| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 12:25 - Mar 26 with 1799 views | jopreston |
If this is truly the value we have set for him, he will be playing here next season or perhaps on strike as no way in hell we will get £100m for him. |  | |  |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 12:39 - Mar 26 with 1753 views | BLEEDRED |
Be lucky if we get £25million | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 12:51 - Mar 26 with 1728 views | mushinexile |
Well, if that doesn't sum up the delusional nature of SR's business model, I don't know what does. | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 13:03 - Mar 26 with 1699 views | PatfromPoole |
Didn't realise he had German agents.
Maybe he'll end up at Dortmund.
He could do far worse. |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 13:06 - Mar 26 with 1696 views | sledger |
hes an english player and that commands a premium,id be disappointed if saints didnt play hardball,if they want him twist our arms. | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 13:27 - Mar 26 with 1667 views | TripleNiemi |
The world truly has gone bonkers |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 14:57 - Mar 26 with 1575 views | saint901 |
Not the faintest chance in Hades that we will get £100m - it's all posturing.
If we get between £20m and £30m, we should be pleased. | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:25 - Mar 26 with 1539 views | PatfromPoole |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 14:57 - Mar 26 by saint901 |
Not the faintest chance in Hades that we will get £100m - it's all posturing.
If we get between £20m and £30m, we should be pleased. |
Completely disagree.
That would put him at the Sulemana level.
Given the size of clubs who he is being linked with, it should be £40 million as an absolute minimum. | |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:42 - Mar 26 with 1520 views | Buggalugs |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:25 - Mar 26 by PatfromPoole |
Completely disagree.
That would put him at the Sulemana level.
Given the size of clubs who he is being linked with, it should be £40 million as an absolute minimum. |
He's clearly a great talent, but has hardly set the world alight for us. A few pieces of brilliance here and there, but a lot of completely anonymous appearances too.
I don't blame the lad for this btw; he's young, inexperienced and has been chucked in the deep end much sooner than he should have in a proper crap side. Can't be good for him in any way, other than it's put him in the shop window I guess.
Anyone buying him is paying for his potential and it's hard to value that. He will be worth serious money in a year or two imo, so I understand the club not wanting him to go for his realistic value, which is probably around £20-£30m as things stand. |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 16:15 - Mar 26 with 1484 views | franniesTache |
If we sell a 19 year old kid who's only played half a season, and only scored 2 goals, no matter how good he potentially is, for north of £60m then all it shows is how completely f*cking broken football is and the utter pointlessness of most clubs even trying to compete in the sport |  | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 16:23 - Mar 26 with 1436 views | dixiefrog |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:25 - Mar 26 by PatfromPoole |
Completely disagree.
That would put him at the Sulemana level.
Given the size of clubs who he is being linked with, it should be £40 million as an absolute minimum. |
I agree 40 million at the most or maybe, a cut price 25 million now from Spurs but 50% of any fee when they sell him to a really big club. | |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 16:24 - Mar 26 with 1436 views | InTimeAddedOn |
I am going to go out on a limb here and actually defend SR’s stance on this one (first time for everything 😀). Is it bonkers? Yes, but, SR are simply doing what every overseas club does when a PL team comes calling for one of their players, namely, hike the price up by 5O% because it is a PL club and as the whole football world knows we are all allegedly minted compared to everyone else.
To be fair, a good number of us on here have criticised the way these big clubs operate and the unfairness of the situation they have created thanks to the eye watering sums of money that they have access to, so, why not adopt the stance and rinse the buggers for every penny we can get out of them. From memory Liverpool wanted Lavia for sub £30m, we got over £50m from Chelsea with Liverpool allegedly ready to cave in but not quick enough to cough up (yes, I know City had a cut) so why not put a stupid price tag on TD’s head then if he must go get every last penny out of the mega rich club that is willing take the risk. And as I said at the start, yes, I do understand it’s a bonkers price to ask and one we won’t achieve but what the hell? |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 17:39 - Mar 26 with 1322 views | franniesTache |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 16:24 - Mar 26 by InTimeAddedOn |
I am going to go out on a limb here and actually defend SR’s stance on this one (first time for everything 😀). Is it bonkers? Yes, but, SR are simply doing what every overseas club does when a PL team comes calling for one of their players, namely, hike the price up by 5O% because it is a PL club and as the whole football world knows we are all allegedly minted compared to everyone else.
To be fair, a good number of us on here have criticised the way these big clubs operate and the unfairness of the situation they have created thanks to the eye watering sums of money that they have access to, so, why not adopt the stance and rinse the buggers for every penny we can get out of them. From memory Liverpool wanted Lavia for sub £30m, we got over £50m from Chelsea with Liverpool allegedly ready to cave in but not quick enough to cough up (yes, I know City had a cut) so why not put a stupid price tag on TD’s head then if he must go get every last penny out of the mega rich club that is willing take the risk. And as I said at the start, yes, I do understand it’s a bonkers price to ask and one we won’t achieve but what the hell? |
Do i think SR are doing the "right" thing. Yes
Do I think that much money for an unproven young player is f*cking mental. Yes
Do I think this is just another example that football is catastrophically f*cked as a competition. Yes
The points of view aren't mutually exclusive.
In fact you can also extend that to the fact that us getting £100m (we won't) for a single player, plus getting parachute payments will massively skew our chances in the championship of promotion.
But i also think that's a prime of example of how rotten the game has got. Because we can be an absolutely failure of a club and yet start next season with a massive benefit.
