Lighthouse

So you would tune in to watch a game between Levadia Tallinn and Man City. That would constitute better entertainment to you than say City against Real or Bayern against Barca? It would be a crap competition, it's basically the Europa League but with Man City, Athletico, Bayern, PSG and Juve thrown in. There wouldn't be a game worth watching until you got to the semi finals. It would just be the Champions of Slovenia, Montenegro and Hungary getting smashed by the bigger clubs in the early stages.

You are suggesting Saints are going to win the Premier League, in order to qualify for Cyclon's proposed Champs League?

Would ruin the Champions League and probably a lot of domestic leagues too. Would you really want to watch Maribor, Shamrock Rovers, Dinamo Minsk and Levadia Tallinn instead of Real, Barca, Chelsea, Arsenal and Dortmund?

Harvey? Unlikely IMO.

Liking the look of matey on the left. Anyone who is too cool to wear a tie in the photo has got to be good. The black guy with the red tie has certainly got a sh*t enough hair cut to play for Liverpool.

What makes you think we need a 5th and 6th choice striker? It depends on the system we play. Last year 3 would be enough, playing one up front with J Rod, Lambert and Osvaldo all able to lead the line. If we are going 3-5-2 then 4 strikers are probably needed but never 6. Sharp and Mayuka are surplus to requirements, neither comes close to Premier League standard, let alone top half.

Twitter rumours are the new, 'bloke down the pub told me...' Who on twitter?

You've re-written what I said so you can get on your high horse. I didn't say being a footballer was more demanding or important. It is however more difficult and Luke possesses a unique level of talent which no other teenager, possibly in the world, possesses. That's why he is paid so much. He has unique abilities and his skills are worth tens of millions to a club. I didn't say being a carer was easy either. I said anyone could do it given minimal training. You don't need a degree in neurology to be a care worker. I'm not being crass or disrespectful, I'm sure it is a tough job at times. It does not however take a special talent to be a care worker. I wont try it thanks, I've made my career choice. She made hers, I'm not sure why you are complaining about her wages or comparing her to a Premier League footballer.

Interesting comment about 'I can tell from your face you support Ajax'. I wonder if he was implying 'You look like a Jew' when he said that.

What if Liverpool draw Barca in the CL next year? I just hope there are some better tasting players in the Liverpool squad. Maybe Suarez can lick them and find out.

If I was being slightly ambitious I'd go for Marshall to replace Gazza/Kelvin Someone to replace Shaw, I've no idea how good Indi is Caulker to replace Jos or Lovren if he leaves Yarmolenko to replace Guly Konoplyanka to replace Lallana Lukaku to replace Lambert Someone to replace Osvaldo. Not sure on Pelle, a 29 year old with 1 good season in Holland. That would leave us with a pretty healthy squad IMO.

The wages of footballers reflect the number of people prepared to watch them and how much they are willing to pay for the privilege. The fact is a very large number of people think it is worth paying large amounts to watch these players. We as fans are basically giving our money to the players, albeit not directly. I almost laugh when I see people handing footballers fistfuls of their cash and in the same breath saying, "it's disgusting how much they earn." It's the same with ticket prices. I think it was West Ham away last year when they wanted about £42 a ticket. The number of people complaining about ticket prices, who then bought one any way was just silly.

Simple economics, supply and demand. Luke is arguably the most talented teenager in the World when it comes to playing football. There is only one of him and his skills could be worth tens on millions in prize money. No discrespect to your lass but anybody can wipe an arse or give an injection given minimal training. I'm sure it's unpleasant at times but it doesn't take any great skill, that's the difference between the two cases. If you don't like the way footballers are paid, stop paying £40 a game to watch them, cancel your £50 a month Sky Sports package and don't buy any more £40 Adidas clothing which costs 50p to make.

I'm dubious on Pelle. Okay he has a good record in The Netherlands but £10m for a 29 year old seems a bit much to me. I'd expect something a bit special for that price.

You honestly believe a professional footballer who has been dedicated to playing his whole life isn't interested in winning the Premier League or Champions League? Money is all he cares about.

Christ, surely nobody is this thick? If you genuinely don't know, £30,000,000 is the answer. If Shaw wasn't under contract he would have walked out of here a free agent.

