Southampton Rumours Archive January 29 2014

29 Jan 2014 22:58:22
Burnley have enquired about taking Danny Fox on loan

We should look into a deal which sees burnley take danny fox and us get ings but we pay some money aswell

Saint Hodgy

We should look into a deal where we pay ANYONE to take Fox off our hands. The farther away from the starting XI he gets, the better!

There is also an article on Notts Forest looking at Fox after giving up on Wallace from Rangers.

Hamble Chris

He won't leave he'll run down his contract I bet you

We won't get another left back of his quality for a similar price on his wages. We should keep him and wait for Targett to progress

Quality? are you high? we should be phoning other teams and inquiring weather they will let us drop him off to them

st stuie

Sell him! He was a good championship player, but unable to cope in the premier league. Clyne can fill in should Shaw be injured and hopefully Target will be ready next seson

Some opinionated Saints fans, enthusiastically slagging off our own players.

I wish we could transfer some Saints fans, for the ones from Yeovil for instance

As a Forest fan. is Fox a decent signing for us? Bit of negative feedback from a few of you!

Forest Fan - he's not as bad as people make out. He is one of our players, like Guly, that certain sections of the crowd love to hate, so no matter what he does he isn't good enough in their eyes. I bet you can name a player for Forest in the same mould?

His problem is he is back-up to Shaw, so that is who he gets compared against and the top half of the Premiership is probably one step too far for him.

In the Championship he would serve Forest well. As far as I know he's a good squad player and doesn't whinge when he doesn't play [publicly anyone] so a good professional.

He's covered in tattoos so he fits the stero-type perfectly as a bonus

Cheers. got to be better than Harding. See you next year

Harding was decent at Saints.

Fox is good at championship level. His attacking play is premiership standard, he has a wicked left foot which fed Lambert during our championship season. Defensively however he is terrible. If you're challenging for promotion though you can probably sacrifice defensive capabilities because you won't be under pressure from other teams so much. For that reason Fox is a very very good top championship player, but the defensive requirements in the prem are too much.

"See you next year". ambitious bunch aren't you. My money is on Leicester, QPR and Reading but best of luck!

LondonSaint

That's funny! I work with a Forest fan and he says the same thing about Harding. He was brilliant for us.

I can't see Reading going up and I pray for not having to have QPR in the Premier League, they have a small ground and a horrible owner. And their manager is a financially irresponsible moron. I liked QPR before the takeover by their current lot.

29 Jan 2014 21:38:48
Strange merry go round occurring
Osvaldo Saints to Juve
Vucinic Juve to Inter
Guarin Inter to Utd
Hernandez Utd to Saints

Not happening, Hernandez to us is a big no no.

Why not, I think Hernandez would be agreat signing

It would be a great signing for us, which is why it won't happen. Utd can't afford to let him go.

Utd would want Shaw in exchange, let's stick with young Sam and count our blessings.

29 Jan 2014 20:28:48
Southampton Make enquiry about the possible signings of.

Mirko Vucinic
Luis Muriel
Davide Astori
Kris Commons

But also the possibility of loan signings

-Lewis Holtby
-Alex Oxlade Chamberlain

What do you guys think will happen in the coming days?


Also do you think saints will sign anyone ed?


Saint Hodgy

Would love to see any of those permanent deals go through, apart from commons, he would not cope in prem. it's about time astori joined and we need a striker like Muriel or vucinic

Would love holtby great player him and lallana would tear s*** up

st stuie

29 Jan 2014 17:49:48
Not a rumour, just read that Lewis holtby could be available on loan,
Would we have have him?

Tonythesaint

I'd have him quite happily tbh, But is there anymore news on

Luis Muriel
Davide Astori
Mirko Vucinic

Thought he was going to Shalke?

Lewis Holtby would be a great addition, however Spurs only paid 1. 75m for him and are asking 8-10m, I'd guess he's on fairly high wages due to his initial low transfer fee. My reckoning is that we'll swerve it, with JWP, Cork, Davis, Morgan and Wanyana we're not struggling in the centre of the park. Think we will only trade if Osvaldo goes, another striker coming in. Perhaps an attacking midfielder with flair, as Gaston injured and still not stepped up to the mark along with Puncheon's moonlit flit, we could do with someone like Thomas Ince. I'd like Gallagher to be the striking option and cash in on Osvaldo in the summer.

Pocchetino mentioned scouts are working abroad and in England so it's likely a player from the prem or championship would join aswell as from europe

Spurs signed Holtby on a free, but paid that money to get him last January rather than wait till the summer. He's a good player but not sure if he's what we need.

So. they didn't sign him on a free then

Ok fine no it wasn't a free transfer in the end, but initially it was. An injury to Sandro forced Spurs to pay a measly £1.5m to get Holtby there sooner as he already had agreed to join for free in the summer. My point before was that his transfer cost was so low because Schalke would have lost him for nothing in the summer of get £1.5m in January. He would have cost Spurs £5-8m (IMO he's worth somewhere between that). But irrelevant really as 1. I can't see him coming here and 2. We don't need him.