25 Jan 2015 16:02:25
We have to find cover for Pelle in this window, plus another keeper, to cover for Forster.
If we don't we are going to fail at the final run in.
Totally agree, I think we could have done with another striker at the start of the season - we need a proven goal scorer. As for other cover another CD wouldn't go a miss and a keeper.
Still have time in this window, we're in a great position so now let's build on this!
Are Saints desperate enough to recall Dani Osvaldo and try again to make it work?
It's going to be extremely hard to find a half decent striker available in this window, willing to join Saints to probably be a squad player, and who won't cost the earth (most likely a loan deal).
Long's going to be out for 4-6 weeks. Rodriguez has no chance of returning within that timeframe as he's not even training properly yet.
6-7 games with just one senior striker on the books is just asking for trouble. It's a position Saints were light in even before the season began - Shane Long's nowhere near good enough to be leading the line in a top half Premier League team.
Without forking out too much money the only striker I could think of with recent BPL experience potentially available is Javier Hernandez. I assume we'd have to negotiate with both Real Madrid and Man United for that to happen. He's the type of player I could envisage Koeman making a top striker of again. As for Osvaldo, he burnt his bridges long ago, cannot see it because of his adversity to certain players.
I would love to see Hernandez in a Saints shirt but I don't think it will happen. I Think that RoKo was hoping to get through the season with the players he had but surely he must bring someone else in now to hopefully knock in a few goals. We are starting to look a little short on quality players. We definitely need better keeper back up than Davis. Good servant but way past his best.
I have to say I agree, with giving osvaldo another chance. Everyone deserves a second chance but I don't think it would work. He would get too much stick from the fans and he wouldn't perform well under that kind of preassure. Also I don't think he wants to ply for us. I don't think Hernandez would be willing to come here from madrid personally, I think our best bet would be rickie back on a loan till the end of the season. That would work for us and him and he wouldn't cost anything on a loan. We could pay his wages and let him go back at the end of the season. He is proven and would a lot in very well.
28 Jan 2015 11:09:31
We didn't get rid of Osvaldo he got rid of himself. Only 2 people to blame for that situation Pochettino/Cortese, it was a very bad signing and with both of them gone the current administration is left picking up the pieces. We need him off our books and if we have to take a multi million pound loss on him so be it. He may be registered as a Southampton player but in the real world he has never been one and never will be. Accept the loss and move on it's the only way, whilst he is still on the books it is mind-blowingly frustrating and the only person who isn't suffering is Osvaldo himself.