david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Speedie and Dixon and some money for shearer..... Ha ha ha suckers! oh ! ..that was GROSS ! A double breach of the Trade Desciptions Act. Shearer was valued at (a record £3.4 million) but the deal soured by us buying David Speedie and Kerry Dixon for around £1.5 million and in the end Speedie stayed only 7 weeks - playing only 12 games and 0 goals. Kerry Dixon was only a little better. He stayed only 4 months played 11 games - 1 goal. To say we got shafted ...was an understatement. Both players were past their prime, unfit and not the least bit interested in playing for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Red Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 From a business perspective I would say Dean Richards, in for free and out for £8million... Followed closely by Davies. Lambert helped a great deal in our promotion to the Championship which I imagine made SFC more than the £1.2million we spent on him. But it wasn't purely down to him. I would also add keeping hold of Matty when Spurs came in for him - credit where it's due. If we had gone down any one of those early Prem seasons then who's to say that we would not have ended up as a lower league 1 team still at the Dell? But then again, who's to say something amazing could have happened and we'd be in the Champions League now?! - I'm going to lie down, I've confused myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Buying Pahars, Svensson x 2, Claus, Paul Williams (stop gap), Marsden, Niemi....all must be up there ! I bet these players all together weren't more than £5m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Getting Herr Liebherr to sign on the dotted line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Apart from ML, and apart from 'signing' NA from sunny Scunny, WGS made a very shrewd investment in the Williams/Telfer combo ... two players that did really well for us and helped us get back on the front foot as an established PL team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyin Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 David Hurst, Mark Hughes and Peter Reid, oh, and Stuart Ripley, Kerry Dixon and David Speedie Sounds like Reid was one of Branfoot's better bits of business. from wiki: Following his dismissal by Manchester City, in October 1993 Reid was persuaded by Ian Branfoot to resume his playing career with Southampton who were then in the middle of a crisis: the Saints fans were calling for Branfoot to be sacked with the club having lost eight of their first nine games. Reid brought a touch of guile and stability to the Saints side; despite playing only eight games he made a major contribution to the team's fortunes as Saints' season started to come together. He led them to some important victories, most specially over Newcastle United on 24 October 1993, a game in which Matthew Le Tissier scored two goals. His final game for Saints was a 3–1 victory over Chelsea on 28 December 1993.[5] Branfoot was sacked a few days later (after a home defeat by Norwich City). Reid was touted as a possible replacement for Branfoot, but he stated that, as Branfoot had brought him to the club, it would only be fair that he left as well. Reid then had brief playing spells with Notts County and Bury before he retired from playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danish Saint Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 My shout would be Claus Lundekvam from Brann and Michael Svensson from Troyes. Defensive stallwarts at £500.000 and £2.6 mill. £3.1 for the best defensive partnership ever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizzie Saints Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Keegan for the impetus it supplied Gets my vote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Oz Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 The Ray Wallace sale to Leeds for $100k which was as part of the deal when they took Rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Ken Monkou for 750k was a good buy although, for some reason, Souness hardly ever played him. Only decent thing that Branfo*t ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 selling Steve Williams getting Marion and Ronnie Eklund oh and purchasing Brian O'Neil and Charlie Goerge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristolRedStripe Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 I thought Mark Wright was pretty much unknown and thought of as a makeweeght in the deal which was centred more on Keith Cassells. Possibly the best centre back to play for Saints up to his broken leg in the FA Cup Semi? Fast, great tackler, good in the air and Hansen like composure bringing the ball out of defence. What happened to Keith Cassells though.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 The best business is almost certainly already listed, but buying Crouch for £2m and sending him on his way for £7m only 12 months later must rank pretty highly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 The Ray Wallace sale to Leeds for $100k which was as part of the deal when they took Rod.Why did we use dollars for the deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Uwe Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Hassan Kachloul was pretty good when you think about it. Shame he left the way he did but he helped to transform the team back in 1998/99. Remember Dave Jones saying something about him rocking up with a pair of football boots and that was about it. Classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 23 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 23 January, 2012 One for the bad business pile http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/3595512.