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Comment | You Can't Buy A Ferrari With Fiat Money ! Saints Owner Tells Trabzonspor
at 17:01:53
There is offering below market value and there is taking the ****, KWP is probably worth between £20-25 Million, he is 27 and at the peak of his career, Flynn Downes is worth about £12 million, Pierre Emile Hojbjerg is just about to go for £17 million yes he is older but far more experienced.
Downes as much as we love him down here has played just 21 Premier League games mainly as sub totalling 743 minutes, he is not proven at Premier League level, whereas KWP is.
So £10 million plus Downes was not far off the mark for KWP |
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Comment | New Reform MP Rupert Lowe Will Give His MP Salary To Charity
at 16:28:40
Bowlercow- i am not sure that you are telling the right story here, the Dell was sold to Barratt Homes who developed the site, Barratt Homes were a major building company founded in 1958 Lowe has never has never been a director of them.
Of course he built St Mary's on borrowed money, most clubs do. I think the borrowed amount was around £13 million if I am correct and we serviced that debt with no problem up to the time he left in 2006.
Our financial problems happened after Lowe had left, Michael Wilde spent money and sanctioned wages when he did not have the cash to cover the payments and as the club could not service its debt it was on the verge of administration in June 2008 when Lowe returned.
The timing of administration was only relevant if we had stayed up in our own right and then the deduction was applied, in simple terms we needed to have finished outside the bottom 3 for the 10 point deduction to apply, we didnt so it was carried on till next season.
I met Lowe on dozens of occasions, he was from a different background from me that was for sure, but I didn't judge him on his character, just on what he did or didn't do, yes he may have had a supremist attitude, but then again show me a football club CEO/Chairman/Owner who doesn't, if you spoke to most of the staff at St Mary's during his time there, they didn't hate him and one thing is for sure when compared to Nicola Cortese Lowe looked like a card carrying socialist. |
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Comment | New Reform MP Rupert Lowe Will Give His MP Salary To Charity
at 12:41:20
Undoubtably that was a poor decision and one that cost the club dearly, but many other club Chairman/CEO's have made bad appointments, this does not make him a stain on the clubs history. It could also be said that he didn't want Redknapp, he wanted to reappoint Glenn Hoddle
He also appointed Gordon Strachan who was one of the clubs most popular managers at the club |
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Comment | Southampton Going Dutch For Japanese International Defender
at 14:38:41
Without being too uncharitable, there is a big difference between being a top pro and a top player, Yoshida was certainly a top pro whilst at St Mary's but he was a good back up player as shown by the actual number of appearances he made, we have top pros such as Jack Stephens, we need top players |
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Comment | It's Official Adam Lallana Returns To Southampton
at 11:38:54
My memory of him isn't bitter, I was disappointed in him at the time, but as I say in the article time has been a great healer, I am in the camp that he could be a good asset this coming season |
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Comment | Saints And Celtic Said To Have Lost Out On Number One Goalkeeping Target
at 17:35:59
Basic contract law does not always apply to football and the laws differ depending on the situation, if a player is out of contract he can negotiate with other clubs in the last six months of his current deal, but only if they are from abroad.
If it is with another club then he cannot start negotiating until he is within the final month of his contract, Ie after June 1st |
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Comment | Stuart Armstrong Weighing Up Options
at 11:49:02
Russell martin has said he wants him to stay, but that is different from an actual contract on the table, what he might want to be paid to stay, might not be what we might want to pay him at his age,
A lot of mights in this post |
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Comment | Wembley Tickets On General Sale From Monday Lunchtime
at 12:09:59
I would ring them, if you have bought 3 tickets on your season ticket on Saturday for instance, then the system probably won't log you back in now or are you saying that you haven't bought any on your account yet |
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Comment | Southampton Sell Out St Mary's For The West Brom 2nd Leg Play Off Semi Final
at 07:34:48
Sorry but it is disgusting, it is profiteering, no one is expecting them to see the seats cheap, if it was the normal price charged it would be fair enough, supply and demand and all that, but when you up the price from £90 to £210 that is just wrong.
I am not going to try and justify it
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Comment | Southampton V Stoke City The Verdict
at 14:33:03
One thing that the last 4 games have shown is that whoever is in goal it doesn't matter
Bazunu 41 games played 54 goals conceded = 1.32 per game
McCarthy 4 games played and 8 goals conceded = 2 goals per game conceded
If we want to be accurate Bazunu has been far better than McCarthy in this respect |
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Comment | Brighton Alleged To Be Talking To Russell Martin To Replace Roberto De Zerbi
at 09:27:35
When Brighton appointed Graham otter he had just taken Swansea to 10th in the Championship, Roberto De Zerbi had been a bit of journeyman manager.
Brighton are a club who look beyond big names and look for the up and coming coaches.
Here at Southampton we as a fan base seem to want big names rather than up and coming coaches |
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Comment | Russell Martin Admits He Won't Change Tactics Or Drop Jack Stephens
at 14:48:39
Up to Saturday we were still scoring goals, 2 at Ipswich yet we still lost, that has been the case even in the two games we have won, the opposition still got two, we are the 3rd highest scoring team in the League, we create enough chances, we just let too many in |
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