Window Cleaner

I thought it was quite clear...no-one in, no-one out. It's what's been said all along and I guess now we know why. We aren't going to go down, the European football dream has evaporated so there's no need to strengthen as of yet. That will no doubt be left to whoever buys the club from it's current owner.

didn't we make about 900K profit last season...or was that just a figure someone made up to support some hypothesis or other? If we spent 30 million last season and still made 900K then I can't see us making any less this season as we'll get more Sky money.

And they will find plenty of people with "inside knowledge" to fuel their arguments whichever way they want to lean. It's all just a gabfest, few know anything, many claim to know much. Personally I'm just looking forward to tomorrow to see how the players are taking it but as I'm convinced that they knew as much as there is to know for a while now I can't see much difference being apparent.

Mourinho doesn't play wonder boys, he likes seasoned pros, players with status and standing. We really need to get away from this myth that Chelsea are going to give us loads of money for Shaw. If Mourinho had wanted to sign a left back he'd be going for Coentrao and maybe he still is. Coentrao was one of Mourinho's go to players at Real, if he's available he'd be his first choice and will cost far less than all of these speculative amounts for Shaw.

I don't really understand where the 50K comes from, I can only see a sort of "if we had some eggs we could have bacon and eggs if we had some bacon" arguement. Might have misunderstood though, the club didn't want to sell the book for whatever reason or other so they didn't sell any but nothing was lost and nothing was gained so I don't see how 50K was "spunked" anywhere. Now the club stores have plenty of merchandise to sell so perhaps the sale of a book would take away sales from another article where the profit potential is higher...I've no idea.

More the fool Gus for believing that the players and staff have only just found out about it all then. They knew for a while already. A Chairman and CEO resigning is not something that can be hidden from those most concerned. Now perhaps the date of his departure might have been in doubt, perhaps there were chances that it would be resolved otherwise but the players knew that something was up ...count on it.

the French press are still talking about it though, all day, every day. In the end Hollande will be sent packing from power because of this affair because just the tip of the iceberg is known as of yet. The french pretend to be totally unconcerned in general but if you heard them in the canteens and bars you'd know differently. They tell the opinion poll people that they don't care just to look a bit classy but they still tattle about it whenever the subject is raised. Hollande is extremely unpopular anyway, probably because he just doesn't know what he's doing.

well I think Delia Smith is some sort of majority shareholder at Norwich but she doesn't run the club all by herself. Then there is Karen Brady who might have owned Birmingham at one time, can't remember all of the details though.

I see that ridiculously low odds are now being quoted on Lallana joining Manchester Utd, a lot of money being wagered on that since yesterday apparently. Let's hope the bookies make another silly bet killing then.

players obviously knew anyway, we saw the worst effects against Chelsea.

compared to the photo shown in post 57 I'm quite surprised, Toblerone abuse problem perhaps ?

playing with Photo Shop again Bearsy.....

don't think so, think we had to give Aviva a further 4 million or so under certain conditions...which we did a couple of years back. Stadium debt was never 60 million anyway. Some say that this is fairly accurate http://swissramble.blogspot.fr/2012/01/southampton-saints-alive.html

Aren't his children supposed to have left their school of late (don't know how true that is, ask letsB) so for the time being he's gone, at least from the immediate vicinity.

I suppose in November we were planning our transfer window needs which had become suddenly obvious because of major injuries. If NC went to the owner and got told "nope no more swans for you" then you could understand the timing of the affair. Me personally if anyone dared tell me I had to give up on my project and play Gazzaniga because there was nothing else available I'd have quit on the spot.

I suppose because as far as we all know NC's vision was European Football asap. We have players who'd want that as a minimum, we have players who have refused to join CL clubs for vast amounts of money to continue "the project" with us. NC's departure may come as a shock to more than one, not that I think that they only found out yesterday though, some knew before, we saw it a couple of games back.

his contract isn't up at the end of the season, well not as far as I know anyway. In theory he's here until the end of the 14/15 season but that could be just an option year for all we know.

38%ish for PL games

I seem to remember reading somewhere that virtually everything from the late Markus's empire (not that it every included cranes, dumper trucks, freezers or heavy engineering) has been sold off and all that remains is a sort of consultancy business. Can't for the life of me think why the owner would be any more interested in keeping SFC than the rest of it.

Now if we were to accept that Cortese has had little to do with the club for a couple of weeks now and that Adam wasn't the instigator of this complaint, then who do you think was behind it ?

don't know about that, seemed to imply that his committment to the club was for the rest of this season for the time being. Just my impression from his last answer though.

Aren't they usually live on the OS with a sort of You Tube thingy ?

one of the great problems with people making stuff up, there are many versions of the same event...or non-event as the case might be. With twitter and stuff like that everybody and his dog feels obliged to comment on anything and everything. In times gone by people just made stuff up and exposed it to a select few in public houses and the like, now it's gone global on various social media.

Unless SRL is desperately shopping around for a move, then again why would he be doing that because he seemed to be saying completely otherwise only a few weeks back. It's an enigma really.