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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 10:13 - Jan 24 with 1640 views | saints__fan__73 |
Nice to hear that we now have a strategic plan. Other than 'don't get relegated' we haven't had one of those since Cortese left. |  |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 10:29 - Jan 24 with 1612 views | SaintNick |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 10:13 - Jan 24 by saints__fan__73 |
Nice to hear that we now have a strategic plan. Other than 'don't get relegated' we haven't had one of those since Cortese left. |
We actually have had a strategic plan since 2014 it delivered two top 7 finishes, two Europa League campaigns, a League Cup final and two FA Cup semi finals.
Outside of the Big 6 and Leicester that is perhaps the best record of any of the rest of the clubs
Sadly it didn't deliver the run of consecutive two 4 finishes and Champions League campaigns that were bolted on should Cortese have stayed at the club |  |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:07 - Jan 24 with 1565 views | Saintsforeverj |
If we can get in more Brojas and Livramentos for a cheaper price, without the financial restrictions forcing us to sell before we buy, than that is definitely a way forward. The question is, what does "a bit quicker" mean? Finding a Broja earlier? Doing a deal a few months before? | |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:12 - Jan 24 with 1560 views | saints__fan__73 |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 10:29 - Jan 24 by SaintNick |
We actually have had a strategic plan since 2014 it delivered two top 7 finishes, two Europa League campaigns, a League Cup final and two FA Cup semi finals.
Outside of the Big 6 and Leicester that is perhaps the best record of any of the rest of the clubs
Sadly it didn't deliver the run of consecutive two 4 finishes and Champions League campaigns that were bolted on should Cortese have stayed at the club |
You have to say he got it right about Le Tissier though. | |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:28 - Jan 24 with 1541 views | Sadoldgit |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:12 - Jan 24 by saints__fan__73 |
You have to say he got it right about Le Tissier though. |
Cortese foresaw the covid pandemic and the conspiracy theories too?? |  | | |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:36 - Jan 24 with 1523 views | Sadoldgit |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 10:13 - Jan 24 by saints__fan__73 |
Nice to hear that we now have a strategic plan. Other than 'don't get relegated' we haven't had one of those since Cortese left. |
If you read the quote again Semmens said that Sports Republic have bought into the plan that Semmens had all along rather than the other way round. I am sure we are all delighted at the new ownership, but ifwe continue to stay in the bottom half of the table, buy some duds and lose some of our better players in the near future, how long before the new owners start getting flak? Whilst Gao gets a lot of grief, the current squad was assembled on his watch. Perhaps hindsight will be a bit kinder to his tenure here? | | | |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:59 - Jan 24 with 1498 views | SaintNick |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 11:36 - Jan 24 by Sadoldgit |
If you read the quote again Semmens said that Sports Republic have bought into the plan that Semmens had all along rather than the other way round. I am sure we are all delighted at the new ownership, but ifwe continue to stay in the bottom half of the table, buy some duds and lose some of our better players in the near future, how long before the new owners start getting flak? Whilst Gao gets a lot of grief, the current squad was assembled on his watch. Perhaps hindsight will be a bit kinder to his tenure here? |
Gao spent money or sanctioned money in the early days, he took over in August 2017 and we spent £18 million on Lemina, £15 million on Hoedt, and then £19 million on Carrillo in the January window.
We thought then that they would all be great players for the club, but these as well as some of the players already there such as Boufal & others became millstones round our neck both in terms of transfer fees spent and the wages we were paying them to be out on loan.
Gao revamped the running of the club back in 2018 and since then our recruitment has been back on track, but it will take until the summer of this year when Forster & McCarthy come out of their existing deals (around !40k a week joint) to mean we have got rid of most of that millstone | |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:38 - Jan 24 with 1424 views | Chesham_Saint |
Meet the new boss…same as the old boss.
Hardly inspiring is it?
So in all likelihood treading water is the best we can realistically expect?
