Southampton Rumours Archive December 29 2012

29 Dec 2012 13:13:52
Italian papers are today linking Saints with a €10m bid for Italian international centre back Davide Astori.

Would be just like NC, but be wary. The Italian press are even worse than the UK press at pure fabrication.

Wouldn't mind a defender of his quality, think he would bring a lot to our squad and improve the players around him. Still think we need a genuine out and out goal scorer to work alongside Lambert.

The Dejan Lovren rumour sounds more likely to me, but I would like to have a player like either of them join the saints.

This is not true and denied by NC. Saints are looking to bring in Besart Berisha from Brisbane Roar to help RL up top.

Berisha has been great in the A-League, but it is the A-League...
I'd rather just recall Billy unless we bring a proven scorer in.

HA! Berisha...that's funny. Will never happen. There are far better and far younger attacking players in the A-League - such as Thomas Rogich, who Reading have made an offer for I believe.

Aussie Saint

29 Dec 2012 10:00:55
A few rumours that I've seen today.

Southampton scouts have been watching Bradford's Nahki Wells. With Cardiff and Peterborough also interested.

Birmingham City rejected a £6M bid from Saints in the summer but would accept a similar offer in January.

Charlton want to keep Dan Seabourne for longer than January. May end up being a season long loan, but they're wanting a permanent deal

And a long shot: Man City are looking to offload Joleon Lescott for £8M in January, not out of our price range and fits the bill for what we need

Lescott fits what we need, his pay check demands dont.

Right...
1. Wells is scoring goals for fun at the moment, confidence high. Would be a great injection of energy and enthusiasm for the saints strike force.
2. Assume that your talk of Birmingham relates to the keeper. Rumours are Birmingham are going to have to sell in January to balance the books. Not sure Butland is a high wage earner so may not be worth selling
3. Dan Seabourne. . . dare i say it, would be good for us at CB if we go down. He needs to play after his little nightclub incident so a loan makes sense
4. JL is a huge long shot, but would love to see the club get him in on loan
Go Saints!

Yeah sorry. 2nd one was relating to Jack Butland (Birmingham one)

Forget Lescott he is out of our league, not finance wise but he is now used to playing at a higher level than us and i think he would want a team still vying for top six, spurs arsenal and i know they are not their at the mo but liverpool have the history to attract him.

Wells, may be a good finisher but strikers are not a priority, Lambert and Rodriguez can finish when given the service.
Butland is over-rated and wouldn't be worth 6 million to Southampton. Saints need to sign a good keeper who is consistant. Butland has struggled a bit in goal for Birmingham and made more mistakes than Gazzaniga.
Seaborne would be a decent signing for Charlton hope to get a fair fee for him though.
Lescott's wages are far too high to be worth it. We can do better with our resources and bring in a long term talent along the lines of Gaston Ramirez (only a defender of course).

There's no way Lescott will come to Saints after winning the Premier League last year. Ridiculous rumour.