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Shane Long sold for £12m!!!







Simster

Simster

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Jul 7, 2003
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Surrey
Panic buy. That's what happens when you sell players all summer and don't replace them. At least Southampton have acted BEFORE the season starts.
 






edna krabappel

edna krabappel

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Jul 7, 2003
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I don't get this. Hull only signed him in January. I thought he'd done ok for them. Do they need the money that badly? Wonder what Hull fans make of it.
 




Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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edna krabappel said:
I don't get this. Hull only signed him in January. I thought he'd done ok for them. Do they need the money that badly? Wonder what Hull fans make of it.
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Surely it's just a simple case of "£12m? Twelve? Please give us a while to talk about that..."

Hull retire to the back of the room, Dragons' Den style.

Mad laughter is heard.

Hull return.

"You've got a deal."
 


edna krabappel

edna krabappel

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Bozza said:
Surely it's just a simple case of "£12m? Twelve? Please give us a while to talk about that..."

Hull retire to the back of the room, Dragons' Den style.

Mad laughter is heard.

Hull return.

"You've got a deal."
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:lolol: Fair enough. I suppose it was more a question of what prompted Southampton to offer it.

Imagine what a club could do in the transfer market if they'd cashed in on players like Saints have...oh.
 


Hiney

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Jul 5, 2003
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Bozza said:
Surely it's just a simple case of "£12m? Twelve? Please give us a while to talk about that..."

Hull retire to the back of the room, Dragons' Den style.

Mad laughter is heard.

Hull return.

"You've got a deal."
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Pretty similar to what happened with Ulloa, although I doubt it took us that long to bite Leicester's arm off
 




T

Tooting Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Just a reminder that Shane Long was the MAKEWEIGHT in a deal for, err, £100,000 that also brought Kevin Doyle to Reading from Ireland. Masterstroke from then manager Steve Coppell and the Reading staff. The two of them must have fetched getting on for £50million in total since.

Best bit of scouting ever?
 


Diego Napier

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Mar 27, 2010
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BrianWade4 said:
I'd be all over some panic buys.

Better than inertia.
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Great, contact TB and tell them you've got the cash. Who do you want to help us buy? It won't matter if they're crap, it won't be the club that suffers.
 


L

London Irish

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Nov 25, 2003
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They've overpaid by a few million but Southampton can afford it given the crazy money they've had in - seems to me a smart move to replace Lambert with a more mobile, younger player. It looks intelligent squad building to me, don't understand the laughter - unles it's gallows humour at our transfer efforts
 






lawros left foot

lawros left foot

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Jun 11, 2011
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Worthing
I was talking to a Southampton sth yesterday, he says the natives are a tad unhappy at this, to say the least
 


B

BrianWade4

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London Irish said:
They've overpaid by a few million but Southampton can afford it given the crazy money they've had in - seems to me a smart move to replace Lambert with a more mobile, younger player. It looks intelligent squad building to me, don't understand the laughter - unles it's gallows humour at our transfer efforts
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I have just read the Mark McGhee quotation at the bottom of your post. Truly moving stuff. What a shame it didn't work out
 




J

Joshski

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Mar 18, 2008
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Bit much for a player who has NEVER scored 10 league goals in a season, makes Ulloa, Jelavic and Lambert look like bargins in comparison. Note this is that same price as Swansea paid for Bony a few years ago...
 








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