Saint Charlie!!!

Meh! I voted Caulker

 

And don't you just love his super-sub role? Brenda or Jurgen, Liverpool are still ****e!

 

I'm annoyed by something I see in the various comments on the net, often coming from Saints fans. They say something like 'Austin was a bargain, at 4 mil, but if you include the wages our expenditure will be a lot bigger...' as if apologizing because we struck such a bargain deal. If we'd bought him for 10 milions, nobody would mention his wages. As if he would be playing for free then. The deal was a ****ing bargain and we should revel in it.

 

Well said. Nobody mentions the money of any of the other bigger wage pullers. We could have paid £8M or £12M and had similar outgoings, but we didn't. Good business and that's it. Some people are forever noticing the clouds in a sky full of silver linings.

 

In case there was any doubt...

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-02/top-10-premier-league-signings-of-2016-january-window/

 

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/02/0...ges-leroy-fer-on-twitter-and-queens-park-ran/

Charlie upset a few QPR fans by texting congrats to LeRoy Fer and saying, 'See you next weekend'. Seems a little over sensitive, but that would be pot calling the kettle black when you consider how sensitive Saints fans can be if anyone suggests that we are not the greatest team in the World (which of course we are).

 

Twitter and Fleecebook. Does any good come out of them really ? Would we be better off without them ?

 

Nah. The wage is important, because wage is intrinsically related to transfer price. If Austin had 3 years left on his contract, we would have had to pay much more for him. But then, he wouldn't be a scant few months away from being able to set his price in the open market, so we could probably pay him less.

In fact, had we waited five months, we could have had Austin for free. In that sense, an extra 4m for a half season of Austin is a huge rip-off. But we did that in part to protect ourselves from some other club turning his head with a big salary.

I do think that even if you take Austin's purported 80k a week into account, he's still a very good deal. But it would be foolish to ignore his wages altogether.

 

You're finding the negative. If we had waited until the end of the season Austin would have gone elsewhere. This way QPR get something, we get the player we wanted and Austin is happy.
Wages are important, but they are important in terms of every player, not just Charlie Austin.

 

No one knows what would happen if Austin didn't sign for us. Quite possibly he signs for someone else. Quite possibly he signs for us anyway (albeit probably at a higher wage). If he didn't have a strong interest in playing for Saints, he wouldn't have signed a contract... not when he is half a season away from free agency.

Those are just the fact. It's not me being negative. It's you once again taking anything that doesn't spin the Austin move in the perfect light for us as the media beating up on poor Saints again.

 

I haven't spun anything regards Austin. I happen to have the opinion that you are looking at this from a slightly negative perspective, that's all. If I remember your history, you have admitted that you do have a tendency. I have a tendency to be positive. I know which I'd rather be and I'm sorry if being positive irritates.

 

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/sullivan-admits-west-ham-shouldve-gambled-on-4m-austin

Sullivan clarifies his views on Austin in match programme. Says he thought Austin was a risk at 12 million, but added that he and half the Premier League would have gone for Charlie at 4 million. Says he never knew he was available for that price.

 

Sullivan is a twonk.

 

Diddums. Maybe you should have done some of the work that Saints obviously did...

 

Many years ago, I read "The Sultan of Sleaze", a book about Sullivan. Terrific money maker but utterly, totally unscrupulous in every respect. He named racehorses after his porn magazines and films for publicity; he made a shockingly exploitative film a year after his girlfriend's suicide. The list goes on.

I have zero sympathy for anything that happens to him.

Vin

 

The perfect description of him. I would expect the word "grubby" to be used a lot when talking about him.

 

Totally agree. Awful man.

 

This is one of the reasons why our offer of £4M now was much better than waiting for the auction come the summer. Not that I respect anything Sullivan might say, but that any club would have been tempting Austin elsewhere, and Saints may have not got their man.

 

Charlie on the front of the Matchday Magazine.....noooooooooooooo! Why are we risking the curse of the Matchday cover. Player featured seems to get injured or dropped.

 

It's ok Fran. When he scores, he is going to hobble along the touch line information of the directors box. It'll be a fake injury, especially for Sullivan.