Our new contributor Arron makes his debut on the home page by asking whether the potential takeover currently awaiting ratification will mean Saints won't be spending till the outcome is known ?
With all eyes seeming fixed on the Mangers situation at the club, the summer transfer market is now a month from being officially open and Les Reed along with Ross Wilson and his scouting team will be working hard trying to secure deals for the players they have identified as targets to add to the side this summer.
However hanging over this in the background is the issue of a potential takeover of the club from Chinese based company Lander Holdings, although Chairman Ralph Kruger has stated in a recent interview that it will not affect the clubs business either via incomings or outgoings.
Although if a potential takeover deal is close to being ratified by the Premier League as some rumours suggest, would Katharina be prepared to wait before sanctioning any signings so that Lander rather than her was responsible to fronting the cash for the deal?
Now I personally don’t believe that would be the case for a number of reasons, the first being the club has been structured to be run efficiently like a business for a few years now and would not ask the owner for a personal cash injection to buy players.
Secondly Southampton are well known not be huge spenders on individual players this is highlighted by the fact our record signing is currently the £16 million pounds spent on Sofiane Boufal which in the world of modern football is a relatively low figure.
An Injection of club investment from either Lander or an as yet unknown party could see that policy change in the future, and is definitely needed is to the club is to pursue continued progression and one day achieve its ultimate aim of securing Champions League football.
Hopefully the saga of the takeover reaches a conclusion soon, and Saints are able to get their transfer business done early in the window to bed any new additions in quickly and get a full preseason with the team.