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  1. cobbysouth

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    There's been a ton of rumours about the toxic atmosphere at sporting with a load of players wanting to get rid of their contracts due to feeling unsafe at work after being attacked by fans. One of those who was gonna be leaving for free was bas dost. Been linked with him in the past. At one point they said he was worth 50 odd million but doesn't look like any big clubs are coming in for him. The rumour I saw said he was going to Newcastle. Surely we should be interested in a cheap ex target who's strong and has 61 goals in 61 games for them.
  2. I'm not local to Southampton, I support because of my dad. I started supporting properly in our 1st season in league one. The journey we've non in since then is almost unparalleled in my eyes. Yes it's been up and down but what a journey. Some amazing signing, amazing youth and even the thrill of staying up this season. Most teams who get promotes from the championship get relegated within the next few seasons. Instead we fought to the Europa league multiple times. Yeah we've had some rough times recently but every club in the world has. Don't belittle our incredible achievements over the last 10 years because of one poor season.
  3. In hindsight that's a great thing to say. Might as well not have signed mane because we have sims. Both clasie and Redmond had a lot of potential when they signed for us. I'd also like to point out that Redmond may have had a poor season but towards the end of last season was playing some excellent football.
  4. I'd actually say the defender I always see messing up is Cedric. Tells a lot when 3 of us think 3 different of our defenders are the ones making the most mistakes.
  5. Sorry mate I was tired, re-read it and it made a lot more sense.
  6. I really don't understand what you're trying to argue mate. Did your beliefs changes mid typing?
  7. I think you're 100% right, although spreading payments over multiple years shouldn't be taken into consideration as basically all incoming and outgoings do this, it spreads it all out. I did say that it's basically impossible to work these things out accurately with so many extra fees, clauses, sign on fees, wages, etc. And what I'm not implying led reed or mr gao is literally taking money out of the club. I'm just frustrated, perhaps every other premier league club is reinvesting from player sales and some of the money from the tv rights, merchandising, ticket sales, advertising. I'm fine with our club not running like Chelsea and taking tons of abramovich money. What I can't stand is there is obvious holes here. I worry that this money is going to be spent on refurbishing the area around st marys and will be spent turning our club into more business, less football team.
  8. These working may not be 100% accurate, there's a lot of variables to take into account like sell on fees and the prices aren't always given accurately but it paints fairly obvious picture. 2017/18 Summer In Mario lemina -15m Hoedt -15 Bednarek -5 Out Jay Rodriguez +12m January In Guido carrillo -20 m Out Vvd +75 m Total +32m profit 2016/17 Summer In Redmond -10m Hojbjerg -12m McCarthy -4m Boufal -16m Out Pelle +13m Wanyama +12m Mane +34m Juanmi +4m January In Gabbiadini -14m Out Fonte +8m Total +15m profit Grand total +£47 million I know some people are intent on believing the money we get from tv rights, tickets, merchandise, food and alcohol etc. Is all 100% reinvested into wages and other costs but if so then how did any team cope before the tv rights skyrocketed. If we assume over the last 2 season's we've also made a £50m profit from those sources then it does seem like someone's pocketed over a quarter of the club's value. As I said please forgive any crude workings out, it's not that easy to take everything in to account.
  9. Wouldn't spend time talking to the players of the team you apparently support, but would waste time moaning about it on a Southampton forum? This is stupid, even for saintsweb.
  10. Apparently we average the 7th most shots per game of any prem team, around 13. But we only get 3 of them on target per game which I think is the 3rd lowest in the league. But in principle I agree with you. I was more complaining about the idiotic moaners on forums rather than our players.
  11. They're 3rd bottom and the lowest scorers in the league. The amount of people on that forum not overreacting and slating Gallagher is impressive. Especially when you consider the amount of people on here who insult our entire team in a season where we finish top 10 in the prem.
  12. Seriously confused and want someone to explain. Beggining of last season we looked like we we're in a panic for goals like this season. Long, jay rod and the usual am's weren't scoring. Austin was the only thing keeping us afloat and was scoring pretty regularly. I know he's injured a lot but a player isn't bad because they're injury prone, don't know where this opinion that Austin is bad came from. If you get him the ball to his feet in the box he scores, that's what he's always done. Problem is no one can get the ball there.
  13. For a short stint they both put plenty of and all of our goals away. It's just Austin's was longer ago. We're just not playing a style that suits Austin. Austin needs the ball put to his feet in the box and he'll get it in.
  14. For a short stint they both put plenty of and all of our goals away. It's just Austin's was longer ago. We're just not playing a style that suits Austin. Austin needs the ball put to his feet in the box and he'll get it in.
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