Matthew Le God

Mirror ran with that story a few days ago as well, also linking Saints with Kasper Schmeichel. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfers-lukasz-fabianski-southampton-3406624

He did indeed, this graphic covers 2007 to 2012 net spends...

He is 30 years old.

It has to be stuff ontop of what an English fan gets. If they both for example buy a shirt, match programme in each game, and a pint then that isn't reducing the gap between the two. The £200 to £300 extra average has to be on additional things to what the English fans buy in order for it to balance out.

My ticket isn't the most expensive at St Mary's, those are £853 new and £759 to renew. I find it hard to believe the average German fan spends £200 to £300 on merchandise each and every year. What are they buying? A shirt, a programme for each game... well a lot of Saints fans do that so would have to be something ontop of what an English fan does.

Surely not enough each year to make up the difference between their tickets and my £737 renewal?

Its more of an honorary position than a job.

How do you know? You'll struggle to find any other examples of international strikers for major nations signed for £15m that are only on £35k p/w. Look at the wages he has come from at Roma and the wages of the club he is now on loan at... Juventus. If he really was on only £35k p/w he'd be very much the poor relation among his peers.

Saints will get around £18m this season in prize money for finishing 8th, they owe £21m in transfers in 2014/15 the former nearly wipes out the later on its own. Not even mentioning the rest of the TV money from the huge 2013 to 2016 deal.

Like everyone else has missed this...? Thats quite an assumption! On what is it based?

Its not that the tickets for each game cost £45, its that £45 is added to the cost of the season ticket as an "admin fee" if you decide to pay in 10 monthly installments.

Villa have issues... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27039466

Artur Boruc ‏@ArturBoruc 12m Another training and my back is much better...

Deadline to renew is the end of May. Still a lot of transfer window to go after that!

I'm guessing the club would say it isn't the same product. The team is better than it was in the summer of 2012 when it first entered the Premier League and better again than in the summer of 2013.

That is only the case for the blocks with the best views, you can get concession prices in other areas of the stadium.

A 30 year old League 2 player? Do you not think we should be aiming a lot higher? We have academy products out on loan playing at a higher level than Roberts. At least Lambert was 27 when we got him and scored 30+ goals for Bristol Rovers at a level above where Roberts is currently playing.

Fabianski and Schmeichel on Saints list of targets according to the Mirror... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfers-lukasz-fabianski-southampton-3406624

We beat Cardiff 3-0 on Boxing Day with Gazzaniga in goal and no Lovren in defence. Gazzaniga didn't have much to do which should be the case again today. Saints should dominate possession, cut off supply to Cardiff's lone forward and leave Gazzaniga with hopefully little to do. Plus Lovren will be playing this time, when he wasn't on Boxing Day against Cardiff.

He is 21 years old, an England under 21 international and has 20 Championship goals this season. I think you are being very harsh on him.

Gaston Ramirez training today...

That is irrelevant to my point that he isn't one of the "dregs" last summer.

If Osvaldo really was one of the "dregs" last summer, why did the leading club in Italy sign him on loan from us? Yes, he is a mentalist, but he is still a very good player.

Better to have the best academies playing each other in a league system (best vs the best), rather than being decided by the league their senior team are in. Which is what EPPP sets out to do. Some lower league academies are better than those in the Premier League, why punish them? How would you envisage that working in a global sport with national league pyramid systems and not a closed shop like sports in the USA and Australia? That would be extremely negative for Saints, makes investment in youth academies (from the age of 8 to 21) pointless.

We can't have that! When it was announced over the PA system at St Mary's that Bournemouth had been promoted from League 2 in 2010 a big cheer and applause went around the stadium. The Cherries are our little cousins we look out for and want to do well. Patronising enough?