For 10 times what we sold him for IIRC
Okay, we have an Italian chairman, but name the players southampton have signed from Italian clubs and which clubs they were signed from. I believe it is five players including loans.
Good stat that MLG, doesn't that prove that statistically less than one in five centre backs will be left footed so it would be foolish to insist that we had one of each and much more preferable and achievable to have two good right footed ones who can defend and are comfortable on the ball.
Exactly Bessie. The left footed right footed obsession only seems to have started because Adkins liked it. Before that I never, ever saw it mentioned. As I've said many times vidic and Ferdinand don't seem to have been hampered by the handicap of both being right footed.
Of course the flip side is its advantageous to have a rights footed cente half covering a left back the attacker cuts in he'll cut into the right foot of the centre half which will be his stronger.
Vidic and Ferdinand seemed to have done okay.
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. I remember being excited in 2003/04 when we had exciting young talent like Fitz Hall, Grifitt, Folly and Darren Kenton and that all went wrong.
being one of the biggest clubs in your country is also going to help regardless of champions league football. Do you think Gerrard would have stayed his entire career at Liverpool if they had been West Brom sized?