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I thought Pellegrini's contract was reported as £10m a season at the time he signed it......?thus making a £40m compensation bill!!

Let's just hope that Fraser Forster's salary is something similar, all based on appearances and being in the squad etc etc......

It's madness to suggest selling this guy to reinvest. He is worth far more to the team than anything like his transfer value, which I imagine is now probably quite low.....

Trouble is is none of the above is true these days, we break our transfer record on yet another crap record buy, and then ship them out on loan. Eventually writing of the loss. Not a sustainable business model..........

I've been wondering that, as the title of this thread is "Sell Long to reinvest" Probably enough for the right leg of a very average Championship player.......

I think Yazz sang a song about it........

I can see it becoming a bit like Formula 1 (and as boring) with an elite group of clubs playing a round of matches against each other in a different country each week......

Don't see Wolves being poor. Took Everton apart and looked unlucky yesterday........

Exactly, what decent employer would public crucify their employee, who is also a commercial asset. A player who may yet turn out to be a very good player....

Don't forget pompey are still the only club to have a points deduction applied when going into administration after a date in March in the current season, rather than having it carried over like we did.......

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.......