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its quite a drop from the Prem to league 1 though.

shhhhh, the Saints Trust may have sneaked them up without anyone looking

why is Marchwood not worth much to a developer? As I understood it because changing rooms wtc have been built it moves from being a greenfield site to a brownfield site making it a lot easier to get planning permission for future development.

actually Bates paid just £1.8m for Leeds or 14p in the pound to the creditors who amounted to £13m. He waivered the £17m of debt his own company was owed by LUFC (only if his offer won) otherwise it would have worked out at just 7p in the pound. Teh administrator cost £885,000 for that deal. Yikes!

From Readings point of view Murty is past it, Lita on a huge wage and a troublemaker, Bennett not good enough, likewise Dubery. I guess Hanneman is a big wage earner and they are cutting their cloth accordingly as we all kn ow there is a big difference between the incomes in the two divisions. Lita would be amazing but well out of our league. I still think he could do a job in the Premiership.

that fella at Peterborough has a few bob and has spent it as well.

if you buy a club on the cheap that has potentially 30k plus crowds if you get to the premierhip then there is a possibility of making money. Mandric sold PFC for about £50m. I know he spent money buying the club and then money on players and their wages, but he came out all right thank you very much. If the new owner buys Saints for £8m then spends say £15m to get us into the Premiership then the SKY money alone at £60m a season could quickly pay off the money spent by the owner. Of course the club would also be worth a lot more than £8m in hte premiership. You can therefore make money, but, and its a big but, you need to buy at the right price, bring he right people into the club and get the side up to the top flight pretty quickly. There are certainly no guarentees of that, but as Peterborough and countless others have shown money talks.

whenever I see `property developer' as an interested party that is what crosses my mind.

I wonder how interested the two clubs will be when they are faced with having to fork out what SFC values the two for.

I thought the council hadn't even got close to making a decision on whether they woud try to buy the stadium.

I presum he has a rolling contract as reserve team boss for the next 12 months, anyone know what sort of contract he has as manager? Wonder if he got a wage rise when he stepped up? I wonder if he was earning more than Jan even as reserve team boss?

if we don't pay his next wage cheque (I'm unclear now the official date we start paying him again) it will be a breach of contract and he is free to walk I'd of thought. At the moment our hand looks weak. Lets see if that changes tomorrow though.

It is no surprise to me that Pearson might be interested in Gillett. Apart from the fact he had a decent season and is good enough at this level, I said at the end of the previous season that Pearson highly rated Gillett and would have played him at the end of the season had it not been for the relegation battle. I saw several times Pearson walking off the pitch with his arm round Gillett (having not brought him off the bench) in an effort to say `you will get your chance son'. Gillett is another player we must aim to keep if we are to do anything next season. He is not perfect by any means but he is busy, combative and extremely fit.

If my boss came to me and said, you can either: take a wage referral for a month to give us time to agree a takeover by a new owner who would then honour your contract or carry on getting paid, but by taking the wage reduced the sales window which means you risk having no job at all in a few weeks time I think I would have to consider the first option - especially if I had earned just short of £500,000 in the 11 months previous. Obviously those out of contract in the summer are less inclined to do this, but if they wanetd a new deal from SFC then they would be in the same boat as those with contracts.

weren't some of the 44 players that were just emerging from the academy? McClaggon for example.

can't see us having an money to spend so perhaps Patterson can lead the line. He looks capable to me.

the clubs costs will be reduced dramatically with Skacel, John, BWP, Euell, Davis and possibly Saga and Rasiak leaving the club. Our income will be probably be reduced with lower ticket prices and lower crowds, but if the new owner has managed to negotiate a reduced motgage rate or even wiped out some of the debts then the club might start to look financially attractive.

twice as long as the distance from centre to the edge

that a good shout. He's had a poor season for Cardiff and I think he fell our of favour in the end. He would be ideal fo us especially if Saeijs doesn't sign (and even if he does). A ball winner offering strength and height. Exactly what we miss when we have Lancashire and Perry in the side.

no wonder he wanted to get control again.

As I have done this the last few windows I'm more than happy to oblige again. check your PM, I look forward to my tickets.

Forrest could not wait to get rid when they had him in League 1. I would suggest that League 2 is his level.

and Wotton was part of that team. I'm not sure if you know this but League 1 also is full of players that can control a ball, look up and pass to a team mate. Most of them can also run faster than my Gran. I seriously doubt Wotton will start to look th epart just because we haev gone down a League. He won't look worse, he will still gie everything, but I seriously doubt he will get us promoted.

they gave us a £6m bed though first.

I've supported BWP because of he pace he offers and I think he should haev got a lot more games up front this season than he did. With him in the side we can play the ball over the top or down the channels and he turns defences. No other striker has offered us that. Where he comes a cropper is his shooting. He scored cutting in against Reading from just inside the box, but that has to be the longest distance he has ever scored from. He must have shot 50 times from `long' (outside the box) range this season and all efforts have been terrible, woeful in fact. The other area he has been a let down is 1 on 1s. He said he learned a lesson at Coventry but he didn't and he still doesn't take the chances offered. Clean through against Burnley on the last day of the seaosn and he ****s it. This alone conerns me about next season as even if we do create will he score enough of those chances - its doubtful to say the least. I think we need pace up front and thats why I'd like to keep him, but apart from that asset he offers little. Off field antics alone mean I won't shed a tear if he leaves. I still worry though that should he leave will we actually bring someone else in better. Again I doubt it.