Baird of the land

"I will be 39 in January but I am physically fit and could have carried on. What I didn't want to be was someone who was thrown on to have balls smashed up to them." This line amused me. So basically going to Burnley made him want to retire.

Decent move for Sam & money for Saints. Hope he can kick on with first team football for them.

The reality is that we are never going to get that sort of fee for someone who is on the fringes of our squad, who while talented has never performed with any sort of consistency. I'll be happy just to escape from this one unscathed and invest that money elsewhere in someone committed to Ralph's project.

Seems fine. Hopefully we can get it sorted quickly.

Ming’s was worth 25m to villa because he did so well for them. Nobody else was going to pay near that. Same way saints got stitched up for saganowski back in the day There’s a good article on foo5ball365 about exactly this.

We've done more business than many so far. Now we need to hope we can move some on, so we can make further improvements.

He deserved panning, signing a new contract in January with a release clause till the end of June that no one activated. Then his agent starts acting like he's being treated abominably. West Ham have done well to be shot of him.

Even if they are interested he may he's alternative choice if they can't get their first choice target.

Giving we bought him for was it 18m i'd be happy enough with 20m

Final Nail in the coffin of the previous crop of youngsters who’s development had been mucked about with during previous incumbents reign. Hope the likes of reed/hesketh can get decent permanent moves sorted. No clue how the useless hoedt made the cut, hopefully it’s just to get him in the shop window due to his sheer ineptitude leading to no current interest.

Hopefully someone is going to come in with a real bid shortly. Seems a situation where this dragging on his hardly going to be helpful to us.

VAR once again showing off how awful it is.

They sold Grigg in Jan to Sunderland didn’t they.

7m million for long would be great. Can’t see them bidding it though.

Given white’s finishing it is bizarre she isn’t the penalty taker

I can see why they’d be interested. He’s clearly talented, he’s just far too prone too switching off in terms of concentration for my liking.

At 21 being sent on loan to a league one probably is not indicative of breaking into first team at saints.

Don't see any point in loaning him out. If he's going to leave its because its going to generate significant funds.

At 26 you'd really feel Zaha needs his big move this summer if it is going to happen.

If we get big money for someone that erratic and not in our first choice center mid pair it seems pretty obvious to take it. Think we’d need some sort of midfielder to come in though not at anywhere near the price level of lemina.

Guessing some of the add ons are to cover ourselves in case he suddenly blooms into an england international. 11 m seems a decent fee anyway for both sides.

A cb probably next priority. Ideally someone bids for Stephens first. Lots of questions beyond that in terms of if get bids for players on fringe of xi/shift completely unwanted if someone like lemina is moved on we’d need a center mid If boufal is off we might need another wide option in Ralph’s preferred 4222 At full back the question is does Ralph like Ramsay/Vokins given we do move Cedric/targett on For keeper if we somehow sell both Forster/McCarthy is Lewis considered backup quality.

Makes sense, freeing up room for Vikings to develop. Ideally you’d hope we’d get them up closer to 10m.

It’s not going to be sorted. The big teams will get even more decisions with var.

Hate those there’s barest of contact and ergo it’s a penalty decisions. Current var was never going to do anything but rubber stamp that poor decision which makes one wonder why the need for another delay. Looking forward to ad companies buying var break ad space on sky/but etc.