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If the price is right, the fans will come. Good pricing this year.

Graeme Bailey ‏@GraemeBailey 3m Reports from North of the Border that Southampton will sign Fraser Forster this weekend after agreeing deal with Celtic.

Almost done and dusted. Fee agreed (a £10m package), he's travelling here this weekend. Source: (and numerous Celtic ITK's) https://twitter.com/SkySports_Keith

It's the denial phase. Good player leaves club, fans decide he wasn't actually that good and they can do better. Repeat over and over.

Koeman said he trained alone for 2 days, as he was doing isolated training/more fitness training away from the rest due to his late recall to the squad (world cup duties).

It's strange, why wouldn't they think he's good enough? He's easily good enough for us, easily good enough for a starting birth in half of the PL teams. Find it truly odd why he's not seemingly rated by coaches a like.

I cannot see the club officially saying he's on strike, as that weakens our position somewhat. But reading between the lines from Koeman saying he's not mentally prepared, and K,Billy with the strike info....I think it's safe to say he is refusing to play, so is in essence on strike.

Barcelona agree £15m fee to sign Thomas Vermaelen from Arsenal An incredible price for a player who is a bit-part at Arsenal. And Barca's policy of spending stupid amounts of cash on over the hill defenders is proving quite impressive.

I think it's clear that he will go if we get the 'premium' we so desire. The issue for Morgan is that up until now, not a single club is willing to pay that premium. If we do give in and end up selling him for peanuts then we will be shown up as being incredibly weak and then any player will know exactly what to do when they want to go. We hold all the cards here, no matter how much Morgan wants to cry. We own his registration and his contract is legally binding. We have all the power so we need to use it.

See, it's a good news day. That was always on my head this pre-season.

Jesus Christ. You are quite simply confirmed as mental.

A little bit of info from a Romanian guy I've randomly known for a while. very good player, surprised not more offers at that price. Better than vlad. He was tracked by Manchester clubs not so long ago. He is a perfect fit for the premier league due to his style. Very similar to Lovren.

Yes, until that. Wonder where it's gone though? Is it at the Emirates, or White Hart lane? Think we need to start an investigation of the missing head.

Not entirely sure what he wants? Is he going to give us the extra £15m we need? Because we're not going to give you away Morgan, it doesn't actually work like that. If Spurs don't have the money, and Arsenal don't want you, then get your head down or ruin your career. 2 options. What a bunch of precious individuals we had/have at this club. Corteses reign was built on a pyramid of plastic cups.

It's a good news day.

I think he's an absolute shoe in for a PL CB, very aggressive, no fear...body on the line sort of player. Very highly rated over there, same sort of level as of Vlad - but more physical so they say. (one of the reasons Vlad struggled a bit)

Not sure what this changes, really. I'm sure Forster still has a valuation and if we meet that valuation he will be coming here. You couldn't make it up though, pure pantomime transfer drama!

Why not answer the genuine questions that have been put to you, if you really want to be believed.

I cannot recall a time this poster has ever been right.

I hope you've given the club a £90m transfer budget.

Guly? (in squad terms).

Not seen these posted as yet, but this is direct from our friend Ralf. Krueger told the Daily Echo: “Saphir is an exciting prospect. He’s multi-dimensional and there’s a lot of opportunity in him. “He’s at an age that fits in with the Southampton situation at present. I think he’s somebody that we can really bring to another level.”

Always liked Reina, he's retiring way too early.

Hold your horses, the hold ups in the Tadier deal have apparently been caused by Osvaldo's/Inters end.

The studio guys did themselves no favours at all there, before you go into an interview it's sometimes good to do some research on the topic. HTH.