Southampton Rumours Archive April 16 2013

16 Apr 2013 23:21:17
Daily Mail are saying Southampton are lining up bids for Cagliari duo Davide Astori and Radja Nainggolan as well as QPR midfielder Esteban Granero.

Daily Mirror also running the Granero rumour

I would love to get nainggolan he looks a class cm and if we get the other strongly rumord players astori, mayb sinclair, ter stegan, lopez (i think lopez its said to be a la liga striker and thought to be him) we will an even stronger team than we are now.


Trev saint

Love Ter Stegen but reckon he'll end up at a top CL side. Astori will be great signing. Lopez sounds good and realistic but what about Mayuka? Don't want Granero, he goes missing too often. I think we all know that that there will be good signings and we probably won't know a lot until it's happened.

Wouldn't everybody prefer to see some young english players brought in or from our academy as apposed to all foreign

All up for bringing youth through but only if they're ready and better than the likes of foreign players mentioned. They will come good and be the future but if we're pushing for top half next season, they will not be ready. Could see likes of Targett, Sinclair promoted to first team but being on bench much like JWP this season.

Granero no chance but Astori and Ter Steggen would defo strengthen first team.

Ter Stegen I have to admit I can't see happening. Astori is class, could happen but he was rumoured before and it didn't happen then so.
Granero I don't want to see, not worth it and to be honest is probably similar to the Scott Dann rumour from last year where the papers will re run it over and over just to claim he will most to a Premiership club.
Nainggolan could well be someone we're interested in, seems our type of signing and has class about him so it's possible.

Seager is 2 seasons off 1st team max! watch out for his name

Seager is a quality kid, but we need to see if he can make that transition. A few years ago we had David McGoldrick who was absolutely prolific, tipped for the very top, and look what happened to him!

Lets give the kid a chance.

16 Apr 2013 18:20:21
Southampton and Bolton are Watching Australian right back Trent Sainsbury.
Both FC Basel and Roda JC have offered the player a trial during the Summer also

Saints - premiership side.
bolton - could still be championship next season
roda - getting relegated this season to 2nd division in holland.
basel - not the strongest in europe.

surely we should be looking at players who is better than this. especially as no bigger teams are looking at him, they all seem like small clubs (except saints)

Basel are in the semi final of the Europa league.
And perhaps the fact that some of the bigger clubs in England have overlooked him could be a small blessing. Would imagine he would not be as expensive to get

Just because other sides aren't looking a him doesn't mean he's isn't a good player! We don't always have to compete with loads of different teams to sin players you know!

'The 21-year-old centre-half is among a group of promising Australian starlets currently being linked with moves away from their homeland.

Sainsbury has starred for the Mariners this season and is being tipped to make his senior international debut in the not too distant future.

Southampton are said to have been impressed by scouting reports they have received on the highly-rated defender.

FC Basel and Roda JC Kerkrade are also keen, having offered trials to Sainsbury, and his current club concede that they face a fight to keep their squad intact for the Asian Champions League. '

From tv

Nainggolan would be a class signing I can't see Astori coming considering how close we were in January and then pulled out. Scott Sinclair would a great signing but Granero a big no no. I would like to see Vergard Forren make a debut because if you pay 3.2m for someone you expect them to start at least 10 games in my opinion. Saints should be safe and I look forward to next season. :-)