Nathaniel Clyne will end his three year stay at St Mary's today according to most of the national media.
Nathaniel Clyne is supposedly up on Merseyside today and will be having a medical, assuming that he passes then it is likely that he will be announced as the fourth Saints player to join Liverpool in a year and he will hope that he has a bit more success at Anfield than the other three.
The fee being quoted is £12.5 million which is less than the £15 million that Saints were supposedly holding out for a few weeks ago. That will disappoint some Saints supporters but the reality is there is always some haggling in transfers and with Clyne having only a year left on his contract and with no real other clubs of any stature interested, Saints were caught in a dilemma, either risk seeing him see out the final year of his contract and walk away for nothing next summer or take a decent offer now.
Saints chose the latter and they were probably influenced by the fact that in Cedric Soares they think that having already signed Clyne's replacement all things being equal this was as good a deal as we would get.
There are some queries about the fee itself though, firstly in some quarters it is being reported as £10.5 million pounds down and a further £2 million in add ons which would be a little disappointing, but there is also the little matter that his previous club Crystal Palace appear to have a sell on clause of reportedly 20 %. This would mean that they would be due something between £2- £3 million depending on the transfer fee, assuming that the 20% is on the profit between Saints fee back in 2012 and the actual amount raked in now.
This mean that Saints are likely to only net around £7 -9. Million in actual cash now. But that is still a good return on a player from whom the club have had three good years of service, as i have often said this is the way the club has to go to continue to build and all that ever matters is what the club do next and hopefully in the capture of Cedric Soares they have a player more than capable of stepping into Clyne's boots.