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This clearly demonstrates RK’s failed strategy of having a bloated squad of average players. Quantity over quality! Interesting that he now refers to us as being a ‘small club’. Always thought this as a poor excuse for his recent mismanagement of SFC. The table clearly backs this up.

 

He should be sacked by Gao Jisheng and replaced by a new competent ceo and chairman.

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This clearly demonstrates RK’s failed strategy of having a bloated squad of average players. Quantity over quality! Interesting that he now refers to us as being a ‘small club’. Always thought this as a poor excuse for his recent mismanagement of SFC. The table clearly backs this up.

 

He should be sacked by Gao Jisheng and replaced by a new competent ceo and chairman.

 

except the author the table admits he has had to guess most of it...

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Looks a bit nonsense to me, we sold two of our highest earners VVD and Tadic, whilst the likes of West Ham and Everton have spent millions and have given those players huge contracts. The likes of Yarmalenko, Arnautovic, Felipe Anderson, Zaha, Siggurdsson, etc. are probably going to be one over 100k a week I reckon.

 

At a guess I'd say we were around 10th to 12th.

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Looks a bit nonsense to me, we sold two of our highest earners VVD and Tadic, whilst the likes of West Ham and Everton have spent millions and have given those players huge contracts. The likes of Yarmalenko, Arnautovic, Felipe Anderson, Zaha, Siggurdsson, etc. are probably going to be one over 100k a week I reckon.

 

 

 

At a guess I'd say we were around 10th to 12th.

 

 

The guy who complied the list basically admitted clubs aren't forthcoming about wages and he has had to use out of date info. So probably nonsense.

 

There is stuff all over the net on PL club and player wages and you can rarely find two sites that can agree.

 

Stuff like this can be interesting but you have to take it all with a massive pinch of salt.

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Isnt it well documented that Palace were paying a 'last legs' Cabaye over 100k/wk, and are now paying Sakho and Benteke similar and Zaha much more than that? Reckon they'd be above us. West Ham and Everton almost certainly higher than ours too, and I imagine Wolves' is probably at least trebled from that figure!

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I wonder how many club plants / Reedists will be out to defend him, discredit the data, and/or attack the dissenters.

 

Simple fact is that whether the figures are/aren't up to date, or we're a couple of positions out... our strategy (if there is one) has been executed horrendously.

 

:) 8th highest wage bill

 

:) Squad costing c£300m

 

:( 5 league wins in 42

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Another internet PL wage bill piece this one is based on the average wage of a teams squad member. we come in 11th with each Southampton player costing (allegedly) an average of £2,669,333 a year in wages..

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/hey-big-spenders-the-average-player-salary-of-every-premier-league-team/ss-BBQca75?ocid=spartandhp

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Another internet PL wage bill piece this one is based on the average wage of a teams squad member. we come in 11th with each Southampton player costing (allegedly) an average of £2,669,333 a year in wages..

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/hey-big-spenders-the-average-player-salary-of-every-premier-league-team/ss-BBQca75?ocid=spartandhp

Which means (even with relegation clauses) that we're ****ed if we go down. And if Les screwed up with some players having no relegation clauses (Forster?), we're beyond ****ed if we go down.

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Which means (even with relegation clauses) that we're ****ed if we go down. And if Les screwed up with some players having no relegation clauses (Forster?), we're beyond ****ed if we go down.

 

Yep. No matter what if/when we go down we will be screwed

 

We are a club that for some bizarre reason, needs to sell our best players before we buy. That is in the big league with the big money

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Yep. No matter what if/when we go down we will be screwed

 

We are a club that for some bizarre reason, needs to sell our best players before we buy. That is in the big league with the big money

 

At the moment we definitely need to sell first, but that's because we don't have any room in the 25 man squad.

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This clearly demonstrates RK’s failed strategy of having a bloated squad of average players. Quantity over quality! Interesting that he now refers to us as being a ‘small club’. Always thought this as a poor excuse for his recent mismanagement of SFC. The table clearly backs this up.

 

He should be sacked by Gao Jisheng and replaced by a new competent ceo and chairman.

 

We clearly did not learn from 2004/2005.

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This clearly demonstrates RK’s failed strategy of having a bloated squad of average players. Quantity over quality! Interesting that he now refers to us as being a ‘small club’. Always thought this as a poor excuse for his recent mismanagement of SFC. The table clearly backs this up.

 

He should be sacked by Gao Jisheng and replaced by a new competent ceo and chairman.

 

Especially from a club that bigged up itself as utilising its academy players.

