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No need for Lovren to strike put him up for sale at £25m up front to anybody who wants him but £35m to Liverpool or Spurs Cash on the nail. another tapped up by the Liverpool Saints so F them all.

£60m buys a lot of replacements. Never was a dream just a continuous improvement. A left back an ageing striker and an occasional goalscorer no matter how pretty to watch can be replaced and the squad beefed up. Whose to say we won't be better than last year.

But would be unfit or unavailable for international selection, wonder how that would have changed the equation. Either way I think we were right to move him on and move on ourselves. Best of luck getting the ball from Sturridge and Sterling part of England's problem not the solution.

Every player has a valuation, if we get an offer that massively exceeds the value it's good business to take it. Lovren and Schneiderlin will cost a total of about £50m. If a club wants to pay that then let them go.

The problem presented to Koeman was how he would play and how the players would fit in. Lambert was allowed to leave, in my view he earned it for his five years. Lallana still here but does he fit the way we might want to play. Guan let the cat out of the bag regarding the management's view that maybe the time has come to part. In hindsight I think Shaw was never going to stay, so it was a case of how much. It may well be that replacing those three will be done quickly. As for Schneiderlin and Lovren, whoever is going to want them will have to match the Shaw/Lallana fees, that in itself will concentrate minds and if the valuations are met, fine. As far as I'm concerned a solid centre back and a midfield goalscorer plus Cork and Wanyama would do. That would be pretty much covered by the Lallana/Shaw/Lambert fees. If they stay, great, but if they go their fees added to the probable summer budget would still give us in the region of a further £80m approximately to strengthen without Osvaldo and Ramirez fees if they go. We could well come out of the pre season in good shape.

We had a good team last season but were very thin if injuries occurred. We certainly could do with another centre back, somebody to score goals from midfield, more goals and cutting edge up front. An international class goalkeeper to compete with Boruc is a necessity. We now can get at least one left back. If any of Lallana, Lovren or Schneiderlin leave we can replace them but ideally they stay. It will initially be difficult to blend and replicate the teamwork of last year but it can be done. It may be that the strengthening of the squad and improved contracts might steady the ship.

Explain?

IMO Southampton want to keep Shaw. The fee for Utd will always be too much unless it reaches a silly figure and Utd are still in. They just haven't realised that or maybe they have. Same with Liverpool. The fees are ridiculous but that is not our problem.

How is he going to do that. If they want Lallana, Lovren and Chambers it'll be a pound down and a pound a week. Joke club. £75m cash more like.

Or is it £30m including add ons with the basic fee paid over 5 years with £5-10m up front. £30m cash is one thing instalments are quite anther. Lallana £25m £15m over 5 years and £10m dubious add ons, no way.

This story stands along with the Southampton meltdown in January and the whole team leaving in May. Great journalism by the Sun. Headline should have read " Naïve 18 year old footballer led on by unscrupulous glamour model selling her story yet again"

I get the feeling that Roy Hodgson doesn't really believe in a way to play. As 4-4-2 is now deemed out of date he seems lost. If you play 4-2-3-1 you don't play it like England did. The 2 are defensive the fullbacks attack wide the front four interchange and the ball gets passed. England played the 2 off the cuff the front 4 tried to run with the ball the full backs pushed up and the 2 left the central defenders exposed and Baines just stood and watched while Suarez dropped off Jagielka. The moves that entailed passing quickly ended in goals.

Basically he picked his best eleven as he saw it, however he made no effort to pick players that formed a blend that would make the team performance better than the sum of the parts. We were just an eleven slung together. Some managers get it Hodgson doesn't.

Hodgson is a very average manager. His team yesterday looked way out of date, passing slowly at the back with little or no movement then players at the front running up blind alleys. The tempo was slow, the pressing non-existent, the lack of movement and passing up front made it easy for Uruguay to block us and win the ball. Internationally Sturridge might score the odd goal but along with Sterling and Welbeck lacks awareness. We squander opportunities because we have no clinical finishers. Those three forwards need too many chances to score a goal and flatter to deceive. In football terms they are thick.

When Cavani received the ball before chipping to Suarez for the first goal Baines was just outside level with Jagielka. He could see Suarez and could have challenged him but when Suarez dropped off Jagielka, Baines was still standing watching and made no attempt to defend and give cover to Jagielka. He was still stationary when the ball was in the net. He might be good on the ball but he is a **** poor defender. He was the last man in the line, the least he should have done as Suarez was the threat was block him off and challenge, spectating was crass.

The 25% was imposed by an FA Tribunal.

Not under the rules. Gentleman's agreement only, so that rules Liverpool out.

That settles it, if we want to sell, anybody who wants to go to Liverpool won't be transferred until after 16th August.

In a way AL has been suckered by Liverpool. They thought they could railroad Saints with a three tenths of f-all fee on the never never by minimising the cash outlay and add ons they might not have to pay. The fee will have to give Saints his value as a current England international plus the 25% sell on. It just isn't going to happen unless they pay about £25m up front.

The quote was "A lot of strikers would take that" ie 193 goals in 535 appearances.

His scoring record for a centre back wasn't too shabby either, 193 goals in 535 games. A lot of strikers would take that.

Whilst RK's management and coaching experience and expertise is all important, I think when it comes to dealing with players it does no harm to have a stack of caps, medals and a high class playing record having played for the likes of Barcelona, Ajax and Holland.

I don't think we should go down the road of playing uncooperative players in the reserves. I personally would fine them for their behaviour and make them run for hours on end without a football and fine them if they didn't.

As long as we screw a lot more than the players are worth to us from Liverpool that's fine by me. Liverpool however can't afford what we want so the players may well stay. Or if they don't we can laugh all the way to the bank. Carry on tapping.

And yet David Villa said that he owes Pellegrini for changing City to a passing game in which he flourished. Mancini hardly represents the Southampton way.