Southampton can build really well if they spend the money wisely by looking outside England.

Just read and got reminded, AC Milan got as much for Thiago Silva and Ibrahimovic as Southampton have got for Shaw and Lallana.

Lol. That's a laugh. Why would you ever buy English. Wenger is right to develop English talent himself. Buying these guys is foolhardy. All our money should go into Sanchez

Yeah, we could get Reus and Sanchez for that much money.

In Wenger's defense, he's pretty well-aligned with my recommendation on English talent. Bravo to him.

So far, only Chelsea worries me. City, United, Pool and Spurs haven't done any transfers that make me quake in my Timberlands

Jed wrote:

Lallana for £25m 😆

Hilarious.

Overpaid on an avg English player. It's 2011 again 😃

Evra to Juventus according to David Amoyal. (One of Di Marzio's associates)

Didn't he sign a new contract recently?

looks like vermaelen may be headed to united

Marv, do you trust Wenger to look for 5 players this summer? Vermaelen moving is just bad news. Versatile player who was only made captain because Wenger had gutted our team. Without the captaincy, there'd be little tension around him

Claudius wrote:

Marv, do you trust Wenger to look for 5 players this summer? Vermaelen moving is just bad news. Versatile player who was only made captain because Wenger had gutted our team. Without the captaincy, there'd be little tension around him

😆

Claudius wrote:

Marv, do you trust Wenger to look for 5 players this summer? Vermaelen moving is just bad news. Versatile player who was only made captain because Wenger had gutted our team. Without the captaincy, there'd be little tension around him

THIS

I am sure wenger will try and bring 'super kwalitee', but i have little faith in him spending 60-80 mill needed for 3-4 quality first team signings

Can't wrap my head around the fact he hasn't even bought a backup GK. A position we knew would require filling, last Summer.

United in for Cuadrado .. made a big bid is the latest rumour

Claudius wrote:

Marv, do you trust Wenger to look for 5 players this summer? Vermaelen moving is just bad news. Versatile player who was only made captain because Wenger had gutted our team. Without the captaincy, there'd be little tension around him

Sure, he has done it before!

5 good players in one summer. Oh, do elaborate.

Ok maybe not 5, but he has bought 4 good players per window on multiple occasions.

In fact, looking at our transfer history a funny thing struck me when looking at the summer of 04/05. It was pretty much identical to what we need in 14/15!

Then we bought RvP - a (wide)forward, Eboue - a promising Ivorian RB, Flamini - a promising French CM and Almunia - a (backup) GK.

Its very likely we buy Sanchez, Aurier and Schneiderlin + some random backup GK this summer. Ok, Alexis and Schneiderlin would be much more accomplished than RvP + Flamini were at the time, but a funny coincidence either way.

If Cuadrado goes to united I'll be filled with sads

How are they spending so freaking much?

Their squad is huge

Reckon they are getting rid of Kagawa and one of Nani and Valencia.