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New shirt looks good. Not sure if I'll be forking out £50 though...feeling a bit ripped off by the club at the moment....will wait and see how much they invest in the squad before putting my hand back in my wallet.

This. With Pelle in particular we will pay more as Koeman wants him and they know we've got the money burning a hole.

Don't be such a naive girl....if we were not important to them, why try to buy our best players. Everytime we faced them we were their rivals you dinlo.

Well whatever...it's £50 that will be staying in my bank account!

Nah, you're kind of half right. Fonte was better with Lovren, but that's not due to Lovren specifically. Fonte has enough about him to raise his game with whatever partner providing that partner is a PL class defender (i.e. a primarily left-footed ball player) that suits Fonte's game...it could be anyone that meets that spec.

Liverpool are enacting a strategy that has served other PL teams in the past...buy up near contender clubs best players to break up the squad, even if they're not really needed. It kills two birds with one stone - destroys the other team and bolsters the depth of their own squad. They knew Saints were on the brink of something big - let's face it, we stood tall against them last season - so unfortunately Saints became the natural target. Unfortunately, our owners don't have the dangly bits to stand up to the bullies and use financial muscle to keep players under long contracts with the club. Not only that, but we've got decent youngsters knocking on the 1st team door waiting for their chance - the strategy is of course to sell our first team, not our Academy products. We have had it confirmed to us this summer that we are nothing but a breeding ground - that's what's "#happening'. Lovren is an incidental - a player brought in to bolster the PL squad as we didn't have that quality coming through to claim a CB slot. If the funds are there and a decent player available, then he's replaceable.

Perhaps the question should be, do you think we'll spend more than £25-30m in this window? I would be pleasantly surprised if we did I think many fans would just like a bit of good news on the transfer front as, lets face it, the 3 most iconic players from the '13/14 squad have been pilfered. It's as simple as that.

Steve D...you don't get the Captaincy of your National side for no good reason.

LOL. Nice.

Take a cr4p or get off the pot Saints. Fannying around with silly bids while Koeman starts pre-season without a strike force appears to be a bit noddy.

FOOK YOU 14 years that are now forgettable thanks to your disgraceful exit from Saints FC. Fook you Lallana for your badge kissing insincerity - you could have had a place in our hearts. Clattenburg was right - Saints FC supporters.

FOOK YOU 14 years that are now forgettable thanks to your disgraceful exit from Saints FC. Fook you Lallana for your badge kissing insincerity - you could have had a place in our hearts. Clattenburg was right - Saints FC supporters.

Mmm, now whatever happened to the last flag contributed to from this site? Oh.

Thing is, how many Saints fans will know what he's said on the Pool site versus his Echo ad? Most will probably think the noob is a hero!

Well after reading 9 pages of vitriol there's not much to add. In summary though, not worried about him going but completely amazed at the lack of respect he has shown his teammates, the clubs staff and most of all the fans. Above everything, he was team Captain - what the hell did that actually mean to him? Clearly sweet FA. Sorry Lallana, no wormy worded Echo advert is going to cut it...the few words of the OS statement tells me more than you could ever say.

So basically all the talk about him about sign blah blah is rubbish. Oh well move on.

He's full of the brown stuff...can't believe anyone thinks this is true...lol

Top, top post.

Wumtastic thread.

#itshappeningbutnotthewayweexpected (Sorry...couldn't resist).

Meh - good point. lol

No of course not...there is the possibility that players heads would still be turned, however I do believe that Cortese and Mopo would have had a more sound strategy to keeping players on board. Once Cortese went the chinks in the armour started to appear and it went to rat-sh1t from that point forward. However, as I said the Prem creates the situation where cash is king - over and above that, it's the culture and conditions created by the club. If that were not true then why would Saints invest so much in Staplewood for example? Thing is, the outgoing players may prove to be a blessing in disguise...we might actually push on from here...who knows? The only leaver I'm really miffed about losing really is Shaw because he symbolised the supposed new age future - the first real talent to break into the 1st team since our rise back to the Prem. Now he's been sold it's shown that the strategy is pretty much dead to the current Board.

Why do you think tomorrow?

Took Mopo's boot up Lallana's arse to make him defend half-decently TBF!

I doubt it - they can't be arsed to take down the posters and shop fittings plastered with Lambert, Shaw and Lallana in the West Quay store etc., so can't see them worried about that TBH!