Southampton Rumours Archive June 29 2013

29 Jun 2013 21:30:24
Nigel Adkins and Reading's DoF seen with Ricky Lambert this evening. It doesn't sound very positive. Neutrals posted a photo on personter. Unforgivable from Nigel if they take him. Otherwise I was wishing him well when he took the Reading job!

. money rules. it's a business remember!1

Can you post a link?

I doubt Lambert will be moving down a league to join up with Reading. If he does though it'll be for one hell of a fee and we'll already have a top notch replacement lined up.

Rickie was pictured in our new home kit. You're persons if you believe he's going to Reading.

He's waited all his football life to get to play in premier and to play his beloved liverpool at anfield. he's prob got 1 good season left in him so. he's going to join reading

The modern day "Teddy Sherringham"?

Might have been a social meeting. The third person is there to provide confirmation that there was no tapping up going on. Sir Ricky is not for sale. Unkess we have got a 20 million quid brazil goal scoring machine lined up to replace him.

Saints won't sell him unless for a big fee. He still has a lot of marketability and as a previous poster said he loves the club and is living the dream.

I can see him joining reading and playing for NA again but is say he has another 2 years with us. My money is on him being a coach with us when he's done.

Rickie won't leave he loves the club and the premier league and he hopes to play for england if he joins reading that dream dies for him, with saints there still a chance.

Being pictured in our new kit means nothing, Van Persie was modelling the arsenal kit last year.

Made me laugh this good 1

Rickie going no where, he won't leave Southampton for anyone except Liverpool. And I doubt he will play under Nigel again considering Rickie thought he was incompetent and complained to NC with a number of other players not long before he was sacked

1. Rickie is very happy and will not want to leave unless his 1st team action is under threat - which it isn't.

2. Even at his age, Cortese would command a fee which would be far too much for the likes of Reading to pay.

3. Rickie would not go back to the Championship and there are a lot of Premiership clubs that would have him even if we were to sell.

4. Pathetic attempt at a wind up.

They were having dinner together, maybe it is because I dunno, because they are friends? that's what friends do. And Nigel is a very nice chap so not surprised Rickie is still friends with him. JEEZE

Haha Rickie certainly is living the dream and Nige is living in a dreamworld! Got a lot of respect for Nige as too rickie has, they prob went out for a couple beers talk about liverpool and so forth but Sir Rick of lambert is going nowhere!

ScummyAncelotti.

Re-iterating what was said above, Rickie was one of the players complaining about Adkins' regime when he was sacked. He wouldn't go to work under him again. He loves our club and has said multiple times he wants to retire here. Liverpool would be the only club who he'd maybe leave for.

Can't two friends go for a drink together?

Dont forget they worked together nearly everyday for nearly 3 years so they will be close friends and rickie has said he wants to end his playing days with us

No one was complaining about the regime and players were shocked when Adkins was sacked, I know one of the players. Some people on here talk a load c**p

Is this the same Nigel Adkins who tried dropping Rickie at the start of last season?

OTOH, the rumours going about us preparing to bid for Damiao and Pochettino saying Roma contacted the club stating that Osvaldo was for sale suggests we are looking at spending big on a CF. If something like that DOES happen, Rickie may well find a decrease in playing time.

Lol u say people talk crap yet u claim to know a player lmao

This could potentially be the last year he will be able to retain a first team spot in an EPL side. So why would he drop down a league? So it's extremely unlikely to happen. Actually this is absolutely ridiculous.

29 Jun 2013 21:23:23
damiaos club have rubbished claims that they will sell him to saints, had a good idea this was to good to be true,

Basically seems to be a case of, we expressed interest as many hundreds of clubs apparently have but like all the other clubs apparently have not bothered to put in a serious bid for some peculiar reason.

Didn't Bologna say they weren't selling Ramirez? Same as Burnley/J-Rod iirc too

Reckon we'll have pulled this off within a week

Where does it say his club have rubbished reports? Made that up by any chance?

Have just found it. He said nothing of the sort about not selling him to Saints. Spurs fan by any chance?
Article says they have received no firm offers but are waiting. They also state that they are trying to sign players. As per the other poster, the message is very similar to that of the Bologna chairman during Ramirez saga

Check news now st ripper

We have put in an initial bid with further discussions to be held this week. That or we are flying to Brazil to see some riots, the confed cup final, and enjoy the nice weather.

St Ripper, I'm not the original poster but it's not hard to find these reports with very basic investigatory skills.

To help you out a little, type "sambafoot leandro damiao" into google. One of the top few links will be the story reported above that you're struggling to find.

Maybe don't be so harsh and judgemental on fellow posters in the future?

I would say that's a good sign, I'd imagine Nicola has told them to keep quiet

Perhaps original poster you should have the cahones to put your name on it so we know how reliable you are? Oh, and that is obviously not very reliable at all as you have totally misquoted the article, putting a nice anti Saints slant on it, which it does not have. Just like the rest of the media will.
I can use the Internet. Shame you obviously can't read?

