Yep, I agree. They got greedy. Have a feeling that we'll start to see a change in how contracts are structured. Agents will lose a ton of money if teams like ours start holding onto players!
Welcome to the modern greedy footballer lol. And I should imagine it would be the same greed for all the ex pros in the game sadly. No loyalty anymore. Money has ruined that.
Ah **** off Danny, ever since MOTD gave you a voice you've chatted ****e. Virgil van Dijk will join Liverpool and Philippe Coutinho will be sold - Danny Murphy http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...deal-Philippe-Coutinho-Barcelona-Danny-Murphy
The big difference is that we are actually holding onto Coutinho in the face of enormous pressure, where's saints pressure coming from?
Barca apparently agreed £11 deal for dembele. If true rules out Couts going as they won't have the cash to pay for him. £110m for dembele is crazy money. No doubt potential but didn't exactly set the league alight last season and only cost £13m the season before.
the theory is the same though . i would assume if Southampton weaken their stance it will not only encourage low bids but VVD's stance and the real pressure is to show that if they don't want to sell they no longer have to.
What is their stance though? Every club says their best aren't for sale. Every club gets to keep their best players if nobody wants/bids for them.
True. But if they wanted to maintain this stance you mention, wouldn't they have to be seen to be rebuffing offers?
We bid twice. You said 'if Southampton weaken their stance it will encourage low bids' - my question is, how is that 'weakened stance' demonstrated if they aren't publicising bids they've turned down? You can't have it both ways.
bit like talking to players before making a bid often the clubs check to see what the "selling" clubs stance is prior to bidding. The biggest differences for me are timing i.e. a lot of our stance was possibly dictated by how late in the window it was and in their case the club most interested in VVD appears to be us & we ain't popular down that way. PS Jonny Evans £22m why aren't ManC chucking £60m at Saints to see the response ?
Fowler most certainly doesnt count. The others... varying degrees. Mcmanaman was a niave 1990s bosman issue to real. We sold nothing. Fowler was with respect utterly ****ed and we got a scandalous price for him. Owen yes.. contract situation. Alonso.. dunno what was in rafas head. He wanted to sell. I supect at that point rafa was concerned with injuries we dont know more. Masch. Yes. He wanted to go to barca with messi there. So mixed bag there over 10 years or more.
