Austin to Southampton - Official

[Bill]

Can still get up to 100/1 with bookies if you fancy it

That's a good bet sadly

[jmelanie]

From the Southampton website

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20160116-charlie-austin-announcement-southampton-qpr-2904717.aspx

[Timmy the Doc]

Thank you Charlie and good luck!

[Bill]

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

Yes Jim just a line to keep the fans onside but I don't blame him leaving the funny farm good luck to him

Exactly mate. Couldn't do enough for us. Great player.

Club very naive though.

[QPR Richard]

Thought he might see his contract out then leave in the summer. He himself said he was here for the season. Oh well, he did a great job for us and I wish him luck for the future. Glad he's gone to the saints rather than someone like chelski or palace.

Good luck Charlie and thanks.

[James1979]

Gutted to see him go and cracking deal for Southampton. I guess for us we had no choice, 4m now or nothing in summer. If we had chance of playoffs then worth keeping him but recent results have binned that hope.

[qprjack92]

4 Million what a joke , should of sold him at the start got 10-15 mill and two decent strikers now we will probably end up with one loan striker .......Sort it out tony .

[72bus]

a good move for chas . wokingham ( i was their last night as it goes) to soton . won't even have to move . would have liked a bit more money or shane long. ... looks like we have been told porkys again by the club he was never injured was seen busting some moves in a club last week and someone said he was seen on a trampoline. saints wouldn't shell out 4 mill if he was crocked. should have been sold when we were relegated why did the powers to be think that a bad team could all of a sudden turn into a good team and get promoted..... all the best charlie and thanks for some wonderful memories . we now as supporters must forget charlie and get behind the manager and the team

[jmelanie]

a good move for chas . wokingham ( i was their last night as it goes) to soton . won't even have to move . would have liked a bit more money or shane long. ... looks like we have been told porkys again by the club he was never injured was seen busting some moves in a club last week and someone said he was seen on a trampoline. saints wouldn't shell out 4 mill if he was crocked. should have been sold when we were relegated why did the powers to be think that a bad team could all of a sudden turn into a good team and get promoted..... all the best charlie and thanks for some wonderful memories . we now as supporters must forget charlie and get behind the manager and the team

Paying 4 million even if there might be a problem with fitness is possibly worth the gamble.

[Kevin Mcleod]

Honestly don't think our board would leave him out to protect four million and watch us slide dramatically down the table when they wrote off 250 million.

[Herbert]

Thought he was committed til the end of the season !?!.
And he was a hero for it.
Lucky in Getting 4m for him

[surrey_hoop]

Honestly don't think our board would leave him out to protect four million and watch us slide dramatically down the table when they wrote off 250 million.

Depends on whether they're planning to pull their money out or not. They'll recoup what they can get for QPR's assets and ride off into the sunset this summer is my guess.

[Kevin Mcleod]

Yeah you keep saying that, do you reckon they might get a profit on the 250m they stuck in.?

[surrey_hoop]

Yeah you keep saying that, do you reckon they might get a profit on the 250m they stuck in.?

Ok, I will.

Gnanalingum has already invested in the new LA franchise and TF is clearly losing interest. It's obvious that they are preparing to sell up if you ask me. Air Asia's stock value has halved in the last year, and they posted a loss of £65million in the last quarter. He isn't in a position to keep wiping off our debt, even if he wanted to.