Farmer Saint

You say that but we got promoted last season. If that was the aim then clearly it was a successful season. If they're not overly worried about maintaining status in the Prem and are more looking to use Saints as a shop window for young players then that also works.

Very possibly - difficult to know nowadays - I see they have 14 players on £50k plus! Apparently Ramsdale is on £120k PW 😬 Looks at this though...

Sorry to hear about your wife 😔

It's fine, I made it abundantly clear it was basic and hypothetical, and then he got angry because it was basic and hypothetical. Go figure.

I'd have assumed as you knew he was here this year you would have opted out of one?

Yup

Potter was never interested though - him going elsewhere is pretty much irrelevant to where Russ will be in a month's time.

They only had coke.

Bless, looks who's angry now... The point is you don't need a source to work out that we couldn't buy 4 x £30m players on £100k pw, you just need common sense to work it out - but if you can't see that then fine. I assume you did vote Brexit then 😂 Is that why you're so suspicious now and need a source, because you got hoodwinked then and you don't want to come across as that stupid again?

You do get that I was forecasting the amount spent on 4 players don't you? It was hypothetical, but was to show the huge amounts that would go into purchasing those players and the profits we would have to make to counteract that. It's fine if you don't understand how it all works, or can't do the basic Maths - that's why I did it for you. I'm assuming you were probably a Brexit voter with the way you don't want to actually back yourself 😂 Not sure where you could even slightly get anger from in that response, but ok. It must have been the laughing face.

The profit numbers would have to be so high the commercial revenues for a club like us are pretty much irrelevant. Player contracts are actually very standard in relation to weekly pay - when players get £100k contracts that is basic pay, not including bonuses. This isn't the NFL where you get front or back loaded contracts. Perhaps you can demonstrate your non-simplistic mathematics and wow us all 🤣

Basic Maths. 4 x £30m on £100k pw over 4 year contracts would cost the club: - £30m per annum in transfer fees (so £90m over a 3 year cycle) - £21m per annum in wages (£63m over a 3 year cycle) The rules are £105m loss over a 3 year cycle, so without buying anyone else we would have to make a £48m profit over those 3 years to not have an issue. This year's liability would have been an additional £51m - the 3 years up to now were allowed a loss of £83m due to a season in the Championship. Add to that new players to the tune of £80m, so let's add £20m to the fees and £20m to the wages. That would put as at £91m for THIS SEASON ALONE. I don't need a source, I only really need basic Maths.

I never said we couldn't spend more, it's more couldn't spend effectively and on what we needed ie. We couldn't buy 4 players at £30m and on £100k PW, due to PSR, which is what we needed to do.

From what I've been told this is very accurate.

Nobody's interested Dave. How about Potter? Nobody's interested Dave. Moyes? Nobody's interested Dave. Even Corberan? They are all not interested. Nobody's interested Dave.

What a shit punch.

Yes, but £35m of that was to stand still (THB and Downes). It meant our actual spending was low(ish) and also meant our wage bill couldn't increase much - we needed so many players and went quantity over quality (understandably due to the poor squad we had).

It'll be very interesting to see how much Jase did see in RM, to see if he'll at least get an interview. It could be Jase's leaving gift (for both him and us) - albeit 6 months late.

Exactly - my expectations for this season were rock bottom due to the state of the squad post relegation, and the lack of business we could do this Summer due to PSR. I'm not overly unhappy, because this is what I expected (and predicted TBF).

What if you're a cunt and a prick? Asking for a friend.

Can always rely on you 😉

It just amazes me how people can get so angry on the internet - surely a bit of perspective is needed?

Lol, yeah, about that.

He did call me one 40 minutes ago - think that makes it fair game.

Can you transfer to yourself? Not sure that's an option so you'll probably be ok.