Baird of the land

No you are wrong, you don't improve by selling your best players and then only having the option of attracting substandard ones as their replacements.

If Everton held out for 27.5m for Fellaini, then adding the English premium(homegrown value) he's worth 30m easily.

If true that yakin's off market, that really leaves koeman's of those options as stand out. Think gross is a decent manager but when we are under siege by hostile press giving them more ammunition in the form of a manager who they pilloried at spurs doesn't seem wise.

Doubt we'll see Rodriguez till Xmas. New signings are going to have to be top drawer.

Those players came to a club with ambition. If we sell all the players being touted we won't be able to get replacements of the same standard. I'm waiting for more signs of if this is a fire sale before betting though.

It would fly completely in the face of our strategy of bringing through our own youngsters and hardly see reed getting any football there which would completely set his development back.

Simon peach on twitter doesn't seem to think offer is too good to refuse. Hoping he's right as I think it should be refused and hope Liverpool go after shaqiri if they have that little interest in him.

Really is a fire sale if we are selling the entire academy to Liverpool.

How does the song to.... And if you tolerate this then your lovren will be next.

Hate this nonsense about not wanting to keep an unhappy player. Suarez wanted to go to arsenal last summer but Liverpool wouldn't let him and he didn't sulk on the pitch. If the deal doesn't match what saints want or if saints don't feel selling is in their interests now they are perfectly in their rights to fig their heels in and say come back next year.

Come on saints board reject liverpool's supposed cheeky final offer. Might gain you some respect.

Sorry completely disagree. 30m should be our red line in the sand at bare minimum. Also don't think we can afford to let the exits become a stampede so we have to be tough in regards who we allow to go and ignore the players feelings. 2 seasons ago Swansea did great. They sold Allen but they didn't sell michu, William's, Taylor, vorm etcetera who were all coveted by other clubs.

If they sell all those players then yes there should be a peaceful demonstration urging them to put the club up for sale as they clearly will have illustrated they merely want to asset strip saints. Personally I'm still hoping they are just naive and the lambert debacle will make them realise they have to dig their heels in and resist all bids rather than acting as the facilitators of moves.

No it ain't. I see no issue with our 30m valuation. Even rejecting that valuation is perfectly reasonable as we should severely limit the number of departures this summer.

Kyle lafferty could be decent low priced option.

Indeed, let them move onto other targets. We shouldn't want to sell lallana anyway.

Yep we can't afford to let more than 2 go in my opinion or it will snowball. Given we've flogged lambert that would mean one of shaw or lallana but not both.

Indeed they have to have spine to tell players that they are staying or this will end in a stampede where the only players left at saints are the ones we wanted to get rid of.

Disappointed Lambert is going to World Cup as a Liverpool player. Really petty of them to force it through now and really poor of saints to accept their minuscule bid but hey ho. Lallana and shaw are still saints players as of now. Refuse to believe we'll further damage the the pr success of having England players on show in World Cup but you never know with this board.

Lallana had some very nice moments again tonight. Simply has to be in the starting lineup. Rooney, we'll beck and Henderson very anonymous.

Yeah don't get why we haven't offered them new contracts, on last day of season cork seemed to want it to get sorted. My fear is that we are trying to slash the wage bill back, otherwise why wouldn't we want to keep 2 of our better players.

Jordan Rhodes, obviously would cost far more than 4m, maybe we can explain Liverpool robbed us blind and they'll take sympathy on us and give us a discount.

Don't want Saints board to be acting as the agent for our players getting them their dream moves whilst screwing the club over. I want them to act in the interests of Saints.

We'll be getting Le Tiss out of retirement like Guernsey did at this rate to wear the number 7.

We're on course to be the club everyone points at and looks at with pity, rather than the model for others to admire and wish to emulate that we've been for the last few seasons. Either the board permits this firesale and we all hope a white knight appears on the horizon to buy the club before its too late or they shock us all by revealing some gumption by retaining and improving upon our squad for a push towards the europa league places as promised.