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Post by malteser68 on Aug 14, 2014 15:51:20 GMT
Shane long just moved to Southampton for 12 million! We built a whole squad over 2 transfer windows for much less than that - bojan, diouf, arnie, Muniesa, pieters, sidwell, bardsley and teixeura didn't cost half what Shane long cost Southampton !!!!!!!!
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Post by PONTAFCE on Aug 14, 2014 15:52:04 GMT
That's football for you pal.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 15:59:57 GMT
and i'm pretty sure that we haven't made a profit of about 90 million like Southampton have recently.
12 mill isn't going to bother then in the slightest is it really?
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Aug 14, 2014 16:03:24 GMT
Barring Arnie and Pieters, with the jury still out on Muniesa, we also have no idea how strong the squad is that we've built. If Long bangs in 20 goals, which I don't actually think he will, and Diouf and Bojan flop, our business doesn't look so good.
Southampton's problem is that everyone knows they have so much in the bank so clubs are adding at least 33% to the asking price. I hope they do well to be honest, as long as it's not at our expense. What they've done with their academy should be applauded.
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Post by chamberlain on Aug 14, 2014 16:04:08 GMT
12 million may not be a massive chunk out of the 90 mick but its alot of money for a player who is 27 and scored 4 goals in 17 appearences for Hull
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:07:09 GMT
12 million may not be a massive chunk out of the 90 mick but its alot of money for a player who is 27 and scored 4 goals in 17 appearences for Hull whereas we paid 10 mill for a 30 year old who'd previously scored just 4 in 34 appearances for Spurs and we're taking the piss????? |
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Post by chamberlain on Aug 14, 2014 16:17:28 GMT
12 million may not be a massive chunk out of the 90 mick but its alot of money for a player who is 27 and scored 4 goals in 17 appearences for Hull whereas we paid 10 mill for a 30 year old who'd previously scored just 4 in 34 appearances for Spurs and we're taking the piss????? not taking the piss just an observation,agree 10 mill for Crouchie with no sell on value was alot too by the way |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Aug 14, 2014 16:23:49 GMT
A whole squad, not quite, but it does seem a lot of money for him considering his form at Hull wasn't amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:23:48 GMT
oh yeah mate, not directing the taking the piss comment at you directly. just don't think we're really in a position to comment on others (and completely ignore the profit they've made already this summer) simply because of the last 2 transfer windows and conveniently ignore what happened in the 6 beforehand!
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Post by malteser68 on Aug 14, 2014 16:28:47 GMT
Barring Arnie and Pieters, with the jury still out on Muniesa, we also have no idea how strong the squad is that we've built. If Long bangs in 20 goals, which I don't actually think he will, and Diouf and Bojan flop, our business doesn't look so good. Southampton's problem is that everyone knows they have so much in the bank so clubs are adding at least 33% to the asking price. I hope they do well to be honest, as long as it's not at our expense. What they've done with their academy should be applauded. if long bangs in 20 goals I'll cut off my right testicle and feed it to my uncle's iguana |
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Post by wuzza on Aug 14, 2014 16:34:04 GMT
Cant see the point of bringing on good young players and selling them on for substantial fees if the next stage in the process is to pay massively over the odds for run of the mill players.
Biggest beneficiaries out of the whole Southampton saga so far ....Hull.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:34:34 GMT
£12m in itself isn't going to hurt them, but it's an indication of how quickly and on what kind of player the funds are going to be used. I can't imagine all of the £90m is going to go on new players, and you have to factor in signing on fees etc.
If I was a Southampton fan, I'd be relieved that we'd started to sign the required replacements, but overall, I'd still be mightily peed off with the overall direction we're headed, i.e down.
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Post by malteser68 on Aug 14, 2014 16:43:23 GMT
Is long an improvement on the players they sold? Not in a million years. Smacks of a panic but in my opinion. Spurs spent the whole 100 million they spent on bale on players which they now want to off load almost lock, stock and barrel - soldado, dembele, Capoue, chad li, chicheres. They're all for sale. And did they assemble s better team than what they had before? Not really, they had to rely on adebayor to save something out if their season
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:46:33 GMT
It wasn't too long ago that many folk on here were wankin themselves daft over the idea of us signing the bang average Shane Long.
