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Everything posted by S-Clarke
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I reckon Tadic will be the first, priced around the £10m mark funnily enough.
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Interesting and intriguing snippet.
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What happened with that write up Crabs? I know you have contacts, so would have been interesting to read.
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He clearly won't. Man Utd aren't going to spend £30m on a squad player. He will rotate with Evra and will probably play 30 odd matches next year.
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I think this is where a mutual termination could come in handy. Liverpool could pick him up on a free.
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I'm still waiting for the yearly ''we're run like a seaside b&b...'' thread.
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I think what we're seeing at the moment is the result of the club keeping their word. The deals of Lallana, Shaw and Lovren will go through for sure now they're back from the WC - expect that to pep up. The last few weeks have been somewhat of a quiet spell, but this was always going to happen. I personally don't see Morgan going yet, I think we'll lose those 3 and that'll be that. We'll then be £70-80 in the + and we can see what we can do with that. I'm fairly ready and expectant for an extremely bumpy ride next year, but this is what supporting a team is all about. There'll be bad times, and good times - we've been spoiled over the last few years, and we're well overdue one of these summers. But I still believe the club is in a decent place, and although we won't do as well as last year, we'll still be clear of relegation. Of that, I'm sure.
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Alpine is in his element, that's for sure.
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Got a feeling he will be our fist addition....and what a first addition! We can make a profit on him next year.....
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Cripple is a strong word, but I don't think next season will be as straight forward. I hope Koeman isn't put under pressure though, he does deserve a decent innings, just don't expect him to equate MP's season just yet is my view. But there's no reason why we cannot come out of this stronger in the long-term, 2-3 years down the line.
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I remember arriving to the Birmingham home game in the NPC a couple of seasons back, utter ****ing down, and saw Shaw wandering up Marine Parade with a few other academy lads. Completely ignored and blended in with the rest of the fans wandering in, quite a rise in 2 years you have to say.
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I read an article the other day (have been trying to dig it out, but can't find it now - could have just been a random blog) - but they were saying that Saints, by pricing Shaw and Lallana out of moves, are the club which is ruining English football. A true WTF moment. The logic behind it was that we're stopping these future England players get the exposure of CL and top flight title challenges which will benefit them in world cups, but how that equates to us 'being the problem with English football'' doesn't quite make sense to me. I think the FA should thank their lucky stars we are bloody well here.
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I think we'll sign Pelle and 1 other, with Gallagher playing a role similar to that of this season (and Jay, when he comes back will score plenty) LB will be a new signing and Matty Taggart will offer cover, but as you said we've got the versatility of Clyne who can also cover there. I think we need at least 1 cb whatever happens - but if Lovren goes, then 2. Tadic could be the Gaston replacement I guess. I think we'll probably see 5 or 6 new additions. Any more than that and you're treading into dodgy ground in my opinion.
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Good article, backed up by the final sentence - One player who will definitely not join Koeman at Southampton is Lex Immers, with the midfielder signing a new deal at Feyenoord yesterday. phew.
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Tadic would be an epic addition.
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Sorry, that's who I meant! I think he's gettable...and he's dutch. 2+2 = 5403040
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Rose / Alonso? Or let's go out there and get Danny Blind!
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It's similar to when they bought Rio from Leeds all those years back, at that time it was a truly WTF fee (but is nothing these days, obviously!) - but he was seen as a long-term investment, which he proved to be.
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When the player himself has made his mind up, it's a very difficult deal to turn down. It looks to me as if the club have played hard ball and have kept their word - they've done it in the clubs way and on our time scale, not anyone else's. They've got the best possible deal for a left back who clearly felt it was time to leave. All clubs will sell their best players, it's the nature of football. Ronaldo at Man Utd, Torres at Chelsea, Suarez will still leave Liverpool IMO. Bale from Spurs....Fellani from Everton...it's just the way it is. It's all about how you grow and build from it, Shaw could leave us with a sound legacy if we use it correctly. The sale of Oxo at the time was a bummer, but we grew from it and we built from it. We're now a much stronger outfit from when he was here, OK it will be harder for us to get stronger from here - but the club seem to have a plan.
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Would be stupid for them to say anything until it's done, dusted and complete. In the same way, why haven't Man Utd come out to say they've agreed a fee with us? At the moment, it could well be the media jumping the gun as per usual - but obviously it will happen, but it's not close enough for any official club rubber stampings yet.
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This is a good post.
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How do you know we haven't?
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Doesn't look like Hernandez fancied it then! Looks like he's just going for the fee, no players involved.
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Little more confident that we'll go down the Everton route. Villa sold their English lads (Young, Milner, Barry) for lots of money, but didn't reinvest it what so ever (I don't class signing Ashley Westwood and Joe Bennett as reinvesting!). I'm pretty sure we'll be reinvesting it.
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An incredibly immature and bitter comment. Why is it always the players at fault here?? He's going to earn a fortune as an 18 year old kid, he's given us a decent innings and will pocket us a decent fee. I hold nothing against him and wish him all the best, comments like yours are just moronic.