Seventy mil transfer budget?

[Matthew Le God]

You dont possibly know that, you are summising and interpreting it your way the same as everyone else. In theory she cpuld mean it one way or another.

 

Its also possibly crap though I was told its 35m plus sales in which case that figure would be somewhat realistic in reality

 

Umm... thats what I said in post 14.

Edited 24 June, 2014 by Matthew Le God

[Batman]

I very much doubt we will spend £70m in august and january should we sell shaw and lallana

[Smirking_Saint]

It's nice. Carling isn't.

 

Not peroni, get Coors on draft

[Smirking_Saint]

Umm... thats what I said in post 14.

 

Thats not exactly what the sky sports birds said though.

[Guan 2.0]

No.

[Saint_Abroad]

No.

 

Ooo man

[Smirking_Saint]

No.

 

Any news v4.0 ?

[SuperSAINT]

No.

 

You've picked a fight with MLG now

[trousers]

No.

"No" as in its going to be much more than £70m...?

[Guan 2.0]

"No" as in its going to be much more than £70m...?

 

I asked if we would spend more than 35 million this summer without sales."No" was the answer.

[Toadhall Saint]

I asked if we would spend more than 35 million this summer without sales."No" was the answer.

 

Had any other chats recently Guan?

[trousers]

I asked if we would spend more than 35 million this summer without sales."No" was the answer.

cheers

[alpine_saint]

I read this as KL skimming a nice 20m profit...

[SuperSAINT]

"No" as in its going to be much more than £70m...?

 

That's fair enough TBF.

 

I'd be happy if our budget is £35m topped up by a large % of money made from player sale revenue.

[Katalinic]

I read this as KL skimming a nice 20m profit...

 

That's because you are an idiot.

[alpine_saint]

That's because you are an idiot.

 

No more of an idiot than those that think we are going to spend up to 160m.

[Bewildered]

I asked if we would spend more than 35 million this summer without sales."No" was the answer.

 

So what about with sales?

[Katalinic]

No more of an idiot than those that think we are going to spend up to 160m.

 

At least we agree on something.

[Matthew Le God]

No more of an idiot than those that think we are going to spend up to 160m.

 

Who in this thread has said we'll spend £160m?

[Toadhall Saint]

I read this as KL skimming a nice 20m profit...

 

Profit? Really?

[Viking Warrior]

Maybe guan is correct why spend more than 35 million . If we are not selling llallana , shaw and lovern etc then we will not have spend that much .

[Chez]

I read this as KL skimming a nice 20m profit...

 

Perhaps the £20m goes towards wages, paying off previous transfer fees or even paying off some of the huge amount of funds she has 'given' to club out of the kindness of her heart. Whatever is I don't think there is any reason to use that phraseology when talking about the lady that funded our promotions through the league is there?

[david in sweden]

Whatever the sum involved - don't expect it to be invested straight away. Some of it will surely be held over for the January window depending on how we do in the first half of the season.

 

We may lose a few players, but still have a good squad. Koeman will certainly buy a few in the next few weeks, but we should learn the lesson from Spurs fiasco last season.

 

Sold Bale for £85 million, then spent £106 million on SEVEN new players, most of whom were a total waste of space then sacked the manager (AVP) who approved them when it didn't work out.

 

Then took Sherwood as caretaker, he ignored most of the deadwood , and brought back the " English players "to some effect, but ....he still got the sack. CRAZY, I say.

[Son of Bob]

I read this as KL skimming a nice 20m profit...

 

KL probably has £20m in her car ash tray. She's probably earnt that in interest in the time it's taken me to write this post...

[Pancake]

. CRAZY, I say.

 

Think we all read that and thought the same.

[Saint Charlie]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-promise-70m-transfer-kitty-3765551

 

Our pal the Crook has been reading Twitter again. What a consumate professional this guy is. Actually beggars belief.

[Katalinic]

The papers are getting desperate - same old regurgitated stories day after day - some with quotes that are weeks old.

[Minsk]

35m (initial pot) + 2m (MoPo buyout) + 4m (Rickie) + 30m (Luke Shaw) = 71m

 

+ Possibility of around another 20m coming in from sale of Lallana or Lovren

[Delmary]

35m (initial pot) + 2m (MoPo buyout) + 4m (Rickie) + 30m (Luke Shaw) = 71m

 

+ Possibility of around another 20m coming in from sale of Lallana or Lovren

 

Now 90m?