The top headlines come from a website called sambafoot.com reading INTERNACIONAL RUBBISH RUMOURS LINKING LEANDRO DAMIAO TO SOUTHAMPTON is that clear enough for you mate.

That's the headline, but did you not actually read the article you donut? The club made no mention of Saints at all. Just that no firm offer had been received. Which we all know. That's why Saints are sending a delegation out there according to Sky Italia.
person fans who just read sensational headlines are very tiresome as they have nothing to add. Keep to the facts eh?

Director of football Luis Cesar Souto de Moura admits there has been interest, but he is hopeful that Damiao will not be going anywhere.

That's not the posters fault though is it? He didn't put the slant on it. He just repeated what the site had in the headline. Not sure why you should accuse him of not being able to read!

Lenny

A deal for Damiao would take ages to do even if we put in a bid due as there is a whole bunch of 3rd party ownership issues and Internacional's chairman has a reputation for being hard to deal with.

When Spurs tried for him last summer he suddenly asked for a massive increase in money just as everything was close to getting done and Spurs backed out.

To the mellon head who wrote ha ha ha about my post above, get reel, chill, I love saints as much as u do but I think we should try to sign players who will come to the club, I saw lukaku play last season against saints, I think he would be an amazing signing, in my opinion, i'm sure friend your find something to moan about thoe

Lenny,
This is a Rumours site, not an Unsubstatiated Sensational Headline site?
Surely people are coming on to this site to find out who Saints might be in for. The whole thing becomes a bit redundant if fans slavishly state what the headline says rather than summarising the actual content of the article. And if we all go and have to find the actual article for the site, what is the point of actually having this page.
And for those who think we shouldn't be going for Damiao, again, this is a rumours site. The banter site is really for where you can share your opinions, to those who want to read them, unless it is in context of the article.

In addition to the other poster above Spurs did not go for Damiao last summer. Basless claim. The rumour is that they talked to Internacional in January, rumoured to be E15m, but as the club's DoF says, not firm offer was actually placed. And certainly no offer was was discussed at the same level as the substantiated that we are rumoured to have done. E20m

So, if people post rumours on here. Please keep it to the actual rumour. Not a baseless headline or waffle claimed in a Spurs forum

St tripper do you honestly think saints are going to sign every player mentioned on the net, i'd love saints to sign him but is he really a realistic target I think not my misrible friend ha ha

"St tripper" quoter, I think you have had trouble understanding anything that I have said above. Perhaps you should ask someone to explain to you what "might" and "rumour" means, then maybe you wouldn't be quite so disadvantaged and would then agree with what I have said?

28 Jun 2013 23:27:45
Hi eds any truth in saints bidding 20million euros for leandro damiao? {Ed002's Note - I understand that whilst there is interest there has been no formal offer.}

By far in my opinion the best player we have been rumoured to be linked with.

Saints really showing ambition in the transfer market. Hope we pull a couple off. COYR

If we pull off getting Damiao, it should become a lot easier to convince other targets of the ambition and what we can do. But that is one big 'if'. Great ambition though.

I understand different I understand a bid. of 20 million has been offered for him and that a meeting is expected to take place over the mext few days

28 Jun 2013 23:32:05
Many of you won't believe this, but saints have just placed a bid of around €20m for Leandro Damiao of Brazil! Talks are set to take place next week apparently! .

Mini-Saint

It's been reported on tv italia? Don't know why they'd report it first but it's true €20 million. What a coupe this could be! {Ed002's Note - I understand that whilst there is interest there has been no formal offer.}

Source and how sure are you fella?

You're right, I don't believe this.

Cant see it happening would love this

Yeah I've just seen the tweet from that Cnn itaian reporter.

We will get him plus 2 more signings by next sat,

saintmick

Admire our ambition, but there's no chance hell come here.

If we wouldn't pay wanyamas agents fee (which I admire), surely this guys agent will want even more!

Saw Tancredi Palmeri report this too, and it was him that announced Ramirez had signed for us a week before we'd all started talking about him. exciting times.

It proves that we are aiming high and looking for top quality players but I doubt he'll join us. If we did though then what an amazing signing that would be and a striker like that would definitely take the pressure off lambert.

Agents normally get 5% of the transfer fee, so in Wanyamas case, he should have only got 600,000 and he wanted £1m. Damiao agent fees will be around 850,000 if the estimated £17m transfer fee is correct.

Mini-Saint

If we're aiming high and have no chance to hit the target, surely we're wasting our time and should be aiming lower!

The 600,000 we paid from october 2011-september 2012 suggest Cortese doesn't pay, 5% 600,000 would be 5% of the ramirez transfer alone. he probably offers 2. 5% and says take it or leave it

Didn't spurs pull out of signing him because of 3rd party interests?

Anything reported by Tancredi Palmeri must be taken with a pinch of salt.

Lenny