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New 5 Year Plan

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Apr 19, 2012.

  1. Itchen North Matt

    Itchen North Matt Active Member

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    The Financial Fair Play rules (as they stand) say that a club can't spend more than 100% of turnover on wages. No sensible businessman who values his money is going to go above that and very few teams do. It's only the clubs run as vanity projects like Man City that break this rule and they can probably get around it with some creative accounting. The ruling is just there to make UEFA think it's doing something, but UEFA can't do any more until the clubs take it upon themselves to reform, because that's how capitalism works.
     
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  2. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    correct. City owners will just sponsor the staium or kit or the car-park under a "fee" of whatever the income defecit is.
     
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  3. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    1) Annexe Austria
    2) Ditto Chekoslovakia
    3) Invade Poland
    4) Bowl effortlessly down the Champs Elysee
    5) March on Moscow.
     
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  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Remembering to do it in the summer.
     
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  5. North Hants Saint

    North Hants Saint Active Member

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    Top 6 in 5 years.
     
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  6. chinasaint

    chinasaint Well-Known Member

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    Rather than march on Moscow travel a little further east across here to Asia and tap into the potential markets of thousands of fans in this part of the world. The marketing potential here in Asia is enormous and if Saints came over here to do a summer tour I might even get to see them play.

    used wrong quote, should have been the comment above.
     
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  7. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    They sponsor the stadium for the next 5yrs, costing them 500mil. So easy to get around rules.
     
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  8. pass the football

    pass the football Well-Known Member

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    Thousands?? Not very ambitious!
     
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