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Interesting question can any of the people in hysterics think of a comparable transfer for a player in his 30's where the transfer fee was bigger? 4m is an awful lot for a player in decline, yes it will cost us more than that to replace him but we needed to replace him in the next 12 months anyway, this way we get some money in to fund that replacement it's good use of an asset. Still a bloomin shame I hoped he would retire with a lap of honour round St Mary's but it wasn't to be his heart is elsewhere and his reward for all his time with us is just that.

This every time, it is only a problem selling Rickie if sufficient replacement is not purchased. This is clearly Rickie's decision and who can blame him a chance to play for his boyhood club and one last fat pay check before retirement, 4m is an awful lot of money for a 32 year old player who could be finished by the end of next season, an can all the NC fans please remember he was happy to ship Rickie off to West Ham in January so this isn't exactly a new board problem! All this talk of fire sales is hilarious so far we have been confirmed as selling nobody and seem to be driving some pretty hard bargains with potential suitors which really is all the board can do in the case of Adam and Luke, the deals will go through regardless but it seems we are at least trying to dictate the terms and the timing. Yes I'm nervous about next season but also optimistic, we are an attractive proposition to managers and who ever comes in will have a decent wedge to spend on players plus the next crop of academy graduates. This is the future for our club without a chairman willing to gamble huge sums, every year we will loose players and hopefully replace them with rising stars we can profit from.

Don't be so ridiculous everything is evidence of cost cutting and fire sales, we've always signed a dozen players, announced our pre seasons tour and unveiled the new shirt by now in every season ever ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet more pointless waffle based on nothing more than guess work, why do people persist in parading this rubbish like it is total fact straight from the horses mouth? Pochettino was clearly a good fit for us and it worked out well for both parties that's bleedin obvious the rest is just some words from a fan of Celtic who has no more idea what he's on about than the next man in the street!

Play players in there best positions to get the best out of them but we all know tgat

Good luck to all those released it wouldn't be the first time if one if the academy lads came back to bite us but you can't keep them all for ever! Special mention for Guly always gave his best and was a key player in our meteoric rise hope he gets to finish off his career at a good club back home.

Totally agree with that! As for being four players off the champions league just because Liverpool did similar last year pull the other one the team they had to build on was packed with internationals and had England's best midfielder in a generation at it's heart and arguably the worlds best striker already on the books hardly comparable to us.

What a load of rubbish he spouts, the only star who ever wanted to leave under him was ox and he went so one has to assume that if shaw and Lallana wanted to go then he would have let them too. I do hope we do the same hard nosed negotiations he did though!

I disagree with him so much he is on my ignore list but for once he is spot on! I don't remember people crying for the injustice of Bristol rovers loosing rickie to the leagues big spenders and look where they are now! It's just football live with it, there will still be a Southampton fc next year with or without Adam and Luke and we will all still be hear *****ing moaning and sometimes cheering!

Where did I say that? I just said lets not bother enforcing points penalties for minor administrative errors the player was to all intents and purposes eligible all that was missing was a formality piece of paperwork it wasn't like Sunderland were going to be refused international clearance for a player who's registration they already owned and had received clearance for six months before? a fine is perfectly adequate for a minor procedural screw up that didn't give them any sporting advantage they wouldn't have had if the paperwork was correctly completed. The offense is of a totally different order of magnitude to fielding a suspended player or one with a dodgy passport for example both of which scenarios afford a side a sporting advantage that they should never have had. If this was a Saints player we would be seeing a totally different thread, it staggers me how people on here can't see the difference between a clerical error and cheating to gain an advantage. Your response does however remind me why your on my ignore list and make me wish I hadn't clicked show post this forum has been much more enjoyable without your ramblings!

I don't see it that way, from where I'm sitting it's some crappy paper work that the club have to file in triplicate for a player they have already signed and filled the same paper work out for a year before. It's a nonsensical the argument for him being ineligible is paper thin (literally!) and the sort of rubbish football could do without. Stamp out the real blights on our game and then look at petty stuff like this if you have to! Comparing this offense to fielding a suspended player is farcical one is a genuine football matter the other is a nothing incident.

Its an administrative error, if they had filled out a piece of paper that they had already completed the year before he would have been eligible hardly worth mentioning let alone docking them points, wasn't like he was on a dodgy birth certificate, a fake passport or a marriage of convenience!

Wasn't convinced we needed him when we signed him or if a few seasons on Scotland would have dulled his obvious talent, he has certainly proved me wrong on both counts an essential cog in the machine and his ability is clear for all to see.

The joy of having them both on ignore, seriously you should try it, it's like a magic formula for improving this forum.

It will all boil down to what Luke wants to do, it's pretty obvious that there are going to be some big money bids for him this summer and if he wants to go then he will go and good luck to him a football players career can be cruely short so he should earn as much money as he can and give himself the best chance of honours. I would like to see the club insist he hands in a transfer request so he waives any loyalty bonus or share of the fee like Wayne Bridge did. I think the same holds true fro Adam but I don't expect so many bids unless he has a stellar world cup as he is that bit older and while a great player for us has some obvious weaknesses in his game that will be more exposed at a higher level.

Dear God you actually wrote that complete with the mid-table united? Seriously it's a TV football show with some old pro's expressing opinions not the Harry Redknap schoold of tapping up! Everyone knows that the best player eventually migrate to the biggest clubbs and Man Utd are still one of the biggest names in the game so PS was hardly saying anything surprising, if you so worried about bias surely you have to write in every week than Hansen and Lawrenson dribble all over Liverpool or does it only bother you when a saints player gets linked to a bigger team? Get a grip

It sure as hell won't be their fault that is all I know

The boys is made of glass from the waist down, it's a real shame as he looks a genuine talent but if he can't stay fit at this stage in his career it will hold back his development and really doesn't bode well for him in later years.

but isn't it ironic?

Lets hope they are paying a significant amount of his wages, more money wasted in a season thats seems to be going nowhere!

Looks like the friendly property developer is showing his hand and whats the betting he becomes decidedly less friendly as soon as the first digger is on site? He needs to keep the few on side for now to help smooth the planning application through but once he has tesco's millions in his pocket I doubt we will ever hear from him again as he is swiftly moved down the cool wall from super hero to evil villain.

Great video and brilliant to look back on a fantastic couple of years that Guly has played a full part in, I think the only people in this thread who've got anything other than praise for him are the regular muppets! Yes he mucked up in that Derby game but the other goals he's scored more than make up for that if your going to hold one bad performance against pompey against a player then the whole team from our relegation season should never be spoken of again let alone mentioned as legends like Niemi so often is!

Please stop quoting him not only does it feed the mindless troll and thus justify his existence it defeats the point of him being on my block list. If people just didn't respond to these muppets they would soon get bored and leave the forum or at least try and be vaguely creative with their idiocy.

Not surprised I think the prem is a step above his level, as has been said would be nice to see him sign off with a premier league goal and a decent send off from the fans, despite some peoples opinions he was an essential part of the team that got us back to the prem and has always put in a decent shift.

This totally, I see no need to disrupt the team and land up with a potentially disappointing finish to the season and a slide out of the top half but if we are giving a player 10 minutes at the end I'd much rather it was on of our potential future players than Guly or Hoiveld both of whom are probably on there way out of the club at some point in the near future.