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Either or both would be great.

I always imagined he'd be a good signing for a Hull or Palace (if they come up). Maybe I'm selling him short a bit.

I understand where you're coming from on this. From the outside-looking-in, his City move seemed like a joke to me. He was never going to get a look in there, IMO. You'd hope he'd get his hunger back if he joined us. The plus would surely be the cheaper transfer fee (compared to say, £12m for Ince) & his versatility. He can probably operate in any of the front 4 positions.

I read that Chaplow apparently signed a year extension, which wasn't publicised. Unsure if that was true at the time.

Don't quote me on this. - Forecast - Richardson - Butterfield - Dickson - Seaborne - Hoskins (I think)

No. Was a very good player for us when we needed him in league 1 though. Cracking goal vs Leeds to get us started in the Championship too. I will remember his time here fondly.

If anyone wins the 'mates with Jose' stakes, it's Steve Clarke @ WBA.

Agree completely. Lukaku is the defintion of "top 4" striker IMO.

I would agree. Depends who they get in this summer I suppose. I would take Lukaku here in a heartbeat.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12691/8727298/West-Ham-owner-David-Sullivan-eyes-Chelsea-s-Romelu-Lukaku

Is a fair point. Only have to look at the QPR comments re: Samba's fitness when they signed him.

£21m release clause, apparently

Quality

Good post, saints_is_the_south. Think we will definitely see a top class centre-back join. Might see another, depending on what happens with Forren. I'll be interested to see if what Monk posted about is true about him being saved for next season.

Villa

I'd rather consider it a Fox upgrade

Not seen much of Austin recently. Can he play as a lone-striker up top? He always struck me as the poacher of a 2-man strike force. (And TBF, I think we've already purchased the best striker Burnley had).

Liverpool or Spurs, I'd imagine. Blackpool activated a 1 year contract extension in his contract.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11708/8724836/Transfer-news-Burnley-s-Charlie-Austin-attracting-interest-from-host-of-clubs

I said around 35m at the weekend. Had a little look at what that could get you (assuming we sign players we're linked to now, complete with rumoured prices, give or take a couple of million) DC - Astori (£9m) DL - ? DR - Gamez (£5m) DMC - Wanyama (£10m) AMC - Verdu (Free) AMRL / SC - Sinclair / Lens (£4m) ----------------------------------------- Total 28m Not bad going. Still leaves some dosh for a left-back.

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport #saintsfc Pochettino 2nite - asked by @SimonPeach about Shaw-to-Chelsea reports, said maybe CFC should worry about him buying their players!

Great 1st season IMO. (Thank god we beat City, Liverpool & Chelsea @ St Mary's though!)

Football manager, and the HCDAJFU thread on here.

That was Alex Crook who penned that who's pretty clued up when it comes to Saints. He also made mention of having 30m to spend.

We all knew he'd end his career at St Mary's