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Is it just me or was McCarthy standing no where near the centre of the goal for Jimenez’ winner today? He basically gave him an open goal today!

More gutting that Warks got to 350 from 320ish for 9… apparently they needed 11 off an over to get the extra batting point and got them. The batter? Danny Briggs!

Looks like we may see Livramento at winger at some point. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/19588036.ralph-hasenhuttl-says-tino-livramento-play-winger/ It would be great if we can get both him and KWP in the same side. Two of our best players

Exactly. Whilst it sounds great on paper maybe they've tried it in training and it hasn't worked at all

I for one am disgusted that Saints are being run on a prudent basis... selling players for their maximum value when we could have let them leave for free in a years time, whilst only signing highly rated youngsters when the likes of Messi and Ronaldo were available, and committing our best player and captain to a new long term contract. Gao out (or something...)

If he has been happy to sit in the reserves for 8 years I'm not sure he's a great fit for any club tbh

Not sure how motivated he'd be to play for West Ham, he was so highly rated yet hasn't really fulfilled his potential to date. Think he may turn out to be a bit of a waste of money personally

Like he did for Everton's equaliser last week....

Guarantee if that was Man U scoring they would have given it to their striker... I still remember when they gave Saha a goal after a massive deflection off our wall (think it was Kevin Phillips who headed it)

It’s the hope that kills you ☹️

Need a lip reader to see what McCarthy shouts at salisu there. For me McCarthy should claim that...

Oh I agree we won’t have the full amount to spend, but the op was talking about money received, not leftover money not including sign-ons, loyalty bonuses and agency fees

£25m potentially rising to £30m for Ings, £14m rising to £17m for JV. Way more than £30m

Surprised how one sided this is so far! Another vote for FF

It’s not a dick move at all. Surprising certainly, but we accepted a bid, he decided to sign. I wish him well in 36 games next season!

Oh did he! Whoops ha! Thanks for the response

Is McCarthy injured? I prefer Fraser myself anyway but not sure if McCarty has featured at all this preseason?

It's only point would be from a PR perspective. Saints can say it's £40mish, whereas Chelsea can say it's £25mish. Both look better that way and like I say it would explain the different figures being banded about. Tbh I would have thought it's easier to draft from a legal perspective. The sell on clause applies no matter what so no need to draft exclusion.

Pure speculation on my part but I suspect the buy back is £40m, with a 30% sell on clause for Chelsea, which would in effect mean it would cost them £28m to get him back. This would explain the different buy back clauses being mooted, albeit it may be the sell on clause doesn't apply in a buy back situation.

Tbf even without the incentives you’d want to sign with City or Chelsea... The players they’ve produced in recent years put our supposedly great academy to shame. Albeit part of that will because they hoover up all the best talent anyway. On the flip side our best youth prospect was released by Arsenal and therefore not really developed by us... Seems to me that gifted young players are looking at the likes of Sancho and deciding they’re best taking the great coaching on offer at these clubs then moving on in their late teens to get first team football.

Long has been a bargain for us. Yes you could reasonably argue we shouldn’t have extended his contract last year but his contribution before that shows he’s been worth the money we paid for him. He can’t shoot but under Koeman he was a great player, and anyone watching live will never forget his goal against Liverpool

When did MLT join Saintsweb??

On paper a bit of a coup for them! Will be interesting to see how he does in the PL

I’m very grateful this post isn’t about something MLT said on Twitter!!

Let’s not point score on this one... anyone reading just a small sample of the threads on this board will know we have plenty of racist dickheads in our fanbase, same as every other team