Well those kids have just learned a lesson in the realities of football. If you brought your kids up telling them players like Lallana and Shaw are world super stars and will never leave us then more fool you. If you print the name of a player on a shirt that's always the risk you take. It's not like you can never wear the shirt again, I've still got a replica shirt with 'Pahars' on the back lying around somewhere. I honestly don't get why people are upset about this. It's as if some of you have only taken an interest in football this week and the idea of players moving to Man Utd for big money is news to you. If you didn't come to terms with the possibility of Shaw leaving about a year ago, you had your head in the sand.

The best thing about this in terms of the academy is building our reputation throughout Britain. Every parent of every 10 year old wannabe will want their kid to go to Saints academy when they see us turning out the best players in the World. Bale, Walcott, Chamberlain, Lallana and Shaw, that's quite some track record which nobody in Britain can match. These big money sales in the long run will mean when can take our pick of the best young talent in the South of England.

If we sell Lallana and Lovren (which remains very much an IF at this stage) then we will have £70m to spend instead of £30m. We could only spend half of that and still have a truly excellent team. You know your Ukrainian football Charlie, according to some press reports we could afford Yarmolenko AND Konoplyanka with the £25m we want for Lallana. Thats just an example but if you reinvest wisely you can often come out stronger than before. With good management, 4 new faces in the team really shouldn't be a problem. There may be teething pains to start but that's part of football.

It seems some of you have only just started watching football this week. For the benefit of everyone else let's think back to the times when: - We were a mid table Championsip club with Walcott, then we sold him, reinvested the money and got into the playoffs the following season. We would have won the League with a decent manager. - Rooney left Everton who were mid table, then immediately qualified for the Champions league and have been flirting around the top 5 ever since. Not relevant to Saints but it proves selling a teenage wonder kid isn't exactly a death sentence. - We sold Chamberlain, reinvested the money and got promoted to the Premier League at the first attempt. - We sold Dean Richards for a large fee, who then developed a brain tumour and was forced to retire. The money was eventually reinvested in Killer and Niemi. Who came out of that deal better? - We sold Davies to Blackburn. He has never been the same since. We got Beattie in part ex. And he eventually drove us to the Cup final. - We sold Beattie to Everton and brought in Camara and Squashie who almost kept us up. If it weren't for Arrys dodgy management we would have done.

Don't we? How have we gone from League 1 without a team to 8th in the Premier League without building strong squads? Did we not sign Lovren, Wanyama and Osvaldo last season? Granted the latter was a dud but we showed ambition and perigee bring those players in and had the cash to back it up. I don't see any reason we can't match that ambition this transfer window, especially with another £30m to spend and a manager of Koeman's reputation.

We suffered after Bale left because Burley was a tool. He brought in Vignal, then decided not to play him, spent most of the money acquiring sh*t midfielders we didn't need and started the season with no centre halves. Bale wasn't our whole left side, he had a decent partnership with Skacel who allowed him to get forward well. Thats going over old ground though. The point is, if we had invested that money on a couple of new defenders we would have been okay but Burley wasted it.

Getting £30m is neither sad nor pointless. The way some people are reacting, you would think Luke has just walked out the door for free. Without meaning to be rude, your post is highly naive. Almost every club is a selling club to some extent, even Arsenal and Man Utd have had to sell their best players. Players moving on to bigger clubs has been going on since the beginning of time. If this disappoints you, go and watch the LPGA because it's not going to change any time soon.

Please God no. Was a liability in the few fleeting glimpses I've seen of him at Utd. Just to put this sale into some sort of context, if you were the Saints manager now and the chairman said here's £30m go and spend it however you like, how many of you would go and blow the whole wad on a teenage LB? Even as undoubtedly talented as Shaw is, I doubt many people would do that.

Remember how badly Eveton suffered the seasson after they sold Rooney? I really hope we don't suffer the same fate. We may not get another LB of Shaw's quality but £30m would buy J Rod, Wanyama and Lovren. If I said to you before a game last season, would rather Shaw got injured or all 3 of the others, what would you choose. As long as we invest this money sensibly and stay away from sodding Italy I think we will come out f it stronger. Yes we will most likely be weaker at LB but if we have a decent replacement, a £10m centre half and a £15m striker we will most likely be better off.