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Yep pretty obvious we haven’t. The question is why? We are the only club to make a profit from transfers, we have relatively low agents costs, we reported a £43m pre tax profit last accounts, Cortese has been gone 5 years so we can’t really blame him anymore. We’ve been telling everyone who will listen for years what a well run club we are, yet we are the only club that has to sell players to buy new ones. It doesn’t all stack up does it.

And there are still some that defend this by claiming the profit goes on bonuses, agents fees and other costs, almost like no other club has these things to pay, just us. In the same period of the last 5 years our agents fees were £20m according to the this link https://www.transferleague.co.uk/agent-fees-2013-14/agent-fees/agent-fee-comparison-table Yes it’s a lot, But it puts our agents fees as one of the lowest of all clubs who have been in the premier league the same period. So that argument doesn’t wash. Mike Ashley gets absolute hell from Newcastle fans for their lack of investment yet in the last 5 years they’ve spent £60m more than they’ve made from transfers and £13m more than us on agents fees. Yes we’ve had to sack 3 managers in that time, but so have Newcastle, Everton, Crystal Palace and Leicester to name just 4 and we’ve made money from Koeman and Pochetino leaving, so another argument that doesn’t wash. The fact we have this sell before we buy when we are the relegation zone and our last accounts showed a pre tax profit of £43m is insane.

What report are you reading? It says the “early hours of sunday morning” ie she went out Saturday night and got in Sunday morning. It’s what young people do pal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6690605/Masked-thief-robs-Ryan-Bertrands-model-girlfriends-Rolex-watch.html

I see on this forum some of the smartest men who ever lived. I see all this potential and I see it squandered. God damn it an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, we Slaves to the white collar. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, we work in jobs we hate to pay for sh1t we don’t need. We’re the missing children of history man with no purpose, no place. Our Great War is a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives. We’re raised on television to believe that one day we’ll be millionaire and rocks stars and movies gods but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact and we’re very, very p2ssed off.

It was Saturday night/Sunday morning. Either way Does it matter? If the mother of my children was robbed outside our house I wouldn’t be leaving her for a week for a work trip.

The simple fact is that we our games left include home games against the two most likely to be bottom two, 2 away games against team who are relegation rivals, 2 home and 2 away against mid table teams with nothing to play for. Our run in is okay, if we can’t get 14 points from those 8 games we deserve to go down.

He’s doing a great job. On the football side We cut salary expenditure significantly during January and made a profit in the transfer window from player sales. We have a marketing department on board with every cause there is, note the recent acclaim we got for flying the trannie flag on our twitter feed supporting transgender rights. What With the fans forums to keep it touch with what’s going on, the new gas works bar, pre match light display and the wide arrange of foodstuff available in the kiosks its arguable that that the match day experience has never been better.

I see the therapy hasn’t helped, you’re still mental.

Funny how these two pipe up making those comments. Verbal with his usual racism comments and Sue whistle commenting that she had no comment to make, just to prove how virtuous she is. These Two are two of the most pious, self righteous individuals to ever post on the internet. Rather than discuss what he actually said, how he admitted to something from 40 years ago, said he was ashamed of himself and he learnt from it, they chose to point the racism finger at anyone who won’t wave their cyber pitchforks in the air demanding he be strung up. Amazing for people who consider themselves so virtuous.

Yep, that’s what I’ve heard. He along with a little clique of others have been shall we say, an issue. Most of them have gone now but given the managers since Koeman have been such a downgrade you can hardly blame them. I guess it comes down to your view on player power. Should we have shipped out the trouble makers in Puels time or were they right? Tricky one.

I'm not so sure about that, they were outraged when discussing it on Loose Women yesterday.

He also said he was walking around black areas of this city, (whatever city this was) for a week looking to find a black man to fight. He obviously wasn't looking very hard and clearly had no real intention of doing it. Seriously poor effort to walk around an area with large population of black people and not managing to find anyone to fight in a week. Still, there has been the usual outpour of OUTRAGE from everyone about it all. He was obviously trying to make the point that anger, revenge, retribution, call it what you will, makes people think and behave irrationally, which is what his new film is about. I see there is more OUTRAGE this morning that he didn't apologies yesterday about it all. He said he was ashamed about his actions and that they were 40 years ago FFS!

Like Millwall. They know what they are, they are never going to be a massive club but they are a proper community club the polar opposite of the happy, clappy, shirt wearing, photo taking helmet fans that populate all premier league clubs.

