Lallana's Left Peg

Maybe we just can't afford it. I can understand that - there isn't much money about.

History is the only thing that makes you a big club to be fair - lots of money doesn't and you can't be called big on the basis of what might happen in the future either. I think it's fairly clear which clubs are and are not big. The main issue is that people confuse big with good. Or in Liverpool's case, big with relevant. Liverpool are a big club - huge in fact. But they are also irrelevant domestically and in Europe. Big and irrelevant.

Find it hard to believe you make an opening bid of £20m for a player and then walk away. I would imagine the only circumstance where that happens is when all of a sudden a different deal opens up for you.

I suspect right now our fourth choice centre-back last season is looking over his shoulder wondering how good the youngsters are rather than believing he is a starter for a club with our stated ambition.

How would he be causing trouble? He wouldn't train with us and it gives us another two months to find someone to take him off our hands without the need for severance pay.

So Clasie goes past players like Cazorla? I've not seen him play, so I have no idea.

Yep - as others have said, you'd presume Saints are saving a bit of money doing this, but if he was due to earn £60k a week for the next two years and we've paid him off at 50k a week, we've only really free'd up 10k a week of wages (for example) in terms of money saved. But the club must have been really desperate to see him go - they could have waited until the 1st September to do this.

Completely different type of player though. Unless you can tell me Clasie is an attacking midfielder? But my point is: A Feyenoord supporter says on here that Clasie isn't up to much physically, Clasie is small and undersized for central midfield in this league, and we know that our best performing central midfielders (the ones in front of the back four) all have a physical presence about them. He may be a good footballer but is he the right footballer for the front of our back four?

£13m of that is the transfer fee? So £12m over two seasons in wages and severance agreement!?! Some money back from Juventus, Inter, and Boca but still, what a mistake he has turned out to be.

He is very small though. Not many small players who aren't physical beasts do well in central midfield in the Premier League any more, do they?

Brendan Rodgers has not improved a single defender during his three years at the club. Brendan Rodgers has not been able to craft a team that has an equal balance between attack and defence during his three years at the club. Brendan Rodgers is on borrowed time and Clyne will be exercising his one-on-one ability with his winger on the pitch more than he will be with his Manager on the training pitch.

Stephens, McCarthy, and Mugabi can all play right back but none are typically built for it or have the characteristics of the modern full back, plus their natural position is centre back.

So, do we sign another right back or not?

Barcelona claim Luiz Suarez cost them £65m. Liverpool sold Suarez and signed Lallana, Lovren, Clyne, and Lambert with the money.

That Japanese fella they've signed up front never felt like a Pearson signing.

He was on course for around the same number of appearances as he managed in his first two seasons in the Premier League. There is no doubt in my mind that the club delaying a decision on whether or not to offer him a new deal played a big part in him wishing to move elsewhere.

West Ham will still sign Carlton Cole on transfer deadline day. It's one of the rules.

Cork never said he wanted to be first choice as far as I am aware - he said he wanted to feel more wanted. As in, perhaps not waiting until he had 6 months left on his contract to offer him a new deal.

Posting profits does not equate to money in the bank, there is no evidence to suggest there is a lot of money to spend whatsoever. I said at the start of the summer I could only see us spending £15m or so independent of sales and I still think that is true.

Of course, what we definitely don't do is feed the machine by discussing it, debating it, retweeting it, jumping on anything they say, and spreading it all whether it is true or not. We're all to blame as much as the media.

Miranda was in and out of the team last season, so I don't think this automatically means a spot opens up for Toby.

Off the top of my head: Will Wood (left back or centre back) Jordan Turnbull (centre back) Jack Stephens (centre back) Bevis Mugabi (centre back or right back) Dominic Gape (central midfield) Sam McQueen (winger) Sam Gallagher (striker) Ryan Seager (striker) Armani Little (central midfielder) Harry Isted (goalkeeper) Jake Hesketh (attacking midfielder) Jason McCarthy (centre back) Josh Debayo (centre back or left back)

Centre back is one of the hardest positions to break through in the Premier League but I think Stephens and Turnbull could get some games for us in the cups and / or Europe if they stayed. Whether or not that is the best thing for their development is another thing, but if they do both leave on loan it should be for games in the Championship.

A few things I noticed from the Koeman video yesterday: 1. He references Juanmi as an attacking midfielder / number 10 2. He says we need more players in that position (Praet seems to play there) What would this mean for James Ward-Prowse who has played a lot in that position for us under Koeman?