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Especially when the plan is to give lots and lots of playing time to JWP and Reed this year.

Not sure who is being ungrateful? We're just sitting here and watching our entire team being sold, with no sign of any replacements. Anyone who is right now trying to throw a positive spin on it is sat with their head in the sand. Fact. And who's rolling in it, exactly? Not us, I wouldn't have thought. She probably is, though.

I think he was on about the market on the whole, doubt he was available for transfer. I simply think we received an enquiry and we smelt some money, so started talking. To me, this transfer seems to suggest that if any enquiry for any player is received, we will start talks/negotiations.

It gets to the point whereby the fee received means absolutely nothing. We need a competitive team, and we don't have a competitive team at this moment in time. Reading Wengers comments, it doesn't even sound as if he was that fussed to get him this year either - said it's a gamble signing him. I'm sure if as a club, we'd have turned around to Callum and said.....1 more year,see where we are...and then to Arsenal..we're not selling him at the moment, I'm not sure we'd have had much of a fall out. This is one sale too far for me. The fee received is irrelevant.

Probably unintentional, but damn comedy genius by Koeman.

Better way of saying that would have been, that he's players short of a competitive starting 11.

He isn't yet though, which is what makes this transfer bizzare. We usually sell the finished youth product, not someone who is half way there and is off to be a squad player. It doesn't make sense and the club have clearly just blinked at the fee, end of.

All we need to see now are actions. Players brought in, contracts signed. Job done. Statements mean nothing, hollow words, often spoken by people who are trained to waffle. After what the likes of Ralf came out with earlier in the year, I hope the club keep quiet and just do what needs to be done.

Don't think I'm regretting getting a ST, in some sort of warped crazy way, I'm looking forward to the season.

Just trying to find something, anything, even a smidgen of something to be positive about right now. Struggling.

Jeez, why do people do this!!! He was a damn, damn fine player. Best CB I've ever seen play for us.

If these transfers clear the debt and any liabilities, then I'd say a PL football club with it's own fully paid for 32,000 seater stadium, and fully paid £30m training complex is an incredible proposition for someone. That's my positive swing on it.

At least we're getting to the stage where we're running out of players we can worry about losing. Mayuka and Jos are here for ever. Got to be a positive?

Clear the debts, remove the liabilities. Put the club up for sale with it's own stadium, own training ground - all paid for. If there is a positive to swing, that is an amazingly attractive proposition for any mega rich person to be offered. A PL football club with no debt and top class facilities. We need to stay in the PL though, enormous gamble what we're doing.

We really won't.

Mayuka.

To be fair, they actually did say that. We have since sold Lallana, Lovren and Chambers.

I can't see a great deal of support right now, judging by his time line, that's for sure.

"After I played at Anfield last season, I said to myself: 'One day I hope I'll be able to play here for Liverpool'. The fans will know from the first minute that I'm a player that will give 100 per cent on the pitch." what a load of ****ing ****, why do players spout such bull**** just to apease? I bet the L'Pool fans will lap it up though, and then in 2 years time when he signs for R.Madrid, he'll say how he dreamed of playing for them too.

I was just re-writing the Shaw statement for what it's worth. But we didn't even get a statement, just a 2 sentence job in the end.

What a total shame it has come to this. Our best ever season has led to us hating the team who made it possible.

Will be 5 tomorrow.

That Liverpool transfer graphic is utterly horrific. Why do they continue with it? Makes them look like Accrington Stanley.

''This deal is a good one for Southampton Football Club, and hopefully sends a clear message to other clubs wishing to bid for our players.'' “Dejan's transfer fee will be reinvested into the team as our new manager, Ronald Koeman, builds for the new season and for years to come.” CEO Gareth Rogers commented: “Dejan's transfer to Liverpool is yet another endorsement of the great work undertaken at our club and by the staff at Southampton Football Club. “We can now move forward and continue to invest in the future of our club.”