Like i say the game is rotten to the core, corrupted by money and greed, and needs to collapse to get better | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 18:23 - Mar 26 with 1282 views | TripleNiemi |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 17:39 - Mar 26 by franniesTache |
Do i think SR are doing the "right" thing. Yes
Do I think that much money for an unproven young player is f*cking mental. Yes
Do I think this is just another example that football is catastrophically f*cked as a competition. Yes
The points of view aren't mutually exclusive.
In fact you can also extend that to the fact that us getting £100m (we won't) for a single player, plus getting parachute payments will massively skew our chances in the championship of promotion.
But i also think that's a prime of example of how rotten the game has got. Because we can be an absolutely failure of a club and yet start next season with a massive benefit.
Like i say the game is rotten to the core, corrupted by money and greed, and needs to collapse to get better |
Whilst I agree entirely, I cannot see the collapse ever happening. Years ago (ITV) I think it was had the rights to games below the PL ~ Didn’t that / they hit the skids and things went pear shaped for lower Division clubs for a while?
Sadly the PL is not in any way shape or form a truly English affair anymore. Let’s face it, not one of the big six owners are truly interested in local lads or lasses turning up to watch their product, it’s all truly global with a massive American influence. Even had the big six or whatever broken away, it would be fun for a few years til the next cartel was formed.
Would love to for the whole lot go tìts, but I cannot see it. Still surprised we haven’t seen United play the Dippers in Singapore or Abu Dhabi for a PL fixture…… (it will come though). Meanwhile we will be playing Salford or Mansfield in one of the lower leagues. [Post edited 26 Mar 18:26]
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 18:35 - Mar 26 with 1248 views | sledger |
if its only 20 million i think saints will hold him to his contract. | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 22:02 - Mar 26 with 1070 views | saintwizzler |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 18:35 - Mar 26 by sledger |
if its only 20 million i think saints will hold him to his contract. |
Absolute bollox.
He won’t be at Southampton FC next season.
He will have to be sold to balance the books.
Have you learnt nothing from the last relegation firesale?
Last time we had JWP and Lavia to get some money in.
This time… |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 23:46 - Mar 26 with 982 views | saintmark1976 |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:25 - Mar 26 by PatfromPoole |
Completely disagree.
That would put him at the Sulemana level.
Given the size of clubs who he is being linked with, it should be £40 million as an absolute minimum. |
Trouble is though Pat, we could get £25 million or £100 million and either sum the doughnuts who own and run Sports Reports will waste it on young hopefuls and Championship journey men.
That’s what they did last close season and make no mistake it will happen again this time.
Two Premiership relegations in three years and on course to be the worst team ever to contest the league says all anybody needs to know about them. [Post edited 26 Mar 23:47]
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 00:46 - Mar 27 with 949 views | sledger |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 22:02 - Mar 26 by saintwizzler |
Absolute bollox.
He won’t be at Southampton FC next season.
He will have to be sold to balance the books.
Have you learnt nothing from the last relegation firesale?
Last time we had JWP and Lavia to get some money in.
This time… |
giving him away will hardly balance the books will it,last firesale we stood our ground and in the main did ok | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 06:48 - Mar 27 with 860 views | saintwizzler |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 00:46 - Mar 27 by sledger |
giving him away will hardly balance the books will it,last firesale we stood our ground and in the main did ok |
Won the play off final with a team of loan players and free transfers.
The 2 players Sport Republic actually bought were failures.
Charles and Stewart.
Same transfer strategy next season?
Ramsdale £25m. Dibling £30m. Fernandes £20m. Harwood-Belis £20m. Sulemana £15m.
That’ll keep the club going next season.
2/3 £10m players will be bought.
Juric is going to have his work cut out next season!!
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 09:55 - Mar 27 with 757 views | sledger |
hopefully juric is sent on his merry way at the end of the season | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 11:10 - Mar 27 with 665 views | dirk_doone |
The money they get for Dibling, will make it all seem worthwhile for the owners. It's the classic Southampton Way they were attracted to in the first place: produce players for next to nothing in the academy and sell them for a big profit. |  |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 11:45 - Mar 27 with 632 views | saintwizzler |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 11:10 - Mar 27 by dirk_doone |
The money they get for Dibling, will make it all seem worthwhile for the owners. It's the classic Southampton Way they were attracted to in the first place: produce players for next to nothing in the academy and sell them for a big profit. |
Unfortunately it’s the way it happens.
Sell a youngster for big bucks.
It’s when the money recouped is spent unwisely on non Premier League level players that’s the trouble.
And indeed managers.
The Championship is our level now.
Get used to it. | |
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| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 11:52 - Mar 27 with 614 views | grumpy |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 11:45 - Mar 27 by saintwizzler |
Unfortunately it’s the way it happens.
Sell a youngster for big bucks.
It’s when the money recouped is spent unwisely on non Premier League level players that’s the trouble.
And indeed managers.
The Championship is our level now.
Get used to it. |
Not sure the Championship is either.Burnley knocked us out of the Cup and I can think of plenty of the clubs there who are better than us now. |  | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 12:15 - Mar 27 with 577 views | saint901 |
Arguably his last few performances at at that level.
£5m to a charity of your choice if the upfront (pre add ons) price is £40m or more? | | | |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 15:31 - Mar 27 with 445 views | PatfromPoole |
| Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs on 00:46 - Mar 27 by sledger |
giving him away will hardly balance the books will it,last firesale we stood our ground and in the main did ok |
I agree with this.
We got very good prices for Lavia and Ward-Prowse when we sold them 2 years ago.
But then at the time I think we had Wilcox overseeing the sales of players, and comically mucking Liverpool about in their chase of Lavia.
We will have to see if Spors has quite the same level of cunning about him. | |
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