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So it was the same - first team very little experience. It matters not who you are replacing only that those who do the judging think you are good enough.
But the post you were replying to said this would be a step back - I thought you were saying Shaw taking over from Fox was the same, apologies if that's not the bit you were referring to.
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Nothing we don't already know about the buyout clause, and extrapolating "would you like to play alongside Vertonghen" into "I would like to play for Spurs" is just lazy - you could just as accurately have written an article saying Vertonghen was signing for Saints to join Alderweireld.

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Nothing we don't already know about the buyout clause, and extrapolating "would you like to play alongside Vertonghen" into "I would like to play for Spurs" is just lazy - you could just as accurately have written an article saying Vertonghen was signing for Saints to join Alderweireld.

 

Come on, really? Toby states he would a) Love to play alongside a Spurs player b) Says he wants to stay in the Prem (note not "at Saints") and c) There are Big Clubs in for him. He is off.

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Come on, really? Toby states he would a) Love to play alongside a Spurs player b) Says he wants to stay in the Prem (note not "at Saints") and c) There are Big Clubs in for him. He is off.

 

What about the quotes 2 weeks ago saying he wants to stay? Are we not allowed to cling to those?

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no, i'm just saying that alot of people act like loan players are Saints and seem to be utterly suprised by the fact the player may end up elsewhere, at the end of the day toby's future is beyond our control. hope he does stay though:)

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If you want to you can. You will only be more disappointed when the inevitable happens.

 

Think you have confused what is, in your opinion, likely to happen, with inevitable!

 

We don't know what's going to happen but there are several points that go against your "inevitable".

 

He isn't a player who has suddenly made good, when he came to us he was 25 years old, played at every international level, about 40 times for senior team.

He played 13 times for the La Liga champions, plus champions league including final. He was used mainly as sub but played a lot more minutes last season than this...for a better side.

 

 

In the summer either these other clubs weren't interested in him or not willing to pay what we did. Now after 16 odd games they all want to pay even more?

 

Didn't he turn down spurs?

 

Haven't spurs signed one, nearly two CBs?

 

He spoke about one of reasons he signed was Koeman. Since then he has enjoyed a successful season with him.

 

He wanted to come in summer when we were tipped for relegation. Now, 16 performances later, when we have improved more than him, we are not good enough?

 

His club agreed the best fee they thought they could get in the summer. Due to reported buy out clause his value would have to have risen more than £1.5m in 16 games for that fee to no longer be the going price.

 

He has said being wanted & first team is very important to him.

 

He has said he wants to stay.

 

He clearly has good link with Fonte.

 

Koeman has said he wants him to stay.

 

A lot of rumours don't turn into bids let alone signings,

 

In summary, I don't know whether he will stay, wouldn't be surprised either way. My gut feeling is a little more likely to stay than go.

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Think you have confused what is, in your opinion, likely to happen, with inevitable!

 

We don't know what's going to happen but there are several points that go against your "inevitable".

 

He isn't a player who has suddenly made good, when he came to us he was 25 years old, played at every international level, about 40 times for senior team.

He played 13 times for the La Liga champions, plus champions league including final. He was used mainly as sub but played a lot more minutes last season than this...for a better side.

 

 

In the summer either these other clubs weren't interested in him or not willing to pay what we did. Now after 16 odd games they all want to pay even more?

 

Didn't he turn down spurs?

 

Haven't spurs signed one, nearly two CBs?

 

He spoke about one of reasons he signed was Koeman. Since then he has enjoyed a successful season with him.

 

He wanted to come in summer when we were tipped for relegation. Now, 16 performances later, when we have improved more than him, we are not good enough?

 

His club agreed the best fee they thought they could get in the summer. Due to reported buy out clause his value would have to have risen more than £1.5m in 16 games for that fee to no longer be the going price.

 

He has said being wanted & first team is very important to him.

 

He has said he wants to stay.

 

He clearly has good link with Fonte.

 

Koeman has said he wants him to stay.

 

A lot of rumours don't turn into bids let alone signings,

 

In summary, I don't know whether he will stay, wouldn't be surprised either way. My gut feeling is a little more likely to stay than go.

 

Way too logical but spot on - I smell agent and international get together combining :nod:

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Think you have confused what is, in your opinion, likely to happen, with inevitable!

 

We don't know what's going to happen but there are several points that go against your "inevitable".

 

He isn't a player who has suddenly made good, when he came to us he was 25 years old, played at every international level, about 40 times for senior team.

He played 13 times for the La Liga champions, plus champions league including final. He was used mainly as sub but played a lot more minutes last season than this...for a better side.

 

 

In the summer either these other clubs weren't interested in him or not willing to pay what we did. Now after 16 odd games they all want to pay even more?

 

Didn't he turn down spurs?

 

Haven't spurs signed one, nearly two CBs?

 

He spoke about one of reasons he signed was Koeman. Since then he has enjoyed a successful season with him.

 

He wanted to come in summer when we were tipped for relegation. Now, 16 performances later, when we have improved more than him, we are not good enough?

 

His club agreed the best fee they thought they could get in the summer. Due to reported buy out clause his value would have to have risen more than £1.5m in 16 games for that fee to no longer be the going price.

 

He has said being wanted & first team is very important to him.

 

He has said he wants to stay.

 

He clearly has good link with Fonte.

 

Koeman has said he wants him to stay.

 

A lot of rumours don't turn into bids let alone signings,

 

In summary, I don't know whether he will stay, wouldn't be surprised either way. My gut feeling is a little more likely to stay than go.

 

This is an excellent post - sets out exactly the way I see it as well.

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Surely it will (as nearly always) come down to wages. If we pay Toby enough, he'll stay with us.

 

Transfer fee fee is not such a big deal . In effect we have a £1.5million discount agreed with Athletics Madrid. If Spurs offer them £10 million, £1.5 mil of that will come to us. There is nothing to stop us agreeing to forget the loan deal, and pay a fee of say £9million to Madrid. They'd keep all of that and be 1/2 a mill in better of than from selling to Spurs

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Vertonghen is their biggest issue defensively (tied with Walker) because he was become dramatically worse this season then previous.

 

which maybe something to do with ...who he is partnered with. If he's so good playing with Toby for Belgium - why is he so poor at Spuds?

 

Many agreed that Lovren looked really good last season just because he was playing between Wanyama and Fonte.

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What gets me about this whole charade is that no one has personally heard Toby say he wants to play for Spuds.When he actually says that I'll believe it.It would appear that we 'upstarts' are quite good and aren't frightened of the big boys so the Londoncentric Press try to undermine our relative success by suggesting another big sale of our players,a repeat of last season.I want Toby to stay as I do Clyne and Morgan but the latter two haven't committed to us in the same way Toby did "I would like to stay at Southampton".After watching the Arse recently I have reservations as to whether or not Morgan will fit into their set up.

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.After watching the Arse recently I have reservations as to whether or not Morgan will fit into their set up.

 

I think they'd have to get someone to sit with him , on his own he tends to chase the ball too much and gets a bit over run ! Which with the way they attack would leave them exposed! All Imo of course

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