davefizzy14

Yes please mate. PM me

Hes worth £41 billion!

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSaintCentre/status/1237448072449400833

Oh right I see. Isnt David Thomas head of the commercial side of things? Also I remember Ralph saying back in early January that if we wanted to do something in the window, the finances were there to do so.

Oh really, what sort of senior role was it?

Can any of the ITKers shed any light on this story that has been reported in the times?

Heres the full article: Southampton Football Club have been made available for sale less than three years after the Chinese businessman Gao Jisheng purchased a controlling stake in the Premier League club. The Sunday Times understands that more than one broker has been invited to source a buyer for Southampton at an asking price of about £250 million. Achieving an enterprise value of around that level would allow Gao to leave English football at a sum similar to the amount the previous owner — Katharina Liebherr, who inherited the club from her late father — received for 80 per cent of Southampton’s shares in August 2017. Since Gao’s takeover the club have been repeatedly endangered by relegation, finishing 17th in 2017-18, and 16th last season. They are now seven points above the drop zone after yesterday’s 1-0 home loss to Newcastle United. Gao has employed three managers — Mauricio Pellegrino, Mark Hughes and Ralph Hasenhüttl — two chief executives and seen Les Reed, an individual involved in generating significant profits from the transfer market, leave in a November 2018 move that Southampton said was designed to “provide new drive and direction to our football operations team and enable them to get results back on track”. The club is yet to report financial results for the 2018-19 season but sources involved in finding a purchaser for Southampton expect these to be considerably less healthy than the £28.6 million profit declared last March. The club would have made a significant loss in 2017-18 had it not been for Virgil van Dijk’s record £75 million sale to Liverpool, while the ratio of wage to turnover rose to 74 per cent. In the period since, Southampton have operated inefficiently in the transfer market and presently have a number of high-cost signings, such as Guido Carrillo, Wesley Hoedt and Mohamed Elyounoussi, on loan across Europe. A number of intermediaries have been lined up to try to raise revenue from transfer fees and reduce the player wage bill this summer. Gao’s Shenzen-listed Lander Sports Development company reported a loss in 2018, leading the sexagenarian to sell the majority of his stake to a state-owned asset manager last March. In June he told the Financial Times that there were “no problems” with his financial situation. “I am not treating Southampton as a pig to be fattened and sold,” Gao said. “I am treating it as a child. But my children must believe they cannot depend on the boss. I have said to Southampton: ‘I am now your father. But I am putting you on the right track — you need to feed yourself.’ ”

Agree with all of this. We have to keep a four at the back and play on the front foot like we did against Villa in the last home match. It will be interesting to see what Ralph does with the 2 number 10s. With Armstrong unfortunately missing today, it could well be Prowsey pushed up and Romeu bought back in alongside Pierre. I hope Boufal starts as one of the 10s. Be good to see Moussa too, hope everyone gets behind him today and supports him after what hes just gone through. KWP to start at RB for me also. 2-0 to us today - Ings and Boufal COYR

We need to improve in the 2nd half. Nice finish by Obafemi. Need Prowsey in the middle. Still all to play for. COYR

Hopefully today we can get a much needed win at home. I'm going for 2-0 to us with Ingsy and Moussa scoring. COYR

We are upto 12th

Bloody annoying. We dominated that!

A great read

Says it all really. Absolute joke! We should have been given a penalty, then we would have gone 1 up. But nope Friend gives naff all and they go up the other end and score.

Yeah hopefully. Dont know why he would want to go there. Stay at Hull till the end of the season and then join us in the summer

It was just on Skysports news now saying Maya going to Sampdoria on loan till end of the season. Maya has always been a top pro and done a good job for us. Sad to see him leave

Whose that?

Done! Jack has been immense recently and deserves to be in the running for the award

A sensible post! I agree with you Ewell

This is why I will be annoyed if this happens! I thought Ralph wanted extra cover for both Cedric and Bertrand, not losing one! Cedric is our best right back. We want to be finishing as high as possible this season.

Very good signing this! Welcome onboard Kyle Is there definatley no option to buy? Probably Levy playing hardball

Jeremy Wilson tweeted yesterday that KWP was coming in on loan as cover for both Cedric and Bertrand. He didnt mention anything about him leaving so I refuse to believe this news unless he or Adam Blackmore say otherwise!

Happy with the draw, hope we can get the job done in the replay first! Did think for a minute we were gonna get the Skates again!

Would be a good bit of business to bring KWP on loan till the end of the season with an option to buy. He has always looked good when hes played for Tottenham.

A home draw against someone like Coventry or Birmingham would be good