S-Clarke

Delph deserves to be truly ripped to shreds by the Villa fans. What a total jerk, embarrassing as hell for him. But he won't care, $$$$$$$$$$$$

Villa_Richmond and Claret George are in even worse states.

No one mocked, it's just the fact that it was pretty much public knowledge to the man and his dog! But for the rumored fee, this is a steal. Lots of potential in there to make him even better. I remember him at the World Cup and couldn't have been more impressed to be honest, very aggressive/high tempo midfielder. Very suited to how we play and probably Koeman's number 1 target for the last 2 seasons. Glad we got him over the line for such an unreal fee.

Every time I see Stoke's new kit I think Saints.

He's suspended for the 1st leg.

lol. he's ours.

Maybe we can keep him for a year, and then sell him to Liverpool for £40m next summer. Deal.

I think you're right. Apparently we only let Morgan go once we were 100% sure we had Clasie in the bag, as there was late interest from other clubs. I've seen some tweets from Dutch journalists suggesting he's already here and flew over last night. Tuesday announcement they were speculating.

TBF I don't remember Clyne doing too much wrong. Lallana and Lovren I'll give you though, they both had PR disasters - one worse than the other..

Blimey, Lens is a blast from the past. When were we linked with him? was it our first pre-season back in the PL...or the January window after adkins was sacked? Not a bad signing for Sunderland if the pull it off. They might as well rename this league the dutch league, given how many dutch players/managers are part of it!

Not them in this instance.

That's how you leave a football club. No need for cringy pullouts in the echo, that twitter post is 100x better from Morgan. I'll miss him so much.

He signed a new contract las summer, pretty sure it was a 3 year one.

He's already decided to join us, calm down everyone.

Mane will easily command £25-30m in the market if he kicks on next season. Attacking players with pace/goal scorrers are always a premium. He could even end up becoming our highest recieved fee. Wanyama will easily bring in more than £20m if we sell him. If Jay kicks on, so will he. But our club is all about growing players, there are players who you may not think are worth much, but progress a hell of a lot over the next few years. It's also harsh to say we're a selling club. If one of the biggest clubs around comes for any of our players, they will go. We're not activley looking to sell anyone.

I agree with what people are saying above. I don't think we need to look for a like for like replacement, I think we're better off trying to evolve his position and add a new element to our midfield. Having Morgan and Wanyama in midfield was droolworthy in a defensive sense, the sheild they put up was as good as any in European football. However, whilst this depature may well hit us defensivley, it allows us to evolve the side to incorporate a more forward thinking midfield unit, with Victor left as the sheild.

Seems to be £24m guaranteed, with it rising to £27/28m on several clauses.

Cool story.

Young, international pedigree, coaching potential, massive sell-on potential. Ticks all our boxes!

Man Utd fans taking the **** out of City, quite funny really. Schweinsteiger 14.4m, Morgan Schneiderlin £24m, Damian £13m. Total - 51m Rahem Sterling = £49m

Let's go Wilde.

I guess if you mean signings made that season, then yeah - Morgan was the only remaining.

Good fee. Can't moan about that, we got what we wanted.

I guess you could include Davis in that era.

Good source: http://m.corrieredellosport.it/notizia/calcio/calcio-mercato/2015/07/12-2385353/clasie_il_southampton_ha_sorpassato_la_lazio?cookieAccept