S-Clarke

You've pretty much confirmed what I’ve said really, he has talent. I've never been negative about his abilities as a footballer, he has it all in his locker that side. He just doesn't have the application, so his consistency will never be there. He never has had it and probably never will. That's why he's always moving around and hardly getting any games under his belt. There will always be clubs and managers who look at the raw player and hope they can coach it out of him, but the reality is that he's a little bit broken in his traits and that's not particularly easy to fix.

He's got talent, there's no doubts about it. He can play. He's just a flawed personality, his makeup is all wrong and that’s why he's never going to make it anywhere really. If we're honest, this is a great club for players to come to and flourish if they have talent and application. We've seen it all before. He has absolutely zero application and this is why we don't want him anymore, why Marseille didn't want him and why Juventus didn't want him. He'll be a typical journeyman and probably in an obscure league within a couple of years. Shame really, such a waste of natural ability.

Ings looks like he's blowing out of his arse already.

Bale transfer fallen through, not entirley sure why. Given that he's totally not wanted at Madrid, this could open up some interesting last day rush jobs for him. Loan to Bayern is a shout I reckon.

A Man City youngester I think, wasn't first team there.

It's actually a China club, £1m a week contract. Absolute waste of a player to be honest, but never mind.

Thursday 8th of august I believe, just a couple of weeks left.

There is talk they are selling Dunk for £45m

How weird. Utd are a club without any sort of clue transfer wise, aren't they? He's certainly not what they need or want. I have no idea why they are even interested. Baffling club that is right now.

I'd be very surprised, 1 decentish one at the very best for £20m.

He's probably the one we could potentially get value from. But if we're honest he is just another indictment of our horrific transfer policy over the last few years. He'll never fulfil his potential at the top because he lacks some key elements as a professional and in his football brain. Not denying his talent, but you need more than that.

Unfortunately, the tone of what I'm hearing is that Ralph is reluctantly having a look at Hoedt and some others, mainly because we have so many CB's already and we are finding it difficult to shift so we can't afford to sign another. Pretty rubbish situation. My belief is that unless we see significant outgoings in the likes of Cedirc, Hoedt, Carillo, Boufal etc, then we will not see any further incoming. It's frustrating because that means we go into next season still horrifically short at CB in terms of quality, but this is the pain of assembling such an expensive and rubbish squad over the course or 3 windows. That's why I'm as baffled as anyone as to why Ross is still around, should have been held as accountable as Les.

To be fair, he's been a bit of a **** about it. Not the first time he's seen the cash on the horizon, got fidgety and handed in a transfer request. This time WHU didn't blink and offer him a new contract as they've done before, so he's gone. Look at what he did to Stoke before he left there too. He's a divisive piece of work. He'll drift way off into obscurity now, but he's got his money which is seemingly his sole goal!

The most typical Burnley signing ever.

People keep saying this, but I think he'd still be as error prone. He'd still give the ball away, probably lose tackles, and not be quick enough to recover. The curx is that he's not a very good player what so ever and is so out of his depth as a regular at this level.

Arsenal starting up discussions for Wilfred Zaha, £40m ish initially being discussed. Palace are seemingly going to be raped this summer.

I may be wrong but I think he had to undergo more Surgery at the end of last season, so there's no immediate come back for him.

I think this is a good deal if we're honest. As you've said above mrfahaji - it's already happened down there. You had Rhodes being bought for what was 10-15m, Britt Assombolonga (i think that's how you spell it) - who cost Boro something like 15m. Villa spent something like 10m on that preverbal championship scorer McCormack. So, given that he was a top scorer in the NPC and we've supposedly got the PL riches, we've got ourselves a deal which can't be sniffed out.

Deserved a crack at first team football. He may make a decent PL player, but to me he always had flaws and parts of his game which weren't improving. So, I think we did well to get what we did. I wish him the best.

Yeah, we have. But the £30m+ figure being bounded about made me gasp, a little.

Iago Falque - he's actually gone onto have a decent career in Serie A at Roma and Torino.

But you'd need a high spec internet connection...

What on earth is this thread about. We're ripping apart his goals because they weren't very good? He was there to score them though? Would you rather it was a video of him missing chances? Sometimes people on here confuse the hell out of me.

Pretty much adds weight to the 'Che Adam's chooses Southampton' claim then.

Their attack is lethal, pure quality throughout that now. They've got Arnoutovic to spearhead it as well, really impressive - could do really, really well next year.