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perhaps you can explain to them how they keep a player who fancies trebling their wages, play champions league football, challenge for titles etc.? The club doesn't want to let these guys go. But they are not slaves. If they want to move, the club has to negotiate the best possible deal and let them go. It's sad, as we all want to envision Saints holding on to every star and then adding one or two each season until eventually we are a top four side, but sadly that isn't ever going to happen.

He's the best left back in the league. How much are the best Players in the league currently worth to their clubs? Hart £40m Shaw ? Company £30m Zabaleta £30m Hazard £50m Toure £40m Suarez £70m Aguero £65m

I thought there was contact, but my pal said he went down soooo easily.

I think you underestimate the effect losing Shaw will have on the side. Decent can become average very easily.

Simply taking off Kagawa and bringing on Carrick changed the game completely and United ran us ragged in the second half. Funny how every time we take off Cork we turn to ****. What today did show was just how tough it will be next season should Lallana and Shaw depart.

Does anyone know what his pay was before he joined the club. When banks advise billionaires on what sports club to spend their money on do they pay that company millions and subsequently does that bank pay it's executive millions? Perhaps he earned a lot more at SFC than he would if he had continued at Banque Heritage. I bow to superior knowledge here.

Will players now be encouraged to step off the coach with headphones on?

One thing manure away fans aren't is plastic. You have to spend a bloody fortune going to games to make sure you clock up enough points to get future tickets. A lot easier to follow your team when you win on a regular basis perhaps, but they still make the comittment. Some may have been Glory hunters for selecting united in the first place maybe, but United have a tremendous away support and if everyone was honest we live it when they come to town - and go away with nothing...

Yep. We paid a sizeable fee for Stevens, any idea if there was one for Gallagher?

Good work on the mock ups, mirroring the current pitch design perfectly, but for me they look like something Exeter would go for if you know what I mean.

It's the blue trim that makes the red and white stripes look better. Time for us to return to the navy blue shorts enabling the blue be carried into the shirt.

Both were woeful in the games I saw them play in.

This is how I feel. Our very best players, shaw, Morgan and Lallana are simply being sold short by the press and some of our fans. The going rate for the cream of the crop has gone up and with the latest sky deal there is even more money burning a hole in chairmans pockets.

How many of these WUM are skates getting their own back for the sleepers on POL?

Really? I thought you could see immediately that he had it.

You are saying that teams are usually better off (and I mean in terms of the quality and performances of the squad the following season) holding on till the end of the window to sell for more money, but having less time to buy their replacements? I don't want us to sell at all and holding out for a bidding war might be the best idea. I don't know. He could get injured in the World Cup.

Anything less than £25m and they will have stolen him IMO. Miles better player than anyone in this country gives him credit for. Brilliant signing for Arsenal. Just what manure need too.

Could not agree more. This shows exactly the problem we face. Replacing a Morgan or a shaw is pretty much impossible. Even with the money want £25m player is going to come to us?

Or one that gets the money they want and the extra time to buy the replacement.

We didn't have players others wanted enough to pay the fees we were asking. They want them enough now.

Have to agree that this is as good as it gets. The only was it would get Bette is if all players stayed and we bought a couple more that improved us and how is that going to happen when we can't match the wages offered elsewhere. Pretty much what Lowe was faced with and chastised because he was perceived as a chairman that let players go. All chairman do.

Reversing my earlier post, I'd happily take £2m from the non local sony to £1m from the local equivalent. That doesn't mean I am happy to take sponsorship money from a loan shark.

Boy would it be nice to unearth a young gem at cb, albeit from plymouths academy. That position is almost as bad as goalkeeper for us development wise.

His display against arsenal, making their lauded cb pairing look woefully inept gives me real confidence. He stretches teams with his forward runs rather than wanting it to feet all the time, which gives us something different that we need. Does he score goals? BT took ages to find his goal scoring feet and Gallagher seems to have a few similar attributes, but dare I say it more pace and a better touch. He's not in the shaw class, but I get the feeling he might become a fans favourite down the line. I hope that's in the top flight.

Henderson £20m. Schneiderlin is the better player for me.