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 One for the bad business pile http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/3595512.stm Actually a very good player now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 I thought Mark Wright was pretty much unknown and thought of as a makeweeght in the deal which was centred more on Keith Cassells. Possibly the best centre back to play for Saints up to his broken leg in the FA Cup Semi? Fast, great tackler, good in the air and Hansen like composure bringing the ball out of defence. What happened to Keith Cassells though.....? well....ask you ask. He looked good at Oxford where he started with 13 goals from 45 starts, but he was never cut out for the Premiership level (Div.1 then). He had a " rather unusual style of running "(if you can imagine a frog taking large paces,) and this once led to a classic piece of video where he played on a wet pitch at the Dell, slipped and fell over several times - yet still managed to retain possession of the ball !- unlike Wright his SFC career was short - only 19 games scoring 4 times. He moved onto Brentford and later Mansfield where he found his real level and scored at a fair rate, until he retired in 1989, but not before getting a Wembley game when Mansfield won the Associate Members Cup . Can't remember what that was... perhaps a forerunner to the JPT ? After leaving football, he joined the police force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Actually a very good player now. his record wasn't that bad (elsewhere) and he was already a Tunisian international when he came in 2004. However, at this time we were still in the Svensson /Lunderkvam era and beginning to look a bit leaky at the back. He never got a first team start and left again soon afterwards and returned to France. After changing clubs a few time he's been with LENS in the French ligue 1, and has played over 100 games at CH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 (edited) Hassan Kachloul was pretty good when you think about it. Shame he left the way he did but he helped to transform the team back in 1998/99. QUOTE] Had a good reputation in France and had played for Morocco before leaving France to come to England. ...incredible story of someone who walked into The Dell - and asked for a trial! Dave Jones signed him straight away after seeing him play and he scored 4 times in his first 6 games. He formed a good partnership with James Beattie later on, (playing in 3 seasons and accrued 14 goals from his 86 starts). When his contract ran out his agent persuaded him to seek pastures greener and he finally moved to A.Villa (after previously agreeing to join Ipswich?). However, he lost out when there was a successive change of Villa managers and was miserably loaned out to Wolves before finally going to Scotland to play with Livingstone. There was all sorts of problems when Livingstone signed him as an amatuer..and in the wrong way, and were even threatened with a points penalty for " not following the rules " ......his career ended sadly at Livingstone in 2005, with his last 2 goals from a paltry 8 games. Unusually tall for a midfielder (6'1") he had good vision for play, and was skilful with the ball. Edited 23 January, 2012 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Releasing Anthony Pulis. I notice he plays for Orlando City in the US now Obviously didn't make much of an impression at Aldershot. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 23 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Releasing Anthony Pulis. I notice he plays for Orlando City in the US now Obviously didn't make much of an impression in football. . . Edited for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 selling Steve Williams getting Marion and Ronnie Eklund oh and purchasing Brian O'Neil and Charlie Goerge agree with all those EXCEPT ..Charlie George (sorry) but Lawrie McMenemy bought him for a hefty £400,000 in 1978 when he still had an injury and it was 8 months before he was anywhere near match-fit again. He did show some touches of class but never to the standard that made him an Arsenal legend. When he finally left in 1981 he had played a mere 52 games and scored 14 times. An expensive case of " what might have been .." . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Keegan totally transformed the club. Effect lasted for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 And made me get those brilliant Patrick boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 23 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 23 January, 2012 Not a single mention of Ted Bates yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 One for the bad business pile http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/3595512.stm Did he ever play for us ? I seem to remember fans wanting him to be given a chance multiple times but never really was given one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 23 January, 2012 Share Posted 23 January, 2012 How many seasons did Matt keep us in the Premiership, and how much was that worth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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