According to the latest media stories Saints are not prepared to talk about Sadio Mane leaving the club unless any potential buyer is willing to stump up £40 million.
Liverpool seem to be the main admirers of Mane these days, the press spent a year claiming that Manchester United were on the verge, but there was little substance to that and now they have Jose Mourinho they are looking for better quality than Mane.
So the media have had to find a new club to link to Mane and that club is Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp.
Klopp will need to be careful should he decide that he wants to spend £40 million on Mane, he will be in danger of losing a hand if he waves that sort of money in Saints direction.
The fact is that Mane is not a £40 million striker and in fact for most of last season he barely looked the £10 million we paid for him.
He seems to go long periods without scoring, however one club he did seem to be able to do so against was Liverpool, after tapping in Gaston Ramirez header on the line to equalise in the dying seconds against the reds up at Anfield, he did not score another Premier League goal for over five months till we met Liverpool again in the return fixture and Mane scored twice as Saints made a stirring second half come back.
He did score in that five month period in the League cup though and you guessed it it was against Liverpool, with over a quarter of his goals in all competitions coming against them.
Perhaps that's why they are being touted as willing to meet the £40 million transfer fee and the £125k a week that the papers say he will demand in wages.
The fact of the matter is that if Mane could repeat the form he has showed at the end of both his seasons at St Mary's then he would indeed be worth £40 million, but the fact is in both of those seasons he went through periods where he could not hit the rear end of a cow with a banjo.
Still Liverpool will probably feel that they can harness that potential and that when they play him alongside their other big attacking signings Mario Balotelli and Christian Benteke he will find his consistency.
Of course we would prefer Mane to stay at St Mary's, but as we have recently found out with Ronald Koeman, every man has his price and we as a club have to consider where that line is with each and every member of the squad.
We will know what a player is worth to us and when that price has been greatly exceeded know when to sell, I would say that Mane's worth is well less than the £40 million we are asking, this is a price designed to scare off possible suitors, but if someone gets near it then we will snatch it off them.