A FORMER Saints fanzine editor has declared Ronald Koeman’s impending departure from St Mary’s as “one of the sourest moments" in modern football history.

And the Dutchman has also been told: You have betrayed Southampton Football Club worse than any other manager in our history.

Daren Wheeler, the editor of the former Beautiful South fanzine, is just one of thousands of Saints fans totally deflated by Koeman's expected resignation in order to decamp to a club offering bigger wages and a larger transfer kitty.

But Wheeler is adamant he doesn't blame the St Mary's board, who are facing the prospect of seeing a second manager walk out on them in just over two years.

Here, in full, are Wheeler's thoughts on another summer of upheaval at St Mary's.

'Ok. So I know that if Ronald Koeman leaves there'll be mickey taking aplenty from the people who don’t like Saints.

But, if he does quit, it will be one of the sourest moments in football.

Why, I hear you ask? Saints have a history of being raided for their brightest talents.

Forget Leicester - had Saints been able to fend off Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs then we could have won the title. Really, we could. It's not up for debate.

Shaw, Schneiderlin, Lallana, Clyne, Lambert, Alderwireld, Lovren.

You're not telling me a team with them in it wouldn't have stood a chance?

Southampton is the club that made their careers. It was a scandal that the club that made their careers wasn't able to benefit from it.

Koeman knew this. Him leaving is akin to a guy dating a girl who has a history of being cheated on.

He promises her he's different, he's not like those other guys... And then IS like the other guys.

If Koeman leaves, it's for the money. Nothing more.

He'd be leaving for a club NOT in Europe and about to lose their top striker Romelu Lukaku.

They're nowhere near as an attractive proposition as Saints.

Again, that's not up for debate… It’s one of the greatest betrayals in football.

To know this club has a recent history of being screwed over, to make promises, to act as if not seeing your contract out is “weird”, to then just up and leave is just disgraceful.

Don’t give us the old “The club doesn’t match my ambition” rubbish as we all know that’s not true.

Ronald, you’ve been backed at every step by the board and the speed in which you might leave indicates you never even gave the board to chance to match Everton.

You, Ronald Koeman, have betrayed this club worse than any other manager in our history.

I’ll refer every Saints fan to an article written by former Echo journalist Jeremy Wilson for the Telegraph in April of last year, after Koeman’s first year in charge.

It’s headline was, “Koeman assures Jeremy Wilson he will not walk out on Southampton the way predecessor Mauricio Pochettino did” and contained this direct quote from Koeman himself. “No, because I am the manager of Southampton, and I have the contract for two years more. I have to respect my contract, I like to respect my contract and I am very happy.”

Really Ronald? Really??

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I’ll still be at St Marys next season. All that has changed is that I know have someone new to boo come the new season.

That in itself is such a shame but totally, totally deserved.

I don't blame the board. They're like us, they took him at his word and, no, I don't think paying him £8 million a year is the answer. And unless I've misunderstood the rules regarding finance in football, clubs can't just buy the league any more. The money out has to tally in some way with money in and resources?

The club can't chuck money at the issue. If they did they'd be Pompey.

It's not the board's fault, it's football's fault.

At some stage football has got to change.

At some stage you'll need to watch the sport without needing a shower afterwards.

The way Southampton football has been treated over the last five years is a scandal.

FIFA has been found to be corrupt, the sport is riddled with back handers, illicit meetings, broken contracts.

The list goes on and on.

Don't immediately dismiss my rant.

That's the tragedy of football, it could happen to any club in a heartbeat.

All it takes is one push of the domino and your club is in free fall.

You think your club is safe? Had Manchester United not won the FA Cup how many years of not wining silverware would the plastic fans have allowed before they either forgot about football again or changed allegiance?

The plastic fan, rather like the mercenary manager/player, will weave history into their web of lies.

They use trophies won in a conversation about football; you and I use a moment, a game, we watched live.

An emotion, the elation, the despair. That’s why we sorry bunch, who watch our poor little club live and rarely see any glory, go to football.

Not for some Total Recall implanted memory of something we’ve never experienced in real life but for those rare and fleeting moments, Football has to change. Innovation has to rewarded. Business integrity has to be rewarded. Developing six England players in four years should be rewarded.

I know it's my club but I hope I'd feel some sense of outrage if this happened to any club.

Let's take Leicester as an example. They won the league but they only did it because the big clubs let them.

They let them because Leicester snuck in unnoticed. Had they had a good season beforehand, they'd have been picked apart before they'd got anywhere near the title.

As it was, they surprised everyone, survived the December transfer window, and carried that momentum on to win the league.

As it is, they're about to be picked apart right now - Vardy is the start.

This isn't how football's supposed to be.

Roy Race doesn't score the winning goal and then leaves to join Melchester City.

Football needs Jamie Vardy to play for Leicester in the Champions league. IT NEEDS IT.

Hell, football is so devoid of answers that Arsene Wenger is going to sign a player he never would have before.

Why? Because he has so little imagination that he thinks buying the top English striker around at the moment will be the answer, not whether or not he's an "Arsenal" player and would fit in with his style of football..

Football sucks, and football has to change.

Being a Saints fan doesn’t.

For all the kicks when you’re down, for all the let downs and betrayal, I am a Saints fan and that will never change.