Five overpriced transfer targets this summer

Luke Shaw (Southampton)

Shaw appears to be the most sought-after player in the Premier League currently after breaking through the ranks at Southampton, with seemingly every club that finished above the Saints seemingly keen on snaring his signature.

And while we should never discount the importance of any position on the pitch, £30m on a left-back seems awfully steep given that it is the role you would generally put the less-talented members of your side in during Sunday League park football.

Shaw will only turn 19 later this month and has just one full season under his belt. While he may have undoubted promise, that is a massive price-tag placed upon such young shoulders that a still maturing body could yet struggle under.

His contested duels are somewhat impressive, but Shaw perhaps still has plenty to learn, having made just 37 interceptions in his 35 appearances, when a player in his position should really be achieving two per games.

Given the amount of possession Southampton often had, one could perhaps forgive him, but for an attacking left-back, he has created just the 33 chances and has just the one assist to show for everything, suggesting that any clubs interested are paying for potential that may never come, as opposed to the finished article one would hope for with that sort of expenditure.

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Fabio Borini (Liverpool)

He may have had a decent season and scored some important goals, but Sunderland should not be fooled into paying a reported £12m to sign him permanently, especially given he has rarely managed to stay at any club in his professional career for so long as a year.

Borini has suffered numerous injury problems over the years as well and if Liverpool are that keen to offload him in order to make room for new recruits ahead of their Champions League campaign, then no team should be looking to pay over £10m for a cast-off.

With just one international cap to his name, as well, he is hardly the sort of marquee signing that really warrants such a large fee from a club like Sunderland and just seven goals in his season-long loan hardly made him a top marksman in their fight against the drop.

Those goals came with a conversion rate of just 14% and he only set up a further two, so if Sunderland wish to spend that kind of money on a striker, they should be looking for somebody a little more proven than a man who has scored just 17 top flight goals in his career.