We do have a knack of taking bang average underachieving players and turning them into world class international capped legends of the game though.
Considering that without his goals palace would probably be in the Championship next season, I'd say he has.
I can't see us matching the wages expectations of anyone coming from Man City and won't compete with those paid by Everton, Wet Spam or Leicester so not even considering this exciting young striker will come south
So he scores 18 premier league goals next season for us and City sign him back for £18m next summer - I'd say we'd lose on that
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/15371918.Play_it_again_Sam/ New contract for Gallagher has made it to the Echo so must be true Interesting if Sam has been promised a chance in the first team (as suggested)....if so, the club obviously feel that he is ready for the next stage after his loan experience. In one way an important time for Sam, but he also has plenty of time and more time at Saints won't do him any harm. Ignoring our Saints red and white glasses, what advice would you give the lad....stay here and fight for a place and get some EPL experience or take advantage of coming out of a contract at a time that your reputation is good?
If I was being neutral, I'd tell him to leave and play first team football in the Championship every week. Better chance of him developing again if he is playing there than brief appearances with us. He could go and play and still find away to the top if he's good enough.
Dwight Gayle may have scored more given the opportunity. 30m for a player who went on the sort of barren run he did is excessive in my opinion.
No doubt they overpaid, but it ended up being worth it in the end as without his goals they wouldn't of stayed up.
Players aren't like gold...there isn't a set market price. If you really want/need a player, his value goes up. A team then has the use of him and he has some resale value at the end. Fans can be very fickle....worry if other teams get players and say that we should have stumped up or think we've overpaid if we buy a player.
Is that actually true though? I remember Cabaye scoring 3 in 3 to turn their season around. Then Zaha joined the party. They may well have done but I take your point and you're probably right.
http://readsouthampton.com/2017/06/27/rayo-vallecano-keen-landing-gazzaniga/ Talk that Rayo Vallecano interested in having Gazzaniga. He has no future here, so I wish him the best of luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bednarek_(footballer) Bednarek is ours according to Wiki - can't see it verified anywhere, has anyone on here been feeling edit-happy?
Always felt that Gazzaniga could make it here, wouldn't be surprised to see him at a very good level in future.
I bet he makes a good career for himself. Very hard for a GK to shine or even get a chance in an ambitious club like Saints. When chasing promotion, it is hard to take a risk on a young keeper when a couple of lost points could cost promotion.
We signed him after we were promoted and he got thrown into the deep end after Kelvin had a few dodgy games in the opening PL season, before we signed Boruc. I think he has all the tools to be a good keeper and a lot of the stuff you can't really coach he seemed to have down. Hopefully he goes on to have a decent career.
