Saints Kick Off Austin Auction With £10 Million Bid
It is being reported that Saints have started the bidding war for Charlie Austin but will face stiff competition.
According to the latest transfer rumour Saints have started the ball rolling in the Charlie Austin transfer tug of war by tabling an initial bid of £10 million pounds.
However this is only going to be the first shots in the bidding with Newcastle, Chelsea & West Ham all expected to be stepping into the race with their own bids in the next few days.
Although Austin will obviously be hot property and Ronald Koeman is known to be an admirer it seems strange that Saints are interested with so many striking options already at the club, and if Saints did land Austin I would expect at least one to leave.
But making an offer is a long way from landing the player and Saints could just be making a cheeky offer to test the water, if the price rises over the £15 million mark being touted as the price QPR want, then Saints could consider that they do not need to spend that much money on Austin given the strikers that they already have including new signing Juanmi and the likes of Sam Gallagher in reserve.
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