Southampton Rumours Archive January 17 2013

17 Jan 2013 21:24:16
Regarding Davide Astori, Southampton have had a bid Accepted, Personal terms are in principal agreed ( same as Ramierz) just like the Ramierz saga waiting for payment scheme to be sorted and get the player over for the medical, wouldn't expect any announcement until after the Everton game

I hope you're right.

I wouldn't expect any announcement until deadline day if we get him at all.

Last I heard on Astori was that Napoli had had a bid of 9.5M Euros (0.5M less than the Saints bid) rejected.

Considering his club are after £12M we are currently £4M short on his club valuation...

I can't see us increasing our bid by 50%

I could be wrong, but I doubt we will sign both Forren and Astori. Especially, seeing as we look to be keen on signing another attacking midfielder. Steven Davis has been rubbish so someone better than him would be great.

Aussie Saint

I think they'd settle at £10M but I am obviously not the authority on that sort of thing. Frustratingly this will be a 'wait and see' deal again. As most of them are with our club.

Davis has one bad game and suddenly he's rubbish? Give the guy a break. I agree with your premise though that we should look for an attacking mid. But really I think it would not be a mistake to take Forren and Astori. Two very good Centre backs who would dramatically help our back 4. Then we could take another winger/attacking mid as well. Think our budget would probably allow for 3 signings of good quality to happen this month.

We are not going to spunk £10m up the wall for a player whose only youtube video shows him giving away a penalty and scoring an own goal against Inter - We already have Jos for this.

This deal is not happening!

Give the guy a break. You mean like guly who hasn't done much all season we can't afford to have players like this in the team.

I think you're all looking through rose tinted glasses if you think Davis has been anything more than average this season.

Every time I have seen Davis he has been average, we need to improve on average to progress! As for Astori would be a sensational coup!

Saints don't sign players based on their youtube video you wally. :)

Nah, we just wait for a call from George Weah.

Saint Christopher

Davis was outstanding at arsenal

17 Jan 2013 18:17:17
Hooper to sign?? I would be surprised to see NC let him pass us by after all the chasing trying to get him last year
Might be something in this rumour


CTS {Ed007's Note - As of right now there has been no bids made for Hooper and he has told the club he will be staying until the summer.}

I'd prefer we didn't go for Hooper.

Let's go for Hooper, we all forget what happens if your star striker gets injured. We would go down for sure in Lambert got either suspended or injured. We need to survive this season and then we could really kick on from there.

Great signing if it happened, however not likely because I can't see him moving until the summer

We can get a better striker for cover than Hooper at a lower cost. Hooper will cost stupid amounts because Celtic value him ridiculously highly. Although in their case it's rightfully so, why should they sell him?

We don't need hooper, we've already got the quality in attack, it's our cb's we need to improve, lambert, ramirez, rodriguez have the quality we need, and with quality wingers like puncheon and full backs in clyne and shaw all we need to do is sign an experienced cb.

What has happened to Tad Lee? He showed bags of potential scored a cracking goal, did loads of publicity shots, got injured and disappeared of the face f the planet.

I put him in my fantasy team and everything. Thought he was going to be a "suprise packag"

Lee has been struggling on his knee all season. He's been stuck with the Under 21s failing to make much of a major impact. It's really quite upsetting to see a kid of such talent stricken down by such a bad injury that it seems he'll never be the same again.

Hooper would be a great addition, stop pretending we're to good for him, he's scoring in the champions league, he would be quality, however I'd rather build for the future and sign Charlie Austin he's on fire in the championship and could potentially be a class signing

Hooper would not be a 'great' addition. Lambert scores against Champions League standard teams. He has scored against each of Manchester United and City and against Chelsea. Hooper would not be worth the sort of money he'd cost to us anyway.

17 Jan 2013 15:42:09
Forren looks to sign in the next few days. It is understood that the Astori deal has all but fallen through and that NC wants to bring in another CB and Attacking midfield cover. Douglas and Kara seem to be frontrunners, with Douglas looking the more likely due to his contract being up in summer.

- Taber

Why has the astori deal all but fallen through? Why are we once again seemingly leaving it to the end of the window after appearing to put all our eggs in one basket.....

Just curious where people got the link between saints and Douglas? i'd love him at the club but seen no indication we are interested in him at all.

Clarkey saint

Douglas agent has him linked with every Premiership club-why should Saints be an exception?

Can't believe the poster who thinks we have put all our eggs in one basket - Its the january transfer window, not the summer, we are only going to sign a few players....

On top of that - we were in for Astori, forren, coutinhio and apparently Sorenson. And they are the ones we know about.... I hardly think that this is spunking all our eggs into one basket....

Also, having watched youtube. Astori looks like a replacement for Jos - Own goals and penalties against - well worth £10m imho....

17 Jan 2013 11:02:43
tv reporting that Dan Seaborne is set to move out on loan to Bournemouth for the rest of the season. Must indicate we've got a new defender all signed up I think

Was just going to post that - the exciting word is Poised :) Who is it...Who is it? It's like a 10 year old opening a present.