Southampton Rumours Archive August 13 2015

13 Aug 2015 15:17:36
Koeman has just stated he will never sell Fonte, you silly doubters! ;)

13 Aug 2015 16:41:25
But what if our captain did a Villa captain? What if Fonte 'did a Delph' - imagine the scenes!

13 Aug 2015 17:17:53
Sky sports actually said 'Villa are in talks with saints' can't really blame us for jumping the gun

13 Aug 2015 20:37:09
If true there must be something fundamentally wrong behind the scenes

16 Aug 2015 00:32:19
Today showed just how much the need to strengthen is necessary. Not good enough all over the pitch. We can accept a bad day at the office occasionally but that takes the piss

16 Aug 2015 14:37:11
Hi guys

got home after the Everton match, what a joke Koomans just realised you can't keep selling your prized assets for millions and go to the pound shop for replacements, Iknow we had a few out with injuries but the team he put out against Everton was just not good enough if he persists with players from the back Matt Target,who was caught out of position on a number of times and woefully one paced,He's no where near ready for premiership football, Yoshida, again caught ball watching,soares who wants to concentrate more on defence rather than running around like a headless chicken caught upfield to many times Lukaka made him look like a novice and left him for dead, and as for Steve davies if he's a defensive midfielder were in big trouble, Yet to see dusan Tadic have a decent game for the Saints, gets lostin the game and seems to think he's better than he is, goes down to easy always looking for a foul you keep hearing the Chapel crowd singing his name but they must be watching a different player than me. I feel sorry for LONG, PELLE, WANYAMA,MANE, and Fonte at least they were showing some effort, Koomnan needs a quality CB, a good LEFT BACK, to cover for ryan B, and a attacking midfield player who can open up defences unfortunatly the powers to be sold the ones we had for mega bucks and bought cheap imitations. Southampton have sold Eight players over the last two seasons almost a complete team, they were all good players in their positions , LB CB DM TWO RBs AM CF and lost Toby TO the spuds you can't take that amount of quality players out of any team and expect to progress to the next level, you may get away with it for a season but eventually it will catch you out so be prepared for a hard season Ronald Kooman great manager he is but he can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear
regards
disillusioned

16 Aug 2015 15:34:09
Was wondering when the first WUM would make an appearance, impressive that you've done your homework too. However where you slipped up was saying the Chapel stand was singing Tadic's name, that's the most quiet stand in the stadium every game, nice try though.

16 Aug 2015 17:08:24
Am I the only One who was totally impressed with Romeu. He constantly made himself available, great ball reception and distribution skills. Plus always ready to backtrack and help out the back 4 pity he picked up an early yellow card otherwise we might have been able to better judge whether he will make up for the loss of the spider.
I know weare short of quality cover in places but keep the faith COYR

13 Aug 2015 12:02:03
Hi Ed's,

There's a lot rumour's (I'm guessing rumour's are just that) flying around about Jose being linked to other clubs, we wouldn't sell him surly? Have you any more info on this?

Ta
TT

{Ed001's Note - there has been a lot of interest shown in him, but Saints' asking price has scared away the bidders up until now. I don't know of any change in that situation. I would be surprised if anyone would meet the asking price, purely because of his age, though Villa did make an enquiry earlier in the week.}

13 Aug 2015 20:05:35
Ed001, I'm extremely surprised that Saints would actually put an "asking price" out there tbh. If that's true, what is it?

{Ed001's Note - I don't know mate, I never asked, but I would assume in excess of £10m as it scared off potential buyers.}

14 Aug 2015 09:24:07
Brenda would pay about £30m. £20m for Fonte and the other £10m to enable Lovren to look a good signing!

14 Aug 2015 14:13:27
every player has price.

15 Aug 2015 15:56:32
I heard pre season that Fonte had a price and we were looking to overhaul the CB's, but they expected Toby to be one with a new one in. Fonte threw his toys around a bit in getting his last extended contract & the captaincy was his by default as they didn't think that giving it to Morgan was a goer as everyone knew he was off and it made Fonte sign the new deal when he was finally (in his eyes) offered it. Fair to say he stepped up big time last season.