04 Aug 2014 14:52:19
Saints have one player booked in for a medical today, that player is Stefan Kießling a agreement was reached over the weekend. Fee believed to be around £14 million.

1.) 04 Aug 2014
04 Aug 2014 15:18:17
17 goals in 38 appearances but 30 years old. No 11 for Bayer Leverkusen but is willing to give up playing in Europe for Saints? Don't think we would pay out £14 plus his wage demands. Could be good but don't see why it would happen.

2.) 04 Aug 2014
I hope this is not true. Good finisher but slow and for 14 mil I would want a bit of pace and someone who is a bit younger

3.) 04 Aug 2014
I agree with Saint90. Looks a good player, consistent scorer in Germany, but £14m for a 30 year old - This just goes against the way Saints seem to do business (Little or no re-sale value)

4.) 04 Aug 2014
Would be good maybe. But can't see this one happening.

5.) 04 Aug 2014
14 mil for a player that turns 31 in january? don't think so somehow. Pelle is 2 years younger and has been far clinical in the past few years and cost 8, work that out

6.) 04 Aug 2014
04 Aug 2014 16:46:09
cant spend 14m on one player with only around 20m left in pot and a gk & cb still needed at around 8/9m each plus wages

7.) 04 Aug 2014
Lukey boy
one argument for kiebling is that he was in a harder league than pelle, but still I think pelle is better

8.) 04 Aug 2014
Saintjean I agree the bundesliga is a lot more competative then the eridivisie, but we sold a proven premiere league player in lambert for 4 mil who is only 18 months older then this guy. He will need time to adjust as well, the reported fee is laughable in my opinion

9.) 04 Aug 2014
04 Aug 2014 18:20:24
Kiessling would be class but not for £14 mill

10.) 04 Aug 2014
Saintgroucho: exactly

From the figures I saw today, Southampton have less than half of the 40-50 million I thought there was to spend on transfer fees alone.

11.) 04 Aug 2014
Saintgroucho: wrong! Only 20 mill left?! Did you pluck that figure out of the air?!

I admit we won't spend 90 mill but koeman has been promised all the funds he needs. I will stick my neck and say a figure of about 60 million to be spent by koeman!

12.) 04 Aug 2014
You are having a laugh if you think th figure is 20 million. The board will spend wisely. I can't see why people are concerned with loans. If we get them for no fee and a percentage wage then that to me is good is business. I thi k if the right player comes at the right price we will buy and try to build. However with all the fans raging and telling Kl to F off I could see why she is reluctant to dig deep and spend big money. If Koeman is as good as they say he is then the time for Action is January not now. We need to see who performs and who does not, then we can identify areas we need to strengthen. If we play as well as we did last year will will attract decent players at the start of 2015 and have the funds to finance it. If we loo at the end aim which is CL football then we need to remember we need a solid base from which to launch our assault.

13.) 05 Aug 2014
Saint_Ben_Basingstoke

you are forgetting that £30mil will probably be used to clear the training ground debt and £22mil will go on unpaid transfer fees from last year. Plus we have already signed pelle and tadic for what is estimated to be about £18.5mil.

So that's £70.5mil spent already. Leaving about £22mil if transfer figures in the press are to be believed.

Who knows? Hoffstetter did say that transfer revenue would not be used to pay for the training ground. They would improve the commercial aspects of the club that cortese neglected and pay for that over a period of time. but maybe the people and companies they owed money to weren't ok with that?

Whatever the case the actual figure left to spend is maybe somewhere between £20mil & £50mil and I would be very surprised if they didn't try to leave some in the pot for January and next summer.

14.) 05 Aug 2014
05 Aug 2014 06:36:31
92m from transfers

30m training ground
22m existing transfer payments
20m just under on pelle etc

so about 20m left
thats the way I read it

15.) 05 Aug 2014
Clearly failed his medical then as no announcement

16.) 05 Aug 2014
The outstanding debt for existing transfers is being managed by income through the club. This debt was predominantly from the osvaldo signing where we paid something like 7m up front with the rest in instalments. The club who sold him to us uses those instalments as an income so wouldn't necessarily want it all paid now. It wasn't just os before someone replies with a simple maths lesson for me, my understanding is that Ramirez, osvaldo, lovren and Rodriguez had these instalments tied to their deals.

17.) 05 Aug 2014
20 million + sky income!the sold players have accumulated lots of dough but how much if it is up front and how much will we get over the next few years?

18.) 05 Aug 2014
05 Aug 2014 13:30:04
Serious transfer targets IMO:
Forster: £9m?
Redmond: £8m?
Rojo: £15m?
I think the board have a budget, and I think if they can't get rojo for cheaper than £15m, they will turn their attention to van djiik. But I think around £20m is the sort of money I would expect the board to spend and I would be quite happy with that.

19.) 05 Aug 2014
05 Aug 2014 23:10:04
redmond would be a great signing but let's first snap up a top quality cb and then move on to signing wide players.
redmond or zaha