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  1. ^ That, wage wise I doubt our combined signings are notably more then Readings or West Hams, the only difference is we''ve gone for young quality rather then 30 year olds who will be worth bugger all in a year or two. Reading were rumoured to have given Pogrebnyak 65k a week, yet we sign a better player for less wages and everyone gets in a hissy fit just because he''s actually worth it.

  2. [quote user="Cambridgeyellow"][quote user="ben86"]We do have it, we''re owned by billionaires, stop being butthurt and deal with it. We also have no debt and they paid off all owed money in full when we exited administration, which we only went into from building a new stadium.[/quote]

    Take it you were not working for one of the local companies that were shafted then and had their businessess ruint - all at the expense of football. Football should be a game played between to sides not something that ruins peoples lives. I quite liked Southampton your comments have just changed that.[/quote]

    None of them did, they were all paid in full, the only people we made a deal with was Norwich Union who cut about 4mill off the remaining mortgage on the stadium in return for having it paid outright. You are just butthurt and have no idea what you''re talking about.

  3. [quote user="Joanna Grey"]

    [quote user="ben86"]We do have it, we''re owned by billionaires, stop being butthurt and deal with it. We also have no debt and they paid off all owed money in full when we exited administration, which we only went into from building a new stadium.[/quote]

    And you started off so well. Now fuck off.

    [/quote]

    So jelly, haters gonna hate.

  4. Yeah was gonna say the same, I think there''s a good 8 or so that could be involved. I think West Ham will stay up because of Allardyce''s effective hoof ball, Reading I''m unsure on, and we''re a bit of an unknown quantity still. Yeah Lambert leaving was my main reason for thinking you''d struggle this year, as long as Holt reproduces last seasons form you should be fine though I think. Saints'' main issue is still our centre backs, both of them need replacing urgently, the rest of the team is pretty much fine, but our centre backs are pretty dire, Clyne is by far our best signing.

  5. Yeah I had Wigan, West Brom and yourselves tbh, but I''ve barely seen a game since we''ve been out of the prem so no idea really! We''ll go down for certain with our current squad but we''ll be bringing it at least another 3 more players, I wouldn''t be suprised to see us spend another 15+mill, we just take ages with transfers. I''m not hugely into Jay tbh, I wanted Rhodes or Hooper personally and he''s keeping Sharp out the team who I think is a better player, can see Sharp being our top scorer if he gets enough game time.

  6. Sup, thought I''d come on and wish you guys good luck for the coming season. Being a Saints fan I haven''t been on here since we were both in league 1, so nice to see how both clubs have came on over the last few years. Be interesting to hear how you lot think you''re gonna get on this year and how you think we might get on, think you''ve strengthened enough to avoid trouble again?

  7. Matthias - Our recent history is basically as follows:Rupert Lowe took the club into administration by spunking all our money on nice catering, radio stations and expensive rugby coaches thus running up debts because we sold all of our players to pay for it which got us relegated. We got taken over by a guy with no money, George Burley spent silly money poorly, the money got screwed up more so he had the masterstroke of bringing back Rupert Lowe as chairman, who sells everything some more and sacks nigel pearson to replace him with a dutch conference manager which strangely got us relegated. Run out of money so get put into admin to find a buyer and if one isn''t found to sell everything to pay off the debts. Marcus Liebherr buys the club, pays off all debts and moonwalks on water. And we got a minus ten point deduction for going into admin.He bought us because we cost around £13million, plus around that again in debt paid off. £26 million For a club with premier league infrastructure, a big catchment area, decent history and now a stadium entirely paid for and no debt that''s an absolute bargain.All of the players and training ground improvements are being paid for entirely out of his back pocket and the club is still in zero debt so it''s not making the same mistakes again, he''s just absolutely minted and a generally god like.

  8. Sad Little Canary - We didn''t wipe out our debt, every penny owed was paid. We''ve also just

    had a planning application approved for a new multimillion pound

    training ground, thus helping the economy.  We got the money from being

    bought by and having our debts paid off by Marcus Liebherr, a

    Swiss/German billionaire/hero, we were well overdue a bit of luck and we''ve definitely got it so stop sulking.

