Matthew Le God

Even if those figures from that site were true over all the other sources showing lower fees, only the Ferdinand one is more than the reported £22.67m for Damiao.

Where are you getting those figures? Bent - £16.5m http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6252254.stm Owen - £17m http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4200808.stm Ferdinand - £18.5m http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/2140871.stm

None of those were for more than the reported Damiao figure of £22.67m.

How do you know that?

He left Saints 3 years before SLH went into admin. The club embarked on a spending spree in the summer Higginbotham left.

- First 2 seasons (2001/02 and 2002/03) combined at St Mary's under Lowe in the Premier League, Saints spent roughly £14.5m and sold £8m - First 2 seasons (2012/13 and the unfinished 2013/14) combined at St Mary's under Liebherr in the Premier League, Saints spent roughly £60m (still time for that to increase) and sold £1.5m I don't think singing Rory Delap in 2001 is on the same level as signing players like Ramirez, Wanyama and Lovren in the last year. Those three are players linked with some big clubs, could the same be said of Delap? If Delap was 25 years old and in the Championship in 2013, would he cost £12m?

Lord Sugar ‏@Lord_Sugar 16h What is that football players and agents don't understand. If there is a contract in place for 3 years, they have to stick to it. #bale Bale was under contract at Southampton, I wonder if Lord Sugar held that same view in 2007 when Spurs signed him? I doubt it - hypocrite!

That article is 8 days old.

That is Joe Curtis.

Was that you pretending to be Dalek2003, or your own view? I hope its the former.

I'll bite, please elaborate?

Welling isn't that far from Southend, so it is possible he was in Southend 2 hours ago and joined up with Saints at Welling. But would be an odd build up for a game to be away from the squad, would Southend be watching him play tonight before rubber stamping the deal?

He is in Welling playing for Saints tonight... Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 31s #SaintsFC XI team versus @wellingunited: Cropper, Young, Mugabi, McCarthy, Targett, Curtis, Moore, De Ridder, Sinclair, Lee, Forte.

As the media team and 1st team manager have offices at the stadium, their presence at their place of work doesn't necessarily mean anything significant.

18th January 2013... It does however make no sense that you would close the megastore to do it.

I did acknowledge he is a WUM.

You didn't answer my question in post #18 and what makes you so certain we won't sign another striker in the next month?

Still a month of the transfer window left for Saints to sign a striker, lots of indicators that is a position they are looking to invest in heavily. Its not like we desperately need one for the opening game, would you not be happy with Lambert playing vs West Brom? Not sure why I bother asking as I'm expecting another WUM response.

Victor Wanyama £12.5m Dejan Lovren £8.5m Say hi to WUM's.

Olivier Bernard - 31st January 2005 undisclosed fee from Newcastle.

Jack Cork 7th July 2011 from Chelsea

Did he? The season before he joined Saints he scored 29 league goals for a team that came 11th in League 1. The next season under Pardew he scored 30 goals for a team that finished 7th in League 1 (5th in terms of points earnt).

He didn't. The 3 North East friendlies was solely under 21's players and the Eastleigh game had Forte, Sharp, Tadanari Lee, De Ridder, Martin, Barnard but not Hammond.

Gareth Southgate was released by Saints as a kid.

Since when do I have to be a mod to have an opinion on this thread?