Will Pochettino stay or go?

Joe: Also I think you might underestimate just how much goes into infrastructure

Absolutely right. A stadium and academy, with running costs, wages, taxes, council tax won't come cheap.

 

Total investment to date is £52m according to financial highlights 2012/3 on the OS.
http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/31032014-financial-results-201213-1455995.aspx

 

the theory is then that they've been paying a lot of our costs cash in hand, off the books?

 

By "infrastructure" I mean the stadium improvements and training ground refurb. That doesn't account for anywhere the £200m you're claiming they injected. Quite where you're getting that number from I have no idea.

 

Well for starters I don't think that figure includes the training ground project "now expected to exceed £30m", because that isn't done yet. It's also a season old.

 

Sure, but then he didn't have Lovren, Chambers, Wanyama etc

 

I presume it does include the majority of that, as the building started well in advance of these figures being released. Even assuming it doesn't include any of it, that takes the total to circa £82m, still £120m short of your figure.

 

And has it been communicated anywhere that the total £30m will come from a capital injection and not from trading cash flow?

 

Ifs and buts - Adkins' needs to improve his defensive tactics before he can make it as a good premier league manager.

 

Yeah, and the numbers you're talking about are just the initial costs of the building work (which haven't actually been paid yet, I believe). Infrastructure comes with various regular and periodic expenses. Maybe the entire figure isn't quite £200m, but if you take the figure from the link PO10Saint posted, add "at least £30m" for the training ground costs, and you're already pushing £100m before taking into account that these are figures from a year ago.

 

You can safely assume it, considering this work was planned while the club was still earning peanuts.

 

And how is he supposed to improve his tactics exactly, when you only give him six months in the job, and a largely Championship-level playing squad?

 

I wouldn't assume it, but let's say you are right. Total investment of what £90m - how much do you think the club is worth?

Pretty tidy return on investment no?

 

Why are we talking about Adkins? It isn't going to happen.

 

i've just heard from a very reliable source that Saints board have just interviewed Harry Redknapp about a possible move to the club.
Apparently 'Joan' the St.Marys toilet cleaner has had a better offer from Tescos.

 

is that joan de ramos?

 

6 months? He took charge in League 1 and it was even obvious in the Championship that our defensive play was not up to scratch. He had 5 or 6 transfer windows to improve in those positions which he did not. He did not ever try to improve our defensive play other than signing people. We went into most games with the 'we are gonna score more than you' plan. He got found out in the Premier League and I wasn't surprised by at all. MP had the same squad as Adkins last year and improved our defensive in a short amount of time.

 

The quicker he goes and we get the new manager in the better. I've had enough of him now. He's had the chance to sign a new deal for weeks but has been playing us and waiting for spurs to finally approach him.

 

"Pushing £100m" being the circa £82m I already mentioned. So you're just assuming they must have spent almost £120m in the last year?

 

Sky still saying could be a few days. Odd its taking so long.