Southampton Banter Archive July 12 2013

12 Jul 2013 21:39:33
Great News on Luke Shaw. Best LB since Bale

He is a far better left back than Bale was. Bale clearly was not meant to be a left back. Far better as a winger.

The way he bombs forward, reckon shaw could be a good winger too

There are signs that Luke has a good engine, and we'll see him getting far better going forward as he gets a little older.

12 Jul 2013 21:33:34
Shaw signs 5 year deal. Never in doubt;)
Best signing we'll make by a long way.
Boy do we have the makings of a fabulous side. Once again we'll prove doubters wrong. Again!

Official site.

12 Jul 2013 21:02:32
BOOM! Shaw signs a 5 year deal! :D

Mini-Saint

12 Jul 2013 17:16:59
Jermain lens is the player we should get, great winger that is willing to shoot and has pace. Also I would choose another captain lallana lost it as a player for me last season.

Schneiderlin will be announced as team captain before the start of the season

Jeremain Lens has already moved to Dynamo Kiev. He wouldn't be able to move again.

Lallana had a stop start season with injury, when he was fit a the start he was one of our best players and I think he looked great in a central role as well as on the wing, lens has attitude problems anyway, someone said he's the dutch joey barton? so no thanks

12 Jul 2013 13:58:54
Nothing on Shaw yet. worried

I've heard that there will be no news untill after this tour has been completed!

Don't be, It's probably done now, but don't expect it to be announced anytime soon

12 Jul 2013 12:03:53
Just a thought, would you be happy to sell Ramirez for £18million (rumoured transfer to Atletico Madrid)?

I was keen to hang on to him and hoped he'd shine next season. But would it be a bad thing to let him go for £18m-£20m then re-invest that amount in other players. We could probably afford Damiao, Stoch, Sinclair and Banega if we sold Ramirez.

Makes me think it might be worth it, considering he hasn't been anything special since joining. Make a quick £6m profit and move on.

Thoughts?

We can afford anyone, we have billionaire owners, we don't have to sell to buy players anymore, anyway we only really need a CB, winger and stiker now and we should be ready for next season

Glad you are not financially responsible at Saints-your maths. are at least £15m out!

Why would the club start to cash in on young talented players now? That is what the project is all about.

Saint Martin

Keep him I'd say. He needed time to bed in to the team last season. He's happy here and looked good in the recent internationals. If we keep switching players we'll lose the team spirit we've built up.

Why would we need to sell ramirez for money? I thought we were backed by a 7 billionare.

You wouldn't be buying all 4 with the sale of Ramirez add another 20 million maybe

No point selling him yet. He could be worth 25-30 Million if he has a good season this season

Foreign players always take a year to settle in

OP here - Saint Martin, I'm just saying it frees up a lot of money to put elsewhere and makes it a lot more feasible that we could afford them all. No one knows our actual transfer budget so how can I possibly be 'out' and have my maths questioned? Instead of trying to be clever, just answer the question I put to you. I don't wax lyrical about your terrible punctuation or penchant to make irrelevant remarks under a juvenile pseudonym.

And obviously the reason they may cash in on young talented players is to free up more transfer budget for other talented players. I'm also sceptical about how talented he can actually be in the Prem, because Hooiveld and Fox aside he was one of our most error prone players last season yet was our most expensive.

And to first responder - having billionaire owners doesn't mean bottomless transfer budget. Cortese would have agreed a spending allowance with the owners prior to the window opening. I'd imagine it is in the £30m-£40m region but no one truly knows.

Oh shut up you fanny?

Yeh wot he said above

"We could probably afford (4 players) if we sold Ramirez"!

We can afford them without selling Ramirez-so your point about selling Ramirez has nothing to do with it. It doesn't make anything "more feasible". You have no idea what the transfer budget is, but your question, and subsequent comments suggest you do. Does that answer your question any clearer?

Or maybe I could have explained that MP has already stated he wants to hold onto the young talented players at the club?

Don't start a stupid debate about punctuation (punctuation in a text?)as a smoke screen and make silly remarks about what names people sign off with. At least we leave a name so people know who they are having a discussion with.

Saint Martin

OP : Nobody seems to agree with you. Is that why you didn't sign off with a 'juvenile pseudonym'? Doing so makes me think twice about the content of my posts and enables people to hold me to account for any rubbish posted.

Personally I don't think we'll be selling Ramirez. We've got another £20m to spend on a striker, so I guess our transfer budget will be around the £45m. However, I'm sure that Nicola is clever enough to be able to find additional funds should the right players be available.

I believe that the £30m figure is what was given to the club from Katrin Liebher for transfers, and that the club also has funds available from TV and prize money, so the yearly transfer budget could be as high as £65-£70m.

12 Jul 2013 00:22:52
I'm going to make a stab in the dark and say our next signing will be from the continent within the next week so they can link up with the squad before preseason fixtures start. I've found it interesting that there's been no word with concern to Nainggolan or Banega from the media for the last few weeks; the Wanyama and Damiao sagas may have mutually helped cover up other negotiations Cortese has been working on. With Forren (surprisingly) gone I think Poch may yet add another reinforcement for the back line before the season starts as well.

Saint Q

It was going to be Nainggolan or Wanyama I reckon. doubt we will get both