Are Southampton players worth that much?
Southampton are set to rake in £104m by selling 5 players plus a further £6m for Pochettino and his staff. That's £113m in total.
Shaw................Cost to Southampton....£0 ...........Sold to .Man U for................................£30m
Lallana.............Cost to Southampton....£6m.........Sold to Liverpool for............................£25m
Lambert...........Cost to Southampton....£1m..........Sold to Liverpool for...............................£4m
Lovren..............Cost to Southampton....£8.5m.....Joining Liverpool/Arsenal/Spurs/?...£25m
Schneiderlin....Cost to Southampton....£1.2m.....Joining Arsenal/Spurs/Napoli?..........£20m
That's half their team gone. If Lovren goes to Liverpool they would have bought 3 Saints players. Has that ever happened before in the EPL, buying 3 players from 1 club in the same transfer window?
It is going to be very interesting to see if Southampton can sell that many players and replace with cheaper imports/academy players and finish in the top half of the EPL next season. Have they made a big mistake or is it good business?
Shaw................Cost to Southampton....£0 ...........Sold to .Man U for................................£30m
Lallana.............Cost to Southampton....£6m.........Sold to Liverpool for............................£25m
Lambert...........Cost to Southampton....£1m..........Sold to Liverpool for...............................£4m
Lovren..............Cost to Southampton....£8.5m.....Joining Liverpool/Arsenal/Spurs/?...£25m
Schneiderlin....Cost to Southampton....£1.2m.....Joining Arsenal/Spurs/Napoli?..........£20m
That's half their team gone. If Lovren goes to Liverpool they would have bought 3 Saints players. Has that ever happened before in the EPL, buying 3 players from 1 club in the same transfer window?
It is going to be very interesting to see if Southampton can sell that many players and replace with cheaper imports/academy players and finish in the top half of the EPL next season. Have they made a big mistake or is it good business?
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Selling so many players in one window is not a good idea IMO, my main reason for thinking this is what I've written above.
I think they have received some very high fees for their players, when you consider that Ben Davies is probably going to Tottenham for £10m and Shaw went to United for £27m. I am not saying Davies is necessarily as good as Shaw but no way is Shaw worth an extra 17m to me.
Will be interesting also to see how much money from the sales gets put into the transfer kitty, Saints are my second team and I am very concerned for them right now.
They'll get £19m for Lallana as they had to give Bournemouth £6m as part of the sale to them.
On the subject of 3 signings - Pompey did when they were in the Premier League, they bought Mendes, Davies and Pamerot from Spurs during a Jan window.
Cheers for that, I didn't know about the 3 Pompey deals.
Yeah, I knew about Bournemouth getting 25% thats why I put Lallana cost Southampton £6m. I think there will be the usual 10 teams fighting for relegation next season including Southampton this time.
They may be rich but they will struggle.
£110m Surely, not £113.
But yeah, the players are worth it, to Southampton at least. It seems like every year, one TV deal or another is paying the clubs more money. This just means there is always going to be more money in the pot, with the same number of players available.
I have no doubt that they won't all be successful at their new club. Hopefully Shaw will kick on and become one of England's greatest, while anyone who joins Liverpool or Arsenal will turn into an embarrassment. But maybe I'm biased.
Next season don't matter it's the next 10 20 30 seasons and the sort of money they bought in means they don't have to worry about the future of the club so much
They are a team that will never win the prem league, so all the fans want is to continue their run in the top league and this money should, if they don't do a spurs and waste it, see them cement their place for the next five years.
At least Saints have the money now so can re-build their squad before the season starts rather than losing key players in August like so many clubs do.
Next season they'll be in the PL.
Out if the players going its Lambert tgat has surprised me, He has signed for Liverpool, but even if they sell Suarez, they are likely to be another striker, Lambert will be a sub player, which could blow England chances
They don't normally like to do it having just lost nearly all their best players though. With Rodriguez injured as well they are going to start the season with possibly their best 5 players gone.
TBH They'd rather pick up the inflated fee for these stars rather than lost anyone for free.
There is zero chance of it happening anyway. Or are you suggesting that Southampton could have won the PL eventually?
Why specifically those clubs?
Bar Lambert, which is still good business for Southampton won't be challenging for anything , the other two players have been sold over value, so I would say its a win for them. The club also has a good academy as is good at buying players so I suspect they won't be fighting against relegation next season.
Southampton have done well to secure such great deals, and the investment is a bonus. But they can't replace the team cohesion between the four longer serving players, with new additions. As for the quality of players they can expect to attract, factoring in: The loss of significant players, new manager and club stature is difficult to say. They may very well struggle, if players decide if their potential to grow has been diminished by the loss of recent players.
I think they'll finish about 13th, if they now stop hemorrhaging players.