John B

Alternatively it could be a ruse by Crouch to put Lowe in a bad light. Obviously I am not in the know like other posters but pondering all scenarios. Was there not a throw away line in the Annual Report that in the event of Adminisration alternative funding would be found which I took to be Crouch.

Yes I know that but according to Crouch Wilde was living in a Walter Mitty world. The club should have regrouped after failing in the playoffs that is where I am coming from. But I find this thread very interesting dont you?

Yes makes sense now. A common scenario Bonuses being paid for the wrong criteria should probably be paid on a number.

But Wilde was gone then They were in sole charge feeding from the trough whlist SFC burnt

Wilde had left long before that It was them who bought in Thomas Euell Saga and John not Wilde as documented by Rebel But your agenda does not appear to allow you to see that

Possibly we would be higher in the table with Crouch and Pearson but eventually something like Lowe is doing now would have had to be done to reduce costs. crouch appears to like being popular so i dont believe he is capable of cutting costs in an agressive manner of course there is no reason why he should not be Chairman in future.

Because they should have stopped it happening in the first place. It was probably only in November 2007 they started looking at the figures. It would be better not starting a fire in the first place and then ringing 999 when it is in full flow

Take it down the tip there is one nearby

Yes a reasonable summation I feel Not really sure what Crouch's role in all this was though

That is what I think Lowe is trying to address but it is working at the moment. If Wilde had not come in perhaps we would have had a team with Cranie Blackstock and Mills plus a few reasonable players bought in

I think they are referring to the figures which were in the annual report which was for last season THE Daily Echo can today reveal some of the high salaries that resulted in Saints’ wage bill soaring to 81 per cent of the club’s total income last season.

Yes I agree but Burley never gave him a real chance

Or we are going into administration and it is not his fault

That is what I am saying but I think Wilde is more to blame for the current situation it was him who brought Lowe back. I never thought Lowe would return as upsets supporters like yourself. But as he does not care about being popular is probably the best guy in the current abysmal situation

THE Daily Echo can today reveal some of the high salaries that resulted in Saints’ wage bill soaring to 81 per cent of the club’s total income last season. The figures show that eight first team squad players were earning about £70,000 a week between them. Strike trio Grzegorz Rasiak, Stern John and Marek Saganowski would have been on £26,000 a week between them – more than £100,000 a month and about £1.2m per year – had they all stayed for the 2008/09 season instead of being sent out on loan. Rasiak was on £10,000 a week at Saints with John and Saganowski on £8,000 a week. The most amazing sums, though, show that midfielder Jason Euell was given a two-year contract with a £10,000 a week salary and a £200,000 signing on fee for BOTH his two seasons at St Mary's. That means Saints will be paying the former Wimbledon, Charlton and Middlesbrough player a startling £720,000 for each year of his contract. In addition, Andrew Davies was on slightly more than £10,000 a week after completing his move from Middlesbrough during the last January transfer window. Centre half Wayne Thomas, who is expected to miss the entire 2008/09 campaign through injury, was being paid just under £8,000 a week Rudi Skacel, who cost Saints £1.6m when he was signed from Hearts in the summer of 2006, is on a similar-sized salary to Thomas. Bradley Wright-Phillips, meanwhile, was being paid £6,500 a week. On top of all that, Saints have to pay the employers’ national insurance contributions of 12.5 per cent – meaning they pay an extra £90,000 just for Euell, though obviously the players concerned do not get that money. All the above players were signed between June 2006 and January 2008 – a time in which current PLC chairman Rupert Lowe was away from the club. The regime put in place by Michael Wilde was instead running the club and organising player contracts. As revealed in Saints’ annual accounts released in early December, player and coaches wages leapt from 45 per cent of turnover in the financial year ending June 2007 (£10.5m wage bill) to a staggering 81 per cent of turnover 12 months later (£12.1m). Saints had a total turnover of just £14.9m in the financial year ending June 2008, compared to £23.3m the previous year. Though the club brought in £12.7m from selling players in 2007/08, they still reported a loss of £4.9m. Lowe said: “To run a player/coach wage bill of 81 per cent speaks for itself. The only justification for this would have been promotion, but in the event we narrowly avoided relegation.” A club spokesman said: “We won’t comment on individual player contracts.”

No it was a serious point as I have been wondering lately how he was getting on in the Premiership I know he was a good player but really too costly in the present situation

Why I find it quite interesting how Wilde has ruined our club when Lowe who has assisted gets all the blame.

How is he doing at stoke

No mention of Directors Wages I notice

OK done But JP needs our support not the constant abuse that is on this site.

There is nothing to discuss is there it is somebody's idea of humour .

What is the point of such a moronic post I am looking for something positive I thought we should be discussing real issues on this site

Or maybe he is trying to carry out an extremely difficult task with a fanbase many of which are deluded and will not accept the reality of the situation It is easy to make comments with hindsight and without knowing all the facts.

It is about time they reported other things than those that are pasted from the OS site. With regard to Cork if he said he wanted to stay with us and Watford wanted him more by paying more the club had a serious Dilemma

A little boy took his parents to court because he did not want to live with them anymore. The judge said to him "Why don't you want to live with your dad?" "Because he beats me" said the little boy. "Why don't you want to live with your mum then?" asked the judge. Because she beats me aswell. "Oh" said the judge "Well who would you like to live with then?" The little boy replied" I would like to live with Southampton FC, because they don't beat anyone!!"