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It looks like really easy money on the face of it, probably have to prospect in emerging countries a bit though. So off to South America you go then.

poor dear is probably labouring under the impression that a 3rd Southampton manager in 2 years won't pass him over for PL games.

In fact I've been looking into the Doyen Group, very nebulous but their sports arm definitely took somewhere between 25 and 30% of our money for Tadic. Small fry for them, they've 50% of Falcao and a massive chunk of Neymar to mention but a few. Minting it from players it would seem, that's their business it's a venture capital fund. They put up 3.5 million euros for Sporting to buy Rojo and get 75% in return. Nice money making system don't you think. If they take 16 million euros that will be 12 million against 3.5 million in a year, we should refuse to deal with people like that, or so says Michel Platini.. So taking into account even 25% of the Tadic fee, lets call it 14 million €, then Doyen Global will have made about 15.5 million€ out of Saints in a month or so. Further edit: Do you think that there are people from an entity like Global on the WEF ? Wouldn't be surprised by that in any way at all. further further edit: Tevfik Arif one of the principal backers of Doyen was rumoured to be interested in buying Aston Villa a couple of months back but nothing came of it.How coincidental it all is, surely nothing more than that though.

Tadic was with Doyen Sports at one time as well, don't know if they still had any involvement with him when we signed him from Twente though. If so we know the ropes on that front seemingly. Edit:In exchange for an injection of funds of around 5 million € last January Twente let Doyen have partial rights (25-30%) on future transfers of 4 of their players, one of which was Dusan Tadic. So yes we do know how it works with them.

We have bowling poorly for several weeks now, fortunately for us our batsmen compensate on occasions but not always.

You know very well that I'm talking about KD,Gazzaniga and Hooiveld. Maya is still to show that he's really Premier League level. If we have to rely on Hooiveld ever again the bolloa kks will start once more. We need to ship those 3 out of the club and never ever have to use them again. Still no doubt they're too expensive for most candidates at their level. Trade off with Celtic for 2 of them would be handy, won't happen though.

Tadic looks infinitely better than Taider. Don't put too much emphasis on Taider, he'll be a bit part player. We've taken him to get Osvaldo off of our pay role for another season, we're probably paying Taider less than half of Osvaldo's salary.

Who knows what Van Dijk would offer in the PL. Still think we need 2 new CBs and I don't overate our chances of signing Rojo. He's just waiting around to see what offers he gets, once the fee required has been established then other clubs will probably jump into the fray for him.

We had 22 points on the board after 11 games last season, don't really know what you're talking about. It was only when we had to start using the residual garbage in our squad (which is still there and shows no signs of being moved on) that the results tailed off. Our league position last season was based on our great start. If we'd have got only 14 points from 11 (22-35%) then our season would have been extremely difficult towards the end.

Agreed, that deal would have probably been the most logical of all. We really need a CB, Holtby I can take or leave but I don't see him being any worse than Taider who although correct as a player may struggle with the intensity of the PL.

Krusty must have forgotten to mention the possibility of a 2 player + 10 million £ exchange though, just 10 million supports his argument so much better.

Well producing a team on the pitch capable of obtaining results similar to those at the start of last season would do a lot for most people. If we've 20 points on the board after 10 (or even 11) games then for me the board's policy will have been vindicated, less points in various degrees would mean more or less trust in their policy.

I'm sure Porto will be sad about that then.

Probably just here to be a hatchet man and now his task is virtually done. Did what he came here to do, cut costs, generate finance to pay debts.

Sold for more than they've spent haven't they? Suarez was often the difference between them and also rans.

Meanwhile, the club can also confirm that Hans Hofstetter has resigned from the board of directors of St Mary’s Football Group Limited.

Bit of a step down for him isn't it ?

Sean Terry and Chris Wood steadying the ship though, might get a decent total.

How do you know we're not short of cash, apparently what we have has to last a long time and there are bills to pay. Can't sell any more players because Krusty said we won't.

He's 16, what can ou expect really.

No doubt, there was talk about those things last week, said they definitely weren't leaving at any time soon, what else is there to say on the subject. Perhaps it's just an interview given at the same time as last week's. ,

Why would there be any changes, well unless he's forgotten what he said last week I suppose. Probably a routine, buy crap and tickets and be excited by a few loan signings guff.

If we could afford to sack him that is, took Valencia for 7 million euros back in 2008, Koeman's obviously don't come cheap, unlike Pochettinos.

No you need to get this right. If your player salary mass is lower than 52 million £ for the 2013/14 season then FFP rules do not apply to you as far as salary mass is concerned. You are merely bound by the maximum permitted loss rule. As I understand it you could then up your salary mass to 80 million if you wanted to with no effect whatsover.

Don't get your point, he must have met them at Thursday's game surely, unless it was a cardboard cut out in his place at Brighton.