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Hindsight be arsed, I said last summer that Shaw wasn't worth the fee being asked for him, in fact I said no-one would pay it, Utd just got rolled over on him. Shaw can't defend correctly and can't seem to do anything useful with the ball when he gets forward. Perhaps he's just not too intelligent.

Evidently not, but if we can get as good for half of the price he's obviously overpriced. Although money is awash in the PL nowadays clubs are starting to think twice about silly transfers and to rate a 25 million £ fee you need to have something that Morgan doesn't have... European level Club Experience. We sold too many busts last season to get away with it again...unfortunately for the player. If we're not prepared to drop our fee by at least 5 million I think he might still be here next season and that may well affect him adversely. We rate an Europa League winner at 9 million and yet we're asking 25 for a player who's never even had a sniff of European football.

It certainly didn't but Shaw was never worth the price Utd paid for him, he had nothing about him to warrant such a fee except a lot of press hype. Bertrand was always the far better player and Utd should have bought him and not sick note Shaw. Perhaps that's Morgan's case as well..overated and overpriced.

To be fair Milner and Ings are excellent signings who just happened to be available at the end of their contracts. Trouble is you can only get that sort of players for free (or significantly less because it's a tribunal that decides) if you are prepared to pay the type of salary that few clubs can.

So you think in fact that we can get a player of equal quality for half of the price. No wonder no side is falling over itself to meet our valuation then when there's as good for half of it available.

Why?

No transfer fee usually equates to higher salries for decent players.

If wishes were horses beggars would ride as my Gran used to say. 25 million is a lot of money and I really can't see many teams being willing to pay it. The 8/13 quote is just based on one brief Canal+Sport "fact". Last season he was about 1/4 to join Spurs.

All I can tell ou is that if you're looking at booking hotels you need to do it quickly because of the festival occuring in the city at the time of our game with them. Had to go for one on the high side myself, then again I was a bit lazy and didn't search much..

Perhaps it's a weeny bit more complicated than that. From the little I"ve seen of it in the Spanish press the "default amount" and the loan fee were roughly equal. Perhaps we didn't pay them the loan fee initially and it would have been added to the transfer fee in the event of a permanent deal this summer. So perhaps we haven't paid them and they thus don't need to pay us at all before selling him on to the highest bidder.

Don't you think that with all these social media outlets that transfer speculation is just getting wilder and wilder. I mean some of it used to be factual, now it's 99.9% bolloaks. Had a look through some of it this afternoon, it's just gotten out of hand. To think that fools lose money to bookies because of these "certs" is just shameful. Best bet ? Bet on every player that the on line turf accounts quote to stay with the club he's actually with. I mean you could get really good odds on Dani Alves signing back on at Barca a week ago, Morgan at 6/1 to stay at Saints looks like a good deal as well.

When's their first pre-season game ? About then I expect.

Watched the first half, I'd have to say that England look like a school XI, kick and rush alternating with ball hogging by what I presume is supposed to be the CF. A lot of defensive errors as well.

Well unless you're Nathaniel Clyne of course I can't see that that would make all that much difference.

Most likely option for him, he'll probably do well there.

How long is a piece of string ? Same question really.

Same as most other players then, AS Rome is the Italian Arsenal for agents. L'Equipe says Van der Wiel is going to Man U, mind you they sometimes get it wrong.

Because it's so selective. I mean if they made a compilation of Shelvey long shots to the top corner you'd think great, then if they made another one with the 15 or 16 that end up in Row Z for each one that doesn't you'd think what a pile of shîte. I mean Steve De ridder looked good on YouTube right? And Tadanari Lee, probably even Mayuka as well..

In his case about 6 kg of muscle. I'm sure we can remedy that though, if he has the will to stick it out until then, think he likes us and wants to stay though so it may come about.

Then again Arsenal and Barcelona are usually linked to everyone..before the players concerned usually end up at Inter, Villareal and West Ham.

Van der Wiel to Utd...no idea where Clyne may end up, probably at Saints. Think you can get quite good odds on that actually.

No idea, read it somewhere that's all, plays for Besiktas at the moment I believe.

Train for me, 86 euros, not bad at all.

Nope, Gokun Tore...something like that, winger/AM apparently....