Southampton Rumours Archive January 09 2013

09 Jan 2013 13:20:21
Southampton made a bid (unknown) for Bologna danish df Sorensen, according to Sky Italy. Bologna already turned down

Having checked this guy out he is co-owned by Juventus (which means complicated!) he signed a 4-year deal with Juventus and then in 2011 was sold as co-owned entity to Bologna for 2.5m Euros....

He looks good at 20 years old, 6'4 and has made over 30 combined appearances for both clubs... Just the sort of player than NC goes for! :-)

Has potential to happen. I imagine he'd be a perfect complement to the signing of Astori. However it may unsettle a few players like Hooiveld, Martin and Seaborne as the competition would be too fierce for them to get the slightest look in.

I like the ambition of NC/NA, people may scoff at their attempts to sign top young talent, and we may miss out on many, but like Ramerez, they go for very talented players that if we get them will improve our team for years to come. Astori and Coutihno are quality young players that if they reach their full potential will be world class. We should continue to try to sign the young players that all the big clubs want, if we can steal a few good ones at the prices we can afford (10mil seem our upper limit) then we will have a great team at a great price. We all know we cannot pay for the top finished article, they cost tens of millions and want huge wages!. Lets continue to shock the world with our ambitious owners sensible buying policies. Are any real SFC fans upset with the players we have officially made offers for!!

No but why does it take so long ? And why always hard ? You would have thought everything would be sorted and ready to go on opening of the window ! As other clubs have done as it takes a while to bed in and settle

I would think the reason it is so hard to attract top young world class talent is because of the may things against us:

1- Like it or not we are still a club that is not established in the BPL or pushing for any trophies.

2 - we wont spend crazy amounts of money for transfer fees, agents or wages.

3 - we have quality in most departments so a starting position is not guaranteed.

09 Jan 2013 10:43:48
Astori and Coutinho have been used by Southampton to lure 2 young english players to the club. Saints knew they couldn't get either Astori or Coutinho and allowed the club to be played by their respective agents with a motive of showing the clubs intent to these 2 youngsters.

What? Proof? Name the youngsters. Name one of the youngsters.

Quite possibly the worst, most flimsy rumour I've read in a while.

If there was hard proof it would be out in media would it not. It is Ince and Butland which would not seem right on what we read because Ince is suppposed to be a done deal with Liverpool and Adkins says he doesn't want a keeper. Buy eh we will see

Nice try skate, what a stupid rumour

Saints need to buy some experienced defenders that have premier league experience rather than spending £20m on 2 guys that could just as easilly be a flop. Can see you going down this season if you don't make the right purchases in this window.

£20 million on players who are lacking experience according to you?

Ok, Astori has represented the national team for italy and both of these players have experience of the Italian top flight with top standard opposition.

Same comment could apply to half the Premier League! Thanks for that pearl of wisdom, NC/NA will have to reconsider their whole strategy. LOL

I think Coutihno maybe unrealistic as he plays for Inter Millan fairly often, but we can definately get Astori if we cough up the funds

Astori has hardly been playing against rubbish in Serie A for the past 4 seasons. Hope we don't buy experienced defenders that have premier league experience and who are now struggling in the Championship. Which available and quality defenders did you have in mind?
SaintGazza

And to all intents and purposes the Italian league is the best defensive league in the world! If we need a good quality cb that's exactly where we should be looking, not a cb that's not needed by another premier league club or indeed a cb that has been recently relegated.

Nathan Redmond rumoured for £6m. I personally think that is a lot for a player who doesn't look anythingspecial

Coutihno has only played 4 times this season for Inter so the chances of him be packed off are good. He spent all of last season on loan and it a squad player at best for them. He has been there for 6 years and progressed nowhere its time for Nig to show him how to play sexy football