  9. [quote user="Canaries in Bed"]

     Will score more than you''re bloke. Plus you are bottom of the league and smell of wee and poo and Portmouth are a bigger club and yhou have Pardew. Is that childish enough for you.[;)]

    Nice talking to you, go on home sunny to your little red board. Ta ta sweetie.

    [/quote]Lol good luck with the Shrewsbury striker, I''ll leave you to it.

  10. [quote user="JTG"][quote user="ben86"][quote user="Canaries in Bed"]

    You need to Google properly.

     Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke (born July 29, 1947 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American business entrepreneur who is listed in the Forbes 400 as one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is estimated to be about $3.5 billion and based primarily on real estate. His wife, Anne Walton, is a Wal-Mart heir. Kroenke is also the owner of professional basketball team Denver Nuggets and a minority shareholder of English football team Arsenal. He has twins; 16 year olds Katie and Brett.

    He is one of the share holders.

     

    [/quote]Yeah that''s what I was saying, that link was obviously wrong I guess.  Anywho http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/1003609/?type=display[/quote]I don''t have a problem with you and what you say is questionable, but out of curiosity, why are you on here anyway?[/quote]Stumbled across the site when you had some big takeover thread about us, so thought I''d have another look after the weekends results, not trying to be a wum or anything just find some of it quite interesting, especially other clubs views on saints and our situation.

  11. [quote user="Canaries in Bed"]

    You need to Google properly.

     Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke (born July 29, 1947 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American business entrepreneur who is listed in the Forbes 400 as one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is estimated to be about $3.5 billion and based primarily on real estate. His wife, Anne Walton, is a Wal-Mart heir. Kroenke is also the owner of professional basketball team Denver Nuggets and a minority shareholder of English football team Arsenal. He has twins; 16 year olds Katie and Brett.

    He is one of the share holders.

     

    [/quote]Yeah that''s what I was saying, that link was obviously wrong I guess.  Anywho http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/1003609/?type=display

  12. [quote user="Canaries in Bed"]

    Ok, little math for you. Southampton new owner is worth around 2.5 billion, Arsenals main share holder is worth more.

    I have not made that up, all of the prem teams have the money from Sky and ticket sales, so in essence they earn more money than Southampton. Just because the owner has a fair whack amount of money, does not mean that thye will spend it.

    I''m not saying that your team is poor, far from it, but money from owners is normally used far less than the income from tickets, stuff at club shops and TV package.

    [/quote]Apologies, I googled it and it came up with this http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_owner_of_Arsenal_Football_Clubboth of who''m have no "serious" money.There''s a difference between income and being rich, all of the money they bring in from sky and tickets is then straight back out the door for inflated player wages.And again, I''m not saying we''ll spend it all, they''ve said they''re going to be sensible and spend what''s required, back fact is we simply are one of the richest clubs in the country now.

  13. [quote user="Downloads"]

    Err no. You aren''t richer than Man U. If you were a rich club it would cost a lot more to buy Southampton than it would Man U. Clubs with wealthy owners usually find that the owners don''t use their own cash and the club just goes further into debt. They occasionally pay bits off so the club doesn''t look too unhealthy. When Southampton has the money itself, then it will be a rich club, rather than have a rich owner.

    Norwich have neither and never will have with Delia!

    [/quote]No sorry that''s utter drivel, the Glazers took a loan against the club to buy it, Man Utd are very very far from being rich, they''re hundreds of millions in debt. It''s a similar situation as Real Madrid have, they''re in stupid amounts of debt just the banks will never pull the plug on them.What do you expect him to do, transfer all his money for the club he soley owns into an account named "Southampton FC", what would be the point in that?

  14. [quote user="Canaries in Bed"]

    This will bring on the massive debate about us going into administration, but it show, that Southampton can have masses of debt, go into administration and then buy bug. Its disgusting, they should be made to pay of all the debt. 10 points is bugger all.

     

    I have always said that they will be up there at the end of the season, now they have Lambert, that should surely help them. One thing about him, is why has no bigger clubs been in for him, not that I know he hasn''t, but you would have thought he would have gone a while ago.

    [/quote]The new owner paid off every penny of debt owed.
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