January Transfer Window

[sickbeggar]

Fucking hell. Van Dijk moving to Liverpool for £75m. Liverpool have almost single handedly kept Southampton in business for eternity. Makes you so disillusioned by what football is becoming at the top level when you see this and some of the transfers that have taken place especially in the past 12-18 months. Utterly mental.

aye. i know their defence is a bit suspect but they can't find a decent defender for less than 75m??! truly bonkers.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Yes and you could build a decent back 4, a midfield general and goalkeeper for that. The key is to know oversea market. It is not right when Liverpool can spend 75m on one player when we can't spend 75p due to Football FairPlay ruling. If I was Tony I would spend the money and hire some lawyers to fight FFP and the FA could give up to high legal fees.  Prince William can play a part

[PeterWithesShin]

In the last few years Liverpool have spent £171m on Southampton players.

[PeterWithe]

I’m getting to the point where I’m not that bothered about going up because if you do you have to pay daft money for ordinary players just to stand still.

It may be ever thus but I think I’ve had it now.

[dave.woodhall]

I’m getting to the point where I’m not that bothered about going up because if you do you have to pay daft money for ordinary players just to stand still.

It may be ever thus but I think I’ve had it now.

Yup.

[VILLA MOLE]

Also watching Newcastle make up the numbers against man city earlier

Was an embarrassment. I can't say I am in any hurry

[Clampy]

I thought the money Everton paid for Sigurdsson was bad enough that one today has topped it.

[dave.woodhall]

For me it's not so much the thought that we'd have to spend well into nine figures just to have a chance of surviving as thinking why should we bother, or to be more accurate, why should I put my hard-earned into such a nonsensical set-up?

[Toronto Villa]

The likes of Burnley doing well without having to go crazy maintains some belief that not all is lost and you can spend reasonably to compete. But if they stay up you wonder when they get drawn into it? Like Leicester who won the title without spending the earth but even their transfer record is now £30m.

[OCD]

I can live with £30m in today's climate. £75m for one player is crazy, even crazier for a defender when solid players and good coaching/organisation should do the job.

[OCD]

I'd send Snodgrass back for starters.

There may be exceptions but I'm generally not a fan of having players play on their weaker side so that they're constantly going to be cutting inside. Straight away that reduces the options and means only the fullbacks are going to be able to get crosses in and even when they do, their crosses are from angles that are easier to defend. If we're relying on Hutton for crosses, we might as well forget about crosses. El Hammady has a nice cross but I would like to see him playing further forward more often so that his crosses are from better angles.

[ozzjim]

Caulker released by QPR. Was a really decent prospect a few year back.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Caulker released by QPR. Was a really decent prospect a few year back.

He was indeed. This from Wiki, the poor sod. Hopefully he gets help:

“In June 2017, Caulker was interviewed by The Guardian and discussed his problems with alcohol, gambling addiction and depression. Caulker acknowledged that his problems had damaged his football career and had led him to consider suicide.”

[erniemagoo]

How do we play?

[Steve67]

How do we play?

Very badly.