Saint_clark

Not for that amount. £75million and everyone will be saying we've robbed them blind.

If we're selling him to them it needs to be for £75million, we cannot sell him for less than our valuation and we cannot sell to them even for it - any other outcome we've made ourselves look like idiots.

Bet he moves for more than we paid.

After his first home game? He led us to the play-offs the season after...

For me selling Van Dijk to Liverpool now for anything under £70million would actually be the very first instance of them knowingly ****ing the fans over. There have been a couple of mistakes before but nothing major enough to ignore the fantastic progress we've made as a club.

He'll be off next summer for sure either way. Gets back to his best and puts in a fantastic season? Sell him to Liverpool for £30million. Is ****ing awful and makes mistakes left right and centre? Sell him to a newly promoted side for £10million and get a replacement in. Win win for me, personally.

Wait what!? We're back in the championship, with an unqualified management team, selling our senior players to just use youth and heading towards administration and league one!?

Was always poor when out wide, if we're going to insist on using him there we may as well sell and reinvest - hope we don't though and use him as another option up front. Personally don't see why Gabbiadini can't play just off of one of Long or Austin, one of whom is excellent in the air and the other is excellent at holding it up.

Surely keeping hold of Van Dijk IS showing the intent to push on?

If they offer £70million, he is theirs. That's been the case from the start. Why should we accept less than our valuation?

Truth is we've spent around £40million every window for the last few years, it would be nothing new - only difference would be spending it on one player instead of several. If we thought that our squad needed that one player to take it up a notch and nothing else, i'd like to think we'd do it.

...What? We're giving young players longer to develop than usual academies who dump players at 18/19. He's shown huge promise, had a pretty bad injury and so we've giving him a couple more years and a loan deal to prove himself.

The next step is the biggest. We're around about where Spurs were around 2008-2010 in terms of league positions. Not impossible to keep improving, it's just that the rate of it will slow down.

That's hilarious, but kind of suggests the club and Taylor know that he's a bit of a joke player...why do we have him if Harry Lewis was getting on the bench ahead of him last season?

Decent lower Prem player, no idea why he got so much grief...because Eden Hazard made him look a fool one time? Well, bugger me, every defender must be sh*t. Weird signing for Everton though.

How many points did we finish ahead of them season before last out of interest? Edit- just checked, we finished 16 points. So they managed it, in fact they managed a 31 point swing on us. We only need to manage a 16 point swing to actually finish above them so not impossible at all. Let's go into a season with optimism for once, eh?

There is, hence why they pick random "unglamourous" ties like Saints V Palace every now and then - kill two birds with one stone.

You'd also have the added hilarity of him signing for Everton instead of Liverpool.

Fair point, it's his job to create and score goals after all.

So we have Oludare Olufunwa as well as Olufela Olomola. Must be able to work all of that into a chant somehow.

Year 2000 was almost two decades ago my friend.

No idea about Fonte but i'm almost certain we would have won had Van Dijk been playing...f*cking Vardy.

If he's first choice guess we'll find out if he was a one season wonder or not. It all clicked for him under Mopo, but the season before and ever since he was decidedly average.

You're right, we need to sign someone proven in this league, like we did when we signed Van Dijk.

I think his crossing is superb, we just have no-one making the right moves to get on the end of them anymore.