[Saint Charlie]

Initial pot (or money from one of the sale) might as well be used for paying the existing fees or for the TG if required.

 

We are generating a big enough budget just through the sales.

[melmacian_saint]

At least we will definitely finish off the Academy now!

[Matthew Le God]

At least we will definitely finish off the Academy now!

 

What does that mean?

[Matthew Le God]

Initial pot (or money from one of the sale) might as well be used for paying the existing fees or for the TG if required.

 

We are generating a big enough budget just through the sales.

 

The training ground will have been budgeted for regardless of player sales. The club had no idea when they were in League 1/Championship and planning the training ground they could raise such amounts from Lallana and Shaw in 2014.

[melmacian_saint]

What does that mean?

 

Well that we can complete the plans with no money worries.

 

 

(some sarcasm is included too)

[Ewell]

Have as much transfer budget as you like, it is never all spent on transfer fees but also signing on sweeteners, player loyalty bonuses, excessive wages and it's not always spent wisely, just ask Spurs! We may well have 70 odd million to invest but I bet less than 60% of that gets spent on the actual transfer fees to sign the players.

[Scudamore]

When it gets to these kinds of figures it's definitely not a transfer budget. It's a war chest people.

[Faz]

When it gets to these kinds of figures it's definitely not a transfer budget. It's a war chest people.

Agreed. We could buy a reasonably big Championship club and still have plenty left over. Leeds or Wolves or Birmingham perhaps?

[Saint Billy]

Dont forget the sky money as well.

[Whitey Grandad]

Dont forget the sky money as well.

 

Quite so, but every club gets some of that. Not many get a big cash injection like this.

[SNSUN]

I like the sound of £160 million to spend.

 

Boruc

 

Chambers

Fonte

Yoshida

Clyne

 

Wanyama

Cork

 

JWP

Messi

JRod

 

Neymar.

 

Get it done Saints!

[Saint Without a Halo]

70m to spend in 45 days is at least 1.8m a day! 2m a day if we spend the 90. We had better get a move on then!

[SaintRobbie]

The money available should be close to £100m by now?

[david in sweden]

It doesnt say rising to 90m with sales.

It says 70 and that we might make 90m through sales. Its a lot of money, but the cost of replacing anyone we lose will be high.

 

not necessarily. If you're buying an established international from a top Euro side ...then YES, he'll cost big money but we've already invested in Ramirez and Osvaldo .....and I'm not totally convinced.

 

Looking at those mentioned.. Luke Shaw (ex-Academy)cost NOTHING... replaced ...who?......Danny Fox. I call that a good call - don't you?

 

Adam Lallana (with us for 12 years) has graduated to the top. He wasn't that great at 19, but he made it. Hard as it may be if he goes, I don't see him as irreplaceable.

JWP hasn't disgraced himself in games - has he? ... so given time he will improve (as Adam did )....AND....Gaston Ramirez ..(if he stays) won't have to compete against AL to get a game.

 

Rickie Lambert (need I say more) bought for £1 million at age 27 ...now sold for £4 million PLUS aged 32. Surely few of us would begrudge him the move back to Liverpool.

 

Next : Morgan Schneiderlin (I'd be sorry to see him go) but he came as an 18 y.o. starlet,(for 2mill.?) ... fought to get a regular spot and at last getting his full cap for France, is priced at £15 million.

 

or maybe :Dejan Lovren(?) Great CB, but wasn't he on the way to Spurs last season and was side-tracked by Pochettino. His decision in the end, but at a fee £15 miilion, it represents 100% profit.

(The last CB we sold to Spurs (God rest his soul) ...didn't fare so well as memory serves after he got there).

 

With £50 million..or was it £70 million?.... at his disposal RK can (within reason) buy who he wants....and he doesn't have to spend it all by 16th august.

 

If he's smart, RK will hold over a lump of it for the January window....that's assuming that he isn't satisfied with some of the current crop of Academy graduates (who look a pretty promising bunch to me).

 

I've no doubt RK will buy wisely, his real task is getting them to gell into a good side. That's what he's paid for. I don't expect miracles in the first season, but will be well-pleased with a mid-table position.