I don’t know what game some of you divs were watching. Both were nailed on pens, we got lucky with the first we didn’t with the second. Yes you could argue Stephens was fouled but it still wouldn’t have made him stick is arm above his head, was a stupid thing to do with 30 seconds left, a ridiculous thing to do and have the ref a chance to make up for his earlier error. A decent point but to draw after getting ourselves in a winning position feels like a defeat. Two massive games ahead and six points are Vital.

Good question. According to this we’re about £46m in profit from transfer fees since the start of 2013/14 season. Which is nothing really, A pathetic £50m more than the next club who’ve been in the premier league for a compareable amount of time. https://www.transferleague.co.uk/southampton/english-football-teams/southampton-transfers https://www.transferleague.co.uk/premier-league-last-five-seasons/transfer-league-tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons I know we are a bit different to all the other clubs in the world as we have agents fees, running costs and bonuses to pay which no one else has so that will make up a lot of the £46m id imagine. It’s almost like we haven’t been racking cash in from the biggest TV deal in history but we all know that we are a really well run club with top notch corporate governance. I mean look at that right fisted cockney wan*er Mike Ashley at Newcastle. Regularly lamblasted by their fans and ex players for not spending money. He’s only spent £71m more than they’ve earnt from player sales on the same period as us. A pathetic £117m than they’ve brought in. Good job he doesn’t have to worry about agent fees! So f*ck knows where we’ll find the ings money from, best hope we sell a few more £22 burgers.

Gao will view this window as a triumph. We’ve employed a very good manager, on let’s says a generous £4m a year, no transfer fee and his wages equal to Austin or Forster saving us having to spend anything on players. He’ll probably keep us up as well as managing to get shot of a lot of big earners saving a few quid in wages even if we do pick up some of the tab and he’s walked away with a profit in transfers not spending a penny. We’ll stay up and when we do we’ve already being set up for Hojbejerg to move on with comments in the media about how big clubs are interested in him. The money will roll in next summer too when he goes and hopefully Hoedt and a few other clowns. Nice little pot for Ralph to spend but not all of it because don’t forget we have to pay agents fees too. The Gabbiadini money will be forgotten about as our team built around our academy and a few spend less than what we earn signings build a team which can be sold off.

Recall Sam McQueen We need him man We meed McQueen Recall him Recall Sam McQueen Cause new signings cost money And our figurehead is not what he seems Recall Sam McQueen We need him man We need McQueen Recall him We’ve got No future, no future, future with Gao No future, no future with Gao

Agents fees, bonuses, running costs, non playing staff costs, new red bits round the pitch, new signs outside the main entrance. We are the ONLY Club that has to pay these additional costs, which is why also being the only club to make a profit from transfers in the last 5 years winning the Net spend trophy 4 years in a row, we are also the only club that cant buy anyone with selling first.

The last time he said we weren't signing a player Charlie Austin was announced less than 24 hours later so I fully expect it to be done today.

You don't half come out with some nonsense. You think Gallagher has "huge potential" despite scoring one goal in eighteen appearances for Saints in the premier league then hardly ripping it up the championship or league one on loan the last 3 season. Yet Obafemi you "find it hard to rate" despite scoring the same amount of goals as Gallagher in 6 games and already making his full international debut, you admit hes mobile with good position but don't rate him because in his first 6 games he missed a few chances. What exactly would a young player have to do in his first 6 games in the premier league for you to be able to rate them?

We managed to sell our best player before the transfer window had even opened and failed to replace him last January so anything is possible.

And every other club has all these expenses as well, plus agents fees, bonuses etc which is the usual line trotted out to defend our spending. Yet out of all the other clubs we are the only one who has reported a profit from transfers over the last 5 years. The profit from transfers alone would cover the cost of Staplewood, (which should have been £20m less but that's another story) Mike Ashley gets absolutely destroyed by Newcastle fans for not spending but over the last 5 years they have a £71m spend against out £46m profit from transfer. They also have a season in the championship to take into account in that period.

Well done Les Reed, a marvellous signing

I guess the call from Barcelona has finally come then https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3898005/southamptons-cedric-soares-lined-up-by-barcelona-for-shock-15million-transfer/

The most refreshing thing about that is that up until I stopped watching at about 35 minutes in not a single person proceeded with their Name, location and how long they and been a fan, a season ticket holder or both for.