| Southampton 08:31 - Jul 29 with 3315 views | TommoRAFC |
Lambert, Lallana, Lovren, Shaw, Chambers and next Schneiderlin and Rodriguez...
I know we sell a player roughly every season, but has there ever been a club in the past who decided it'd be a good idea to sell pretty much the entire squad? It's madness by the Saints board IMHO! |  |
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| Southampton on 08:49 - Jul 29 with 3273 views | ColDale |
Unfortunately,it's modern day football. You have a combination of foreign ownership whereby there is no long term involvement with the football club, and in Soton's case, the owners inherited the club rather than purchased it. You've also got the modern day footballer's mentality which is to play in the Champions League, as opposed to qualify for the Champions League.
They had something special at Southampton, and had the chance to make history after a turbulent few years. That's gone, and the downward momentum will be impossible to stop I reckon. I'd feel sorry for Koeman, but maybe its karma for that shirt pull. |  | | |
| Southampton on 08:56 - Jul 29 with 3259 views | nordenblue |
Selling numerous players for 20 million plus each is never madness, Luke Shaw is amazingly over priced and they did right to snap Uniteds hand off the same with Lallana crazy money.Its how the cash is invested nows the major problem | | | |
| Southampton on 09:07 - Jul 29 with 3230 views | macro |
Financially secure yes but unless they significantly strengthen the squad then relegation has to be likely. Look at the long term problems for clubs who have been relegated and not bounced back. When do boltons parachute payments stop, administration will be inevitable. |  | | |
| Southampton on 09:16 - Jul 29 with 3213 views | TommoRAFC |
| Southampton on 08:56 - Jul 29 by nordenblue |
Selling numerous players for 20 million plus each is never madness, Luke Shaw is amazingly over priced and they did right to snap Uniteds hand off the same with Lallana crazy money.Its how the cash is invested nows the major problem |
Big bids but can Saints replace them with quality? Look at how Tottenham wasted the Bale money last summer...
Can only see it going one way for the new manager and that's down hill. | |
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| Southampton on 09:17 - Jul 29 with 3211 views | nordenblue |
| Southampton on 09:07 - Jul 29 by macro |
Financially secure yes but unless they significantly strengthen the squad then relegation has to be likely. Look at the long term problems for clubs who have been relegated and not bounced back. When do boltons parachute payments stop, administration will be inevitable. |
Boltons debt is to their owner I believe so not really a massive problem unless he starts stripping assets and the club spiral down the leagues, but then his investments would crash too so not a clever trick | | | |
| Southampton on 09:44 - Jul 29 with 3160 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
We'll be back to beating em Home and Away in a couple of seasons. | | | |
| Southampton on 10:01 - Jul 29 with 3120 views | Daley_Lama |
Saints finished 8th
Stoke finished 9th
Why haven't The Potters been pillaged in the same way? |  |
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| Southampton on 13:51 - Jul 29 with 2886 views | KenBoon |
| Southampton on 08:56 - Jul 29 by nordenblue |
Selling numerous players for 20 million plus each is never madness, Luke Shaw is amazingly over priced and they did right to snap Uniteds hand off the same with Lallana crazy money.Its how the cash is invested nows the major problem |
When the Premier League Gravy Train pays you a zillion pounds a season, and you're cash rich and need to replace them (increased fees), it doesn't always make sense to sell. Especially to the extend that Southampton have.
On the subject of Southampton. Those bleepin' Goals we scored!. Amazing team Goal for CoG and JOOONNNNEEEESSSSSS! BOOM! Happy memories. |  | | |
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| Southampton on 14:38 - Jul 29 with 2820 views | fitzochris |
Cortese had ambitions of creating a top four club. Cortese left in January. Southampton finished eighth. Liebherr's daughter has decided she would rather not see her money spunked up the wall chasing an impossible dream and so has cashed in on the club’s assets rather than pay out on lucrative new contracts. Ironically, it is, in the main, Saints’ home-grown talent that has brought in the cash, while cash buys Ramirez and Osvaldo have arguably flopped.
Sadly for Koeman, it means he will have to rebuild under tighter restraints. Pelle and Tadic look decent acquisitions though, so if he can find more players like that, he may be able to pull off (cliché alert) a season of transition rather than disaster. [Post edited 29 Jul 2014 14:42]
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| Southampton on 17:03 - Jul 29 with 2705 views | con_dale |
Just heard Southampton have organised a preseason friendly with Blackpool it's going to be a 5 aside game :) |  | | |
| Southampton on 17:14 - Jul 29 with 2685 views | ColDale |
| Southampton on 14:38 - Jul 29 by fitzochris |
Cortese had ambitions of creating a top four club. Cortese left in January. Southampton finished eighth. Liebherr's daughter has decided she would rather not see her money spunked up the wall chasing an impossible dream and so has cashed in on the club’s assets rather than pay out on lucrative new contracts. Ironically, it is, in the main, Saints’ home-grown talent that has brought in the cash, while cash buys Ramirez and Osvaldo have arguably flopped.
Sadly for Koeman, it means he will have to rebuild under tighter restraints. Pelle and Tadic look decent acquisitions though, so if he can find more players like that, he may be able to pull off (cliché alert) a season of transition rather than disaster. [Post edited 29 Jul 2014 14:42]
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It was on a smaller scale, but we saw the impact that the sale of O'Grady, Wiseman and Done had. They may have individually decent deals, but the perception within the squad of an obviously weaker team can make heads drop throughout.
And the other problem is that Soton trying to buy any player now will see inflated prices as teams recognise how desperate they are. | | | |
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