Time to splash the cash?

It was announced yesterday that Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez has signed for Southampton for a club record fee in the region of £7m which suggests they mean serious business both in the transfer market and the Premier League!

Is it time Big Sam started flashing the £25m that’s reportedly available to him? I’m on the fence. We all want to grab a few bargains with a cheap, underrated player but sometimes big names are worth the big price tag. We got very lucky in January with Ricardo Vaz Te as he only had 6 months left on his contract and Barnsley decided the smart option would be to gain £500k than to have him leave on a free in the summer. On the other hand, when we signed Dean Ashton he soon lived up to his price tag with some vital goals in our debut season back in the Premiership along with a goal in the FA Cup final defeat to Liverpool. So, while occasionally you’ll get lucky with a bargain as we did with our play-off final match winner, you usually get what you paid for and I have faith in Sam this summer.

We look set to sign Yakubu from the relegated Blackburn any day now in a deal worth no more than £2m and we’ve also been linked with a few players who could seriously dent the transfer fund with Wilfried Zaha’s valuation from his current chairman exceeding £10m.

It’s very early days and rumour has it that our first summer signing – aside from the permanent signing of Stephen Henderson that is – is to be announced in the next 48 hours so it would appear that Big Sam, DG and DS are all involved and are busy as ever as we bid to stay in the Premier League!

COME ON YOU IRONS!