buctootim

Sad Acid Nut

Dream harder and be ambitious. Thats all it takes. It doesn't depend on shed loads of other peoples money, filling your massive stadium each week or worldwide brands, no sir. Turnover 2012/13 £363m Manchester United £283m Arsenal £271m Manchester City £260m Chelsea £72m Southampton.

Or July 4th. Could have got mega odds on that double.

Could still be done. Just get the Sultan of Brunei or one of the Maktoums interested. They'll need to spunk near a billion though. Even poor old Ambramovich is feeling the financial strain. Spend enough you could even get Scarborough into the CL. Or did you mean build organically? - gradually increase in strength from the proceeds of a not full 32,000 stadium and a tiny commercial income? In which case

In one of our best ever finishes to a season we were 23 points off a CL place. Not 3 or 4, not one or two signings away from the final push and the promised land but 23 points - nearer relegation than the CL.

But Cortese most likely lied about the resources available in the hope that with some expensive signings and good youth he could catapault Saints into the top table. It might even have worked for a year if he got exceptionally lucky, but he wasnt as smart as he thought. Instead of buying really productive players we largely wasted £40m. Thats when it all started to come apart, nothing to do with KL.

I'd prefer Ron Vlaar from Aston Villa, which floated yesterday. Out of contract next summer so not too expensive and a good age for a CB.

but we should scream and cry when a 32 year old declining striker from League 1 goes?

Not if you want a job that involves writing.

You're such a detached from reality ****. Saints are a provincial club who cant sell out their modest 32,400 capacity stadium. We have half the gate income and one third the commercial income of the CL regulars. We haven't won anything of note since 1976 and were in league 1 four years ago . Now all of a sudden is *****fest against the woman who bankrolled our rise to 8th in the PL. Ive stepped in more gracious turds than you.

Most good CBs have a nasty side to them. Its a bully or be bullied position.

I know. We really were going to win the CL with Cortese. Really.

With £50m of Liverpool's money for Lovren and Lallana we'll have enough to hijack the Suarez deal.

Southampton approaching agreement with Feyenoord about Pellè The leadership of Feyenoord has a bid from Southampton to Graziano Pelle consideration. The club of Rotterdam can get around eight million euros for the striker and that amount may in the future reach over ten million. Using bonuses. The Rotterdam now realize that Pelle, who has shown no hesitation to be reunited with coach Ronald Koeman, not maintain is dying. This week, the club decides on the amount offered. 's management Pellè left last night knowing that there is still no question of an agreement. Both parties seem to be heading there. Away at Feyenoord, which is also Bruno Martins Indi late to go to Porto for more than eight million do not wish to comment on the pending sale of the club's top scorer. http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/5619/Feyenoord/article/detail/3682903/2014/07/02/Southampton-nadert-akkoord-met-Feyenoord-over-Pelle.dhtml

Tadic wears 10 atm

How can he be guessing we are financially restrained when its a published fact that the top four have double the gate money and three times the commercial income?

plus the Express have us ahead http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/486486/Southampton-agree-fee-for-Dusan-Tadic-and-close-in-on-Graziano-Pelle

OMG. That implies they think we'll slump to 10th.

Tadic is only 25, you're probably thinking of Pelle who is 29.

Personally I think Twente are happy with the fee and want to sell asap but Tadic wants to wait and see who else comes in.

The entire club only has 200 employees and £50m divided by 200 gives an average of £5,000pw - including all the groundsmen, ticket office, catering, media accounts etc. Its pretty safe to assume that the average first team players are on at least £25,000pw +

Me too - but if we're honest the part we liked best was being top dog and winning most of the time because we had more money than the others.

Steven Davis. Always gives his all so leads by example

* I dont have a problem with different views but it is the constant, relentless negativity that drains the life out of this place that I dont like. You will always get some glass half full or half empty views but there are a number of people who for whom there is nothing at all in the glass and they seem to be borderline manic depressives. To say that they labour the point to death is not an exageration. I can understand when facts are thin on the ground you will get opinions and conjecture, but when people start making up their own facts to suit their agenda it does get tiresome. There clearly has not been a firesale and no asset stripping. A manager has been left and replaced by someone of standing in the game. Three players have been sold and new ones are coming in yet if you were to believe the negative posters we are a club in turmoil and are in meltdown. No we are not but through their constant whinning and negativity even the most rational people start to feel that maybe there is something in that. There clearly isnt and the people running the club are given a harder job because they need to fight that in order to keep the club progressing. I know where MLG is coming from as yesterday I said the same thing on a thred strated by one of the Usual Suspects. That perosn had written countless negative posts and then topped it all by starting a negative thread regurgitating all of the negative stuff he had spouted before. It just becomes soul destroying. I used to post a lot on here but thankfully moved to a place where there was poor internet connection so stopped posting but did read occasionally. Sanity returned! Having now moved and with a better connection I started to read and post more to the point that I thought I would register again. Now I am wondering why I bothered. Whereas before there was the occasional negative poster that seems to have grown into a small group (unless it is the same person posting under different names) who infect the Board and just constantly drag everything down. Yes, of course there is concern about change. Koeman could turn out to be better, the same or worse than Pochettino. The players replacing Lallana, Shaw and Lambert could be better, the same or worse, but for goodness sakes, to summise that they will be worse straight away without any evidence to back up that assertion is delusional and makes no sense whatsoever. To say there is a firesale or that asset are being stripped or that the Board do not know what they are doing when all that is happening is people leaving and being replaced is just nonsense. There are views and there are agendas. People with agendas will take everything that is happening and twist it to suit their position. No grey areas, just black and white. Do you know what? Cortese is not the only person who can have a plan or a vision. Everyone running a business (for that is what this is) has a business plan. Some work, some dont. After a period of instabilty and poor performance we then went through a period of (relative) stability (this doesnt include managers) and relative success (although we only won one competition in that time). It is a rollercoaster ride and there will always be ups and downs yet to read this forum you would think that SFC (or Engalnd for that matter) are immune to the natural order of things and that downs are not allowed. People make decisions evey day, some good some bad. It doesnt make them "idiots" it makes them human (fallible). To spend hours of your day expecting and reflecting on a failure that hasnt even (and may never) materialise is not at all healthy.

Lyon made a profit of £4m on income of £120m last year - hardly profiteering. http://www.forbes.com/teams/olympique-lyonnais/ If clubs are using players as simple cash cows its because they cant expect loyalty or to have contracts honoured. It cuts both ways.