Are Saints about to sell one of their prized assets and bring in a big pile of cash into the club coffers,? Yes say the rumour mongerers !
According to that sometimes reliable source the grapevine, Saints are about to take the money and run for Jay Rodriguez.
With the pleyer having so far refused to sign a new contract and his recovery taking longer than expected, the word is that Saints are talking to an unnamed big club possibly Manchester City and could be listening to offers of above £20 million.
With the player into the last year of his contract in the summer and no guarantee that he will return the same player, it could be that Saints feel that it is the right time to cash in, in an ideal world they would prefer to keep him, but there is much to gamble on doing so both from an injury point of view and financially so it could be that City may get their man and in doing so help the squad percentage of English players ratio.
Saints fans will be disappointed but the fact remains that if Saints are to stay in the top half of the league and keep progressing they need to make deals like this at the right time, the stark reality is that when big clubs come calling it will be hard to keep players, but as long as we sell them on our terms, when we want to then there is no reason why this should be a backward step, indeed aswe saw from last summer it can be a very positive forward one.