THAT Rickie Lambert Interview

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fran-MLs little camera said:
No football board club ever aims low...Saints are still intending to finish as high as possible, with the Europa and Champions' Leagues as targets. The difference is probably time scale...Nicola would throw every penny of someone else's money at achieving it in the short term, whereas the board want to run the club sustainably and get there in the longer term. There is no sign that they won't invest money, but that money will have to largely come from commercial income, Sky money and player sales.
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But we weren't throwing every penny of Katharina's money at it. When the '13/'14 books are published, it's likely that the two years spent in the PL will come in very close to breakeven.

Every team wants to finish as high as possible, sure. But if we indicated, just as an example, that our policy going forward would be sell-to-buy, with transfers out funding transfers in, that'd tell a bit of a tale about where we're likely to find ourselves. It would also be more than sustainable...it'd be highly lucrative, so long as the club remains in the top flight.
 
saintlyhero said:
Slight contradiction from Lambert when he said they left because Pochettino left and the board didn't retain him, yet he praised the appointment of Koeman. So why didn't the players stick around to see who would replace MP?
Saints clearly reached their financial glass ceiling and their would have been no repeat net spend of £30m. I obviously have no idea what the budget would have been without player sales, but it was clearly a figure which Pochettino believed would not allow him to move the club forward. Spurs have far greater resources and he made his decision. The rest snow balled from there (Pochettino bad mouthing the board to justify him leaving, big wages offered to our players etc)
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I think Rickie is so busy being careful not to offend anybody, he's tripping over his own versions of events!
 
saintlyhero said:
Slight contradiction from Lambert when he said they left because Pochettino left and the board didn't retain him, yet he praised the appointment of Koeman. So why didn't the players stick around to see who would replace MP?
Saints clearly reached their financial glass ceiling and their would have been no repeat net spend of £30m. I obviously have no idea what the budget would have been without player sales, but it was clearly a figure which Pochettino believed would not allow him to move the club forward. Spurs have far greater resources and he made his decision. The rest snow balled from there (Pochettino bad mouthing the board to justify him leaving, big wages offered to our players etc)
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Spurs are hardly splashing the cash, are they?
 
Schad said:
But we weren't throwing every penny of Katharina's money at it. When the '13/'14 books are published, it's likely that the two years spent in the PL will come in very close to breakeven.
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We'll see a large increase in the wage bill, and given the transfer policy we had, that trend probably wouldn't be changing anytime soon.
 
Saint_Ford said:
Yeah but I imagine their wage bill is at least 3x the size of ours
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True. I don't see Spurs as a good move for him, while it is possible for him to succeed there (top 4) it is highly improbable that he will especially with their squad this season which they're showing few signs of majorly investing in. I guess he must see them as better stepping stone than us,
 
Schad said:
Every team wants to finish as high as possible, sure. But if we indicated, just as an example, that our policy going forward would be sell-to-buy, with transfers out funding transfers in, that'd tell a bit of a tale about where we're likely to find ourselves. It would also be more than sustainable...it'd be highly lucrative, so long as the club remains in the top flight.
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Also known as the Rupert Lowe plan.
 
Pie! said:
We'll see a large increase in the wage bill, and given the transfer policy we had, that trend probably wouldn't be changing anytime soon.
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A significant increase, no doubt, but that was an increase beyond what was (going from memory, though I can find it if need be) the second smallest wage bill in '12/'13.
 
Pie! said:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn

Which in turn, was a significant increase over the year before. See where this is going?
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Of course it was a significant increase over the year before...we were in the Championship then. Rather hard to determine a trend from three data points, one of which came before our revenues more than doubled overnight, the latter of which came after another large boost in cashflow owing to the new TV deal.
 
Schad said:
Of course it was a significant increase over the year before...we were in the Championship then. Rather hard to determine a trend from three data points, one of which came before our revenues more than doubled overnight, the latter of which came after another large boost in cashflow owing to the new TV deal.
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Do you honestly think the wage bill increases were going to change, given the way Cortese was operating things?
 
Pie! said:
Do you honestly think the wage bill increases were going to change, given the way Cortese was operating things?
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But this is a bit tautological...Cortese was a profligate spender because the wage bill (which was still rational at the time he left) was going to keep growing by leaps and bounds, and the wage bill was going to keep growing by leaps and bounds because Cortese was a profligate spender.
 
The single biggest thing to come out of Rickie's interview for me is the line that said MP leaving told them all they needed to know about the boards ambition. Sorry gents, but you just didn't wait to see and were already half out the door.

I really hope you will be casting an envious eye in our direction this season and wondering what if.
 
Puck said:
Also known as the Rupert Lowe plan.
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Not a bad plan, but the balance has to be right. Markus ploughed the money in to hopefully produce quality players regularly...keep some, sell some. The problem for Lowe is that we had to sell and then later we had to cash in the sell on clauses for Bale and Walcott. Now, we are not desperate and can get better deals.
 
fatletiss said:
The single biggest thing to come out of Rickie's interview for me is the line that said MP leaving told them all they needed to know about the boards ambition. Sorry gents, but you just didn't wait to see and were already half out the door.

I really hope you will be casting an envious eye in our direction this season and wondering what if.
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Wait and see? The board had been in place for nearly six months. They should already have communicated their plans and ambitions to their staff.
 
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