Really? Would you desribe Jame Milner as world class? Yet he was offered £80k a week or whatever and a £20m transfer fee. What about Stuart Downing? What about Gareth Barry? Andy Carroll!!!! Hardly "world class" players but getting huge salaries at big clubs. Competent but not great English players snapped up by bigger clubs from clubs bigger than Saints. Why are Saints going to be able to keep them and why are the players going to want to stay when Man City, liverpool or Arsenal come calling?