Matthew Le God

Not working with these players in the PL does not mean it wouldn't vs Championship teams. Our squad is packed full of top level Championship players who are in the gap between too good for one league but not good enough for the next league. If we go down with Martin we'd be big favourites for promotion. Especially given we'd be a year 1 parachute money team.

Not 20 years for an expansion of a stadium.

Nonsense. The new financial spending rules are based on spending a % of turnover. Increasing ticket sales increases revenue and increases turnover. Profit doesn't matter in that sense.

Of course not. But infrastructure projects like this are excluded from the financial rules. Building it is with the purpose of being able to spend more on transfers/wages than we are currently allowed to with spending tied to % of turnover.

On what is that claim based?

1) I did not just say 'as soon as it is built'. Read the second part of that line! That says 'and more tickets are sold'. You took the first bit out of context! 2) A profit on investment is irrelevant to the purpose of the investment. The purpose is to increase revenue to allow for bigger spending under financhial rules.

Are you saying Russell Martin wouldn’t win as many games as Russell Martin? Please explain that one?

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!