Stu M wrote:We've been through this before. Saints and Leeds suffered more than anyone through Covid for the simple fact that they were unable to use their stadiums for non matchday activities

We now have the deal with Liverpool which will help each year in terms of income all year round. We've already seen the state of the art pitch that they paid for. I'm pretty sure that at some point we will go back to holding concerts again to generate more income

McManus has categorically said that losses won't affect player investment and we will continue to spend full cap.

Wigan are in a very fortunate position with Danson but hardly self-sufficient. Similar to City in that regard, if he for any reason pulled out they would be as royally f****d as Saints and Leeds

Zig wrote:What did McManus have to say on BBC Radio? Have you any idea where the cuts will fall?

NickyKiss wrote:They were going to go electric but were banned by the National Grid for fears it would lead to power outages around the rest of the country

Zig wrote:One thing I forgot to say Stu is that although EM stated that Saints would spend the full cap that doesn’t mean that they will pay salaries that massively exceed the marquee allowance (although I think they have done with Feldt) which could reduce the quality of non-federation players arriving at the club. Interesting times ahead.

Stu M wrote:Which is why we continue to invest in youth evidenced by the Reserves GF win and the Academy coming top of the league for the 3rd successive year and a SF next week

We've never been rich but that hasn't stopped success. I doubt many clubs if any will be recruiting overseas players in their prime. That stopped a while ago

Stu M wrote:We've been through this before. Saints and Leeds suffered more than anyone through Covid for the simple fact that they were unable to use their stadiums for non matchday activities

We now have the deal with Liverpool which will help each year in terms of income all year round. We've already seen the state of the art pitch that they paid for. I'm pretty sure that at some point we will go back to holding concerts again to generate more income

McManus has categorically said that losses won't affect player investment and we will continue to spend full cap.

Wigan are in a very fortunate position with Danson but hardly self-sufficient. Similar to City in that regard, if he for any reason pulled out they would be as royally f****d as Saints and Leeds

leg_end wrote:Didn't Saints have a good deal with the NHS in that the stadium was used as a base for delivering covid jabs to the public. I realise that won't cover all the losses but it must have been a decent deal to help out in hard times.

Stu M wrote:We broke even as morally (and something I agree with) we didn’t want to be seen to be making money out of a national pandemic so we just covered our costs.