Media outlets are reporting that Saints have agreed a fee with Burnley for jay Rodrigues, a figure that would smash Saints long standing transfer record.
Todays latest rumour is that Saints have agreed a £7 million pound fee for Burnley striker Jay Rodriguez, earlier in the week it was reported that the lancashire club were looking for £8 million, but with only a year left on the players contract, they know that the price is going to drop unless they can get rid of him in this transfer window in a dutch auction, they have therefore become resigned to losing their top man.
However a bid being accepted is still a long way from the player signing for Saints as we saw last summer with Doncaster reportably accepting a bid for Billy Sharp, but the player prefering not to move at that time, so Rodriguez himself may prefer to stay put for the time being and see if any other clubs come in for him that may be a preferable option to the big upheaval of moving 250 miles South.
You would hope though that if it is fact that Saints have tabled that bid, that it shows their intent for the season, no Saints fan wants to see Saints pay silly money for average players, as we have witnessed from afar over the last few years in the Premiership from various clubs, but we do want to see the team improved and it should be noted that if our template is Norwich and Swansea, both of those clubs invested between £12 - £15 million in key signings last season and we need to do the same, we do have an adavantage though, of the reported £13 million we received for Alex Oxlade Chamberlain from Arsenal, we have only spent around half of that, so that aligned with the Premiership cash should ensure that we have that sort of money to spend, without going silly.
Saints previous transfer record was the £4 million spent on Rory Delap in the summer of 2001, whilst many would call this a signing that wasnt a great success, Delap in 4 1/2 seasons at St Mary's started 118 league games plus 14 as sub, around about 75% of the matches he could have played in, as his Premiership career has shown in the six years since he left the club, Delap was perhaps a player whose strengths were not utilised by several managers at St mary'e