Southampton Rumours Archive August 11 2014

11 Aug 2014 22:02:58
Haven't heard much on Van Dijk recently, saw someone mention it before, anything new on him?

Celtic have just signed a CB on loan from Man City for the season. Hopefully paving the way for Van Dijk to join Saints.

11 Aug 2014 20:13:41
Gardos is nearly done. Rojo, Vlaar, Van Dijk and Byram on the radar. Midfield is very strong, especially if Morgan stays. Ideally, we should be looking at a proven striker and a winger and if we can, I reckon we will be in a position better than that of last years.

Gardos nearly done believable, why do you think the others are definitely players we are pursuing?

With lots of change!

Id be surprised if were still pursuing van djik, yes we enquired but believe were put off by price and news coming out earlier was moving on from byram if you think about it we bid around 5 mil? There's no way the board are guna splash 7, 8 mil on a back up

Or a versatile striker who can play on the wing as well as up top like Jay

I think the Rojo deal will be off because his agent is asking for too much and Porto need to cash in a lot of money to get their 25% cut. Vlaar won't be bought if Gardos is finalised I think. Byram is highly rated and IMO is worth up to 7/8 million. I think he's worth more than McCormack who was 11 million. I reckon Gardos/Byram and a Winger and Striker. Maybe Kevin Volland (German) who is capable of both.

I agree Jamie, byram has got a lot of potential and is probably worth the 7, 8 mil and with McCormack well let's just say Fulham got their pants fully pulled down on that deal

12 Aug 2014 11:52:03
Porto huh. that will be news to their chairman Pinto da Costa

Man utd have officially bid for rojo, apparently meeting sportings asking price. that's him off our radar now

We seemed to play Chambers and Clyne in rotation last season to good effect and I think we could do the same with Clyne and Byram. Obviously very good if one gets injured because we have a cover LB in Targett, but not a cover RB. A winger/striker I believe should be a big focus for our last signing. Maybe for that number 7 shirt.

Rojo is at Sporting CP not Porto, our bid was pretty close to there asking price though wasn't it? I thought they wanted around £17m and we bid like £13 or £14m, so may as well bid up the extra money as he'd be a quality signing, before Man U's bid is accepted!

Sorry yeah I meant Sporting. His agent realised how much more money he wanted from the deal though and said he could get more at other clubs. Unless we cough up more that £17mill then we won't have a chance, and I think there are others we can sign for that price

11 Aug 2014 16:48:57
Florin Gardos undergone medical earleier today

Source. tv

God news, I heard the same, hopefully we can get this finalized ASAP and go on to other targets

11 Aug 2014 17:48:03
Excellent news. Hopefully we can get at least a couple more in soon

What makes this guy so special?, he's not that highly rated and his states are average

He's not 'so special' he's a solid cb with the potential to improve an be a stalwart at the back in years to come

11 Aug 2014 19:41:28
Hes big strong and fearless. Watched a couple of things on him and liked what I saw. Some excellent tackles, has scored, likes to run forward.
Has potential.

Agreed. Good strong defender. Wonder if he can make himself known to Lovren. Just a nice gentle leg-breaker. Early doors. Sign him up

Antony martial would be nice

11 Aug 2014 12:58:17
Don't know why everyone is saying the Rojo deal is off, Koeman has reiterated our interest with him and Florin Gardos, apparantly Gardos is close, also reports saying we're going to bid up for Byram, leaving one more position left for a top striker. I'd rather it not be Hernandez and it sounds like he doesn't want to come anyway, as we're intersted in Pedro Rodriguez why not through a bid in? He may not want to join, but worth a try! If we get our defensive target we should be solid, I just worry were the goals will come from, as last year we relied very heavily on Lallana, J Rod and Lambert and 2 of them are gone and Jay is out for a while, hopefully Pelle can step up to the plate and the likes of Tadic and Ramirez can get a few more goals, and maybe Gallagher too, we've been interested in Vela before and he'd be class, I don't really know who else to suggest for that position, any ideas besides Hernandez anyone?

