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it was pretty predictable once they got involved in the later stages of the Cup

mind you the bookies will not be displeased; unless wise men shovelled shedloads on Wigan to go down at 8/25 on Saturday. Best bet of the season; easy money.

always going to happen; why 35 points and a respectable GD could have been enough to stay up.

one plays for Chelsea (in theory) the other cost 10 million quid (arf arf) Pearce is as clueless as the rest of them; big club or big money =good player.

It's not 33 million though is it. It was 33 million in July 2011. Resulting from the initial purchase and the first 2 years in League 1 since then we have made some handsome losses.In last years accounts (those to June 2012) the book value of the club was very nearly minus 50 million pounds including 2 million at the bank and 8 million in assets. When you do the maths the club has lost 60 million in 4 seasons. Since then we have no doubt received 65 million in revenues and blown it on salaries and transfer fees. Transfers of about 33 miilion and about the same in salaries. Factor in the operating costs and we'll make diddly squat again this season; especially with Nigel's pay off and Cortese"s bonus. It cost us 1.4 million to send AP and his team packing, NA will not cost less.

low wages and yet he has the biggest flashiest motor yet to be seen in the SO postal district. You don't buy a Bentley like that on 5 bob a week.Reckon he cut himself a great deal when he signed; dropped a division on the understanding that he would be handsomely rewarded for each step on the upward path. I'd wager Fonte is on a packet.

150 million sounds about right to me but few can pay that and finance the 40 to 50 million team investment we need to make us into a top side. We desperately need a real striker and unless Mauricio knows where we can get a Michu type for a couple of million we'll be paying through the nose like everybody else. This is where i think Adkins lack of knowledge in the upper atmsphere of football let us down; I like Gaston but you"d have to say Bologna saw us coming and someone needed to tell NC that, same as Mayuka and as for the reported 2.1 million for Gazzaniga well that's just a joke.

And the 24 million in liabilites shown in the accounts to June 2012. Think you"ve lost yourself Just to confirm - that £24m of liabilities has since been converted to equity and will show on our accounts at the end if June 2013. The only reason Swiss Ramble (and others) know this is because Premier League rules show we must publish accounts every 6 months (I believe). It was already 40+ if there"s another 24 that makes 65 at least; make up your mind. Sorry look at what Jackanory has said; didn't look at the poster name as I see it the '"family" have taken a 65 million butt shot and are saying that's enough.

mais nous le vallons bien. (L'Oreal advert)

yes March 2012 referring to accounts up to June 30 2011

I am getting confused here. It was 33 million; then another 8.7 then another 24 which you say is being converted into equity. To me that makes nigh on 70 million

But at the end of the day Markus's "hobby" has cost upwards of 62 million quid so far. Perhaps as I said before someone somewhere wants to see some return from next years PL bonanza and not blow it all on new CBs and strikers. I see some saying NC has done a fantastic job (which he has) turning a 15 million investment into a now worth 150 million juggernaut but the trouble is it isn't 15 million it's about 70 million. For which the family hasn't seen a bent penny in return.

Gaston is on a 4 year contract and the deal could rise to 15 million (apparently)

well I'll defer to your greater comprehension of the facts but I am still not convinced that the debt-equity conversion was in fact last year and not the year before. Perhaps someone who really follows that situation could comment.

should be like the Australian voting system; if you don't vote you get fined if they still do that.

don't think you're quite right. Debt was converted into equity in June or July 2011 and showed up in the 2011 accounts published in March 2012. Since then we've been bagging more losses and have considerable debt..as shown in the accounts to June 2012; some 24 million in liabilities. No doubt we've paid most of that with this year's revenue but Gastn etc still aren't accounted for in those figures. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/9618653.Saints_reveal_latest_financial_figures/

what again ? wasn't that in 2011 ? 33 million debt for 33 million equity; how much are they in for now then?

look again Southampton Football Club Limited is an Active business incorporated in England & Wales on 12th July 1897. Their business activity is recorded as Operation Of Sports Facilities. Southampton Football Club Limited is run by 4 current members. and 1 company secretary. 1 shareholders own the total shares within the company. It is also part of a group. The latest Annual Accounts submitted to Companies House for the year up to 30/06/2012 reported 'cash at bank' of £2,099,963, 'liabilities' worth £24,642,282, 'net worth' of £-49,794,007 and 'assets' worth £8,463,431. Southampton Football Club Limited's risk score was amended on 08/04/2013. this is before we spent money on Gaston; Maya;Mayuka etc.. We as likely as not have a shedload of debt

Not the same branch of the family; this causes much confusion. Our branch does not make cranes or fork lifts or freezers.They have nothing whatsoever to do with SFC. That branch of the family is extremely wealthy but none of it comes our way. Not even a couple of euros in shirt sponsorship.

We aren't debt free. I expect we have quite a lot of debt.

doubt it; it's probably just about loss making season after loss making season. We've run out of ackers and someone somewhere doesn't want to give us any more. We were about 48 million down; won't have improved much on that so to fuel our ambitions we probably need some readys once again. We might break even next season or even get ahead a little but someone needs to underwrite the cash for the transfers we want to make this summer. The PL doesn't pay in advance.

Short lived poll then; those with a job might not even get to vote, how shonky is that.

Clyne has33 PL starts; no doubt 34 on Sunday;Rose 25 and he's done for the season.

perhaps they actually want to take money out and there won't be enough to finance our ambitions.

we need a top class striker; won't get much change out of 20 million for one of those. It is our prime need,no good just playing well, you need to concretise it with goals; the sort of goal that Lambert can't score as he so deftly showed yesterday. He sinks that and we're on our way to victory; muffs it and we have absorb more pressure.