I fully expect that the top clubs have more coming in than us. I'm not convinced it's quite as doomsday and 'unassailable' as Mrs B seems to think, though. If it is, then spending the full cap (or over, apparently) is a grossly irresponsible way to use the limited funds we have. It also begs the question of how quickly things have changed for us to go from refusing to play players we are paying, recruiting further players to replace said players we won't play, paying people off left, right and centre, and paying out a 6-figure transfer fee. All of this was still going on within the last year. Still, all of this reckless spending when a short while later we're apparently on the bones of our a**e will most likely be either McRae & Gentle's fault, or down to us fans. It's also a very strange idea to respond to a limited budget by cutting costs in what should already be the cheapest and most sustainable source of players, whilst still pushing funds towards chasing big name imports.

I personally think how we are choosing to spend our money is more of a problem than how much we have to spend.

Winning will obviously increase gates but the coup for Pearson would be to appoint a first class coach.That would have a bigger impact on fans buying a season pass than signing The likes of Pritchard.It would also show fans he has admitted his mistake appointing Radford.
Apart from Pearson there are very few people who have any faith left in Radford as a coach.

No. Saints have no bank debt, and was majorly financed (currently £15m) by a friend of Eamon McManus who also happens to be a Saints fan. The club can pay this back at any rate, and any debt remaining at the end of the 2018 will be liquidated into shares (or postponed) and the club will again be completely debt free. It will all come down to whether McManus wants to retire, and if he does the baton will be passed into a fan whose already proven his commitment financially (or at least that's my current understanding)

Interesting. If that's the case, how come saints were so skint during the build process?

Mcmanus still poured a lot of his own funds into the project, as well as modernising the training and youth facilities as an aside, and paying off directors loans we had outstanding from the early days of SL at the same time - i think McManus + sale of kr made up the remaining £10m for the stadium. I also think an element of idealism (a saints team in a saints stadium) meant we could have invested more in the playing side but chose not to - but that's more personal conjecture than what the accounts say.

I'll have a closer look on the saints accounts when they're published like I always do, but I'm 95% that's what was gleaned from last years accounts, and presume the accounts this year say the same...

Whatever, you're in a much better financial position than us