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Well, my point is that we'd that we'd be able to get more locals, and especially younger fans in who can't currently afford it. I'd welcome the singing they'd bring too because it's a bit rubbish at the moment but that's a whole other rabbit hole to wander into sir. Personally I'd welcome the tourists as well but to have the young of the city and area is actually more what the point I made was about. Anyway, back to Pelle going off to play in a non-football country for pots of cash...

Did I say that? Nope. They have been superb and they have invested significantly, especially in the training facilities, which is of course a seed that will grow. But there is a next stage. The club is ambitious, and maybe, just maybe this will include stadium infrastructure. I know some people don't believe it could happen but I am merely saying that a not at capacity stadium every week is not necessarily a barrier to building a bigger stadium if there is a strategic ambition to be a bigger club. I guess many people on here don't actually live in Southampton but there are plenty of people I know who don't go to every game because they can't afford it but would love to. Bigger stadium with a different range of pricing would mean those people could attend. It's a much bigger discussion and whilst I should not offend people for small thinking, for which I apologise, there are other people who don't look at what is happening now, and are interested in what could happen if it was created.

See above. Oh and the owners may well agree we need to add capacity and that is their strategic view for the future, unless of course you are on the board? Or they may think their investment is currently optimised and it will be up to the next owners to invest in the infrastructure.

This part of the world has a population of over 1 million people. Not enough? There are those who think it could be filled, or at least enough to not be 'commercial suicide' as you say and there are those who don't believe we could do better. Simple really and if we weren't on a message board we could have a much deeper discussion about it and possibly see each other's points and either agree to disagree or come to a mutual acceptance of each other's perspective. I happen to believe strongly that we could get more people in if tickets were priced correctly. There are enough venues in enough places in enough entertainment choices to prove my point but I appreciate that won't change everyone's opinion.

Sorry forum clever clogs for not thinking in your way almighty one X Ps go on and have a read of some historical books about where an ambitious approach has led to a growth. It is bigger ambitious thinking that makes things better, I'm not suggesting we build the next Nou Camp but 10k seats would be filled with the correct pricing structure no problem, maybe not all of the time but enough to make a difference. Do you think a restaurant chain shuts because it isn't at capacity all of the time or that maybe 80% of the time it is so it can grow. Now there is a thought...

But I and many other think we do. Your turn.

Incorrect, check the actual real stats, and why does it need to be full anyway? Small time thinking

Well that's not really true is it now. Let's not state this as a fact when it isn't

We've got enough money to add capacity to the stadium now without having to spend any we do not have..just a thought...

And the bra comments continue... Showed it to my wife yesterday and said that some men thought it looked like a bra. She sighed and said it confirmed to her that football fans are f*****g stupid, or have just never seen a bra before. Maybe all those posting this are actually sexually inactive 14 year olds, although they will be looking at proper bras all the time in lingerie catalogues so can't be them.

It's not really obscene though, go check out how much you'd pay for a Gucci t-shirt with no technical qualities to it, just a cotton shirt with a print on. £510 on Mr Porter. Now that, it could be argued, is fairly obscene for a t-shirt so £50 for a 'performance' sports shirt is not too bad.

Agreed. Not sure what kind of bra people see, they generally cover those lovely areas of flesh but this would leave them beautifully exposed. The new kit's white area does not resemble a bra, let's stop saying it because it makes you look like you have never seen one.

That's probably because a group of people with not very good taste have to make the final decision As for the kits with the black away, I reckon that's it, similar style of artwork to previous confirmed versions.

I think the assistant might be Guy Manuel, or is that one of the Daft Punk duo and I'm mistaken nice helmets

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Clubs also had much closer income levels relative to now, we used to get a share of gate receipts when we played at Old Trafford etc. and that's a key difference. Success from the mid to late 80s when the big money started pouring into the game or having a billionaire injecting seriously big money into a club changed the landscape completely.

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We definitely shouldn't be taking months over this. we need the deal done quickly with us telling LFC the acceptable figure and giving them a decent deadline. If Mane is leaving, we don't need him here when players are returning for pre season. Our business needs to be done quickly this summer.

Possibly the one with the one colour back

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, stealing our jobs. It's times like these when you need to ask: 'What would Nigel Cabage do?'

So in order to trade with Europe, we will have to keep free movement of people and the regulations that come with it, and likely pay for it to. Unless of course the little inglanders want Van Dijk etc. to leave the club, which I'm guessing they don't.

No blame from me for Koeman. This was what was going to happen and (from the ITK posts) the club didn't want him to stay. This was a potential good thing if we were prepared with an alternative, which currently is taking longer than was probably wanted.

After the nation has gone all anti foreigners we've surely got to appoint a British, sorry English, because Scotland won't be hanging around, manager

I would think this one is just a matter of tying up the financials if it has now gone to a larger media outlet like the BBC, especially when it is their chief football reporter writing about it. Bye Mane

No doubt that a move could happen to Liverpool but surely we don't need to accept £25m. Hadn't we already apparently slapped a £40m fee on him anyway?