Matthew Le God

Based on this, Saints should be looking for deals from £3m to £5m if they are seriously looking to close the gap commercially as Ralph Krueger stated he was aiming to... Have they managed that with Veho?

Easy mistake to make...

Not shooting himself, but this'll do.

No.

Any Saints B team would play at St Mary's/Staplewood/possibly Eastleigh and train at Staplewood with Saints coaches. Daily Mail think Saints would prefer closer links with a feeder club rather than a B-team... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2622852/FA-chairman-Greg-Dyke-plans-regionalise-lower-leagues-Premier-League-B-teams.html#readerCommentsCommand-message-field Which would mean Saints players not playing or training at Staplewood with Saints coaches.

9 goals in League 1 and 10 goals in the Championship is a significant contribution to getting the club you allegedly "support" (in its loosest sense) back to the Premier League. He wasn't signed to be a Premier League player for Saints, he was signed to help get us out of League 1 and the Championship... which he did.

He played an important role in getting a club promoted from League One to the Premier League. Yes, he is out of his depth at a top 8 Premier League club, but give him some credit for his good work in previous years ffs!

Does it? Why? As he has been training with the Saints 1st team squad since Fox left in January.

Can someone do a mock up of it with black shorts and white socks please?

The home of Southampton "B"...

Accrington Stanley ‏@ASFCofficial 35m In 2016/17 we can achieve our dream... We'll finally be able to play Stoke City Reserves in the Football League...

Cheers.

It also works like that in Spain and Germany, although highest level they are allowed is the 2nd tier.

The proposal states "B" teams aren't allowed to go higher than League 1.

Do you have a link for that?

Real Madrid and Barcelona's B teams average around 4k, so god only knows what Stoke and Burnley's will get.

The report says B teams aren't allowed in FA Cup or League Cup. Something along these lines is included in the commissions report. They plan over a number of years to get clubs to have 12 players with football education in England, with 4 of them having to come through your own academy in the 25 man squads. Plus signing non EU players will be significantly limited.

That is a rule for League One and League Two clubs, not the Premier League.

An interesting insight into what makes Saints academy so productive... http://www.thecoachingmanual.com/soccer/podcasts/southampton-academy-8005 Enjoy

Quoting Kipling's "If" reminds me of this... Next season Saints will be playing "four, four, f**king two".

When Markus purchased the club 5 years ago Saints were 68th in England, when Katharina became owner they were 64th, today they are 8th. Most of the progression and investment has come under the ownership of Katharina in the last 4 years. The plans for Staplewood training ground for example significantly increased in scope after Markus' died.

Strange take some of you are putting on words like... “The club means the world to me. I’ve been here since I was 12 and I want to keep progressing with the club.” - Adam Lallana 6th May 2014

His goal at 2:50 in this video is very impressive... [video=youtube;-QRlyvmRHys]

Watch it here live from 9pm tonight...

England differs from Spain, Italy, Germany and France, as we have over 100 professional clubs. "B" teams will stretch that even further with additional professional tiers in the pryamid. The Spanish 2nd tier has 19 teams with gates under 10k and 9 with gates under 5k (some as low as 2k). How do the 60+ teams below that financhially support professional contracts? I'm not saying the quality of football is better, but Spain doesn't have clubs the size of Wolves, Coventry, Sheff Utd, Bristol City in its 3rd tier, Pompey and Plymouth in its 4th tier or Luton in its 5th tier. "B" teams are more suited to Spain as there is less in the way of competition from other professional clubs.