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           <title>Missing £15m target meant Plan B failed</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[IN the final part of the
Daily Echo’s ‘Saints – The
Untold Series’ series looking
at the last six years at
St Mary’s, here we take a
look at the much talked
about Plan B, whose failure
to be fully implemented
helped increase the club’s
financial misery.]]></description>
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           <title>How to save £3m in wages</title>
           
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  SAINTS saved around £3m on their salary bill by releasing, selling or loaning out ten players in the summer of 2008.
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           <title>Were execs right all along?</title>
           
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  A CONTROVERSIAL Stock Market announcement was made by Saints’ executive directors in early November 2007.
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           <title>Saints run on ‘faith and hope’ three years ago</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[IT was the supposed dawn of a new
era, but it quickly turned into a
nightmare for Saints. Michael
Wilde’s regime created a feelgood
factor after ousting Rupert Lowe in
the summer of 2006, but off the field
the honeymoon period didn’t last
long.]]></description>
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           <title>Proposals that could have saved Saints</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[FORMER Saints chairman Leon Crouch
today tells the Daily Echo how he twice
offered Rupert Lowe and Michael Wilde the
opportunity to help save the club – certainly
from administration and possibly from
relegation to the third division.
Crouch reveals his proposals that were
turned down.]]></description>
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           <title>Board had bank's backing</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[BARLCAYS Bank “supported” Leon Crouch writing a cheque for £600,000 to pay off the former executive directors – even though it was money the club didn’t have.
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           <title>Crouch had two British managers lined up for Saints</title>
           
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  LEON Crouch had two former Premiership managers lined up to take charge of Saints had he returned to power last October.
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           <title>Why SISU’s offer 'should have been accepted'</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AFTER Rupert
Lowe, Michael Wilde
and Leon Crouch
had asked for more
information on the
SISU offer before
deciding whether to
accept it, Saints’
financial advisors
sent the trio of
major shareholders
a letter outlining
whey they should
support SISU. That
letter is reprinted
here.]]></description>
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           <title>Saints directors: Ranson told SISU proposal will succeed</title>
           
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  RAY Ranson has informed former Saints directors that he was told the majority shareholders would almost certainly agree
  to SISU’s takeover plans.
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           <title>Board discussions on the SISU takeover</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  FORMER Saints director Keith Wiseman has revealed “a significant majority” of Rupert Lowe’s board wanted to bring Glenn
  Hoddle back to the club in 2004.
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           <title>The £40m SISU takeover that could have saved Saints</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[THE FULL proposal put to Saints by SISU when they launched their takeover bod for the club in 2007]]></description>
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           <title>Wotte’s take on relegation, administration ... and why he wants to stay!</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Such has been the nature of Saints’ season a chat with the manager about where it’s all gone wrong over the past nine
  months takes nearly two hours.
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           <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 12:39:43 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Wotte wishes shareholders got along</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  MARK Wotte has told the Daily Echo it would have been “excellent” if the club’s former majority shareholders had got on.
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           <title>Mark Wotte optimistic for the future of Southampton FC</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  MARK Wotte believes Saints have a bright future.
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           <title>Bank denied me loanee striker ...</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  MARK Wotte has revealed that money was so tight at Saints he was unable to sign the imposing striker he so desperately
  needed to give his side a chance of survival.
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           <title>Barclays’ huge profits will only rile Lowe &amp; Co</title>
           
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  THE company who helped send Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC into administration has announced a massive profit.
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           <title>Supremos poles apart financially</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  THERE is a major financial difference between the two men who were at the helm when Saints’ six-year slide ended in
  administration last month.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:38:16 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Mark Fry’s got the easiest job of selling the club ...</title>
           
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  MICHAEL Wilde has branded as “nonsense” the claims that Saints would have been bought ages ago but for the major
  shareholders.
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           <title>Kelvin prepared to wait on Saints future</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[
  Kelvin Davis has told Saints he will wait until the last possible day to allow the club to offer him a contract to stay
  at St Mary’s.
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           <title>Players commit to League One battle</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Mark Wotte has been given a resounding vow of commitment by his squad for next season’s League One campaign – but the club have released Rudi Skacel and Ryan Smith.
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           <title>Wilde:   Biggest  Saints regret  was  listening  to the experts</title>
           
           <link>http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/untoldstories/4350766.Wilde____Biggest__Saints_regret__was__listening__to_the_experts/?ref=rss</link>
           
           
           <description><![CDATA[
  MICHAEL Wilde has revealed his biggest regret since getting involved at Saints – and it’s not staging a sensational
  U-turn to bring Rupert Lowe back to power.
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           <title>What Saints managers were paid</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  JAN Poortvliet was brought in to take charge of Saints on around £60,000 a year, the Daily Echo can reveal.
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           <title>Sir Clive was catalyst for Lowe board split</title>
           
           <link>http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/untoldstories/4350600.Sir_Clive_was_catalyst_for_Lowe_board_split/?ref=rss</link>
           
           
           <description><![CDATA[
  IT wasn’t Saints’ relegation from the Premiership that was the defining moment in splitting Rupert Lowe’s board the first
  time around.
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           <title>Board majority wanted Hoddle</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  FORMER Saints director Keith Wiseman has revealed “a significant majority” of Rupert Lowe’s board wanted to bring Glenn
  Hoddle back to the club in 2004.
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           <title>Wilde: Administration was      ‘almost inevitable’</title>
           
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  THE man who started the game of boardroom musical chairs at St Mary’s admits administration was “almost inevitable” the moment Saints were relegated from the Premiership in 2005.
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