21 Aug 2016 11:57:14
Steaua Bucharest have apparently accepted a 7mill bid for Stanciu, who plays CAM, RM and LM. Excited about this one?


1.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 13:00:51
According to Wikipedia he has a 20 million buyout clause in his contract, so can't see that one happening,


2.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 14:25:31
wikipedia. not the most reliable and accurate source eh?
personally, I see this going through.

{Ed001's Note - doesn't matter anyway, the buyout is just a protection in case they don't want to sell a player, it does not mean Saints have to pay that amount and is irrelevant to teams outside of the country the selling club is in.}


3.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 14:45:54
Hope this one goes through he was quality at the euros and has had just as a good a start this season as he did all last season. Still think we need a new 'target' man tho, I think we should forget Austin and JRod for now, both have zero confidence. *ducks.


4.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 16:14:20
Think stanciu could be a good acquisition if we sign him but as the above post has said a new target man should be brought in its as if everyone can see it except the manager and the board, crazy.


5.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 17:53:03
^^^ how do you know what our Manager and Board are thinking?

1) Press Conferences will not have us saying that we are desperate for a target man as that will make us look poor, and will raise the price on every prospect we look at.

2) We can be making bids behind the scenes that are failing - we are not going to start promising something if we are unable to deliver it

3) We have strikers. Everyone seems to be ITK that JRod, SL and CA won't score a set number of goals. Those same ITK individuals also know for a fact that we have lost X amount of goals from Pelle and Mane - would love to know how they can tell the future - what if we kept Pelle and he broke his leg after transfer windows were shut? Being out injured would not guve us goals.

4) Osvaldo was a target man - look what happened there.

The Southampton Way is to breed youth, buy prospects and function as a business. Even if we could afford Pogba and Ibra I would wouldn't want them - 10 x 10 million decent prospects is a better route than having the worlds most expensive player.

Maybe I am just mad and should be a bedwetter like the rest of you?

x.


6.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 22:44:22
Brilliant, "I wouldn't want Pogba or ibrahimovic".


7.) 21 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 23:08:17
You don't want to get caught breeding youth.


8.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 07:47:34
Read the post JamesSaint.

I would not want to buy those two players for over 100 million as that does not make business sense for our club.

Seems like all these people writing posts think its easy to just run a business and consistently spend millions.

Its unfortunate that a large part of our fan base is delusional!

What if we bought Ibra and Pogba, then they got injured? We would be back to square 1 - we need to add players to a squad, not just spend silly money on a marquee signing just to stop the bedwetters. People seem to forget that when we helped youth we made Bale, Walcott, Chamberlain, Chambers, Shaw, Lallana - so what is wrong with doing the same again?


9.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 10:17:54
Steve230891, you are right in what you say, for sure this is Southampton model but any player no matter the cost has a possibility of getting injured, mane although not serious is now injured for liverhampton, Ayew for West Ham is toast! So any signing is always a gamble.

Also your spot on with the management and board no letting the media know what we are looking for in the transfer market. Would be bloody stupid if the manager came out publicly saying we need a target man and a hard tackling midfielder.

I just hope we are looking for some additions and mainly a striker, let's see what transpires. I think there will be a couple of additions before the windows closes. COYR!


10.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 12:06:03
If it happens - YES. Looks good and could be a potentially good player. Unfortunately we have to wait and see. Still time in this transfer window. Keep the faith.