Matthew Le God

Why are you willing to tell strangers one by one using PM's, but not post it on here?

It is going to dramatically increased the number of hours England's best young players have with top coaches. At the moment is lagging behind most other top European leagues. The players will end up better, plus they will still benefit the smaller clubs by going out on loan and if deemed not good enough they will still sign for smaller clubs having had much more coaching at a higher level. Very few English clubs will get category one. Saints will be able to use their position to hoover up a lot of the regions best players (as they do already) as Saints will be more attractive and between the ages of 9 to 12 the only option in many cases for players and their parents as teams like Pompey etc will be restricted.

If ever there was a need to change a thread title this is it.

Because games can only be rescheduled for when both teams are available. For example Saints had a game postponed against Rochdale. Rochdale however are playing Notts County tonight, so Saints can't play that game etc etc

Why do you think that Steve? It will be brought in, maybe with a few tweaks/concessions but nothing major. The Premier League academies have far more power to bring this through no matter what the Football League clubs think. Plus the FA thinks it will benefit the national team. In any case, as we are all Saints fans we should be hoping it does happen. As Saints will be one of the few clubs in England that will significantly benefit from it!

It will cost roughly £2.5 million per year to run a category 1 academy when these plans come in for 2012/13. Plus you need the facilities to get category 1 - hence the multi million pound development of Staplewood announced. There won't be very many clubs with category 1 academies, but Saints will be one of them. Those thinking the owners aren't investing really have flimsy foundations to their argument.

So the same age as Lallana and plays in the same position. He would have to be absolutely exceptional to make it worthwhile adding to the squad and blocking the path of academy wingers.

How do you know they haven't?

Some people in this forum keep overestimating the Championship. It really isn't that great... - Saints 3rd choice left back Joseph Mills is playing on loan for a mid table Championship side. - Saints "rejects" Wayne Thomas and Simon Gillet are playing for a mid table Championship side. - Saints 3rd choice winger Jason Puncheon is on loan in the Premier League. - Leeds and Norwich have very similar squads to those of their League One promotion campaigns and are both in the Championship playoff places. Millwall not too far behind. Forte - has played 120 games at Championship level! Hammond - has played 88 games at Championship level! Harding - Has played 91 games at Championship level! Butterfield - Has played 356 games at Championship level! 7 in the Premier League. Richardson - Has played 96 games at Championship level! 4 in the Premier League. Chaplow - Has played 177 games at Championship level! 11 in the Premier League. Holmes - Has played 58 games at Championship level! Lallana - Has played 46 games at Championship level! Schneiderlin - Has played 30 games at Championship level! Fonte - Has played 88 games at Championship level! Plus 37 in the Portuguese top flight! Bialkowski - Has played 17 games at Championship level! Davis - Has played 350 games at Championship level! Plus 33 in the Premier League. Jaidi - Has played 68 games at Championship level! Plus 61 in the Premier League. Connolly - Has played 232 games at Championship level! Plus 22 in the Premier League. Mills - Has played 22 games at Championship level. Puncheon - Has played 21 games at Championship level! Plus 3 in the Premier League. Barnard - Has played 3 games at Premier League level! Dickson - has played 5 games at Championship level! Guly - A key player in a promotion winning Serie B side. ...all have good experience of the Championship or higher. Admittedly Connolly, Holmes and Jaidi may well be released at the end of season for age and injury reasons.

Very common in football, as it is not solely down to the manager to make player purchases from the start of the process of identifying targets to the completion of the deal. The scouting team under Pardew would have identified potential targets, just because Pardew left it doesn't mean the club are no longer interested or still tracking players they identified earlier.

Nonsense. - Puncheon is playing games in the Premier League this season. - West Ham in January made a bid for the 4th choice centre back - Aarron Martin. - Why only "possibly" a fee for Fonte, that is absurd. He'd make it into every Championship and a few Premier League squads. - Saints 3rd choice left back is a regular out on loan for Championship side Doncaster. - Wayne Thomas and Simon Gillett also play for Doncaster in the Championship despite neither being good enough to make the Saints first XI. - To suggest Mills, Puncheon, Martin, Gobern, Hammond, Harding, Dickson, Barnard, Guly etc wouldn't have a transfer fee if sold really is strange!

Explain how it isn't?

Why is that embarrassing to you? Unless you were one of the idiots, all you have as a connection with them is a following of the same football team by shear chance. No need to be embarrassed by them as you have no control over their actions.

No, it was moved to an earlier time in the day because of the England vs Wales game (football not rugby). It was never going to be a Sky game.

Bartley is a Burnley player!

Unlike you to be negative. Especially after 3 wins in a row for Saints.

People here are confusing the Liebherr company with the Mali Group. The Liebherr company is run by Markus' brother and sister, he sold his shares roughly 20 years ago.

It will only be someone to sit on the bench whilst Gobern is suspended and Schneiderlin is injured. So don't set your expectations too high, clubs simply won't loan out good players to sit on the Saints' bench whilst Hammond and Chaplow play.

It works on my Mac, but I installed my game using Steam. Try doing that (uninstall and then reinstall using http://store.steampowered.com/ to register the game)

The five year plan was to get Saints into the Premier League. There will be other plans on top of that. Cortese has talked about expanding the stadium and aiming to get in the Champions League, that is probably the plan from 2014 - 2019.

Yep, I should have included that. I bet Lallana is now one of the top earners along with Fonte and Lambert, getting "close" I'd guess to the £10k p/w mark. Plus the agent fee and signing on fee to persuade him to stay at Saints rather than go on a free in the summer in a lucrative deal for him. No doubt the ambition of the club and future plans were also a factor in keeping Adam, he would want to be at a club going places with ambition and resources, he could quite easily have gone to the Premier League or Championship in the summer if he wanted - but didn't.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2279036,00.html Yep, it is "Mercedes of Southampton" with pitch side advertising and mini buses for the academy etc, not the main multinational Mercedes company with a kit sponsorship.

Liebherr was at no point "running the club", he owned it but Cortese was running it for him. As it is still owned by the Liebherr estate, I very much doubt they would give him permission to accrue multi million pound debts by taking out loans for the company to buy a state of the art training ground for a League One club. Especially when the family prides itself in not accruing debt.

People seem to think Guly cost us nothing. However he would have cost a sizable loan fee intitially in August and then a sizable (but undisclosed) transfer fee in January, along with agent fee, signing on fee etc etc. Richardson cost £450k in the summer which is a large amount for a League One team, Dickson cost £225k and Butterfield as was out of contract, a large signing on fee and agent fee. The price for Forte was also undisclosed, he was a regular in a Championship side however. In any case the squad was already pretty much sorted to be capable of a promotion campaign after 31st January 2010 after Puncheon, Seaborne, Fonte, Otsemobor and Barnard were brought. That was a mere 12 months ago! Relatively little was needed to be spent in the summer of 2010 or January 2011.