Matthew Le God

That is a very negative way to look at it. Sure they've messed up on some transfers. But many Saints fans are looking for ambition. Doing capital projects like this to increase revenue and the opportunity for bigger spending is ambition. Of course you then need to hope for the increased revenue to be reinvested well in players. But not looking to increase revenue is unambitious and will see Saints falling behind to rivals that are.

Nonsense. As soon as it is built and more tickets are sold it would be increased revenue vs now. That then allows for increased spending and hopefully a better squad to keep us in the PL.

The ones in the post you replied to but avoided

We have a squad full of top level Championship players. Why wouldn't they be winning as many games?

You avoided the two questions

You avoided the question

We averaged over 29k in the Championship last season. A lot of the empty seats were due to the 3k away end not selling out in the Championship. If we go down this season I don't see why the attendances would drop below our last Championship season. We'd be big favourites for promotion again.

We averaged 29k+ in the Championship last season. Were they there for the opposition? Often the away end in the Championship wasn't full, that is why it is 29k out of 32k. Plus in any case even if what you said was true... so what? It is providing increased revenue.

So what? It is a sold seat and money for the club club. Would be daft for any season ticket holder not going to a game to not give it to friends/family or sell on ticket exchange.

Why is increasing revenue 'utter bollocks'? Bigger income from a development allows for bigger spending under financial rules and hopefully better players.

Teams doing well have more people wanting to see them. Hardly a controversial suggestion is it? This season we have sold out every game, despite being terrible. A half decent Saints PL team would sell more seats than the terrible one we have now.

Expanding the stadium allows more people to do that. Even while being terrible this season, every home game has sold out. It also allows for an increase in revenue, an increase in revenue allows for more spending on transfers/wages under financial rules.

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Take the post as a whole and not part of it out of context (by ignoring the final line I used). Spending £260m+ on transfers is ambitious, the issue was how it was spent. We may perhaps have been better off spending that £260m on fewer higher quality players.

Is that a chant for Sunday?

It isn't a lack of ambition, they've spent £260m+ on transfer fees in the last two PL seasons. This issue is how they've spent it!

Not everything needs to be instantaneous

The total needed in a 38 game season has never been anywhere near 51 points. Last season a club could have stayed up on 26 points!

1) We have three players currently out on loan to those clubs in the SR group. Regular gametime boosts their development to see if they can develop to the level we need in conditions SR can have more control over vs another loan outside the group. 2) It aids Saints signing players who might have UK work permit issues. 3) It gives us an opportunity in the future to offload difficult to offload players. 4) It increases the scouting network with centralised scouting structure for SR

Goztepe and Valenciennes doing well should in theory benefit Saints in the medium to long term as the cornerstone club. You don't need to care about them to see that moving players around the group in theory has positives for Saints.

You think we need 51 points to stay up?

Might not sound a lot, but after 15 games that gap is nearly double our current total! We are currently on course for 13 points from 38 games at the current rate! The upturn in form required to turn things round is significant! Especially given the mess we made vs some of the relegation rivals in home games.

We wanted Enzo Maresca last summer, would you not have been happy with that?

He'd benefit more from regular gametime rather than playing second fiddle to Downes.

Even with relegation looking likely, any manager would still be getting a big wage compared to many clubs throughout Europe (even after relegation) and a squad that should be capable of mounting a very good chance of promotion back to the PL. That still makes it an attractive job across Europe. Obviously not as attractive as if we were mid table with little threat of going down, but still an attractive job.