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Official information ?

what do you want me to add ART, "told you so". I informed you all a couple of weeks back that I'd had an interesting conversation of a Sunday morning down in St Etienne. People poured scorn on some of it's content and chose to lap up what the club plant was telling them a little later on. Why should I now bother to comment on a fuller version of the same thing. Anyway I did comment, just said that Romain knows what he's about as a rule.

he probably thought it was the club's money after all. The football club earns money, the ex CEO spent it on err football.

thanks. I knew there was some sort of manoeuvre in the last known accounts.

bonuses no doubt triggered by finishing 8th instead of say 15th. That brings money to the club, players would normally participate in those gains. If the "board" thinks that they can attract top players and coaching staff and not pay them bonuses for achieving better results which in turn bring supplementary revenues to the club then they are dwelling in cloud cuckoo land. If the club paid even a quarter of the 7.4 million £ that finishing 8th instead of 15th brought in then I'd be surprised. Probably works out at 100K per first team player.

Why would he do that, perhaps Liverpool are lining him up now that their efforts to sign Remy have been ditched, 'Arry thinks that's a bit dodgy because Remy has passed numerous medical tests in the last few years with no hitch whatsoever. Seemed to think someone they might want more than Remy really has become available.

Liverpool have exactly the same side as they did at the start of last season don't they? Minus Suarez of course but he didn't start for 6 games. They have done what we should be doing, reinforcing roughly every sector. Except their owner doesn't count his coppers all day long.

I got called all the names under the sun for saying exactly that the other day when the was still a straw of optimism to be clung to. Then again who cares, it's a football forum.

Of course it does, if the owner loans the club money and then the club by bias of player sales is in a position to pay back those loans then it will probably happen unless said owner wishes to continue investing for the future. Liebherr wanting her money back is possible so it will probably happen. As for the equity of a mere 33 million £ well that will be recovered and plenty more by selling a debt free entity with state of the art facilities. As I've always said the liabillities exceeded the value of the club and we are seeing the solution to this problem. Look up Hofstetter....it's what he does.

What for not selling players quickly enough for superior sums you mean. Could be, I mean I'm sure we could have got another 50p here and there, done it more quickly as well, save a couple of bob on salaries. Still fine line, needed to wait until after the WC so that our player participation hand outs wouldn't be diluted too much. That should bring us about 500K I think.

But they did want to play for Saints, they just didn't want to wait until the forthcoming train wreck happened. If we could go back to last January and take a parallel path then I'm sure most things would be entirely different. Shaw would be gone and the receipts spent on strenghtening the side, that's about all. The players obviously knew what was happening, didn't fancy it and chose to leave.

New 5 year plan as of January 2014; Sell everybody, take the money and p*ss off. Don't even care myself as long as someone somewhere is honest about it. Said back in January that we could only judge the new management on future actions, once again we were about 5 or 6 to say that at most, same as the replacement of Adkins by Pochettino. Of course we got told we were idiots and other sundry playground names.

Perhaps that was to raise the funds for the 2 players that we really needed to complete the jigsaw ? We needed a decent second keeper and a CB so that we would never ever have to rely on Gazzaniga,Davis or Jos again. 8 million might have got us that, buy a keeper and pay a decent loan fee for a CB, it was a possible temporary solution. KL had obviously said no more cash so NC was trying to sort it out otherwise.

Has anyone actually seen last year's accounts in detail, just asking, thought that there was speculation (probably just that though) that preparations were under way to possibly reduce equity or something, statement of solvency rings a bell.

It's a life sentence though, still look on the bright side, you get occasional bright spots like the last few seasons.

Probably thinks that his best shot is to try to buy players that he knows and has worked with before. Nothing wrong with that really except that most of them have no experience outside what I'd term lower leagues, Dutch, Scotland etc. Being thrown into the PL with a week's work behind you can be a shock to the system. He won't get the best of them either, too expensive or better offers.

It's just press speculation. Says MP wants Morgan and JRod and doesn't seem to be interested in Chadli at all so they make a 2+2=? argument.

Probably what 6 weeks of Hodgson's grandad set up does for you.

He was out of contract Stevy, wasn't doing much and it was probably decided that we might as well try to get some rendement out of Mayuka or Sharp who are in contract.

Does Guan tell us where his information comes from...guess not, yet that's gospel and Crabbie's is to be considered doubtful. Think it may come from somewhere in the Pochettino alliance though, just a hunch. The lad is at Uni here isn't he, plays for Totton?

like Catherine the Great then, except that she had them killed.

they usually are yes, bloke is a student of football. Been doing a series of articles on the complete structure of English football, visiting clubs in lower league etc.

So early and on the face of it so unneccessarily.

Markovic I expect, was to be a double pronger with Remy but now that's gone tits up. Suarez 30 goals last season, SRL and Markovic need to get 15 each then.

spot on, except that more than 100 million will be banked. 91 million and counting from transfers alone as of today, not that we've received it all yet of course, When Morgan and Gaston go it will be up around 120 million. If you believe italian commentators we're even playing hard ball on Osvaldo, Inter want a loan, we want cash now.