Been told to £#%&! off by Southampton RE: Luke Shaw

Any actual link to this apparent rejection

Originally Posted by Grimson

The club better get used to 30-40m plus for top players. That's what it's going to cost for the kind of players who can change fortunes on the pitch.

Especially given our obvious desperate need to add some decent players.

Originally Posted by Billy Bigbollox

Any actual link to this apparent rejection

http://www.utdforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=392

Originally Posted by teflon_terry

http://www.utdforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=392

Originally Posted by Sparky***

We'd better get used to this I guess. It's going to be 3 months of that £#%&!wit Woodward ballooning around Europe getting told to £#%&! off left, right and centre.

Chairmen can spot him a mile off, he's not exactly been keeping a lid on how much money we're looking to spend ... £150M here, £200M there, major squad rebuilding etc.

He's up there with Kenyon in the dopey @#%&! stakes.

Originally Posted by Grimson

The club better get used to 30-40m plus for top players. That's what it's going to cost for the kind of players who can change fortunes on the pitch.

Indeed, now that 70+ appears to be the going rate for the top tier contracted players.

Originally Posted by teflon_terry

http://www.utdforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=392

Thought as much

Originally Posted by ziggyman17

27 million is huge money to be paying for a full back.. If southampton have rejected the offer, then move on to sign some else, atl madrid left back is excellent, he is a lot older ghan shaw but would cost alot less than 27 million

He's twenty-nine in August. Too old.

Originally Posted by Billy Bigbollox

Thought as much

It's in this article about Rio

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ited-luke-shaw

Originally Posted by RedMenace

It's in this article about Rio

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ited-luke-shaw

Brilliant. Just when you thought the club might actually surprise you and get something done quickly.

I'm not surprised Southampton have rejected it tbh. As others have said, everybody knows how desperate we're going to be for players and Woodward has been shouting his £#%&!ing gob off to the press about how much money we're looking to spend for months.

At this rate if the club are looking to spend £150m we'll get about 3 players for that.

Since when is a first offer accepted? We'll end up paying closer to 35m and it will still be worth it tbh.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Brilliant. Just when you thought the club might actually surprise you and get something done quickly.

I'm not surprised Southampton have rejected it tbh. As others have said, everybody knows how desperate we're going to be for players and Woodward has been shouting his £#%&!ing gob off to the press about how much money we're looking to spend for months.

At this rate if the club are looking to spend £150m we'll get about 3 players for that.

In the interests of fairness I would point out that nobody else appears to be reporting this and Jamie Jackson is a tool

Originally Posted by Ginners

Since when is a first offer accepted? We'll end up paying closer to 35m and it will still be worth it tbh.

Well apparently according to most of the 'in the know' #@&%!s online....this was all weeks in the making and everything was agreed and all we had to do was cross the t's and dot the I's.

So at least two papers running with bid accepted, a few saying bid lodged and one saying bid rejected. FFS I almost forgot how infuriating the summer window is

Nothing in the other papers (rejection). Mail saying £27m fee agreed. Still reckon it'll happen

Still think this deal will happen, im sure some on here think buying a player is no different to buying a car, find one you like, pay the cash or agree the payments, sign the deal done!!

But if Southampton do start acting like @#%&!s we should leave it and get Rodriguez instead.

This is all very well but when are we getting a £#%&!ing manager?

FFS United.

3 months of this shite

Originally Posted by Jethro

So at least two papers running with bid accepted, a few saying bid lodged and one saying bid rejected. FFS I almost forgot how infuriating the summer window is

It's not even officially started yet!

Originally Posted by saffers

£25m, good deal for an 18 year old fullback of that talent. £20m for baines or an extra 5m for someone over a decade younger? People who are saying its "desperate" and "overpayment" aren't exactly hiding their nerves about what is gonna happen next season well. Absolutely shitting themselves they are.

In comparison to club income and profits at the time, it's no more an overpayment than 2 million was for pallister back in 89. Ferdinand was around twice as expensive, in terms of transfer fee in proportion to profits, when we bought him. We just think it's a lot to pay now because of our conditioning by the glazers and fergie since they took over.