Southampton: Saints players and staff make significant donation to Saints Foundation after 9-0 loss

Southampton’s first-team players and coaching staff have all donated their wages from Friday to the club’s official charity, the Saints Foundation.

The gesture comes after their miserable 9-0 loss to Leicester City that broke a number of records for all the wrong reasons.

It equalled the biggest ever loss in the Premier League, was the biggest home loss by any club in the top-flight and was Saints’ worst ever loss in their history – good to get all of those out the way in one go, perhaps.

The total that will be donated to the Saints Foundation is in the region of £200k, according the a report from the Daily Echo.

This money will help the charity to provide significant help to people in the city of Southampton through sport and give back to those who the club let down on Friday.

The three main goals of the Foundation – found via their website – are to help people reach their potential, encourage people of all ages to lead a healthy life and achieve a positive place in the community for all.

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Their official stats show that they work with 12,000 adults and young people and invest £1,600,000 in charitable events each year.

Saints Foundation says that it is the club’s direct way of giving back to the community around the football club too and the players and staff have gone some way to repaying the people that care most about it with their donation.

Earlier this season, Saints defender Maya Yoshida committed to giving 1% of his salary to the charity too as his way of showing gratitude for the seven years he has spent at St Mary’s.

An official statement on the donation from the Saints players said that the group “had been in at Staplewood Campus throughout the weekend, working on putting things right for the club’s supporters.”

Saints fans will be looking for a response to the record defeat when they travel to face Manchester City away from home twice this week.

Tomorrow sees them play the current Premier League champions in the Fourth-Round of the Carabao Cup before returning to play them in the top-flight next Saturday.