Southampton have reluctantly accepted ?4,500,000 more than what they paid for the striker 12 months ago.

Most Villa fans will be a bit gutted by this because we lost ?3,000,000 on selling him on without really giving the lad a fair crack of the whip.

David O'Leary will have egg on his face because all he had to do was look at footage of the player to know 'for a big man he had a good touch' (taken from The Fiver).

We wish him every success at Liverpool and I suspect this will come back to haunt us at some time in the future - if nothing else he left Villa and is now playing for the Champions of Europe - can't be bad.