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It appears the hold up is on the valuation of the player with Feyenoord rather than the player and his ego.

SSHHH ! Don't mention that.

Are these bids, in addition to the known bids for Pelle and Tadic ?

The 'Keegan era' would have been my preference , but am happy to see a Saints looking shirt again after the last two seasons, and am pleased with this after some of the abortions mooted on here. Yes, the red sleeves are reminiscent of 2003-5.

It's disappointing that we seem incapable of maintaining a "not for sale.. " stance from the outset and adhering to it. Despite whatever good Les Reed is doing elsewhere, he and 'the board' are proving to be feeble when it comes to negotiations of players leaving. Hope they prove their worth on incoming players but I'm not holding my breath. KL was ill advised in not bringing in a CEO with more football experience in my view.

Who is his agent out of interest ?

A dangerous gamble in my view.

Absolute abortion.

Thats a bloody good idea, loan him to Southend till he comes to his senses.

Nice are perhaps aware of our continued interest, and windfall from the recent sales.

Probably part of the Ben Davies negotiation.

Morgan if he stays. Davis is potentially a good option but wonder if he'll be a regular starter ( depending on whose left of course).

Does Lovren share the same agents as Lala ?

Were we ever in for him ? Don't remember Colin Bell links (although do recall Colin Todd coming close to signing, are you confusing the two ?)

Agree with the above, if the story is true. Should try selling him abroad, certainly not consider selling to Liverpool or MP.

Perhaps some will remember this but at the end of 2000/01 season - prior to the move to St Mary's - the club ran a vote for the new home strip. Amonst the options were various stripe designs, a red and white quatered kit, and a Monaco red/white diagonal halves. The 'Monaco' design was proposed as a bit of an outside option, suggesting it as a 'nod' to Hoddles time at that club (he was the manger when the poll first started although had pised off shortly after it was launched). Voting was by post, and internet. THe internet voting was pretty primitive, without the need for customer numbers etc. Skates tried to rig the poll and if my memory is correct it was the Monaco strip they tried to lumber us with. I think there was a surge of voting on it, but the club discounted some of the late votes on it. The winner was a conventional r/w striped kit.

As said on a previous thread re JWP ,a key factor for his development this season , (as for our season ahead generally) will be the squad available at the start of the season. I can't see JWP being a first choice CM ahead of MS or Cork , with VW playing a more defensive role. This assumes Koeman does not bring in any other Dutch midfielders. Perhaps the question for the club is if they are prepared to take a chance to release Cork to enable JWP to progress further. Personally I'd not take the risk at this stage. ( Not belittling JWP , but Cork is an important part of our MF in my view).

So, about £6.7m , that looks pretty good to me. Think we should try doing a bit more business with those nice people at Feyenoord.

Any other incomers likely soon ? And if known, which positions ? Apart from the Pelle bid which has been reported.

Agree about Robertson from what I've read. Dundee Utd have sold Ryan Gauld , the 'mini Messi' to Sporting Lisbon today for £3m. That seems to be the threshold for Robertson I'd suspect. Whether we are interested in Robertson, or Kolo, fact remains we need to move quickly for either to happen. Idle speculation on my part, but I suspect we'll sign neither and have another target in mind.

That could of course prove to be so.

Youtube clip includes a good display of balooning one over the bar at 2.35. That's what we need, Tadic to crate the chance, Immers to baloon it.

Good one. I also liked the suggestion by someone on an earlier thread saying he was "the Dutch Paul Telfer".

Isn't he with the Stellar Group ? (Jonathan Barnett etc - as was MP).

Can't see Ben Davies coming to us, as he'll probably consider it a sideways move. Cresswell was linked with WBA today in one report.