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In fact he went to Hull for the money, he was all set to go to Seville but when Hull came in for him he dropped them without a word and signed at Hull. Seville were mightily parsed off.

Us not signing him would be a good bet then, because we won't. PSG have midfielders wanting to defect in droves, Cabaye will probably stay there.

We are no doubt, he's no longer on loan at Hull, loans finish with the season.

I don't doubt that we could have terminated his contract and thus wiped out any chance of ever recovering a penny of the sum we paid for him. When you've paid 12+ million or whatever it was for a player you tend to think twice about kicking his arse out of the door for free!!

If you say so, I'd not seen that before, just that there was a 1.5 million clause to buy out our permanent deal option.

Why 3 million ?

Although I doubt very much that we intend to start the season with Yoshida as a first choice centre back. For the time being it seems that only the small change and "free" transfer deals are getting done. Clubs are holding out for a maximum amount on really first rate players and the potential buyers are, as of yet, having none of it. Players will start coming back to their club in about 10 days or so I suppose and then we'll probably see the volume of business accelerating. Pity we had all those pointless internationals 10-20 days after the end of seasons, holding everything up.

Except that for the time being there are no deals.

Turkish domestic trophies one assumes, I mean why bother finishing 126th in the London Marathon when you can win the Little Sitting on the Wold 5km? Kjaer is there for the money and the money alone, he'll probably be whining to get out of the dump by October.

And the last PL club to do that was???????????? Our asking prices are too high, we'll no doubt soften a bit as the summer wears on. In the end we'll probably get 13 and a half for Clyne and about 22 for Morgan.

Too expensive for us perhaps, or just that he's been tied up with internationals and stuff.

But they're also selling Miranda to Inter apparently. Fees for that sale are nearly exactly the same as those that the article reports them paying for this Brazilian.

I think they still want Osvaldo, they just don't want to pay for him. They know that we're desperate and that we'll probably agree another loan.

Like I said, Van der Wiel, part exchange for Di Maria who LvG doesn't want.

Here's a little list of players Utd have been 'interested in or made an offer for" in the last 2 weeks or so (according to the press and rumour sites of course). Sergio Ramos, Firmino, Daniel Alves, Harry Kane, Otamendi, Oblak, Clyne, Hummels, Laporte, Miranda, CRonaldo, Bale, Vlaar, Schweinsteiger, Strootman, Witsel, Cech, Van Der Wiel, Cavani, Pogba, Cillessen, Lloris, Benzema, Muller, Mandzukic, Schneiderlin, Gaitan, Sterling, Varane, Navas, Higuain, Vidal, Gundogan, Handanovic, Bacca, Dragovic, Vietto, Robben, Felipe Anderson, Jackson Martinez, Boateng, Lacazette, Sneijder, Reus. Got to be over a billions worth of talent in there.

I think he had some injuries mid season, first choice when available IIRC. Anyway it's sort of academic really. Can't think that Jos or Maya were ever preferred to Fonte if he was available.

Wasn't what...or is this just the argument sketch all over again...

More or less but there are global figures in the accounts, for instance we know that our summer sales last year brought in a total of some 82 million euros of which 31.5 million came from Shaw and Lambert (because of the timing)

Well I think he kinda had, we started back in the PL in August 2012, he was always a regular in our side I think, first with Jos or Maya,then with Lovren and finally with Toby.

What is ?

Sounds like you're wasting your time wondering about things of no great importance then....:rolleyes:

One wonders just how many "Sotonians" are actually Sotonians. I'd think that over half of the posters on these forums actually aren't. Now Saintsweb well that's about Saints but a Sotonian is a very precise thing, ie someone from Southampton, I mean you don't get so many Old Tauntonians who went to St Annes now do you.

Yes he did, came on at half time.

26th will be a Saturday, don't know how they calculate these things these days, official boxing day and real boxing day perhaps.

Didn't Imbula sign for Valencia already ?