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30 May 2014 10:36:47
Lambert to Liverpool done. Believed to be 4mil plus add-ons. Les Reed okayed this one. not being left to the new manager. It was considered too good an opportunity for Rickie to pass up.
Shame but if anyone deserves his shot at big club in the last few years of his career then its Rickie Lambert. He has been a legend for us and I wish him all the success in the world.
onwards and upwards. COYR!
1.) How can this be all but done the transfer window doesn't open until June 9th
2.) I feel this is start of an exodus - as a Saints fan since 1979 I was full of optimism when we finished 8th. But what message does selling our better players send to any prospective managers, we're less likely to attract that high-calibre manager when we have the sold are best assets.
The board have contradicted their recent statements and greater transparency and respect is needed to be shown to Saints fans
3.) I don't think anyone can begrudge Rickie a chance to play for his boyhood club and earn one last big paycheck and play in the CL, I wish him the best of luck and my thanks for his massive part in our rebirth. the #7 shirt is now up for grabs I hope that the next player to wear it can achieve the same legendary status as its previous owners.
4.) @Tommo - Players can sign for other teams at any time, they just don't become official until the window opens
@willsa - The board haven't contradicted anything, they said no bids have been accepted, yet, but it's likely they will be, on Southampton's terms. They've also released a official statement through Krueger once a month since he came in as well as TV/Radio interviews, there's no lack of transparency
Losing Lambert isn't the end of the world, he's on his way out (probably just had his last good season), it gives us space in the squad and a bit of extra money to get someone younger (Hoping we're in for Bony) and if the quoted figures are right it's good business from Southampton
5.) I don't want to stop Lamberts move and at the reported 9 million I would say fair play! but i'm hearing its only 4 million? that can't be right for an england international and one of only a handful of strikers in europe to get more than ten goals and ten assists last season? does anyone else think 4 million is not enough for our leg end?
6.) Saintysaintsaint in Kreugers ssn statement he said no transfers would happen until a new manager was appointed. that's contradiction. Ed 1 pointed out that Ricky has pushed this through and personally I wish him well but Krueger should know better than to make those kind of comments if this was going to be allowed to happen.
7.) Also, I agree with SaintySaintSaint. The club has never contradicted themselves, the fee will have been on Reed's terms. As for Lambert himself, this would be the greatest moment of his life, if any other club had made a bid like this it would've been rejected but Liverpool really mean something to him.
8.) He said they wanted to wait until they knew MoPo was staying or not, nothing about the new manager
9.) Read it again mate
"Any transfers that take place will be under our terms. We will decide the terms to potential transfers in and out of the club.
"We will involve the manager. That is important for everybody to know. That's why we have been able to not agree to any transfers to date, because we have control of the situation, and anybody who is saying anything else doesn't understand that we are in a strong position with the Saints. "
10.) Maybe I read a badly quoted one somewhere then haha but it said something along the lines of 'we wanted to know the manager situation before reviewing bids'
maybe that means we've sorted a manager though?
11.) It's a contradiction, plain and simple.
If it can't be substantiated or backed up with action then by definition it's a contradiction, double standards call it what you want. Selling our best players now does not send out a positive message, nor will it attract the high-calibre manager. We need to sustain what we have and build on that. I'm just wondering what the impact of RL's sale on the rest of the squad will be; hopefully not a domino effect
I totally agree. £30,000 a week is peanuts! If that's all my boss offered me I'd tell him where to stick his job!
Why would Vlaar move sideways from Villa to us? We're not as well off as the media would like you to believe so don't say we pay him silly money. We won't. And he is not young. At best a short term fix. Great player but probably not going to come to Saints.
Marshall might have done tho. Still might I suppose. But it looks like being Forster. Boruc will be first choice though I expect. Forster will have time to develop.
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you are forgetting that £30mil will probably be used to clear the training ground debt and £22mil will go on unpaid transfer fees from last year. Plus we have already signed pelle and tadic for what is estimated to be about £18.5mil.
So that's £70.5mil spent already. Leaving about £22mil if transfer figures in the press are to be believed.
Who knows? Hoffstetter did say that transfer revenue would not be used to pay for the training ground. They would improve the commercial aspects of the club that cortese neglected and pay for that over a period of time. but maybe the people and companies they owed money to weren't ok with that?
Whatever the case the actual figure left to spend is maybe somewhere between £20mil & £50mil and I would be very surprised if they didn't try to leave some in the pot for January and next summer.
Would be good maybe. But can't see this one happening.
Saint90. everyone keeps saying we don't want to do what spurs did last season. Why? They finished 6th didn't they? 2 places and a fair number of points higher than us. I'd be ecstatic with that! Lol