Dick Knights Mumm
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That is the bottom line. It is not just the cost of players that does for clubs - it is their contracts in the event of relegation.
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Gaston Ramirez - 12 million quid
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That is the bottom line. It is not just the cost of players that does for clubs - it is their contracts in the event of relegation.
house your seagull
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Things are changing, teams with ambition need to be in the EPL next season 2013/14.
The new TV deal was, I thnk, 3 times what the previous deal was (some £3bn) and the differnce between what the top division teams get and what the Championship teams get is massive, aboslutely huge. last season a mere 8.7% of EPL revenue trickled down to the second tier and below, and that included the parachute payments for the relegated clubs!
Commentators are concerned that the money that these EPL teams from next season will get in revenue and parachutes if they get relegated will be such that a 'closed shop' will evolve, making promotion from the Championship extremely difficult for non-established EPL teams.
There are probably, what, 6-8 clubs in the Championship who are willing to spend to go up ths season, us included.
In the EPL, safety is the be all and end all for the bottom 10 clubs, and they are willing to take risks to ensure that. If they're still in the Premiership in May then they're in a very good position for the future.
The new TV deal was, I thnk, 3 times what the previous deal was (some £3bn) and the differnce between what the top division teams get and what the Championship teams get is massive, aboslutely huge. last season a mere 8.7% of EPL revenue trickled down to the second tier and below, and that included the parachute payments for the relegated clubs!
Commentators are concerned that the money that these EPL teams from next season will get in revenue and parachutes if they get relegated will be such that a 'closed shop' will evolve, making promotion from the Championship extremely difficult for non-established EPL teams.
There are probably, what, 6-8 clubs in the Championship who are willing to spend to go up ths season, us included.
In the EPL, safety is the be all and end all for the bottom 10 clubs, and they are willing to take risks to ensure that. If they're still in the Premiership in May then they're in a very good position for the future.
tottenhamseagull
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Gazzetta dello Sport say Southampton will spend €19m on Gastón Ramírez; €13m to Bologna and €6m to Peñarol who co-own a % of him. Pricey!!!
The Fifth Column
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If you take away that bellend Atkins and their twat of a chief exec, Southampton would not be a club I would give a toss about. Spending 20-30 million on players when you go up from this division is not excessive and seems sustainable when set against the 90 odd million it is worth to get into the Premier league. I don't see too many problems with what Southampton are doing to be honest and would imagine we would look to be spending similar amounts were we to be promoted.
Bwian
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They'll get much bigger crowds for this trip to the PL so they should be much safer than PFC, then add in TV money for a guaranteed shit load of millions. All the while they remain in the PL they should be OK-it's when they get relegated they'll have problems. Sadly, the greed of PL clubs/players means that's the kind of money needed to get players in. IF we make it to the PL, we'll be doing the same. If we don't we'll be straight back down as Blackpool found out.
I'm not sure the PL dream is worth it.
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Hillian1
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They also have no debt at all, the owners have converted all remaining debt into shares.
bristolseagull
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I fancy them to have a top 10 finish this season
rcf0712
Out Here In The Perimeter
it's not as if they've spunked it all up the wall before though is it? Hold on......
NickBHAFC18
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Saints fan just shared this link with me, quite interesting actually. No wonder why they can afford him. Southampton are no.5, Brighton are 61.
The Football Rich List 2011/12: The Full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
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SouthamptonGuy
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- Apr 3, 2011
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When was our last shit or bust approach?
What a load of horseshit. Do they serioulsy expect people to believe, that a man with a net worith of FIFTY MILLION pounds, funded a £100m stadium?
It doesn't appear to register with some there is no way on gods given earth Bloom would personally pay for a stadium out of his own un-borrowed money and only be left with 50m. This man is a billionaire not a tinpot millionaire.
More importantly 'Southampton' are not no.5 - The Leibherr family are no.5. Its not the same thing.
no doubt that they are being generously backed though. For now.
SouthamptonGuy
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When was our last shit or bust approach?
Bwian
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So you never ended up in administration/massive debt fairly recently then? You got lucky with your owner and his family otherwise you'd be in big shit financially.
saafend_seagull
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And therein lies a bit of a quandry. Where does TBs money come from? How much does he have? How much did he earn last year, and from what? How did he pay for the stadium? When you consider the questions often asked of football clubs, i.e. Leeds & Crawley, about where their money comes from, is it legitimate, we aren't all that transparent ourselves are we?
GingerBeerMan
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He'll be fine, and at only 21 will develop into a scarily-good player.