Matthew Le God

He'd comfortably be our best player on FM25 if he signed.

I included corporate seats & boxes in my post

Echo journalist Alfie House says in the Tweet I posted earlier... "Saints have confirmed membership information for the 2024/25 season with earlier ticket access as sales expected to be limited. Season tickets sold out at St Mary’s with I believe around 5% tickets held back for match-by-match sales." 5% = only a mere 1,626 seats left for match day tickets If that is true, season ticket numbers may be circa 26k/27k with the rest for corporate seats, the stadium boxes and the 3k away fans. https://x.com/AlfieHouseEcho/status/1809142722235601385?t=dCTc1uQ-vYRnQ_TqcEgP4A&s=19

Won't be easy to get a ticket next season for many. Only 5% of capacity (1,626 seats) available to non season ticket holders. Season tickets sold out... https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1809135612089250093?t=oIGUyreQO9oW6wrwCQfY7g&s=19 https://x.com/AlfieHouseEcho/status/1809142722235601385?t=dCTc1uQ-vYRnQ_TqcEgP4A&s=19

You were the one that made the claim about it! Strange to dismiss mainstream entertainment especially as it has overtaken other media such as film and media for revenue. In 2024 playing games is a mainstream pastime. 10 million+ people played FM24

Selling shit players on high wages on FM isn't easy either

Said the man in the orthopedic shoe

1) He is not particularly tall or big for his age. This is about money, not pathway. Saints sticking to a wage structure. 2) The pathway into Brighton's 1st team is tougher than ours as they have better players.

Irrelevant to the point that an infrastructure investment ultimately allows you to spend more on transfers and wages under incoming financial rules.

He hasn't gone yet

Rohart-Brown signed a scholarship deal in October 2023 when he joined Saints from Reading and is a year above the others. So the Twitter source you got that from might not be reliable.

Crystal Palace are another PL club that think a big infrastructure investment will help them increase revenue, which will then allow them to spend more due to new financial rules coming in restrict you to a spending a % of income.

The point was... Sulemana is still very young. Young players are generally inconsistent. I'm not at all saying he will turn out as good as Mane.

Sulemana is currently younger than Mane was on the day we signed Mane. Try comparing them when they are comparable ages in the PL. You are writing off a young inconsistent player with some very good attributes.

Why have you written them off in terms of talent? - Sulemana today is younger than Mane was when we signed him. Far too early to write him off, as some did with Mane. Sure Sulemana is frustrating due to his end product at the moment, but is clearly talented. - Stewart hasn't played due to injury, not due to talent. I wouldn't rule either of them out from being useful next season.

The entire game is being re-written for Unity. Not just the 3D graphics. For all those that complain each year is a data update... this one certainly isn't. This is the closest to a sequel you will get. It is essentially Football Manager 2!

The essence of Moneyball lies in finding undervalued assets, often overlooked by traditional scouting methods. It is not solely signing high potential youngsters and selling them on.

It is not evidence at all... because they are not the same person. How Walcott did or didn't do is completely and utterly irrelevant to what Lallana will do.

We already have many recent years of top flight football with average of circa 30k. The season ticket number reaching 24k appears to be the metric the club will base a decision on. Perhaps we are close given the Tweet above. Bigger attendances = bigger income = more money to improve squad to stay up under financial rules

CEO Phil Parsons has 'apparently' said we'd need 24k season ticket holders to consider an expansion. Perhaps we are getting close or maybe even there already.... https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1800876707060064324?t=UHhbdpMvSdUNdJXNNIcsMA&s=19

It'll be similar to recent games. Late Oct/early Nov. Using Unity will make a huge difference, there will be a big leap in graphics compared to using the current in house engine as they have done for the last 30 years.

Football Manager 2025 is bringing some huge changes! Can't complain this year is simply a 'data update'! The biggest one that will make the most difference is that Football Manager will no longer be made using an in house engine. Instead it will use all the benefits of the Unity game engine, which will see huge advances in the user interface and the match graphics. Womens football is also making its debut, so you can manage Southampton's men and womens teams. Plus, for the first time ever Sports Interactive have the licence for the Premier League! They already have the EFL and UEFA licences.

The club makes a lot of the catchment area being on the coast. But we are on island and lots of teams are on or very near to the coast. 7 in the PL and 8 in the Championship. Saints are far from unique on this.

Our last season in the PL saw us spend circa £140m

We spent more than that in our last PL season, was circa £140m under Sport Republic in 2022/23. Not well spent, but still spent.