Do those economics work? Surely better to stay in the league? If Hjulmund and Jackson come in it will have been another big window for saints. Even if one of them does it will have been decent. Will it give us what we need? Who knows with NJ at the helm, he may turn out to be great, he may not.
Maybe it’s more financially rewarding to take the payments, invest a little to compete in the championship and then return?
Nope, doesn't make sense at all. As I said on the Villa thread at the weekend I don't see how a business £100m+ in debt would ever benefit from losing tens of millions of pounds. Parachute money is considerably less than a seasons TV money in PL.
I don’t know if it makes sense. I’m trying to think of the angle. Staying in the PL means much more money, but also much more investment.
SR have spent over 200m and want to get us relegated? That makes perfect sense to me. Or maybe its just quite difficult to successfully run a Premier League football club.
I just don't get the noises about making 4 or 5 more signings a few weeks ago (can't remember the source but seem to remember it being legit?). How do you go from that to making noises that you're happy with what you have.
In the final week of the window, nothing tends to happen until the final day. It's annoying but be patient.
Just think it's weird to give a number (especially one that high) unless you were extrememly confident you'd get them. Pretty awful PR move. If they'd just said we are working on/would like to bring in more players then its less of a dramatic failure when we don't bring anymore in. It also makes the recent 'we are happy with what we have' comments even more of a blatant lie because why would we have been shouting about bringing in so many more players a few weeks ago if we were happy with what we have. Also imagine being happy with what you have whilst being in the position we are in. Just total bollocks.
There's really not a lot of point in believing everything that's said in interviews during a transfer window, because journalists ask loaded questions, and comments are taken out of context, etc. Not only that but those being interviewed use smokescreens and unspecific general statements, in order not to show their hand.
Were a high number of incomings officially stated by anyone from the club? And where are people getting the idea that the club are happy to work with what we have ? Other than a dishonest reframing from one of those attention seeking saints news Twitter accounts where they hover trying to be the first to re-report / aggregate stories broken by others. And in this case the guy took an old quote out of context and reframed it as being a new one post Villa for reasons that could only be to drive engagement by whipping up outrage A lot of people are basing their views solely on the output of a selected handful of Twitter accounts, almost none of which are actual journalist or have any sources of their own For example there were reports of an €11m bid for Hjulmand and pretty much everyone on Twitter said “wasn’t that bid rejected”. Because some random accounts said it was. And it was taken as absolute 100% gospel truth. Even Fab Romano isn’t right all the time and he massively hedges his bets on announcements and seems to try and wait until seconds before an official announcement to say something. And (as seemed to be the case in the summer) rely on particularly leaky contacts in clubs (and it would certainly seem Shields is still freely chatting into his ear as all the Chelsea stuff seems to have been early and correct)
I'm not sure where it came from, the majority of what I read about Saints is on or via here. Also listen to TSP and occasionally look on twitter but just a few accounts of fans and a couple of journalists, not all the random agents, fake agents and all that ****. But anyway, you're right I don't know where those quotes came from or if they came straight from the horses mouth so to speak. Think I read them on here but not 100%. Easy to take words like that and use them to let out some frustration at the current situation though and that is what I've done.
