Southampton Rumours Archive January 25 2014

25 Jan 2014 09:44:57
Reading Man U have bid 22m for shaw. 15m and Hernandez and I would accept that, buy a left back out of the 15m we would receive.

Tonythesaint

There is no amount of money and no player it is acceptable to sell Shaw for right now. We need him for the rest of the season at least. He is a very important player and selling him to bring in someone who would be less likely to want to stay for a prolonged period of time is ridiculous as a notion.

I am glad Tony the Saint is not running our team. Clearly has no idea of the real value of Shaw or the long term plan for the team.

15 mil wouldn't buy another Luke Shaw

Ya! Tony your rubbish stop having an opinion of your own and support your club! Please!!
Get shaw sold he's a left back no a 30 goal a season forward!
Anyway we can use fox he's amazing!

Shaw in 2yrs. £40 mill plus?

The long term plan for the team, we don't even no the long term plan for the club anymore. Look at the dip in form when we had are previous injury problems, now we are here again and still we won't strengthen. Selling shaw is good in the long run it gives us chance to strengthen the team in all areas bringing in 3 10 million pound players better for squad depth. A good left back is a luxury but it isn't the spine of your team. Losing shaw is not the end of the world, just ask for a good sell on fee so we don't get stung like the bale deal again.
As for the comment about support your club I've been a season ticket holder for 12 years is that good enough support for you

Tonythesaint

Tony if we feel like we need to add depth we can cough up the cash and do it without the sale of Shaw, people seem to forget that we have a billionaire owner, also our project is still on, read the club statement from the chairwomen, she emphasizes the Southampton way, Poch loves bringing through young talent and as Shaw is gunna be one of the best LB's in the world when he's older, we no longer need to sell we just have to make sure our young team keeps improving which it is, this year go for top 8, next year top 6 year after that who knows, the point is if the project is done properly and we keep building then the plan is to become the English Barcelona and as we have arguably the best youth academy in the country, we now has state of the art training facilities, a rich commited owner and a great manager we don't need to sell.

We'll said tony, and everyone is intitled to there opinion

You need to wake up, if any of the top 4 clubs come in and offer shaw 100k a week and champions league football he's going to go. Agree we are building in the right direction but we are no where near yet.

Tonythesaint

Well said Tony!
As for the get behind your team and don't have a opinion it was just a bit of sarcasm aimed at the people having a dig at you for having a mind of your own! And not plastic fans repeating the same old rubbish?
Every thing you've said has been spot on!

Agree mostly with Tony in this above discussion.

Also, why would Shaw, who is a Chelsea fan and from the Chelsea area of London, feel the need to stay at mid-table Southampton? He's done his part for the club already, and the cash we could get for him would be a good return. He could become the next Bale, Giggs, Messi whatever, or he could just as easily pick up a career ending injury (see Paul Lake of Manchester City) or just fizzle out of the form completely and end up nowhere near the level predicted (Julian Joachim springs to mind)

We're just lucky Shaw even plays for us. It was Chelsea who let him go when he was much younger, they may rgeret that now. But, then again Chelsea really seem to have too many good talents and very few come of substance in the Chelsea team (Josh McEachran!!)

If a club like Man United or his own beloved Chelsea come calling I sure wouldn't begrudge him or be surprised, if he took the transfer.

Obviously I would rather Saints kept Luke Shaw, and all of the good/better players and progressed as a team and a club. Would love to become the English Barcelona, but quite frankly, so do a dozen other clubs.

So, get off Tony's back. He's a supporter of the club, and is fully deserved of his own views. We all are.

Good win against Yeovil, no slip ups and it's nice to see Gallagher on the score sheet. I'd love to win (or reach the final) the FA Cup this season (any/every season!) - and we have a chance, if the draw goes our way again.

Finally, well played Bournemouth in their great game against the mighty Mersey reds. Bournemouth pretty much out-played Liverpool for the majority of the 90 minutes. Every player did brilliantly. Round of applause to them.

Saint Etienne.

^Jack Cork :)

I think we should only sell shaw when he himself wants to go.
. Shaw wants to stay
. We don't want to sell
. After summer he could potentially be worth a lot more than he is now
. Make sure we have secured a replacement before we were to sell

I agree with tony the saint about using the money, and also we are miles away from champions league. But most fans knew it wouldn't happen overnight. But selling shaw now would have a negative effect on the squad and send the wrong message to other young bright players.

There's still an outside chance (if Cole or Baines get injured) that Shaw will end up in the WC squad, and if that happens it could have one three effects: 1 - he plays, his value sky-rockets, we sell for loadsamoney. 2 - other players from around the world take note of Shaw and Lallana (probably not RL or JR), see Saints as a good option, we sign a couple of world class players, and Shaw stays on seeing us as serious contenders for trophies. 3 - he goes to WC, speaks to Cahill, Cole, Lampard (?), and gets talked into putting in a transfer request. If 1 happens, hopefully we reinvest wisely and Targett comes through soon (but Clyne can cover with Chambers at RB). If 2 happens it would be incredible and would hopefully be the springboard to the next level we need. If 3 happens it would be terrible. But whatever happens we need serious investment in players, as we have a seriously disturbing lack of squad depth. By next season, if we keep hold of everyone (excluding excess baggage), we need a GK (cover/competition for Boruc), 2 x CB (to replace Fonte + cover), 1 x ACM (link between midfield and attack), 1 x winger (for the plan b we don't have), 1 x CF (a 20+ goals per season man). We could be great, regardless of not being a big city. It would take a lot of money, but Champions League in a couple of years would soon recoup the investment!

U really want to be left with fox!