CB Fry

You think Lallana and Shaw wouldn't want to join CL standard clubs for £100k a week if they could just have another season playing mid table football with a manager they'd known for eighteen whole months? And, spookily, neither of those players seem to want to hold out for a move to Spurs to play with their hero. Funny dat. Deluded.

If only we'd "communicated properly" Luke Shaw wouldn't have even thought about wanting to go to Man United for one hundred plus grand a week.

He was being a "realist" as usual. His grasp of reality is pretty astonishing.

So was my "comparison" wrong or not, then, being that you are now basically doing exactly the same joke? With far less panache of course, but we knew that anyway.

Agree with this.

The "comparison" police are going to be right up your arse now, TDD.

To be fair, I think his son did that one.

Dear me. In your flailing desperation to land one on me you are now taking the exact standpoint of the people only a handful of posts ago you were dismissing as "getting their knickers in a twist". There, there Strawlock. Only Southampton FC ever contribute to a players development. Just us. I mean, Danny might as well spent the last three years in traction, or a coma, for all the good they've done him. Jesus. Thinking about it I effing hate Burnley now. They've, like, ruined Danny Ings. PS. I didn't make any "comparison" - just you wetting your pants. What I done was a joke I done.

The clue is in the post. "Liverpool" (wee bit bigger than us) and "Almost won the league" (because they are, like, Liverpool). And this "bigger, richer club" was....Arsenal. Yeah. About the same difference as us and Man U, then.

You seem to be LOLing at something neither funny nor making any sense. Playing an absolute blinder. Anyway, let's remember I made a little quip earlier and my word you're upset about it. For that I am truly sorry. Welcome to Burnley's Danny Ings from Burnley FC if you're coming. What a great player for Burnley he has been at Burnley.

Alpine is a hateful, trolling miserable waste of skin. Quite a lot of skin, apparently.

He never was. Thank god you're here, Strawlock.

There is nothing we can do because those players are human beings with the right to make their own choices. Forcing players to stay - the pub idiots' solution of "let em rot in the farking reserves" or "just say farking tell everyone to fark orf" is not how business or sport works in the western world in 2014. They want to play for bigger clubs for more money. Good luck to em. We've done as well as we can with the cash in. So, how do you propose "we" go about not "accepting" this, or not being "complicit" in it? Keep it brief.

Luke Shaw: 60 appearances. In other news, Danny Ings is 21 years old. Shame on him not to be up at Neville Southall level appearances by now.

Was a lickle joke, sweetheart.

I do hope his Burnley career is not airbrushed from history by the media. I hope the fact he is an ex - Burnley player is brought up every single time anyone ever talks about him.

Highly possible he won't ever be worth double that. He's still only a left back. I'd say MUFC are mainly planning to have Shaw as a United player for the next 12-15 years, as opposed to a sell - on investment.

Potato, potarto. Roy picking players he didn't really want to pick purely to give himself a reason to drop them for qualifying matches three months later on. Call it what you want, I call it your usual nonsense. You are incapable of accepting the idea that some stuff just kinda happens, so desperate is your need to see some higher, nefarious purpose at play in everything. I reckon Roy wanted to do well at this world cup, it's a shame you can't even accept that. And, nice try talking down to me about understanding the meaning of words. Just remember which one of us is the conspiro-idiot simpleton. Stick to your brilliant "resource" forum.

Everton is clearly Lallana's spiritual home. Born in Hertfordshire and grew up in Dorset and spent his entire professional career at clubs on the South coast, including eight years at Southampton. But clearly he is Everton through and through. He's probably up there with Graham Sharp, Howard Kendall, Bill Kenwright, Derek Hatton and Mike Parry off of Talksport.

Is there anything you can't retro - fit a bonkers conspiracy to? Call me a mindless brain-washed sheeple person but I kinda reckon Roy Hodgson was trying to do well in this world cup, not pick players he didn't like purely to justify dropping them for a games against San Marino and Switzerland in three months time.

Looks like yet MORE EVIDENCE* that Liverpool are doing all their transfer business IN PUBLIC**. What an utter disgrace FFS. *Not evidence **They're not.

Doubt he'll start - no real point. He isn't the future of England.

Nah, she always turned up.

I do love a bit of uninformed frothing at the mouth. There's nothing in that story to suggest it is evil old Liverpool that planted that story. Its very sweet that on this forum there remains a view that Adam Lallana is a sweet innocent helpless Saints devotee who had never considered earning more money or playing for one of world football's biggest clubs before horrible old Steven Gerrard got hold of him. Maybe, juuuust maybe, Adam Lallana wants to join Liverpool of his own free will?

Who isn't a world class striker either, not by any stretch of anyone's imagination.