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Albrighton on a free, that's not too bad, wouldn't mind him on a free at Saints (or wouldn't have before he went to leicester)

No doubt there will eventually be much wrangling by battalions of legal men over it, we'll have it sussed though because the Lambert transfer will be a precursor, just don't see Bournemouth giving up easily over a penny they think they're due that's all. I believe they even went as far as putting a photo of the original agreement on their twitter towards the end of april with a promise not to budge an iota.. Here's the doc, make whatever of it you will. http://www.veooz.com/photos/HHAOnh5.html

No doubt we'd have to hand over 25% of them when and if we get them. They'd have their lawyers on it in a flash, we could try to buy our way out of them with a unique sum if the adds-on are reasonable but if they're unlikely ever to arrive then best leave it be.

No idea but as he's been so seemingly determined to get a specific move I'd not like to see the consequences if it fails.

Yes I see that, then again as I believe that most British players are overvalued and overated and that's why you have a national side peopled by over 30s including makeshift right backs and CMs who should have been put out to grass years ago. I always tend to believe that the real value of players is only apparent when they move from country to country. Now if GB had the unique national side that it's size merits we'd be far more competitive and being English would be downgraded as far as value goes. 4 national sides for 1 nation is ridiculous don't you think.

No they made a loss of 50 million in 2012/13, their debts exceed that by far. However as the sanction is only a smack on the wrist unless you actual owe money to the taxman (like Parma-kicked out for 300K€ replaced by Torino) I doubt that they're particularly worried about it; PSG certainly aren't they're just spending even more. UEFA can only limit you for your European campaign, nothing else, so you get to play in Europe with a squad of 21 instead of 25 and a fine, most of which is only payable if you're naughty again, I doubt they're really worried.

Well it's 500K to Bournemouth for sure.

So eventually he ends up in the bargain basket for ex Saints footballers, still it's a job and he should get some game time there in league 1.

So the initial offer (according to Liverpool anyway) was about 17/18 million plus add ons and now it's probably 18/19 million plus even more add ons. Don't see 15 million mentioned anywhere as a base figure.

Away from the trials and tribulations at SMS for a moment. I see that Hants are having another good game, 388 in the first innings, Derbys just avoided the follow on and Hants made a few quick runs to set them 340 odd. Thought we might be deprived of a result by the rain this morning, however all seems to be going swimmingly now as we have them at 51/6 with about 2 hours play left (barring rain/bad light). With Worcs-Surrey held up by the weather we might get some clear water at the top of Div 2 if we can get those 4 wickets.

Really? Can I see that for myself somewhere or is it just the enlightened few who know that ?

Really, so the 25 million take it or leave in the papers is in fact total bolloaks ? that makes more sense then. How do you know this and journalists don't ?

Indeed, but most of us have seen the paper and there are no time limits or get-out clauses. As they were quoted in various papers as being determined not to budge on it anyway now (although they might have done years back) there's little hope really.

But if Liverpool have actually offered us a take it or leave it 25 million £ (and AFCB would know how to verify that) then their share is 6.25 million so why would they settle for 3 million when it opens the door to us accepting the offered 25 million and thus depriving them of 6.25 million £. It suits Saints and Liverpool no doubt but it won't suit Bournemouth, we'd have to go to at least 5 million to get their agreement to that sort of deal. At the end of the day there'll have to be a bit of give and take from each element but we can't really expect Bournemouth to make the lion's share of the effort.

We probably had minimum sales numbers with Adidas, they are not known for their charitable works towards football clubs. Probably one of the big sticking points in renewing the contract with them for next season. The shirt, being what it is, wasn't all that popular was it ?

Ah no no it doesn't work like that at all. Their cut would be calculated on the estimated value of the whole deal not just on the cash element. If they don't like what we propose to them they'll ask for a tribunal to evaluate the deal and we'd have to pay them 25% of the total estimated value. You just cannot contourn contractual and legally binding agreements with jiggery pokery like that. We will end up giving Bournemouth upwards of 5.5 million £ in cash.

doubt if it would interest pahars though, bit of a step down for him actually. National team manager to U18 coach at Saints isn't really a career progression. If he wants to get on he really has to get some decent club management experience first.

But we'll still have to give Bournemouth 25% of the total so the cash element will be sorely eroded. We'd end up with the 2 players (and their subsequently higher wage bill element) and about 5 million in cash. Not the sort of deal we should be considering really. 25 million outright, we give Bournemoth their share and buy a really good replacement for about 15... quids in.

Very early for that sort of game though. I think Borussia are pencilled in to play Liverpool at Anfield the week before the season starts for us. Given that the WC for the major players doesn't finish until nearly mid July I can't see any German side getting involved in major matches a couple of days afterwards.

Indeed and we should not kill the golden goose for a ha'porth of tar.

and Gorman and Dodd, don't forget them. Anyway anyone who knows even a bit about football on a global basis would know that Pochettino was a major signing. Great player, respected everywhere that he went and had a promising start at Espanyol until they started selling everything that wasn't nailed down. We will regret his loss.

But their league performance that season was pretty poor I think,

I read that about Milner, seems like strange thing to do, then again it's only against Ecuador who are a bit hit and miss. Not too bad against the Dutch, not at all great against Mexicio. So Shaw might be up against Valencia in today's game, interesting test for him.

It's Dutch football, has no standing in my opinion. I can only judge him on his performances at Benfica and Valence and they don't seem very good.

Because he made it up himself.