| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise 23:04 - Feb 2 with 1400 views | Butty101 |
Alfie House was explaining this on Radio Solents Transfer deadline program tongiht. Saints have brought /saved on wages 15mill . But dont expect this to be re-invested in the summer as its making up the shortfall of being in the championship. For a guy that works with the club he was quite damming of the club and the lack of any ambition for a promotion push. |  |
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 23:09 - Feb 2 with 1370 views | shotters |
Just waiting for the next fans forum when Parsons says we have to accept that we can't compete at this level [Post edited 2 Feb 23:10]
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 06:27 - Feb 3 with 1114 views | 1ASIN12 |
This is exactly what it looks like to me.
We needed to reduce our costs in preparation for at least another year in the championship.
We got a reported £13 - 15 million in to help balance the books plus a few high wages of the books. |  | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 08:41 - Feb 3 with 954 views | SaintNick |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 06:27 - Feb 3 by 1ASIN12 |
This is exactly what it looks like to me.
We needed to reduce our costs in preparation for at least another year in the championship.
We got a reported £13 - 15 million in to help balance the books plus a few high wages of the books. |
Sadly that is what the club has to do, whilst it is not good to see, would you rather the club just keep all these players on the books and be weighed down with their wages, £15 million is virtually the Championship transfer ecord, or two good proven players at this level.
Everything does not have to be a negative, whatever the reason we are in the position that we are in and are paying the price, you could argue that we are where we are because we have spent 4 seasons throwing money at the squad and not spent it well for various reasons.
What do you now expect, the spending spree to go on and we once again head into bankruptcy.
Yes it was a cost cutting expense, but how many players actually left that were contributing to the club, all of you wanted Bazunu gone, so apart from him only Adam Armstrong of all those that left had played a significant amount of games and contributed much.
Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business.
Once again people are twisting the headlines to fit the agenda |  |
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 09:25 - Feb 3 with 908 views | GRIM |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 08:41 - Feb 3 by SaintNick |
Sadly that is what the club has to do, whilst it is not good to see, would you rather the club just keep all these players on the books and be weighed down with their wages, £15 million is virtually the Championship transfer ecord, or two good proven players at this level.
Everything does not have to be a negative, whatever the reason we are in the position that we are in and are paying the price, you could argue that we are where we are because we have spent 4 seasons throwing money at the squad and not spent it well for various reasons.
What do you now expect, the spending spree to go on and we once again head into bankruptcy.
Yes it was a cost cutting expense, but how many players actually left that were contributing to the club, all of you wanted Bazunu gone, so apart from him only Adam Armstrong of all those that left had played a significant amount of games and contributed much.
Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business.
Once again people are twisting the headlines to fit the agenda |
We weren't the only club to have a cull of unsed players.
I have just looked at the full list of every Premier lge Club.
Without exception they have all had a clear out.
Every club got rid of many more players than they brought in.
It's no different to any other business, you cannot afford to carry surplus staff.
Alright we're no stronger after this window but I personally don't think that we are any weaker.
The club has managed to keep the players we need. | | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 10:04 - Feb 3 with 853 views | Butty101 |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 08:41 - Feb 3 by SaintNick |
Sadly that is what the club has to do, whilst it is not good to see, would you rather the club just keep all these players on the books and be weighed down with their wages, £15 million is virtually the Championship transfer ecord, or two good proven players at this level.
Everything does not have to be a negative, whatever the reason we are in the position that we are in and are paying the price, you could argue that we are where we are because we have spent 4 seasons throwing money at the squad and not spent it well for various reasons.
What do you now expect, the spending spree to go on and we once again head into bankruptcy.
Yes it was a cost cutting expense, but how many players actually left that were contributing to the club, all of you wanted Bazunu gone, so apart from him only Adam Armstrong of all those that left had played a significant amount of games and contributed much.
Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business.
Once again people are twisting the headlines to fit the agenda |
Nick What is Alfie Houses agenda? | |
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 10:17 - Feb 3 with 834 views | grumpy |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 08:41 - Feb 3 by SaintNick |
Sadly that is what the club has to do, whilst it is not good to see, would you rather the club just keep all these players on the books and be weighed down with their wages, £15 million is virtually the Championship transfer ecord, or two good proven players at this level.
Everything does not have to be a negative, whatever the reason we are in the position that we are in and are paying the price, you could argue that we are where we are because we have spent 4 seasons throwing money at the squad and not spent it well for various reasons.
What do you now expect, the spending spree to go on and we once again head into bankruptcy.
Yes it was a cost cutting expense, but how many players actually left that were contributing to the club, all of you wanted Bazunu gone, so apart from him only Adam Armstrong of all those that left had played a significant amount of games and contributed much.
Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business.
Once again people are twisting the headlines to fit the agenda |
'Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business'
How was this good business? |  | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 11:48 - Feb 3 with 724 views | SaintNick |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 10:17 - Feb 3 by grumpy |
'Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business'
How was this good business? |
It was good business to sell players who were on big wages and were not playing games | |
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 13:10 - Feb 3 with 629 views | Ifonly |
Yes it was a cost cutting exercise but not purely so. The biggest offer we had in was for THB. They could have taken that, or given West Ham and others some signs that if they upped it by a few million they could get a deal. Instead we turned it down flat. You don't do that if all you are interested in is raising cash.
I think they should have been more ambitious with their choice of centre forward, but it's always difficult and expensive in January. This window was more about cleaning up the mess from some of the bad decisions they've made before and they did an ok job at that. | | | |
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| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 14:29 - Feb 3 with 550 views | sledger |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 10:17 - Feb 3 by grumpy |
'Aribo, Edwards, Fraser, Bella-Kotchap were all on big wages and barely played this was good business'
How was this good business? |
aribo was fat,lazy and and on big money.
kotchap was a weak heartless soul whose ponced off the club for to long.
fraser has been past his sell by date for some time and no doubt on good money.
edwards has shown next to nothing to be worthy of selection.
good business that the wasters have departed,bad business that sport republic signed them in the first place. | | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 17:55 - Feb 3 with 449 views | Saints76ER |
I feel this is all about addressing balance sheet/profit & loss account issues ahead of end 2025/36 financial year at end March. Revenue is much reduced in Championship as TV revenue much lower. Whilst we made a profit in 2024/5 year this was due to £100m of player sales - the underlying p&l was a £90m ish loss. To avoid FFP issues in championship losses need to be under £40m ish.
The Bella - Kotchap sale, bringing in £5m now rather than £6.5m in July points to Saints needing the cash in this financial year. | | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 18:56 - Feb 3 with 405 views | grumpy |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 11:48 - Feb 3 by SaintNick |
It was good business to sell players who were on big wages and were not playing games |
Would have been good business not to buy players put them on big wages and not play them in the first place. | | | |
| It was a Cost Cutting Exercise on 21:16 - Feb 3 with 273 views | kernow |
The definition of good business is securing an asset at a good price, gaining benefit from and increasing the value of the asset through successful deployment and possibly making a profit from the sale of said asset.
Cost cutting and cutting losses is not most people’s idea of good business no matter how it’s spun. | | | |
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