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Post by malteser68 on Aug 14, 2014 17:02:45 GMT
It wasn't too long ago that many folk on here were wankin themselves daft over the idea of us signing the bang average Shane Long. not me mate. He's not a natural goal scorer and his record clearly proves this |
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Post by pedro23 on Aug 14, 2014 18:12:19 GMT
Hull paid 6.5m for him, which I thought was over the top. Looking at his scoring stats averaged 8 goals per season for the baggies and 4 in 15 for Hull, so again on course for a similar number. Done pretty much bugger all at International level and he is 27, 12.5m..bargain!
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Post by Kjones9 on Aug 14, 2014 18:23:22 GMT
Yep them 'fools' with £90 million burning an hole in their pocket.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Aug 14, 2014 18:28:39 GMT
Barring Arnie and Pieters, with the jury still out on Muniesa, we also have no idea how strong the squad is that we've built. If Long bangs in 20 goals, which I don't actually think he will, and Diouf and Bojan flop, our business doesn't look so good. Southampton's problem is that everyone knows they have so much in the bank so clubs are adding at least 33% to the asking price. I hope they do well to be honest, as long as it's not at our expense. What they've done with their academy should be applauded. if long bangs in 20 goals I'll cut off my right testicle and feed it to my uncle's iguana I'm gonna save this message just in case  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 18:30:14 GMT
Yep them 'fools' with £90 million burning an hole in their pocket. It's "those" not "them" and it's also "a hole" not "an hole". You need to go back to school young man Who needs Lakeland  |
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Post by lancer on Aug 14, 2014 18:30:59 GMT
Yep them 'fools' with £90 million burning an hole in their pocket.
Well, having all that money isn't guaranteed to make them very wise, is it? Having money to burn isn't usually a good thing, because money does burn, very quickly.
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Post by Kjones9 on Aug 14, 2014 19:00:29 GMT
Yep them 'fools' with £90 million burning an hole in their pocket. It's "those" not "them" and it's also "a hole" not "an hole". You need to go back to school young man Who needs Lakeland I can spell kiss my swingers. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 20:07:45 GMT
It's "those" not "them" and it's also "a hole" not "an hole". You need to go back to school young man Who needs Lakeland I can spell kiss my swingers. So can I,look Kiss my swingers. What else can you spell? |
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Post by swampySCFC on Aug 14, 2014 20:30:42 GMT
Fucking hell Crouch was a bargain
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Post by stevoyork on Aug 14, 2014 23:15:37 GMT
And the money we paid for Crouch was worth it, for THAT goal, and how much his name raised the profile of the club, along with his contribution of goals!
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Post by johnnysoul60 on Aug 14, 2014 23:28:42 GMT
It's a weird one but he never seems to score too many , thought Hull might keep him on , feels weird that we seem as smooth as a rolls royce compared to the rest but in a good way
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Post by Kjones9 on Aug 15, 2014 8:04:56 GMT
I can spell kiss my swingers. So can I,look Kiss my swingers. What else can you spell? Monochrome. |
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Post by jeycov on Aug 15, 2014 8:12:27 GMT
The thing is, are Southampton paying the price for their success ?
Most of their better players have been "poached" by top 6 clubs.
I'd prefer our mid table achievements, some good performances in the Cups and retaining our better players.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 8:14:15 GMT
So can I,look Kiss my swingers. What else can you spell? Monochrome. Decent effort at this time of the morning |
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Post by Kjones9 on Aug 15, 2014 8:15:14 GMT
Decent effort at this time of the morning I thought so too. That's why I googled it. |
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Post by stokiejoe on Aug 15, 2014 8:20:20 GMT
At least they are spending money they have, it's the one's who are spending money they don't have who are the real fools.
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