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I find that all very hard to believe! Targett is 61 days younger than Shaw, they are effectively the same age. Yet... - Shaw has 60 appearances for a Premier League side, 3 senior England caps, a World Cup under his belt and a £30m+ price tag on his head. - Targett has yet to play a professional game. I'm not writing Targett off as he does indeed have potential, but Shaw is clearly a long way ahead and the age gap is so tiny it is irrelevant.

And the quality of his direct replacement at left back (and other player incomings this summer)?

Saints also won't be buying replacements with all of the money upfront so it balances out.

The England squad did indeed fly from Brazil to Manchester to drop off all the northern based players and it then flew South for the Southern based players. Very harsh calling him a "c*nt", I doubt you'd turn down a £5m+ per year wage if you were offered it.

We need four senior centre backs, not two.

Jan Kluitenberg is back in the country... Jan Kluitenberg ‏@jankluit 3h On my way to UK. Jan Kluitenberg ‏@jankluit 37m Very nice view......

[video=youtube;j_-UZ4ADjmY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-UZ4ADjmY

1st team changing room today...

If Lallana stayed what would be your logic behind stripping him of the captaincy and giving it to Schneiderlin?

3:11pm 5:27pm Deja vu

Who in this thread has said we'll spend £160m?

Umm... thats what I said in post 14.

Then you've misunderstood it, see my post #19 above. Where would Saints be getting a £70m transfer budget from if they didn't sell anyone beforehand? i Saints will have a transfer budget this summer of say £25m to £35m, they'd then add to that with money from players sold. Amy is suggesting it then rises to £70m, we sell £90m of players. Which is very different from the picture Les Reed and Ralph Krueger painted where they indicated there was already a healthy transfer pot and all money from player sales would go back into the team.

No she isn't. Amy Lewis ‏@SkySportsAmy 50m I'm told Koeman will be handed up to £70m to spend on transfers by Southampton who expect to raise up to 90m if they sell star players That means it is "up to £70m" and how close they get to that figure is dependant on how many players are sold which could be £90m. We aren't going to spend £70m if no player is sold.

Why on earth have you added the £70m and £90m together? Amy is saying Saints will have £70m to spend, if we recoup £90m. I'm saying Les Reed has indicated it will be all money from player sales (lets use the £90m figure again) plus the existing transfer budget if we hadn't sold anyone. Based on the first two seasons back in the Premier League that is around £35m. So it would be £90m plus for example £35m = £125m.

FM15 will have Saints transfer budget after real life summer spending, not before or during.

Where have you got the figure of £160m from?

Why after receiving £90m extra compared to both 2012/13 and 2013/14 do you think they'd only spend the same again in 2014/15? On what is that based?

You've miss-quoted her tweet. She actually said... Amy Lewis ‏@SkySportsAmy 29m I'm told Koeman will be handed up to £70m to spend on transfers by Southampton who expect to raise up to 90m if they sell star players Which goes against Les Reed saying all money from player sales would be reinvested in the team. So if no players were sold, would Saints spend nothing on transfer fees this summer?

Kit #1066 is called the "Southampton", shouldn't we go for that?

Ronald Koeman has gained over 400,000 followers in the last 3 weeks! Ronald Koeman @Koeman1963 · Jun 7 Reached more than 100,000 followers! Thank you all! Ronald Koeman ‏@Koeman1963 · Jun 24 Wow! Over 500.000 followers. Hope to see you all at St.Mary's Stadium soon. #saintsfc We'll need a stadium expansion to fit those 500,000 in at St Mary's!

Daily Mail claiming Saints want £40m... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2666337/Luke-Shaws-40m-price-tag-rocks-Manchester-United-Southampton-bid-England-ace.html

Saints get new state of the art floodlights, Pompey get light floods....

Veho make speaker systems and gadgets, Saints are using a specialist LED lighting company... http://www.visionaccendo.com

Chelsea are also having LED floodlights installed this summer... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z8pnj_a-bright-future-at-the-bridge_sport