S-Clarke

12 million up front, what the ****

It is alot of money, but he's an awesome talent. On par with some of the best young players in world football at the moment, maybe even better for his age. He'll get better and I hope he gets the games, it'll be frustrating...but I think we all have a little pride when we see the likes of Bale and Theo strutting their stuff at the San Siro etc...which i'm sure Alex will be in time.

It's a tremendous fee really. 7m up front cash will help us immediately as well, without having to wait for years in order to reinvest. We already had significant money to spend on the team, so this little lump sum is going to create a very exciting august for us. We're targeting the best championship players, weather that comes off or not..who knows.

I think he's on another planet to Routledge tbh, potentially one of the best wide players in Europe - that's why arsenal want him. He's got excellent technique and skill on par with alot of top players in Europe. I hope he gets his chance at Arsenal because I think he'll walk into the premiership without any issue.

Albert Adomah

He's not a wind up, he called the deal about Palacios to stoke days ago, tweeted about Miller days ago....he's/they or whoever it is, have their finger on the pulse.

It's promising that it looks like we're going to reinvest the Alex money straight away.

I'd try and replace him with Albert Admoah (sp?) at Bristol City.

I think Lambo will be fine, if Steve Morrison and Holt can score upwars of 15 goals in this league, then Lambert should be able to without any issues - he's got the better all round game compared to those two IMO.

Don't disagree with what you say at all, but I feel that as long as we replace the pace he has we still have the ability to open teams up. Lallana is the heartbeat of this team and losing him would be more costly to our entire game, we're kind of build around him.

We'll miss him if he goes, but he's not pivotal to the way we play - that's a certain Mr Lallana. If we end up getting a decent lump sum for the kid, and are able to reinvest in someone like Maynard or Rodriquez, and assuming we sign someone in the position chambo occupied, it may well make us stronger. Time will tell though, we've heard this ''he's signed'' far too many times now.

I could watch all 3 of our goals all night, they were terrific footballing/team goals. The combo between Lallana and Connolly for the 3rd was stunning. That's one thing I noticed that set us apart y/day....our movement off the ball, we were always on the move, always opening space. Leeds didn't have a clue who to pick up half the time.

Rodriquez would be amazing. Top, Top player. Fox is a bit of an odd one....can he play left sided CB? or is he just a LB? Would make sense if he also played at CB i guess.

I've heard that every player has a price on his head at Burnley, and they will accept any offers they deem acceptable for that player. We may need to up our bid to around 5-6m though.

His response to that is very interesting MLG - sounds like he feels it's more formal than just speculation by his sheepish look.

IMO He'd walk into Wolves team

He was ok when he got the ball, he didn't get it enough in decent positions, which is why I don't like him out on the right. Although he did put in a good shift for the team. He didn't look out of place though, and that little tricky run into the penalty box just after we went 2-0 up was quality.

Was in the papers this morning!

Agreed. Although you have to credit Pard's for starting our turn around - he put this team together and got us the likes of Deano/Lambo etc, so he did stick us on the right track. But Adkins just feels such a better fit with the club as a whole.

Danny fox and Jay Rodriguez.

I would say it's probably because of his age and his lack of a real impact at a level above L1, he's not really seen as a youngster anymore - and possibly his lack of pace. He's still class though, and I'm sure we'll get some visits this season from scouts.

Another tweet made by the forth_official twitter, 30 odd mins ago: Fourth_Official Fourth Official Might chuck some money on Southampton to get automatic promotion, hearing good things about them dipping into the market too #Saintsfc

I think he was referring to our relegation year, when we were in admin. He very very nearly moved to a premiership side, but luckily Markus and co came in just in time.

I'd like to see Jack Stephens given a game.

Apparently we need a new left back though.