Matthew Le God

The club has spent £73m on players in the previous two seasons, given the significant increase in TV revenue spending this summer regardless of player sales may have been at a similar or increased level.

"minimum of a £50m transfer kitty" and "the amount available for transfers at Southampton is likely to be increased should any of the club's stars command substantial fees".

"Minimum of a £50m transfer kitty" and "the amount available for transfers at Southampton is likely to be increased should any of the club's stars command substantial fees". That wording suggests the £50m is regardless of player sales and it is the minimum he will get. So if Shaw and Lallana go the £50m minimum figure will rise. May seem unlikely, but thats how they've worded it.

I thought as the forum is being drown in numerous negative random musing threads, something like this should have its own thread to cheer us all up (if true).

Daily Express claims Ronald Koeman if appointed will get a "minimum of a £50m transfer kitty" plus "the amount available for transfers at Southampton is likely to be increased should any of the club's stars command substantial fees". http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/479575/Ronald-Koeman-promised-50m-transfer-kitty-as-Saints-close-in-on-Pochettino-replacement

A bigger stadium and surrounding development of the site would help change perceptions of the club nationally and internationally. Unlikely to happen or not, it is something along these lines Saints will need to move up a level in the eyes of the football world. Something like this perhaps...

Puel is the manager that signed Dejan Lovren for Lyon.

Well that is clearly nonsense! As no bookie has Garcia currently at shorter odds than 14/1, with the highest being 25/1. If someone had put £8k on at 25/1 this morning they would stand to win £200k and the market across all bookmakers would quickly be suspended after odds quickly dropped. In any case, would a bookie even take a £8k bet at 25/1 for something that is down to a human decision rather than a sporting event and can easily leak?

Which assets are being stripped? If Lallana goes it will be because we got a huge price and he wants to play Champions League level football with Champions League level wages. Not as a result of an asset strip. Same would apply if Shaw, Lovren and Schneiderlin leave. Saints have a number of players capable of playing Champions League level football and earning Champions League level wages, but can't offer it to them. If they are sold it doesn't by default make it an asset strip. If Liebherr really wasn't as interested in the club as the OP claims, she wouldn't bother going to home and away games as often as she has since Cortese left. Nor would she bother with things like attending the annual staff game. She's owned the club for 4 years and had ample opportunity to sell the club at a profit in that time, instead she's invested.

Ben Smith ‏@BenSmithBBC 2m Stalemate in Lallana's proposed move to #LFC. Player wants future sorted before WC. #SaintsFC want to wait. Not the action of a club during a firesale is it? A firesale is selling players for bargain basement prices. A club mid firesale would have accepted the £20m bid, let alone the £25m bid they appear now to have rejected. If Lallana has a good World Cup his value will go up which probably isn't the case for Lambert.

Ben Smith ‏@BenSmithBBC 2m Stalemate in Lallana's proposed move to #LFC. Player wants future sorted before WC. #SaintsFC want to wait. Not the action of a club during a firesale is it? A firesale is selling players for bargain basement prices. A club mid firesale would have accepted the £20m bid, let alone the £25m bid they appear now to have rejected. If Lallana has a good World Cup his value will go up which probably isn't the case for Lambert.

Suarez wasn't a proven performer in the Premier League at the time you signed him, Lallana is. Also £20m would mean Saints would only get £15m and why would they sell their captain and best player for £15m? Saints sold Oxlade-Chamberlain as a newly promoted League One side for £15m, let alone an England starter at a World Cup like Lallana is looking likely to be.

UKIP England fans booing the Peruvian national anthem. Coming over here, stealing our marmalade!

You scamp.

Two players.

The new Glenn Hoddle and Dean Richards.

Tuvalu

If Leicester are spending £150m, why have they so far been signing players on free transfers like Hamer, Albrighton and Upson? Even without Lambert, Shaw and Lallana we still have a better squad than a large number of teams in this league.

To suggest one player leaving turns Saints from 8th to relegation favourites is madness.

Judge him on the appointment of a new manager and the shape of the squad at the end of the summer transfer window. Countless random musing threads before those two things are meaningless.

Its being reported as "£4m plus add-ons", we don't know what those add ons are yet so too early to judge. Perhaps it is those add-ons which take it to the earlier reported £9m fee. If those add-ons are likely to happen, then £9m for a 32 year old isn't bad.

Do Lambert or Lallana deserve legend status for FM15? Our survey says... Lambert... Lallana...

Have you considered waiting until you know who the new manager is and what players we bring in to replace any that leave? Can you really begrudge Lambert wanting to join Liverpool? He is 32 and this is his last chance of a big move in his career. He'll get a large wage, Champions League football and a fairytale move back to the club he supports after being rejected as a teenager. As long as a fee is agreed it is a move Lambert would never turn down, no matter what Saints did. This is also a terrible phrase... stevy777_x how would you like to be wrongly accused of rape and then someone say "oh, well there is no smoke without fire".

From where then?