article_snippet: Southampton have been the surprise package of the 2014-15 Premier League season on the pitch and the Mail on Sunday can exclusively reveal the Mail are one of the big winners off it, making a £31.4m profit in the Mail latest accounts.
article_snippet: This is the first time Saints have posted a profit since going into administration and plunging into League One in 2009, when they were saved by the late Markus Liebherr.
article_snippet: The Football Observatory in Switzerland showed Southampton had the most profitable academy in Europe measured by total sales value of transfers of players produced within each since 2012.
article_snippet: 1 Southampton Adam Lallana .
article_snippet: 1 Southampton Adam Lallana accounts show income last season of £106m and a profit after tax of £33.4m.
article_snippet: The main source of revenue was TV money, and that rose from £47m to £79.5m.
article_snippet: Match day income was up slightly to £17.1m and commercial income climbed 23 per cent to £8.3m.
article_snippet: ’s total wage bill rose by almost a third from £47.1m to £62.95m, and has risen again this season, to be reflected in Southampton’s accounts in a year’s time.
article_snippet: The headline income for the five major players sold was reportedly £94m but the MoS can reveal Southampton cleared ‘only’ £82m on them - after fees, sell-on payments to Lyon and Bournemouth in relation to Dejan Lovren and Lallana respectively, and Premier League levy payments of 4 per cent on each deal.
article_snippet: Saints accounted for £31.9m of the quintet’s transfer receipts in the 2013-14 figures, but have spent the balance (£50m) plus another £12.6m on the permanent purchases of Dusan Tadic, Graziano Pelle, Fraser Forster, Shane Long, Florin Gardos, Sadio Mane and Ryan Bertrand, and on the loans for Toby Alderweireld, Eljero Elia and Filip Duricic.
highlights_snippet: Southampton post profits for first time since plunging into League One .
  