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Boss said:
Southampton have always been a good little club that have attempted to punch above their weight but they got ahead of themselves. Their fans suggested they weren't that far behind us but they have nowhere near the stature and history so to have one decent season is not any reason for them to start dreaming of making a leap forward.

Koeman could lead them to relegation but in future they should learn to not accelerate any thoughts about catching clubs like us until they are capable enough to sustain a challenge each year but unless a billionaire takes over then the best they can hope for is to be as big as West Ham United.

Lallana, JRod, Lambert, Lovren are names that you would have placed in the average column a couple of years back and am glad we avoided as we have spent millions on these players, from Bentley to Bent to Dembele.

But one quality saints have, which we should follow is the youth system as it's better to focus on youth players then sign average players who are elevated after a good season, as if we focus on youth players then we will have a batch of quality players coming through and as Sherwood said '' you don't always have to look outside the club ''.
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Their owner IS a billionaire.
 
perhaps Southampton noticed how badly we did after signing 7 players for over £100m and are going for the opposite course of action
 
Perhaps Saints are about to launch a whole new bunch of Bales and Walnuts onto us unsuspecting public!
 
woolstonian said:
Their owner IS a billionaire.
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Our owner is a billionaire but neither us (or saints) are a plaything. Saints would need a billionaire who enjoys having fun for them to take giant leaps forward. You won't hear many spurs fans boasting about us being owned by Joe Lewis, who is worth an estimated 4.2 billion dollars, especially when we sign players like Chadli!
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
Perhaps Saints are about to launch a whole new bunch of Bales and Walnuts onto us unsuspecting public!
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They do have another bunch of promising youngsters coming through, but they need to do something to replace those leaving.
Their squad's becoming very threadbare and the supporters are on the verge of a meltdown.
 
Everton are to make a significant announcement at a press conference at 4pm, apparently.
Probably the permanent transfer of Lukaku from Chelsea. £24m, according to the rumour mill.
 
It's actually Ross Barkley signing a new four year contract. How underwhelming.
Good news for them, of course, but hardly the major announcement that they were suggesting.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
Everton are to make a significant announcement at a press conference at 4pm, apparently.
Probably the permanent transfer of Lukaku from Chelsea. £24m, according to the rumour mill.
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Lukaku is staying PNP! I think Barkley signed a new deal though.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
Perhaps Saints are looking to pay off what remains on their stadium debt? Sure, it's a massive gamble and they might drop down a division, but their board might have reasoned to themselves that they're probably never going to get another opportunity in their entire history when they can sell so many of their players for such silly money to mugs like LFC, and they might as well take the opportunity to rid themselves of a mill-stone of a debt. What with their magnificent Academy, and being freed up paying for their stadium, they'll be in a fantastic position in 4 to 5 seasons from now, when LFC has gone bust for a second time. It is possible.
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What debt would that be? Stadium is paid for. The only debts we do have are installments on transfers which are pretty normal and I would guess our outstanding installments are less than Spurs outstanding installments.

And yes, scary time for Saints but hopefully we'll be alright :)
 
ImpsSaint said:
What debt would that be? Stadium is paid for. The only debts we do have are installments on transfers which are pretty normal and I would guess our outstanding installments are less than Spurs outstanding installments.

And yes, scary time for Saints but hopefully we'll be alright :)
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We're the biggest selling club in the world i believe (over the last X years, i can't remember the stats). I'm sure any installments we have to pay for transfers are covered :)
However, we don't have a fricking new stadium, would love some stadium debt!
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
It's actually Ross Barkley signing a new four year contract. How underwhelming.
Good news for them, of course, but hardly the major announcement that they were suggesting.
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Drogs said:
Lukaku is staying PNP! I think Barkley signed a new deal though.
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Spurm said:
Balls
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Everton are to make a significant announcement at a press conference at 4pm, apparently.
Probably the permanent transfer of Lukaku from Chelsea. £24m, according to the rumour mill.
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He is signing, He isn't signing. Now he is signing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28569197
 
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£28m. Good player, but that's a lot of money for a player that Chelsea didn't want. A switch in Everton's transfer strategy?
 
I assume that is 28m if all the add-on clauses are triggered.
Will be interesting to see if he pushes on akin to Sturridge.
 
Southampton have replaced £27m Luke Shaw with Ryan Bertrand of Chelsea. On loan.
That'll calm the supporters down, I'm sure. <doh>
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Chelsea seem to be getting more out of it that Southampton - they still get to list Bertrand as a HG member of their squad, even though he's out on loan.
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Don't think that's how it works, Croydon. You don't have to name 8 HG players, but you can only name 17 non-HGs.
You've basically got a number of slots from the 25 that are reserved for players that fit the requirements.
Players loaned out don't count against that number and you don't have to fill all of the places.
 
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