Lee On Solent Saint

My thoughts exactly. 75m gets you into a discussion about a transfer. I think Rice won't go for 150m but if they are looking for that sort of fee, no reason why we shouldn't be looking at the top end of our valuation.

Yeah agree with that. Much the same with Bednerak, different player for Poland, but seems to struggle playing the way we do

I think both Mee and Tarkowski are decent solid defenders who could have done a short term job for us, a steady hand at the back if you like. Tarkowski can't be too bad, as he has been coveted by the likes of Everton and West Ham this window already.

Surely our centre half business is done? Unless we are getting rid of two centre halves?

Code words for the club will be signing cheaper players.

To be fair to the lad, he has got the greatest footballer ever ahead of him at Liverpool!

I don't pay any attention to his views or opinions. For me it's what he did on the pitch that counts. He gave me some of the most memorable moments I have ever experienced watching my team. I would suspect that is true for anyone of my generation too. The guy was an absolute genius with a football. That's all I am bothered about

We have won the race for Phil Jones?

Unless your name is Theo!

Do you think he has the ability to do that?

Like how the OS got a dig in about the blue few. Stating about their faltering promotion push and the fact they finished ten points outside the promotion places!

Surely going to start the season as number one

Impressive if it comes off. Wonder what our sales pitch was? Leaving a time like City for us is certainly a different challenge.

I don't think a move will help his England chances at all. He's clearly behind Rice and Phillips in Southgate's mind. Also Henderson is above him just due to the fact of who he is. Like others have suggested, I don't think he's quite good enough for City or Liverpool. Probably not a big enough name for either Chelsea or United. Spurs and Arsenal maybe, but anything underneath that and it's just chasing the cash.

Whoever sanctioned that four year deal should be held accountable. He should have never had been offered four years.

We could quite comfortably offload all of those apart from Salisu

Guess the point I was trying to make was that we don't always need to look for young players with re-sale value. Not advocating that we go and get a team full of geriatrics, but it would be nice to deviate from our business model when the right slightly older player becomes available.

Think it just goes to show that the Premier League doesn't give a fuck about the other clubs outside the top six.

Yeah, get that, but for an extra 3.5m we could be in the running for Henderson. Just seems are almost fanatical approach to re-sale value will be our undoing

That would make a lot more sense. Henderson for me is exactly what we need at this moment

It's a gambe. They obviously feel that Bazunu is going to have a bigger re-sale value in a few years time. Personally I think this is the wrong strategy, at £20m Henderson would provide the stability and presence we need from a keeper. Basically, he isn't an unknown quantity.

If this is true, we should be all over this. £20m for him is peanuts.

What's Kompany getting the Burnley job got to do with Saints acting in the transfer market?

He went for the money on offer. An extra 20 or 30 thousand a week made the difference. I think he knew that a top 6 club was never going to come in for him. All felt a bit rushed at the time and it seemed that Villa were the only club in for him

Luckily bar a few, we haven't been affected that much by these yawn fest matches. No doubt come the start of October we will look like we have already played 40 games already