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:43 - Jan 24 with 1416 views | MytchettSaint |
Anyone who thought the new owners coming in were going to pump in hundreds of millions for players needs a check up from the neck up. I’ll add, I don’t think anyone actually thought that though. |  |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:51 - Jan 24 with 1403 views | Chesham_Saint |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:43 - Jan 24 by MytchettSaint |
Anyone who thought the new owners coming in were going to pump in hundreds of millions for players needs a check up from the neck up. I’ll add, I don’t think anyone actually thought that though. |
No, I didn’t think they would. It’s just a tad disappointing that whilst Mewacastle (and let’s face it, they aren’t all that) can attract mega wealth, the best we can do is just a high net worth person. | |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:01 - Jan 24 with 1382 views | Saintsforeverj |
The way I see it, is that we don't have the serious financial restraints we had before. We don't have to sell to buy. We can afford to pay more in wages and we can afford to invest in the squad. Both Semmens and Ralph have confirmed this saying things are much better. It's just that we will be investing for the future 'properly" by getting in young players more quickly, before anyone else and building the club in this way. I still think that there will also be some extra cash available when necessary to buy players if we need to. With the help of the ex Brentford investor, who knows how to spot "proper" bargains, in a club which is not now financially restrained, it should be a good way forward. Better this than buying a Richarlison, Carillo or even a Ronaldo. I can see many more Brojas and Livramentos coming in, probably on long term deals, so let's see but it seems good to me. [Post edited 24 Jan 2022 13:03]
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:34 - Jan 24 with 1347 views | PaleRider |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:01 - Jan 24 by Saintsforeverj |
The way I see it, is that we don't have the serious financial restraints we had before. We don't have to sell to buy. We can afford to pay more in wages and we can afford to invest in the squad. Both Semmens and Ralph have confirmed this saying things are much better. It's just that we will be investing for the future 'properly" by getting in young players more quickly, before anyone else and building the club in this way. I still think that there will also be some extra cash available when necessary to buy players if we need to. With the help of the ex Brentford investor, who knows how to spot "proper" bargains, in a club which is not now financially restrained, it should be a good way forward. Better this than buying a Richarlison, Carillo or even a Ronaldo. I can see many more Brojas and Livramentos coming in, probably on long term deals, so let's see but it seems good to me. [Post edited 24 Jan 2022 13:03]
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Sums up my view perfectly. I think it is potentially a really exciting business model for clubs like Saints. | | | |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:51 - Jan 24 with 1326 views | Sadoldgit |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:01 - Jan 24 by Saintsforeverj |
The way I see it, is that we don't have the serious financial restraints we had before. We don't have to sell to buy. We can afford to pay more in wages and we can afford to invest in the squad. Both Semmens and Ralph have confirmed this saying things are much better. It's just that we will be investing for the future 'properly" by getting in young players more quickly, before anyone else and building the club in this way. I still think that there will also be some extra cash available when necessary to buy players if we need to. With the help of the ex Brentford investor, who knows how to spot "proper" bargains, in a club which is not now financially restrained, it should be a good way forward. Better this than buying a Richarlison, Carillo or even a Ronaldo. I can see many more Brojas and Livramentos coming in, probably on long term deals, so let's see but it seems good to me. [Post edited 24 Jan 2022 13:03]
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To be fair there was nothing stopping us bringing in more Livramentos and Brojas before the takeover. That was the model before. We are using the same model now. The players you mention were brought in under a different set of operators. We are a few months away from shifting another high earner from our books which leaves us in a stronger situation, take over or not. Yes, we are clearly in a better position under the new owners, but as Semmens himself has said, don’t expect any major changes in the way the club is run. | | | |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 14:12 - Jan 24 with 1298 views | Saintsforeverj |
The difference from the previous ownership being that we might be able to compete with teams like Everton and Villa by paying players like Ings more money, of we really wanted to keep a player from going to a club like that. I read that we don't now need to sell to buy. Players will ofcourse still want to go to the top clubs like Man City and co but we will probably be able to get better deals on players like Broja in the first place (that's what I interpret as quicker), so not just a loan, so if we lose a few gems, which we will, we will get 50 million plus for them in future, rather than just losing them. That's all good going forward - win win.
We were doing some of these things before, but on a shoe strong budget, and we had to sell players and had a very strict wage policy.
We have now beefed up the plan, i.e. we now have the ex Brentford guy as well as what we already had in place, with more cash in place if needed. I do hope too, that now that we aren't completely skint which we were before, we could also invest in a few players out of that "buy young policy" too. Nice to see the owners at the games too, cheering us on. Ultimately, we will have to see but Semmens and Ralph seem really happy, so I will take that as good news. [Post edited 24 Jan 2022 14:14]
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 15:20 - Jan 24 with 1236 views | Heisenberg |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:51 - Jan 24 by Chesham_Saint |
No, I didn’t think they would. It’s just a tad disappointing that whilst Mewacastle (and let’s face it, they aren’t all that) can attract mega wealth, the best we can do is just a high net worth person. |
Id rather be Saints than Newcastle who are funded by a regime that only this weekend were directly behind more atrocities in Yemen. If the only way to be a top club is by taking blood money then mid table is fine thank you. |  |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 16:12 - Jan 24 with 1201 views | Chesham_Saint |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 15:20 - Jan 24 by Heisenberg |
Id rather be Saints than Newcastle who are funded by a regime that only this weekend were directly behind more atrocities in Yemen. If the only way to be a top club is by taking blood money then mid table is fine thank you. |
I take your point H, but I’m not sure that Chelsea, Man City or even Gao’s money is/was that pure… | |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 18:48 - Jan 24 with 1099 views | TripleNiemi |
| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 12:43 - Jan 24 by MytchettSaint |
Anyone who thought the new owners coming in were going to pump in hundreds of millions for players needs a check up from the neck up. I’ll add, I don’t think anyone actually thought that though. |
And to be honest that is not what i would want either, spend wisely as more often than not those are the best signings (ala Davis, Armstrong etc) |  |
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| New Southampton Owner Won't Be Pumping In £500 Million For Transfers on 13:37 - Jan 25 with 887 views | Poirot |
What we need is a defensive coach. |  | | |
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