Complex sentence: He was sold to Southampton for £400,000, ironically replacing Alan Shearer who switched to Blackburn for a £3.6million national record fee, joining the Saints at the same time as his old Chelsea strike partner Kerry Dixon.
Split into simpler sentences: He was sold to Southampton for £400,000, replacing Alan Shearer who had moved the other way in a £3.6million national record fee. Speedies joined the Saints at the same time as his old Chelsea strike partner Kerry Dixon.