SW5 SAINT

Well Costa Rica were in the World Cup finals, not sure where they are ranked world wide, but a lot lower than 32.....

Yes, ridiculous Liverpool being in the Champions league final. Of what exactly were they champions.........?

If it's £20m its our record buy. Still less than Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton, Wolves etc transfer record.........

How do Fulham manage to spend over £100m in these days of having to adhere to FFP rules........?

I think he's only been at Liverpool 3 years rather than 8, and 3 goals in 14 games is nearly a goal every three games.....

I wonder if we have a clause, by which we can recall Carillo mid season.....?

You do realise £10m is vitally nothing in todays transfer market. This for one of our most experienced players......

I doubt we are going to stump up £115,000 a week wages.......

Be interesting to assess the respective merits of Vestegaarde and Gibson...........

It appears Burnley are signing Gibson from Middlesbrough for around £13m. I thought we were quoted £25m for the same player.....?

Usually with World Cup bids, new stadiums are built and old ones refurbished. So hopefully if previous countries histories of staging WC's is anything to go by, we could end up with some spectacular new builds and rebuilds - including SMS

I hope don't just roll over and let them have him for some ridiculously cheap fee. Particularly if the stories of them playing hard ball over a fee for Gibson are true.....

And yet France are still world champions for the second time in 20 years. Whilst most people over here blame the fact that we have too many "foreigners" in the EPL, hampers England doing better.....

Strange, I thought Dijon would have been mustard........

Spot on, stockpiling average players on huge salaries will destroy club of Southampton's size and resources as a PL force.......

brilliant.....

Thats a fair point regarding the Silva settlement. Silva obviously rates the guy as well, so Everton are backing the manager. I seem to remember we did that once as well, paying well over the odds for a player the manager rated....

What's wrong with bringing in the best from abroad if it benefits SFC, if they come from Scotland, Wales or Ireland it isn't going to benefit England. SFC is a football club set up for the benefit of Southampton FC, not England.......

If he wants to play again, someone is going to have to pay the Chinese a transfer fee. I reckon Wham should be made to pay it back.......

Buying yet another crocked striker! Will they ever learn......

That's some wage bill............

I think it's unlikely ever to open again in this way, for lets face it an average team to reach the final. That's Croatia now beneficiaries of that. Don't forget Croatia were even runners up to Iceland in the qualifiers. Iceland probably thinking what might have been.

Indeed, I support a strong Man City too. Not just Liverpool but ManU, Tottenham all less likely to win the league........

Maybe it's a straight swap with Forster........

I wonder if he is any better than Carillo....?