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I assume if we get into it we will go for it and ditch the uk cups... champions league spot after all.

Adkins net spend pre pre was circa £3m.... (this has probabbly reduced a lot thanks to the £10k we get everytime Ox plays ) You can add Fonte and Lambert to that if you wish but we hardly broke the bank to reach the prem under Adkins... Not compared to a lot of championship teams. God bless the academy.

Would someone mind explaining Amortisation to me? Not quite following that and how we use it? Cheers guys

I thought that was odegard.....

So basically, you agree with MLG

If Spurs have a sell on, then we get a proportion of it as that is profit on their original purchase from saints?

All depends how you raise them. Money isn't everything.. Although if your lucky and can combine a great lifestyle with money then hats off to you.... and I hate you

He creates a seige mentality very well and takes a no nonsense "stand up and be counted" approach for the club which rubs off on the players. It is all just a media circus to him, which he uses to his advantage. I doubt he gives a feck and very clearly has the support of the board. If he keeps Leicester up then he'll be laughing all day long, and rightly so.

Look at it practicaly mate. You can't integrate them all in one go... we tried that in the championship on the way down. Instead we developed Shaw, Chambers, JWP, Gallagher etc in one batch with first team football for 12 to months... that means the lower age group have to wait for their opportunity. One does not simply breed fully world class footballers that are ready to go at their first kick!! As for your view that we haven't been developing the youngsters.... we smashed everton with 7 players under 21 in the matchday squad... If that isn't progress and development I have no idea what is.

The daily mail have ripped into liverpool's 25 years of transfers today... its an excellent read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3058868/Liverpool-190-signings-spent-800m-25-year-wait-19th-league-title-John-Aldridge-blames-transfer-market-failings-barren-spell.html But it makes you realise what good value we actually managed this summer. For some perspective Liverpool singed the following: 2000 - Heskey from Leicester for, wait for it, £11m 2000 - Zeige from Boro for £5.5m 2001 - Kirkland from Coventry for £6m 2001 - Diouf from Lens for £10m (he went on to score 6goals in 80 appearances) gets better until around 2007, and torres (20m) aside, they signed players like Babel for £11.5m, Benayoun for £5m and a load of other players for a couple of million each that had no impact. They also spet £7m on Dossena in 2008 (remember him ), (this one is amazing) £19m on Robbie Keane and £8m on Riera (who?) Wait holy ****, they spent £17m on Johnson? wtf.... and omg, £17m on Aquilani in the same season. What a great year 2009 was, and we think we had money troubles. So the above is pretty bad imho, but what Follows (Brenda) is worth a sacking just for the embarrassment. .... The big balls up as folllows .... Carroll for £35m, back of the net!!! Coupled with Steward Downing for £18.5m with Meireles for £11.5m, joe allen for £15m, Luis Alberto £7m, aspas £7m, Lallana for £25m, Markovic for £20m, Lovren for £20m, Balotelli for £16m, some guy called llori for £7m and manquillo for £10m... Truly an astounding waste of money. You could buy better complete teams for that much. Tip of that hat where it is due for Coutinho at £8.5m, a steal when considered against the above. But. In relation to saints, when you consider what we paid for Long (allready better return than the 2000 prices paid for heskey and Diouf), wanyama, Clyne!! Morgan, Tadic, Pelle, bertrand, forster etc etc, we look to have done very well indeed. I suspect that if you give united another few seasons there transfer list will look similar (though not as bad) as brenda's... Just makes you realise even further how good a job koeman has done when you consider what a supposedly good manager can do with money

There was an amazing amount of people in Northam walking up the isles which was a total disrespect. Yes the traffic was bad but ffs stand and observe the silence. Apart from those few fans who did that around the ground I thought it was well observed. But sadly not perfect

Lol - the sprinklers are on quite often mate.

I actually think JWP will be a one club man. He has the intelligence to realise how lucky he is and seems very down to earth, settled, loves the club and drives a VW sirroco whilst looking after his sister.

There are no direct quotes from Jayrod or Vic regarding transfers and Big Vic has publicly come out and refuted what was in today's sun. As for Jayrod, I can't see that anyone is going to buy him this summer? It would be a huge risk and pure Mentalness... this may be a disaster for us mind as if we can't get him to sign we can't sell him for much either. As for Morgan, he's wanted a move since last summer and remained committed and one of our best players in our best ever prem season.... I'd therefore suggest our form hasn't stalled because he wants a move... Clyne i don't know, sometimes he amazing, sometimes less so... just like last season (but improved) when Chambers kept him out for long periods. But one right back doesn't control how well the team does to be fair. In short, please don't blame our best ever prem season on 4 players that are all desperate to leave based on what you've read in the paper. You are disappointed that we didn't make champions league, just let that sink in for a bit... it is some achievement and we were only ever going to be long shots for the reasons we have fallen out of it... limited squad and options with which to replace players who are injured or on poor form... We have still had a great season and there are probably 13 teams below us who would happily switch places.

