Is this true, are they? Moreover, I don't even think the combined spend on our starting XI was over £11mil. I seem to remember we picked up Chaplow for around £60k, Schneiderlin for well under a mil, Lallana started here - the list goes on. Eddie Howe was another to allude to our riches. It seems this is an easy assumption for opposing managers to make; one that we're well-off which is partly true, two that we've spent a lot of money and thirdly that this is the sole reason for our success. I find this frustrating to listen to. We are not the Man City of the Championship, others have outspent us - namely West Ham and Leicester.
Could be wrong, but I actually remember Schneiderlin being about £1m, and I remember being shocked at the time because it was already well known the mire we were in.
Morgan was £1.2m which at the time did seem strange, but not complaining now. But agree with you, others were far under this amount like Chappers. We have a well assembled squad, not a over priced & over paid Leicester team.
well to be fair to dyche's comment, hes not far wrong to be honest. my favourite team would be davis, fox, jos, fonte, frazer, punch, morgan, cork, lallana, sharp, lambert. all of them are worth 1mill at the very least except frazer, punch and davis (who was bought for over a mill if i remember correctly)
From the figures I've heard, our most expensive player that we've signed is Steve de Ridder at £2m....go figure
Based on individual and team performances this season I think that it is difficult to argue with him. I think it is more of a compliment to the coaching staff that have managed to get the very best out of the squad rather than being a backhanded compliment. The only way that I think we ARE overspending is the size of the squad, with players such as Holmes, Dickson and Forte surely being surplus to requirements now.
Actually this is my bad, he was stating that every player was 'bought in' for over a million, so not referring to their current worth. So again, in his mind it's all a notion that we are where we are let's say partly because of a big spend. I agree this happened in L1 but we all know that our success this season is much more about morale, momentum and NA.
To be honest it seems like he's a bit scared? Kind of covering his tracks in case we do win and then he will have this statement to back it up?
His anxiety has been pretty obvious all week, from Man Utd keepers to Fulham strikers, the Saints are coming to town, get reinforcements! Should be a cracking game tomorrow.
From what I've heard Kelvin Davis - somewhere around £1.5-2m Frazer Richardson - £450k Dan Harding - Free Morgan Schneiderlin - £1.2m José Fonte - £1.2m Rickie Lambert - £700k-£1m Jack Cork - £750k Lee Barnard - Undisc Guly do Prado - Undisc Billy Sharp - £1.85m Danny Butterfield - Free Danny Fox - £1.8m Dean Hammond - £400k Radhi Jaïdi - Free Aaron Martin - Nominal fee Richard Chaplow - £50k Tadanari Lee - Free Bartosz Białkowski - £50k David Connolly - Free Danny Seaborne - £250k Jos Hooiveld - Undisc Tommy Forecast - £600k + waivering tens of millions of pounds of sell on fees from Gareth Bale's transfer Steve De Ridder - £2m Jason Puncheon - £400k These are only figures I've heard so they might be a bit wrong, but you can see it's either de Ridder or Forecast
Well said. I think Dyche's intention is to point out that you have a set of players that is capable of getting the job done this season, not that you have in any way bought success (far from it, given the Oxlade-Chamberlain windfall).
Using Conman's figures, the average cost of our first eleven would be just over a million each. Some cost more and some were bargains. For the Championship, we have spent quite a bit, but we haven't thrown money around. Pardew and Adkins have built a good side..time for them to prove it over the remaining games.
Totally... making excuses. why should we care? he's a nothing manager in charge of a nothing team, Sean Dyche, a loser, a failure... lower league toss. we are SOUTHAMPTON, time to show this fat ginger piece of crap that we are lightyears ahead of his team of failures, lower league trash.
Praise Saints by all means, but no need to insult another side. Adkins would never make that mistake....and wind up the opposition.
