Adam Lallana

[FrenchEyeGlass]

The alleged Southampton asking price for Lallana now is an eye-watering £30m. Fuck.Me.

 

I hope he enjoys another year of midtable football.

[Brigant Moloch]

for £30m you can ge... ah, fuck it anyway, I'm not going down this route again. 

[Russ Atmosphere]

The alleged Southampton asking price for Lallana now is an eye-watering £30m.

[Pureblood]

£30m doesn't seem to get you much sometimes. 

[General Dryness]

£30m doesn't seem to get you much sometimes. 

 

35m even less.

[Grinch]

Leak £30 million, and it doesn't seem the grossly over-priced £20 million seem all that bad.  

[Pureblood]

35m even less.

 

Plus we paid interest for late payment. 

[General Dryness]

Plus we paid interest for late payment. 

 

[Hades]

The alleged Southampton asking price for Lallana now is an eye-watering £30m. Fuck.Me.

 

It's a fair price for an integral half of the new Toshack and Keegan...wait, that was a different nightmare. 

[Dr. J]

Anything north of 18-20 million is lunatic, and that's already considering the overpricing premium for being English. You pay 30+ for goals, for a striker who wins games, not a midfielder.

[Stu Monty]

Can't remember being this certain about a signing for a long time. Proper player, performed in the league we're playing in already, goals, creativity, captain of his side and an ridiculous work rate. He's perfect for what we're doing.

 

Only one player in the league made more sprints than Jordan Henderson last season. Lallana. And they were a fair bit clear of the pack.

 

£20m and £70k is fuck all for him.

[Trucker Paddy]

Lallana is not worth £30m, we paid £20m for a 26 year old downing, and this us similar territory, for £30m and 26 years old there is no easing in time he'd have to be performing from 1st game at a top level to justify fee

[Aldonose]

You pay a premium for an international, particularly an English one. I just hope the club remembers to charge a premium when we come to sell Lucas.... fwiw £30 million (if true!) is fucking scandalous.

[Section_31]

This is what you get with English players, the runaround and absolute extortion, they're really not worth the hassle. I'm struggling to think of a great English signing that's been worth that kind of dollar, Shearer (allowing for inflation) when he went to Newcastle and possibly Rooney are the only ones where I've thought they were worth spending big on.

[Aldonose]

Yeah that's pretty much spot on. They were both younger (considerably so in Rooney's case) as well.

[Major Tom]

Lallana is not worth £30m, we paid £20m for a 26 year old downing, and this us similar territory, for £30m and 26 years old there is no easing in time he'd have to be performing from 1st game at a top level to justify fee

I would struggle to get on board paying £30m for Lallana but there is no comparison with Downing to be had. Downing wasn't good enough for us at any price. Lallana, I think would be.

[Jose Jones]

Rio Ferdinand. But generally you are better growing your own then supplementing with top notch foreigners.

[Tony Moanero]

Yeah that's pretty much spot on. They were both younger (considerably so in Rooney's case) as well.

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Shearer celebrated his 26th birthday a month or so after signing for Newcastle.

[Phoenix]

Southampton wont sell him to us for a reasonable price (i.e £20 million or below) because of the 25 % sell on clause. The only this will happen is if we overpay (which we shouldnt) or Lallana kicks up a fuss.

 

Its not worth them selling him for 15 million net they get especially as he signed a contract last summer.

[M_B]

The alleged Southampton asking price for Lallana now is an eye-watering £30m. Fuck.Me.

 

We need to let him go. £30 million is as far away from moneyball as it gets.

[Aldonose]

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Shearer celebrated his 26th birthday a month or so after signing for Newcastle.

That makes him younger than Lallana no?

[Evil_Ways]

There is obviously no way we'll pay 30m for him. Im confident we wont overpay, we have really looked at ourselves in that aspect since Rodgers got appointed.

[Tony Moanero]

That makes him younger than Lallana no?

Barely. Lallana turned 26 earlier earlier this month.

[Section_31]

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Shearer celebrated his 26th birthday a month or so after signing for Newcastle.

Still a bargain, one of the best strikers in the world, England captain, leader and model professional who'd just had a storming Euro 96. Lallana has had a good season, nothing more.

[Aldonose]

Barely. Lallana turned 26 earlier earlier this month.

If you read back through the thread, his age was just something to further emphasise a point that was made about the pitfalls of buying English players.