The most important business in the transfer window is to keep hold of Gareth 'Theo who' Bale. With Saints well placed, the player under contract and happy and the potential £50m windfall that is promotion (including parachute payments), it would be commercial madness to sell off our best attacking asset, particularly when the price will only go up and up.
Serial youngster poacher Arsene Wenger is looming in the shadows given his weakness at left back, along with Man Utd who are determined not to let another one get away. With money tight at Arsenal, it's unlikely they will be able to raise the kind of £10m+ bid to tempt Saints.
Given the noises coming from the corridors of St. Mary's the 17 year old in question is also more than happy at Saints and enjoying his run of first team football. You have to hope that sanity can prevail for once in football sparing poor Gareth some nasty blisters from sitting on the bench for the rest of the season at another club.
Yes, £10m+ could add strength to the squad, but, as Burley admits, Gareth is an irreplacable one-off and there's no guarantee that we would be able to tempt the Premiership quality we would need to come and play in the Championship whatever the money.
With Saints the form team in the league at the moment having finally found some consistency after so much player turnover, the emphasis is on tinkering with the squad and focusing on finding an experienced and pacey striker to support Rasiak, no small ask. With Gareth Bale firing in the crosses for the rest of the season, it will certainly be a selling point to potential players.
As Oscar Wilde might have said, were he a football pundit: to lose one teen prodigy may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Let's hope Saints have learnt our lesson.