We've only got 18 months to come up with an alternative to both of them though, otherwise at the next Afcon we'll be like a man with two broken legs.
I'm not going to pretend that I've watched any of Southampton this year, so someone please explain what were getting for £50M. Especially after the fact he's been injured for half the season.
being housebound atm i have seen a fair bit of the england games & i cannot see Solanke making the first 11 in the PL for at least another year but probably never.
Pace, strength, aerial ability, passing ability, sound positional sense. Brilliant defender in other words
I'd just say looking solely at the top line that is true.... but the reality is the bottom line is very different. Are clubs loaded.... maybe but players and agents are taking most of it.
Ok so let's just all calm down here and make sure we piss Jimmy off as much as possible. How about a 343 now? Mingolet Loren Matip van dijk Clyne Henderson wijnaldum milner Mane salah coutinho Can you fit as many of Jimmy pet hates into the side as possible?
Dont see being case as saints saying want upward of 60m now. Maybe VVD has had a word saying only wants to go to us so bidding war doesn't start.
I'm not too sure either. Watched a lot of them last season and he was bang-average. There's no question he has improved this season but on the rare occasion I watched him play (usually when they played Spurs), I still couldn't see what all the fuss was about. And as you've correctly pointed out, it's one thing performing at a high level for the first half of the season. It is something else entirely maintaining that form when the fixtures start piling up and the legs start to turn to jelly. £50m for 3 decent months of football is an awful lot. But then again, if John Stones is "worth" that amount... To my mind, your glaring weak spots are at LB and DM. You've got a bunch of very, very decent CM's at Anfield but none of them hold a candle to the likes of Kante or Wanyama in terms of shielding the defense.
