "exclusive" stories alongside numerous other sites "exclusively " carrying the same stories.
One of many sites, like fansnetwork, that have appeared outside
mainstream journalism.
At least.on here we can freely express our own views and opinions, within limits!

Big T, of course we'd like Kjetil Knutsen to be our manager, but he turned down Ajax this year so I doubt he'd want to come here. Worth asking though.

Don’t really care about sources and tbrnews etc, we have 1 point from 9 games, basically a quarter of the season gone. I don’t really care either what the results are in terms of whether Martin stays or not, if there is someone better out there, make the change! This is multi million pound business and the top level of the biggest sport in the world. It is not a charity and has no place for sentiment and loyalty if the optimum outcome is seeker, that’s just how the game is. As mentioned we did this with Adkins and as sad as it was, look where it got us by putting someone better in charge. I don’t feel sorry for any sportsmen who earn that much money anyway. But we don’t have the rudeboy Cortese anymore, some other clowns who will do whatever is needed too late.
Agree that Martin might do better at a top club where he’d have the players to suit, as with Kompany but Kompany was seriously dominant in the Championship, didn’t finish 4th