Southampton Rumours Archive July 08 2013

08 Jul 2013 23:05:45
Damiao is apparently all but a Napoli player. But they are trying to buy every striker and his wife at the moment.

You have no source on this do you? Just like the papers do. They have just decided Napoli need to replace Cavani and randomly connected two currently unrelated dots. Could happen potentially but neither Napoli or Damiao/his agent/Internacional have said anything to suggest Napoli have a shot.

Agree with the above post. Reports linking him to Napoli are coming from Italy, and are entirely baseless.

One fact we know is that Saints have approached Internacional, and Damiao's agent. Another fact we know, is that Damiao's agent stated "one club" are interested in him. It logically follows that the club in question is Southampton.

The connection being made with Napoli is entirely fabricated, and based on little more than the potential that Cavani will get sold.

My "sources" are quite a few news feeds and a radio interview, which is more than a lot the posts on this site. let's be honest, the club is tighter than a ducks arse about transfer info, so 75% of all posts are hearsay.

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I did say he wouldn't go now look even the president of the club damaio plays for says no bid has been recieved from napoli

Seem like Napoli are after everyone Jackson Martinez, erik lemela, edin dzeko, leandro damiao, even if they sell cavani they won't be able to buy that lot. so there's still hope for saints fans coyr pull ya finger out and get this boy signed.

Personally I don't think Damiao will be going anywhere. again.

They have had no contact apparently, according to sky

08 Jul 2013 17:33:33
One of the reasons that the victor wanyama deal fell through was because of he wanted a 12 million pounds release clause in his contract if a "bigger" team came in for him in the future.

Who said deal has fallen through

No it wasn't

Where did you get this info? Ha ha if we paid 12 mill for him do you really think we would let him go for that amount?

I think the OP is skating on thin ice!

Saint Martin

Obviously not. Why would he offer such ridiculous terms?

Maybe £20m buyout clause at the VERY least. And even then I'd doubt it. You want to at least double your money if you put a release clause in. It's usually at an amount that is way over his current price, not bang on the same.

None of the top 6 EPL would pay out 12 mill for an SPL player. They wouldn't even pay that for a Championship player which is where Celtic would be stuck in if they played in England. Victor would use Saints as a stepping stone so yes there would be release clause put in by his agents to get a bumper pay day.

A release clause may be in the contract but there is no chance any club would accept having a release clause at the value they paid for the player. You always aim to at least turn a profit.

This must be a skate that made up this rumour. Only a skate could be stupid enough to spread a rumour about a fake release clause which is the same as the transfer fee for the player. More to the point, only a skate would be stupid enought to believe it.

Only a stain would believe your actually going to sign anyone, left behind every one else as usual lol

Celtic would be stuck in the championship if they played in England. Your on glue mate how many championship teams beat Barca and get to the last 16 of the champions league.?

Shall we see how Wigan do next season? If they get to the last 16 that'll really dent Celtic's claims about how much of an achievement last 16 is.

Interesting to see we have a post saying Saints will sign no one!

But then, we know there are certain parts of the country where education is lacking and "persons" can't read-otherwise they would realise Saints have ALREADY made a signing, who is already training with the club!

No knowledge, but determined to show it-and that is still seen as clever in their neck of the woods.

Saint Martin

Celtic practically have rest games every week, they have options to rest their best players whenevr they feel and still win 4-0 for a team in prem league to get a champions league spot they have to use all the resourses they have and fight hard every match totally different any player who leaves the prem for SPL is looking for easy football easy life

Only a disrespectful Portsmouth fan would call a Southampton fan a stain, time for some moderation ed. No obvious reason why Saints could not make a decent signing or two.

Celtic are in the Champ league every year by default. If you swap Celtic with any Championship side or even a team like Leeds I would expect them to go just as far as Celtic every year. It's not rocket surgery.

08 Jul 2013 15:06:55
Southampton have had a bid accepted for Ever Banega. This is someone else's rumour really but they won't tell me the source.

Lenny

It was on a tweet from transfer now

Awesome!

08 Jul 2013 13:17:24
Damiao's agent has NOT spoken with Napoli, but admits Italy would be a good country for a Brazilian. Since he also stated yesterday that there was genuine interest from one club, and since we also know that Southampton has admitted such interest, we can have greater confidence that Southampton is in the very real process of securing Damiao's signature.

We can't be sure about the outcome, however.

It's such a new arena for us isn't it. That we are trying to buy known good players that are wanted by bigger teams. This having to wait and hope they buy into our future is so alien to us.

Hope we don't have to wait long before we find out what's happening either way. I have no hair left to pull.

That's cleared that up then.

08 Jul 2013 12:46:02
Southampton in talks with ever banega, deal is beleived to be in the reign of 7.5 million for the deffensive midefielder, and the deal is expected to be completed before the end of the week

I hope to Christ this is actually happening! The lad is total class!

Defensive Midfielder?

He's not a defensive midfielder! Why would we be after wanyama aswell?

He's not a DM, he plays the same sort of role davies does

He is an AM who will play infront of our holding Midfielders. so we can buy both him & Wanyama

Defensive midfielder? £7.5m? Behave.

This will be awesome,. Especially if we also sign a top striker who will score 15-20 goals (I hope). This will spark further creativity into what is already a very forward thinking midfield. With shaw and clyne getting up the flanks as well. Bloody hell, this season is going very well in my mind. Anyway enough day dreaming and back to work

Saintfletch

I think I am going bald from pulling my hair out over this! Please be true!

Simply awful spelling.

There is always someone that criticises spelling! Leave it out, he/she might be dislecsic (I'm not even sure if that is spelt right lol).

He's a deep lying playmaker know alls