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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Gordon Gekko, Jan 20, 2012.

  1. Gordon Gekko

    Gordon Gekko New Member

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    JDub Well-Known Member

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    Come on Joey, I thought you had more things to be doing rather than look at financial statistics of a football club...
     
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  3. Qwerty

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    Blimey, that is a long (and narrow) read. I don't really agree about St Mary's being a double-edged sword though, I wonder where we would be if we were still at the Dell. You may know more about this than me Joey but I had heard that Academy running costs were much more than £2m a year (maybe it depends what you are counting as a running cost).
     
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  4. Gordon Gekko

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    I finished work this morning, not literally. I've spent the last 4 hours doing **** all, as I don't have to.
     
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    Thanks for posting this Joey very good and interesting read. :)
     
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  6. Gordon Gekko

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    The most part from a personal level is the failure to highlight how important Leon Crouch was to the survival of the business. I know he took a sizeable financial hit in the final weeks, on top of replacing the statue.
     
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    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Can't read this on my computer. Any chance of a precis of interesting points, please.
     
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    I couldn't read it either, it appeared then disappeared!
     
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  9. JDub

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    Fair enough. I shall now depart to my shift at work.

    Good read by the way, shows how mental our wages were in our last Championship spell.
     
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    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    My greatest fear is that someone will start to try and explain what I should do...that conversation always starts with 'it's easy' followed immediately by a row of initials and meaningless words.
     
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    Very interesting article <ok>
     
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  12. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Just googled Swiss ramble and found the article. Very interesting. Wonder who the person is who gets 4 mill if we get back to PL before 2015. Must be rubbing his hands on that long shot. Clearly shows what we all know that we must get back into the PL as soon as possible. Pleased to see it confirmed that we paid off all debts where most buyers of companies in administration would pay only pennies in the pound..sound familiar. And yes..the sash shirt was rather wonderful.
     
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  13. Osvaldorama

    Osvaldorama Well-Known Member

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    Key points for me are:

    RIP and thank you Markus Liebherr.

    Also; "It is also worth pointing out that their League One revenue was higher than QPR and Swansea City, who both secured promotion to the Premier League the following season." That's an incredible fact.
     
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    Fascinating read thx joey . If all true then we are heading for great things in the prem.Got every faith in the don and his style of business im pretty sure he's even got a plan "c" as well.
     
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    it looks quite long.... i don't like reading.
     
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  16. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Bookmark it. Then you can read it in little chunks.
     
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    just finished, quite good. too much info to digest.
     
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  18. Gordon Gekko

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    Too much info? that's skimming the surface, and it's not even that much.
     
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    It was a good read, nothing new really

    I do wish people would stop saying RL gave us the stadium as if he did something magical, didnt the council bail him out with the land after he fooked up the stoneham plans by being greedy
    and I believe Mr Couch put up 200,000 (he lost a lot of money) or so of the 500,000 for Pinacle to get exclusivity and so players could be paid, with out him im sure would never have survived long enough for ML to come and rescue us.
     
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