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Yes but then they got investigated by the undercover and eventually there was an application to revoke their liquor licence. The application was after Osman and le Tissier gave up the lease, the acts were during. Bad place to be involved with. Also what about this for a bit of Lawrie bashing, never seen this before although it's old stuff. http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/archive/index.php/t-54781.html

To be honest I don't think he'll actually be leading anything, very much a bit part player in the cogs of conglomeration no doubt. A symbolic figure rather than anything else.

Is it just me or is that mortgage going down at a very slow rate. Seem to remember in last years accounts it was 22 million,now it's 23.7 million which means in fact that it has gone up since last June. 7/8 years of paying off the mortgage for a net reduction of about 4 million isn't very encouraging to prospective mortgage payers is it.Whoever buys us out will want shot of that millstone as we obviously can't service it.

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To be honest Morgan just isn't used to playing with static crap like our front line. The fact that he came to us instead of going to skate with whom a deal was done by Strasbourg means that there is far more to his "transfer" than meeets the eye. His agent said so, Strasbourg said so. That none of you believe it is just down to you. We have an absolutely gash record with young players who don't fit the standard template of "English Football". Some of them English as well but successive managers have had no time for them preferring names and hard assed hackers instead. We would have a bloody good side if we got back all the lads who weren't good enough for our recent bevvy of managers and let the other clubs have the highly paid garbage instead. We have brought players to the club and just let them fade away because they didn't fit in with our "style" good players who've done alright for themselves elsewhere, Morgan will be no different. The word on the street around the Meinau said he hated Southampton and couldn't wait to leave because we just didn't play football but crude hacking.

Smith only had a 6 months contract I think.

I still rate Cotterill, he'd do for me.

£10 a week plus big add ons for goals scored and goal making assists, that's about the best I'd give him.Reduced to £5 a week in the eventuality of him being seen eating junk food in local hosteleries.

Shearer's doing a great job at toon isn't he,with Dowie helping him it would seem. Need a serious candidate, no more amateurs please.

He had his moments, but really since he was in Portugal in 2005 or something like that he has had a bit of a chequered history, blowing hot and cold and actually being thrown out of the first team squad at Troyes for lack of effort or something of that ilk.Been a long season for him though with the Euro and they Danish League and the early rounds of the Champions League. No doubt he was bitterly disappointed that no-one came in for him in January,mind you so were we.

Nobody has volunteered to give up their wage as far as I know. Some have allowed for it to be deferred to a later date, but we still have to pay them as preferred creditors at the end of the day.

The infrastructure of the club just cost too much money, big sales and low buys = no money. Doesn't make sense at all does it?.Record sale what 10 million or so from Walcott,8 from Deano,7 from Bridge,7ish from Bale, 6 from Beattie,5 from Jones,3 from Baird,7 plus recent add ons from Crouch plus all the bits and bobs that we've sold on a continual basis yet we have no money. We've got to have harvested nigh on 60 million in transfer fees these last 6 years or so .Something in the cost structure is top heavy and I can't see it being the Stadium really,true we wasted a lot of money on bit part player but honestly it just doesn't add up.

When do we have to pay the stadium charges, the interest and this years instalment,I think that's in May, perhaps tax money due as well.If we can't meet those payments i suppose someone could apply for a winding up order but then I'm no expert on the mechanics of insolvency.Wouldn't those bills not being paid increase the debt and make the administrators liable ? Anyway I won't give a bent farthing (over and above the ticket's I've bought recently) whilst Skacel and Euell are still there.

Which isn't even in India now, a real circus.KP would be better off here making some runs in one dayers for us and getting used to English conditions for the summer series against Australia than wasting his time being crap in South Africa. Still it's all about money money money I suppose.

Right, two excellent examples, as the game changes and the squad has specific needs some players are capable of stepping up to the plate to play anywhere on the field. We used to have a name for that 'utility player' Dave Webb joined Saints as a utility player I seem to remember. It's the talent you have that counts not where you play.

Whilst we're on the subject of "playing out of place" which in my opinion is a complete myth anyway,you have to use the talent you have as best you can, has anyone noticed that Rooney is now playing down the left wing for Utd, him being a right footer and all.Seems to be working out OK as well. It is a current trend and several players are showing that provided you have the talent it doesn't matter which side you play or which foot you favour. Messi is of course the shining example of this, he's on the wrong side and better there than on the 'right side'.

I too would welcome Souness,should never have left, Lowe should have backed down, probably his first **** up of many.

We won't keep either of them;BWP because he won't take a big pay cut, McG because he can do better elsewhere.BWP is rumoured to be on 6/7K a week, we'd be wanting him to play for less than half of that, he's out of contract anyway so unless he agrees to our terms he's out of here. We need to establish wage harmony in the side, no-one on 8K a week and players who are performing better on 2K a week because it is demotivational whether you think about it or not. Imagine McG, scoring some goals, working his butt off alone up front getting slagged off as a lazy bastard in every Chinese Takleaway in Hampshire and seeing that other knob strutting around or doing nothing on 5 times that. Whether you perceive it or not it does have an influence on attitude. When things aren't so great you feel f*ck it why should I bother for a fifth of his money.

Still if the Heineken Queen takes over we might get another dose of Dutch. I'm not at all sure that Wotte won't be part of the set up next year.Depends who buys us and how much they have to spend. I surmise that on the sporting front Wotte is currently virtually running the club on his own.

Looks like a draw again then, pity we had them on the rack at 97/4 but once again couldn't bowl them out cheaply enough to enforce the follow on. Pity we don't have Tahir till July,could work wonders just now methinks.

We will probably get quite a bit for him actually, if we hold out hard enough. Not silly money but I think 2+ million would be obtainable. He is a good player but suffers from the impression that he's lazy,which he probably isn't. In a good side (without Saganowski,BWP and Euell dragging it down by their static performances) he will probably do OK.

Probably but the debt levels are probably nowhere near as great. If you take Germany for instance the top 3 this year aren't the same as last year. If you take Wolfsburg for instance. Top this year, 5th last year and 15th the two years before that, so progress has obviously been made,I'm not an expert on their structure but I wouldn't say their outlay on players is anywhere near that of Bayern Munich who are only 3rd this year.Italy? well AC Milan came a cropper last year and their championship seems to have 5 or 6 clubs who regularly battle it out.Don't know anything about debt levels though. Those side certainly don't cost anywhere near MU's or Chelsea's. Arsenal looked in serious difficulty this time round but hup a little 12 million dob for Arshavin seems to have put them back on course.

Indeed, but why do Liverpool,Arsenal,Chelsea and Man U have the dominance now? Because they are vastly in debt,debts that other clubs with more modest revenues could never even think of having. When a side costing 300 million plays a side costing 25 million there will only ever be one result, apart from the occasional fluke now and then. For football to become of any real interest to the masses again the debt train has to be stopped. Salary cap and cap on transfers per season has to be introduced. Otherwise the same 4 clubs will qualify for Europe season in season out until a breakaway league is eventually formed.

Yes I totally agree with Lawro on that 7 million spent and then 12million + sold the season after? Can't put it all on that really. I don't doubt for one minute that since relegation from the Premiership we have been vastly cash positive on transfers. That is not the cause, it's about salaries and performances from those receiving them. We failed to downsize all the activities quickly enough,that's where we went wrong.

My there's a surprise then..