Saints close in on Rodriguez (From Daily Echo)

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  dopplershift wrote:
  If you want to play you've got to pay. That is the bottom line. We're no longer lower league material we're prem class and we have to bolster all areas of the 'squad' not just the team. JR gives us another dimension and one that NA feels will benefit a style of play we may play against certain opposition perhaps. If you have only 1-2 game plans you're gonna get unstuck big time. Rather than spend £10m on a proven prem player who only scored 5 goals last season it makes sense to buy 2 players for that cost. If we had a team like say Reading I'd be more worried but we do have strength in depth and the team know how to play together and seem to love each other. Don't want to upset that as it's worth a lot of points.
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  Still a few players to leave yet and only then will NA and NC plan be known. Personally I'm behind JR more than Hooper purely because of the standard of teams they've both been playing against.

  Agree, the more "established proven" PL players come with big wage demands, egos to match and spend half the time injured unable to take the challenge. This kind of player upsets the dressing room too. If we can get Roddy, it could be a great investment, future England player and could be sold for 5 times the fee we paid for him, at worst you would only loose a little. Look at QPR, they bought any man desperate for the final pay-off and only just stayed up. This is a big step up and we will still need to find another 3 players. Hooper will be player in a one league team, able to score at will, but inside will always know the SPL is folly."
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