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Above Everton. And yet we can’t compete

 

Backwards strategy, clearly

When reed/Hughes finally takes us down, we are genuinely foooooooooooked

 

Our wage bill is not only bigger than Everton's and West Ham's, it's not far behind Spurs'! There has been much talk about how well our club is run financially but the truth is huge amounts of money have been wasted in transfer fees and wages to produce a poor team which looks like getting us relegated. Those expensive failures will then have to be offloaded for far less than we paid for them and the wages of those we can't offload will probably cripple us financially.

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So that works out about £51k a week, which is probably about right as we have a bloated squad of average players earning premier league salaries, and a few on big wages, e.g. Austin, Gabbiadini, Lemina....

 

 

Certainly its more be believable than the first link that started this thread which reckoned our wage bill was bigger than West Ham and Everton's.

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Certainly its more be believable than the first link that started this thread which reckoned our wage bill was bigger than West Ham and Everton's.

 

Whether you choose to believe the figures or not, that link came from the leading academic researcher on football finance so he would have researched those figures about as thoroughly as anyone possibly could. It's his job.

 

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire

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Is that list current?

 

Nope. This is last year's figures. Probably higher now.

 

I have suggested that our wage bill is too high for a long time now. The parachute payment is £40m. A 50% reduction in wages still leaves us short and who is to say that relegation clauses are 50% drops?

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Whether you choose to believe the figures or not, that link came from the leading academic researcher on football finance so he would have researched those figures about as thoroughly as anyone possibly could. It's his job.

 

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire

 

 

Well you'd like to think so but on the twitter link he admitted that most clubs won't share details of wages so he had to best guess the list based on what info he could find....

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I wish people would not use the term 'squad'

 

It is 'ROSTER' as regularly spouted by our respected Chief Executive and also used to describe our well paid and highly skilled team members on the official Saints website.

 

Irrespective of this the management of the club has been on the same downhill trajectory as our on field heroes for a few years now and the club seems to be in total disarray.

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Very true. Sacked a decent manager (Luggy/Puel) because of the prima donnas in the squad. Replaced him with a disaster (Wigley/the Clown), and then in panic replaced him with an appalling dinosaur (Saggy/Hughes).
Except Puel had an entire season not less than 20 matches, Pellegrino was an external appointment taken on during an extended recruitment process, while Wigley was a promoted from within panic appointment while the season was under way. And we stayed up under Hughes but didn't under Redknapp.

 

Its uncanny how completely not like each other the two periods are.

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Except Puel had an entire season not less than 20 matches, Pellegrino was an external appointment taken on during an extended recruitment process, while Wigley was a promoted from within panic appointment while the season was under way. And we stayed up under Hughes but didn't under Redknapp.

 

Its uncanny how completely not like each other the two periods are.

The similarity is over the type of managers being appointed, in particular the sequence. If you're going to nitpick about other reasons why "completely not like each other the two periods are", fill your boots.

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The similarity is over the type of managers being appointed, in particular the sequence. If you're going to nitpick about other reasons why "completely not like each other the two periods are", fill your boots.

 

Puel "similar type" to Paul Sturrock? Okay then, call me a nitpicker. Peas in a pod them two. Jesus wept.

 

Pellegrino was an external appointment with no connection to Saints, so not similar to Wigley at all who was a club insider appointed for his relationship with the players.

 

We stayed up under Hughes and went down under Redknapp. They aren't particularly similar either.

 

Sturrock > Wigley > Redknapp was done in about nine months. Puel had and entire season, Pellegrino appointed in the summer off-season, Hughes eight months after that, so a good two year process.

 

Other than that bang on mate.

 

If we replace Hughes with Jaidi, then sack him a handful of games later and replace with Pardew you might have a point but right now you don't.

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Puel "similar type" to Paul Sturrock? Okay then, call me a nitpicker. Peas in a pod them two. Jesus wept.

 

Pellegrino was an external appointment with no connection to Saints, so not similar to Wigley at all who was a club insider appointed for his relationship with the players.

 

We stayed up under Hughes and went down under Redknapp. They aren't particularly similar either.

 

Sturrock > Wigley > Redknapp was done in about nine months. Puel had and entire season, Pellegrino appointed in the summer off-season, Hughes eight months after that, so a good two year process.

 

Other than that bang on mate.

 

If we replace Hughes with Jaidi, then sack him a handful of games later and replace with Pardew you might have a point but right now you don't.

Jesus wept. :mcinnes:

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