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50 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

Really interesting article on the football economy website - certainly sets out where we would be financially next season....

https://footballeconomyv2.blogspot.com/2025/05/can-saints-bounce-back.html#google_vignette

Actually think that's not the best article from them, its titled, "can Southampton bounce back" then provides essentially no opinion/argument on that topic and instead dances around the financial situation with a load of comparisons to previous seasons (a fair few of which are rather meaningless to our current situation - and it would have been fairly easy to at least postulate on the likely financial health and spending power this summer).

Better financial detail for the current situation is available via the echo breakdown or from swiss ramble (and in fact i just checked that source and the article you've linked has actually lifted directly from it in a couple of place - which is pretty poor). This could then be paired with likely wage levels for the coming season, and with estimates for player wages due to be leaving etc. Similarly we know fairly well what our revenue will be next season...

Swiss ramble (6th may):

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The political economy of football (8th may) under a subtitle of "fire sale" (which it also wasn't 🤦‍♂️🤣).

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If they were going to be this lazy, they may as well have copied some of the analysis and views that have been bandied about on this forum. Apologies, but shit/lazy "journalists" really wind me up 😅.

What is your view on whether we can bounce back? Personally think that financially we're in a pretty solid state and should be able to spend well whilst maintaining a sensible financial balance. Doing that efficiently will depend on Spors and his team, on hiring a good manager, and on marketing saints as a project players want to be a part of... Rumours the club is for sale won't be helping that.

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What does bounce back even mean? From the Championship to the Prem? From the utterly miserable strength sapping defeats inflicted by teams that are much, much better than you? There’s so many possibilities!

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3 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Actually think that's not the best article from them, its titled, "can Southampton bounce back" then provides essentially no opinion/argument on that topic and instead dances around the financial situation with a load of comparisons to previous seasons (a fair few of which are rather meaningless to our current situation - and it would have been fairly easy to at least postulate on the likely financial health and spending power this summer).

Better financial detail for the current situation is available via the echo breakdown or from swiss ramble (and in fact i just checked that source and the article you've linked has actually lifted directly from it in a couple of place - which is pretty poor). This could then be paired with likely wage levels for the coming season, and with estimates for player wages due to be leaving etc. Similarly we know fairly well what our revenue will be next season...

Swiss ramble (6th may):

image.png.5f3e8ee4726b25f95478850d78f2e99e.png

The political economy of football (8th may) under a subtitle of "fire sale" (which it also wasn't 🤦‍♂️🤣).

image.png.8ad6b83925c3ca417a11328611d438b1.png

If they were going to be this lazy, they may as well have copied some of the analysis and views that have been bandied about on this forum. Apologies, but shit/lazy "journalists" really wind me up 😅.

What is your view on whether we can bounce back? Personally think that financially we're in a pretty solid state and should be able to spend well whilst maintaining a sensible financial balance. Doing that efficiently will depend on Spors and his team, on hiring a good manager, and on marketing saints as a project players want to be a part of... Rumours the club is for sale won't be helping that.

Successful player trading company - you'll never sing that

 

 

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