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It's been posted before, but here it is again. The last available figures are for 2014/15 TV income was £83m. Wages alone were just over £80m

And anyway, what happened to those PLEASE GIVE UP THIS SEAT IF AN ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSON NEEDS IT signs. Isn't Corbyn a pensioner?

And it's in Monte Carlo.

I've read it in several places recently. This quote is straight from the financialfairplay website...

Yeah, the short black skirt is a dead giveaway every time.

It's gone to Liverpool for an undisclosed fee

Due to the FFP rules, what we spend on wages is much more important than what we spend on fees. Wage increases are strictly controlled year on year. If fees lead to losses, these can effectively be averaged over several years. To build for the future, which we're told is the current 5-year plan, we should be increasing our wage bill as much as possible every year. Our wage increases are limited by FFP to an increase of about £7m a year. But you can add profit from player trading to that. Profit from player trading will be shown in the audited financial statements. What you find on http://www.howmuchisthatplayerworth.com doesn't count. The financial year ends on 30th June, so it makes a huge difference selling or buying before or after that date. And don't confuse profit from player sales with cash flow, they are entirely different. I wasn't surprised that we sold Wanyama and Mane a couple of days before the end of last year. And I won't be surprised if we buy replacements this year.

I once bumped into the Saints team on a train to Liverpool Street. It would be about 1970, give or take a year or two. They had been playing at Ipswich.

Like Matt le Tissier?

She has a head?

He bagged two in a 4-1 away win yesterday

I wish we were Burnley

Did you mean another Premier League club going under? Or do you mean 27 miles when you say "not far away?"

You'll fit in well here

Who cares about Wigan, you only have to look at Birmingham City to see how to win trophies if you get the right owner with real ambition.

Let me tell you, let me tell you What you do What you do You just walk right in Walk, walk, walk right in

You're just on a wind up. Of course they don't rent their training ground. They lease it. Don't you know the difference? And they definately own the second hand portacabins they use there. And the grass. They own the grass, they bought their own seeds. It must be worth al least a couple of grand. Maybe even three.

I'm guessing we're looking for a Celtic win tonite? That won't be easy with that t*at Rogers.

The whole world gets to see every Premier League game live. It's only in England you don't.

They've signed up for the Premier League Cup, so who knows?

A sensible 5 year plan would be to push the wage bill up as much as possible within FP rules, year on year, and try to put some space between us and the teams below. That would consolidate our position just below the top six.

Send them straight to the coffee shop when you get to the hotel, then check in by yourself with all the luggage. Then join them later.

The last set of accounts shows that we spent pretty much the whole of the TV income on wages alone. We have significant other day to day running costs, which again were just about covered by commercial revenues and gate money. That leaves sod all to pay off the fifty-odd million quid of debt we ran up when we spent our way from the bottom of L1 to the top of the PL. Not to mention the forty million we spent on Staplewood. There is a club in Hampshire that doesn't pay it's old debts, but I don't support them.

It will happen every year, unless we shut Staplewood. The jump up from seventh to sixth in size is just too big. It's roughly £100m a year, and we are never going to do that. Southampton's speciality isn't just the academy, it's the whole of the operation at Staplewood. Everybody improves, whether they join us at 9 or 19. The Sadio Mane that left us was a far better player than the Sadio Mane that joined. So get used to them leaving, and start worrying when they force a move to Palace or West Brom.