Saints are dreaming if they think they can flog man in under-valued position for £20m – Opinion

One of the beauties of football is that it is a game that allows a once forgotten player to rise from the ashes and reassert themselves as a hero once again, and Fraser Forster is proving that this season.

The Southampton goalkeeper is having a resurgence with Celtic this season as the 31-year-old shot-stopper joined his former club on-loan for the year, and not only has Forster already reclaimed the number one spot for the Hoops, but the 6’7” player has re-found his form.

Forster’s last-minute save against Lazio went viral around social media, and the former England international’s performances have been crucial in ensuring Celtic keep their tight lead on Rangers in the Scottish Premiership, yet Southampton have seemingly become giddy about the keeper.

Football Insider report that the Saints are confident that Forster’s market valuation will increase dramatically come to the end of the season, and that the 31-year-old shot-stopper could worth up to £20m.

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Indeed, we live in an era of the game now where £20m for a name is not only ordinary but a baseline fee that the majority of clubs spend on anything from a first-team player to a bench warmer, yet for goalkeepers, transfer fees have yet to reach crazy levels.

Aside from the anomalies such as Chelsea and Liverpool spending £60m+ on goalkeepers, transfer fees for shot-stoppers has largely stayed the same this decade, with figures from Transfermarkt showing that the highest transfer fee spent on a keeper this summer was the £31m Valencia paid for Jasper Cillessen, with only seven other players in the position going for just over £10m.

Which is why Southampton must be dreaming that they believe that they can fetch a fee of up to £20m for Forster.

Transfer fees might have inflated greatly in recent years, yet for goalkeepers, the money spent on these types of players has remained fairly under-valued compared to the figures being thrown around these days, and for Southampton and Forster, £20m is just too crazy a number for the club to realistically sell the 31-year-old for.