Usual load of ball arks http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3052027/Victor-Wanyama-Arsenal-want-sign-Southampton-summer.html Southampton's Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama took to social media on Thursday in a bid to dismiss rumours he was set to quit the south coast high-fliers for Arsenal. 'To cut the story short have never spoken to Wenger,' Wanyama wrote on Twitter, prompting an outpouring of praise from Southampton fans, and less enthusiastic responses from Gunners supporters. The Sun tabloid on Thursday linked the 23-year-old with Arsenal, quoting Wanyama as saying Wenger had been discussing him and had 'let it be known' he was interested in signing the former Celtic powerhouse.

So, we've all been told recently about how marvellous the club is for achieving the our good finish in the league last season on the back of the 16th biggest wage bill. And it is rightly a good achievement for the club. I was then reading this article posted today on Daily Fail regarding west ham's pricing strategy for the Olympic stadium (obviously motivated by their attempt to A. FILL IT!! and B. grab as many of the local youngsters for as cheap as possible and kill off support for the local clubs in that area ) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3049513/West-Ham-season-tickets-cost-little-289-Hammers-Olympic-Stadium-2016-17-season.html However, the article also includes a table comparing season ticket prices next season based on the lowest local adult prices and we are the 6th most expensive in the league. I haven't give this much thought or dissected it in detail. But on the face of it, our season tickets prices represent the level of football whislt our wages do not... Where has that money difference between level and wages got to, as well as the increased tv revenues and summer sales? Can it be that this really is the difference between a responsibly run club and one that is funded purely by sugar daddies (most of the rest), because it looks like there is a huge difference in money in - to money out for saints vs the other clubs, and will this start to change now that we have allegedly balanced the books? I.e. real cuts in season ticket prices.

Different views of the same game then It is apparent that we basically lose every grudge game because the negative atmosphere unsettles our team more than the opposition who expect it.

Yes but we spent so much time as fans on creating that negative atmosphere and it clearly unsettled the team. We can not afford that against tottenham. On a side note, why am i reading on the BBC that their is a saints fan initiative for us to wear orange at the game in support of Koeman?

I think it is really important that, as fans, we support the team and cheer them on rather than creating a hostile and negative atmosphere towards Poch. We've done this so many times against Reknapp or liverpool this season and it ALWAYS back fires. By all means be rauscous in support of the team, but make sure its the support for the team that you offer.... and save any jeering for the end once we've got all 3 points please.

I am puzzled why the coalition's move to increase the bottom tax bracket (affecting all equally) isn't fair... But labours plan to lower the 40p tax bracket straight after the election is fair? You may not like it, but the vast majority of people in this country all had the same start in life and some worked harder and made a better use of it financially (industry dependant), so now, after they have raised them self up they should be taxed more for it? Despite the fact that they are already giving more of their salaries to the government and serving a more prominent role in the countries economy anyway? I have never understood a system which punishes success. It breeds mediocrity and promotes it for future generations with the belief that they can laze around and let society foot the bill.... All good until society runs outa money and gets broken (insert near unlimited examples of last labour government). Also, what is up with the god damn eton bash against specifically Tories? People who do this are delusional, do they actually know the background of labour politicians? Or do they simply just ignore it? Bizarre and very naive. If you vote labour into power you will to it to the detriment of the country, the UK, yourself and your children. Sadly/Gladly you have that choice; that is democracy. And re your above posts... yes, saints have a hell of a lot of Tory (and UKIP) voters. Does that make us worse fans because we chose a state that fundamentally gives more power to the people rather than high taxes and a big brother/nanny state system? I wonder if you have ever looked at the voting proportions for Southampton, the new forest and the surrounding areas... I mean, if you consider that nearly 50% of the population poll as Tory/UKIP, and the support of those parties is focussed in the south and south west, how many of the people you see in SMS do you think are Blue/Purple? Certainly isn't a tiny minority matey.

I said when they sacked Pardew that they would go down or at least get dragged into it, and their fans certainly deserve it imho. I know that their owner is running them sustainably and not spending silly money but their fans act like they are a giant of a club that should be challenging for europe and the title every season and treated Pardew appallingly for not delivering that. If they go down it will be just like last time with the fans turning on the club and the manager. All that said and done, I can't see 3 teams getting to 35 points this year. Hull are gone for sure. Sunderland? Can't see them picking up many more points. Then QPR, Leicester look okay but Burnley have dropped off big time. Going to be a very exciting finish for sure.

If we're raiding Newcastle this summer, then top of the list are Sissoko and Ayoze Perez. That is a frigging no brainer and a great prospect respectively. Krul would be a capable prem goalie for sure. Would prefer Forster as first choice though.

Hosted by one of the most irritating offenders on here rofl. Also, you think i'm dubai phil?

That would be akin to UKIP running Brussels with the honest objective of strengthening the union. Or Sinn Fein doing the same for the UK. All those parties are in government to get out their respective ones and nothing more. Ironically, in the long run, Scottish independence means no more Labour governments. An interesting quandary for Ed Milalisp the Red don't you think?