What about trying our luck for players in the Ukraine league there's bound to be some decent players looking away form there because of the war

Everyone is saying it's off because he has told people he's not that keen on coming here (prefers a biiger club) and he's started follwing players from other clubs like Man U on social media.
Our only chance is if we offer the €20m the major owners want and if a bigger club doesn't make an offer we 'might' get him late on deadline day

By the sounds of it we will sign mac 2 new players this window. With the gardos deal supposedly all but done (latest is that he will have a medical today to be announced midweek) and the confirmed interest in byram it looks like 1 cb and 1 rb. So probably no striker this window

I suppose koeman wants to give pelle the chance to be the main man.

Wrt vela, he has just signed a new deal with sociadad so he won't be going anywhere anytime soon!

Vela signed for real sociedad permanently back in june so I don't see him coming. We should finalise the gardos deal soon and maybe the byram deal also. I think we should forget trying to sign hernandez and look elsewhere. let's be honest, why try persuade a player who doesn't value us. we are better off looking at younger, eager players willing to succeed with southampton and not just come and go. Ings and wickham wouldn't be bad would it?

Just as mere suggestions, not rumours or interest from Saints I reckon we should look at
Abel Hernandez Palermo (I understand they may have been interest in the last year at some point under MoPo)
Antony Martial of Monaco (pacey, different style to Pelle)
Berardi of Sassuollo
Vela
Just a personal opinion

I heard we put a bid in for Danny Ings.

What about Bacca from Seville, 27, Columbian and a good scoring record in Spain & Belgium?
Belgium player of the year in 2012 and voted best signing in Spanish League last year
He has a €30m buyout clause in his contract

11 Aug 2014 15:00:47
What about Guidetti of Man City well down the pecking order, just a thought.

We will be signing another striker. i'm suprised we are not in for 2 with jay rod injured. if pelle doesn't work in the PL or gets injured we are screwed. imagine relying on gallagher, mayuka, and sharp for goals.

Kevin volland. Young German.
Or ibe from Liverpool on loan til jan when j rod comes back

Don't get me wrong I think we could do with one, but there are no sounds that we will be getting one.

Although perhaps it's just being kept under wraps like Bertrand was?

Why don't we try and use jos hooliveld as a striker. Tall, strong, and he knows where the goal is, even if it is our own

Ings could be good, as may Guidetti, but I feel we need a big signing up top who we know will get goals, Bacca's a good shout, as is Abel Hernandez, I like Berardi but isn't he more of a winger? Shame about Vela I forget about that, but then again Forster recently signed a new deal with Celtic and he's signed? Vela fits the bill perfectly, Kevin Gameiro maybe? Looking into players in the Ukranian league, Taison, Jermain Lens, would both fill the role, seems they have a lot of good attacking mids there but not enough strikers! Looking at Brazil, player like Alexander Pato who would be good. Also that Dede guy who was linked to AC Milan last summers is still in Brazil, if we can't get Rojo he could be an interesting one, but to be honest if we're not getting a top quality marque striker, we may as well lool into people like Ings, who are young hungry English players, like Berahino too

If I could have anyone I would have bony.

My understanding is vela was given new contract due to interest from arsenal, as end of period /contract arsenal had with his parent club then new contract was required to remove arsenal from being able to buy him back. The deal between clubs also had to be deleted from contract.

Vela didn't want to return to arsenal but then again he now likes first team action which he still felt he wouldn't get at the gunners so new contract rules out arsenal but not a team offering first team action.

This is just some info and well to be honest has nothing to do with saints signing him, just don't rule him out because he signed a new contract.

11 Aug 2014 08:05:01
Steaua have reached a financial agreement with Southampton for the transfer of Gardos, who will sign his contract soon. Source Romainian press-

http://www.fanatik.ro/gardos-10-275123?mobile=v4#ad-image-0

Awesome news George nice find

11 Aug 2014 10:37:00
The Daily Heil won't like that kind of thing one bit. I just hope he gets on better than his compatriots Adrian Mutu and Razvan Rat.