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GloryDays

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Jul 5, 2011
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Leyton, E10.
Here’s one for you...

Since 14/15 season Southampton have made £323M in player sales (approx and inc VVD) compared to Brighton’s £12M.

Although Walcott, Bale and Ox predate this era their fees at the time were somewhat handsome for their club status. They’ve done alright haven’t they?

We’ve sold Ulloa and Buckley.

NB not including undisclosed, such as Barnes, or any other ? on https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk
 






Mellotron

Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,817
Brighton
Where’s that £12m stat come from?

If it’s transfermarkt, we can ignore.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
49,855
Faversham
Stains were a top flight club for a long time with very few relegations. Then more recently they sunk to the third tier. That was when they already had a 'lovely' 30,000 capacity stadium. Perhaps if thy hadn't been so keen to flog their best talent they would not have had to slum it, playing away at the likes of, er, Withdean. I would be gutted if, in a few years time, we were playing the likes of Yeovil Town in league 2, no matter how much money we had trousered in the sale of players in the meantime.
 


Bold Seagull

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
29,774
Hove
GloryDays said:
Here’s one for you...

Since 14/15 season Southampton have made £323M in player sales (approx and inc VVD) compared to Brighton’s £12M.

Although Walcott, Bale and Ox predate this era their fees at the time were somewhat handsome for their club status. They’ve done alright haven’t they?

We’ve sold Ulloa and Buckley.

NB not including undisclosed, such as Barnes, or any other ? on https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk
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You have to give credit to their setup no doubt about that. 4 years ago despite a new stadium we're still training our academy on the university pitches with facilities barely comparable to National League side to be fair. Much of the south coast talent in this area easily hoovered up by the London clubs. Our training ground facility has been open 3 years, and it's going to take a bit of time to see if that has turned young players heads, attracted others from further afield, and whether our coaching setup delivers results. You already look at players like Molumby and see real prospects coming through. Southampton's scouting too has delivered great results with the likes of Mane. Got a feeling we are doing well in that regard, not often you buy 4 players who've never played in the PL who bed in and look as good as Ryan, Propper, Gross and Izquierdo (who is taking slightly longer although is much younger).
 




father_and_son

father_and_son

Well-known member
Jan 23, 2012
4,646
Under the Police Box
GloryDays said:
Here’s one for you...

Since 14/15 season Southampton have made £323M in player sales (approx and inc VVD) compared to Brighton’s £12M.

Although Walcott, Bale and Ox predate this era their fees at the time were somewhat handsome for their club status. They’ve done alright haven’t they?

We’ve sold Ulloa and Buckley.

NB not including undisclosed, such as Barnes, or any other ? on https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk
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As soon as you exclude "undisclosed" will we always appear to be doing very little in the transfer market because it is Club policy to never disclose details of the deal.
 




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GloryDays

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Jul 5, 2011
1,599
Leyton, E10.
father_and_son said:
As soon as you exclude "undisclosed" will we always appear to be doing very little in the transfer market because it is Club policy to never disclose details of the deal.
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Agree in part but our “undisclosed” are usually six figure sums max, unless I’m forgetting a massive player sale from the last 4 years. And there isn’t many of those. JFC to Charlton is arguably our most high profile sale apart from Ulloa and Buckley.
 
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Mackenzie

Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
33,532
East Wales
We sold Liam Bridcutt to Sunderland in 2014, fee was quoted at £3m (although undisclosed). Does that count?
 




el punal

el punal

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Aug 29, 2012
11,758
Bitterne,Southampton. In the land of wrong stripes
Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Stains were a top flight club for a long time with very few relegations. Then more recently they sunk to the third tier. That was when they already had a 'lovely' 30,000 capacity stadium. Perhaps if thy hadn't been so keen to flog their best talent they would not have had to slum it, playing away at the likes of, er, Withdean. I would be gutted if, in a few years time, we were playing the likes of Yeovil Town in league 2, no matter how much money we had trousered in the sale of players in the meantime.
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Southampton were very, very lucky. In the mid-2000s they were on the same financial, rocky road that Portsmouth went down a few years later. The difference is multi-millionaire and crane emporium magnate Markus Liebherr came in and got Saints out of the shit and more, similar to Tony Bloom I suppose but without the lifelong fan label. Poor old Pompey had a non-existent sheik or similar and as everyone knows things things definitely went tits up for them from there on in.

All is not well, by the way, in Camp St.Mary's. Last night's capitulation to THEM led to boos and jeers, and even three fans invading the pitch to have a go at their players. Ouch! The nearest situation to that for us was when we played Millwall in December 2014 with Sami 'Dead Man Walking' Hyypia in charge and the atmosphere was toxic that night. Still, we recovered - I hope Saints don't!
 




Kalimantan Gull

Kalimantan Gull

Well-known member
Aug 13, 2003
12,923
Central Borneo / the Lizard
GloryDays said:
Here’s one for you...

Since 14/15 season Southampton have made £323M in player sales (approx and inc VVD) compared to Brighton’s £12M.

Although Walcott, Bale and Ox predate this era their fees at the time were somewhat handsome for their club status. They’ve done alright haven’t they?

We’ve sold Ulloa and Buckley.

NB not including undisclosed, such as Barnes, or any other ? on https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk
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Which does beg the question, where has that money gone? VVD's is still in the bank, and the rest of it? Has it all really been spent on creating a team that is only out of the relegation places on goal difference and not playing very well at all, with barely a game-changer amongst them?
 


Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason
Sep 29, 2007
8,195
Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Stains were a top flight club for a long time with very few relegations. Then more recently they sunk to the third tier. That was when they already had a 'lovely' 30,000 capacity stadium. Perhaps if thy hadn't been so keen to flog their best talent they would not have had to slum it, playing away at the likes of, er, Withdean. I would be gutted if, in a few years time, we were playing the likes of Yeovil Town in league 2, no matter how much money we had trousered in the sale of players in the meantime.
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Another way of looking at their drop down the leagues is that it actually allowed them to give game time to their promising youngsters from their academy and develop others (Lallana, the ox, Schneiderlin, etc) and that only because of the experience they gained from first team football which being in that division allowed, they became big money sales whereas had Southampton stayed in the top flight, these players may have never been given the chance to play as they chased ready made players instead of risking the prospects.
 


e77

e77

Well-known member
May 23, 2004
7,268
Worthing
They have had several decades head start on us on the player development front. Problem is they aren't exactly flying this year so constantly selling your best assets will catch up eventually.
 


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