BBC - Liverpool make bid for Lallana - Part II

On the plus side can see Gaston really stepping up (assuming he stays).

 

Calm down people. It was only a week ago you were all saying Lallana had burnt his bridges and even if he stayed he should be stripped of the captains arm band. £25m is even more over priced than £27m for Shaw.

It gives us a good budget to work with and I'm quite confident that we end up with an upgrade on Lallana.

The board are doing absolutely the right thing. They held out for the best price and are getting all the bad news out of the way quickly. Once they report back for training next week we will focus on the incoming. Of course that may mean Lovren goes over the weekend too.... ....but as I've already said, I really am not too worried about the challenge of replacing Lovren.

Would be nice to keep hold of everyone else though!

 

This. They had their heads turned by those ****s Rooney and Gerrard.

 

As long as we do get £25m (& Bindippers pay Bournemouth) thenI guess that I can swallow Adz going as he is obviously being totally disrespectful to us (and will remind him of that when he comes back to SMS next season)

So we have the original transfer budget of £40m + £4m (RL)+£30m (LS)+£25m (AL) - should be enough to put together one hell of a squad.

 

Calm down man. Likely they had their heads turned by Europe and a huge jump in club stature, I'm very much convinced they'd both made their minds up before the world cup.

 

Probably because they didn't give a ****.

 

K bye. Next.

 

I'm guessing these transfers were basically agreed long before Koeman was signed, and were just waiting for the World Cup to officially wrap to be announced.

 

Leading (and also only ) Croatian sports papers, Sportske Novosti, claim that Lovren has handed a transfer request and will definitely not be in Southampton come end of transfer window. Don't know from where did they get this information, but they were pretty assured.

 

This word is going around a lot, it's more than a whisper now. Wouldn't be at all surprised.

 

He's used us as a stepping stone, nothing more.

 

Yeah he handed it in ages ago. He 99% won't be here next season.

 

Nah it's wages, it's always wages.

 

Bank the money (at an acceptable figure) ASAP and give Ronald as much time as possible to recruit.

 

#meltdown

 

What I say as well. Get rid of the players that don't want to wear the shirt.

 

Not really.

 

The board must realise they've got to regain the fans' trust, so they've given Koeman a ****load of money. Let's hope he gets it right.

 

No, just anger. It will fade though.

 

Who will be the first to mention the fabled words 'ass__ _trip___'?