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Not necessarily, if we pay the players this time round then I think we'll be able to start selling some of them immediately afterward so on that front the 21st May hurdle is probably the last. At least 3 million can be obtained from selling players and that's a very conservative estimate cos I'm not counting all the 150Ks that we can get for the young lads.The council might be persuaded to buy the Stadium (with the University) for a knock down 6 or 7 million. Then there's the couple of bits of land and all the equipment that a football club would have hanging about. So unless someone is offering 12/15 million to take everything on as a going concern then their bid will probably get knocked back.

Not that I particularly doubt the truth of the context of the mail but as it's a who said what story there would be no reason whatsoever not to name the source would there. The bloke had an encounter with Lowe so why not name him and know who was taking to whom? It's very easy to say, Lowe said ....to my friends wife's taxi driver's cousin but then it's always a one way street isn't it. No harm can come out of naming the recipients of the alleged retort and it would make it so much more credible.

[quote=TNT;295026 People that claim to know things clearly don't. However I would hazard a guess that any written bids received are unacceptable as they stand and at this time. Whether they will continue to be so is to be seen.

I think Weston said on Saturday that there was only 1 written bid received for the time being.

Don't worry it's a just a close season gabfest,same as every year. The only difference this year is that unless we find 400K by Wednesday week we probably won't have any players,let alone new ones.

And yet Simon Cox is a couple inches shorter and 10 lbs lighter than McGoldrick. It's not about stereotyping it's about aptitude and ability and style of the side you're playing in.I'd be more chuffed if we got a midfielder who can really score goals on a regular basis. 20 yd thunderbolts are what you need, look at Wednesday's game, defence and attack cancelled each other out and both goals came from well hit shots from far out.

I think it's calculated on the basis that for some reason or other only known to a few the match needs to raise £400K,don't ask me why exactly,so they reckon on a £16 average and hope to get 25K I suppose. Whether the VAT man gets a slice of that I've no idea. It will probably go tits up and they'll get about 15K and raise about 250K which although being better than a smack in the balls with a wet fish,doesn't meet the 400£K target. £10 and £1 would leave them way off base although the high prices could backfire completely I suppose

No we will be getting the better end of the deal because it's players we don't forcibly need and a million £ which we definitely do need.If someone gives us money for Rasiak it will avoid us giving him away for nothing.All players sold at the moment for whatever fee is good good news.They all let us down, clear them out if money is offered for them.

Ah no,that's anyone who's out of contract who Mark Wotte doesn't rate. All out of contract players have had to be released whether they get a new offer or not is to been seen later.But as we're not at end of contract day yet no definite action has to be taken .

To be honest if people like Rotch wanted a club they'd buy Skate,Newcastle or West Ham, all better value for money than Southampton. Bigger debts but bigger guaranteed earnings as well. Our buyers will be bit part players who can't afford the luxury range of clubs.

Well someone would have to decide on the price and since the "board" of the FC consists of Dave Jones and some obscure accountant the making of "commercial policy" might be a tricky matter. Imagine they sold tickets for say £320 and we ended up with a side similar to Eastleigh's or Salisbury's,would you think that was alright.Of course not and then the moaning,groaning and sniping would start all over again, not that it completely stopped mind you.

That's probably about the amount they could buy out for. Rasiak and McG might have stability clauses in their contracts. Rasiak has a year so 52x10K(ish) McG 3 year contract in September 2008,so 2 years left but he's been here at least 3 years so buy out would be 115(or so)x whatever he earns say 3K/wk = 445K, so a million for the pair sounds about right.

I think that's a bit of an urban myth actually. Someone told me today that in the event of a club going out of business and reforming a 2 division drop is the penalty .So if we did fold and really restart we could (in theory) start in the conference.

How long is a piece of string?

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Loads of goals, nigh on 3 per game. teams averages 62+ goals each last season. Only 3 teams scored less than our 46 goals and 14 teams scored over 60 goals. Needs strikers badly.

So take the money out in cash and shove it at the bottom of the tool box (in a plastic bag of course) or something.

Phyto Calm does the trick incredibly well; Plant based no side affects, just knocks them out at bedtime. We have a daughter ,international 800m runner now, and it worked like a charm for her before big races.

Perhaps he's on very little money and there are get out clauses liberally scattered around.Perhaps Bart is on quite a lot of money so it was thought that if we loaned him out and replaced him with someone on half of his pay we'd make a real killing.Greed and profit were seemingly often behind some of the strange looking deals at SMS. Now I read the other day that Assou-Ekotto who's been doing OK at Spurs of late (although not today as Bale is playing) has a clause in his contract whereby he can leave for less than a million £. This is called a "stability clause" and is fixed at the time of signing.A player aged less than 28 having done 3 years in the same club or 2 years if older can just unilaterally break his contract with no compensation to be paid.I think it's been FIFA rules since 2005/6 so the first wave will be seen soon.All that has to happen is the last xx years of his contract are paid up by the new club or the player himself but no plus value transfer fee is payable.

Spare money and Southampton FC there's 2 things you don't often see mentioned in the same phrase.

Phil would know, the 2 jerks actually hung about with him for a while in Dubai. Rugby 7s maybe.

It's not that they're particularly poor in itself, they have made some sort of contribution on occasions, the problem with those 2 is their combined 21K a week salary. If they were on 'normal' CCC wages ie 10/11k/wk for the pair of them we would have had the other 11K at our disposal for a right back and perhaps another forward man. 5.5K/wk is good money in the CCC, you can pick what you want for that amount. As they were here and we needed players we started delving into the ultra bargain basement for players on Lge 2 or lower salaries(or parent club assisted) and got what we paid for --- pure crap or disinterested players. Once Saganowski came back the sums just got worse and we had to let players like Cork go.

well yes, the Windies haven't yet twigged that it's not 20/20 slogabout time yet.

this meaning the obscenely rich 'Le Tissier' consortium has been outbid by the desperate and indecently penniless Jacko consortium? Nah foak off.

Who sent you the text? Cherry Pip,St David?, Kelso Kev?