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massive smile thinking of him scoring a last minute winner and celebrating in front of a half filled fratton end.

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money no longer going in Chanrai's pocket either. I assume B'mouth have sold their 3000 allocation.

Welcome back PES, surprised you have bothered to come back on this thread as it's not one for debate these days. I'm not sure the comparison is quite fair seeing as our current owners just wiped off all our debt (monies to buy the club and then to finance transfers and high wages) so they have thankfully shown themselves to be responsible people looking to take the club forward not use the club as a play thing all the time doing at the fans expense. Don't worry fans will be keeping a close eye on our accounts and if I ever get an invitation to dine with Cortese I'll raise this issue with him. Not quote sure where the idea that we are paying way too much comes from though. Certainly our wages were huge for league 1, sizeable for the championship, but now in the top flight, I expect they will be relatively modest *****il we sign 10 more Ramirez's of course). I don't think we've got Scumball/Defoe/James size wages just yet to pull us into the mire. Personally I've questioned our spending throughout our rise, especially the uncertainty surrounding the debt figure on our accounts, but with that being cleared off I am not sure what there is to question just yet. With ST prices pretty high now, is £30k a week too much for our board to be paying our top players? If we've got a relegation reduction clause (I hope so) then this will not be an issue. We don't have a huge bank loan that can be called in at any point (like PFc did) so even relegation wouldn't take us to the brink, would it?

the minus ten points can't come into effect until a final CVA2 has been agreed (and concluded) that dilutes CVA1 (s the Charai and PST trust offer does). Highly unlikely, but a new owner could emerge and pay the OldCo creditors off at their 20p in the pound over 5 years (as agreed) and new creditors off at whatever amount they agree to. If that happened they wouldn't have diluted the first CVA (CVA1) and the 10 points penalty would be inappropriate. The FL effectively jumped the gun by taking the ten away as the Chanrai/PST CVA2 had been agreed to but not concluded.

I presume his reported £30k a week wages are within a responsible budget? I presume also that relegation clauses are in there just in case. Wouldn't want this fantastic possible signing biting us on the bum. Having cleared the debt, will the current owners look to take any monies out of the club this year in the way of a well deserved bonus, or is the entire £50m, or whatever Sky offer, available to us?

do we know who owns us?

I am pretty sure the ST money is ring fenced and can not be used to pay the administrator.

As I have said previously I have nothing but respect for their (PST) efforts to save their club, but when I saw this all I could see was a carry on film title. I can see it now, one of those by the pier versions with Babbs and Sid Jams laughing...at them

do clubs not have to show they can fulfil their fixtures? How have PFC been able to do this?

Mudie. Total ****wit that gets used as a mouthpiece by potential owners, but is far too dumb to realise it.

fair play to them, it's a ****ing long drive for a midweek game

I do hope Wotton is kicking lumps out of them.

Excited. Pure and simple. No fear whatsoever. So long as Fonte adjusts his game a fraction, in terms of when and when not to dive in, he will be fine. So long as we keep the ball like we did at the start of last season, we as a side will also be fine.

£38 for them

he made a mistake or two in a televised game.

is Richard Dunne the proven prem sort that some are calling for?

are we playing Rodriguez wide left just to make sure he gets game time so we have several strikers all match fit? The fact Phillips is being targeted suggests we are looking for a left winger and surely Lallana would be a better option?

let me just chip in that he was excellent in the Ajax game

unusual that Adkins actually talks about a specific player. Another good young talent.

Pre season friendlies are a total waste of time. I never bother with them and quite clearly I'm not along. Doesn't mean there is an issue or or a loss in confidence from fans. Give it a week and Saints will be back in my life once more and no doubt everyone else's too. The change in formation is scary, but 4-3-3 is the way to go.

I wouldn't be surprised. Those prices are ridiculous considering its on the box.

Steven Davis doesn't quite fit that description. Not sure he's any good mind. Out of interest would you prefer Phillips from Blackpool or Jarvis from Wolves? How about Steven Fletcher or Jay Rodriguez? Clyne or Tony Hibbert? Craig Gordan or Paolo Gazzaniga?

three. Many Saints fans weren't impressed, but I was. We kicked the **** out of him at SMS and double teamed him at their place - that's how much of a threat we thought he was. Despite this attention he still managed to break the shackles as least once beating Fox all ends up and getting in a great cross in that should have been tucked away. He has that strength and pace and a trick to create the chance. You need something a little out of the ordinary to score goals in the Prem. Also saw the manure and cardiff games on the box. He was excellent in both of those. In the end Cardiff had to put three players on him AND kick the **** out of him. He was outstanding in that game. Having said that he doesn't feel like an Adkins type of player to me, so I doubt he'll come here.

er, McLoughlin came from Swindon and was utter **** so we palmed him of to the fish ****ers down the road. Saints reject.