Southampton Banter Archive July 11 2013

11 Jul 2013 22:53:36
Well I'm delighted that Wanyma has, signed, now we have one of the best DM combinations in the league, rotating him Shneiderlin and Cork will be class! Now another CB is needed in my opinion as now we only have Lovren, Fonte, Yoshida and Hoiveld and unless any of Turnball, Stephens or Martin are ready for our first team, I don't beleive Jos is up to it and he maybe sold, I'd like Cheike Kouyate, we need cover at RB and LB and as there is no point in signing a player for back up, we should look at Chambers and Taggart, if not Cork can cover RB and Clyne can play LB, we need a winger and a striker too. I think big money should be spent on a striker, but I'd love Victor Moses 8m or Scot Sinclair 5m to sign, to rotate with our current wingers and up front well Damiao 18m would be nice, Adrian 7m or maybe just give Sharp a go! COYR!

Sorry guys you've signed a pup for £12m, if you already have a decent DM why pay that money for a squad player. Judging by OP's post you won't be doing much attacking this year so maybe "a good CL game against Barcalona" is just what you need.

Haha you can't deny he's a class signing and we need another DM, the 3 of them will compete for the 2 places and the other will be rotated with them

And yet another nameless troll demonstrates his inabilty to read, ignorance of quality and Poch's playing style.

If Wanyama is "quality" why were none of the big teams in for him? face it guys, you are victims of the celtic propaganda machine, talk a distinctly average player up with the help of the compliant scottish media and somebody will fall for it, look at Hooper, £4-£6m, Hull have just said no thanks. Wanyama is as slow as a week in the jail, check out his stats in CL games, Red & yellow cards, how many times he actually finished a game! The EPL is a lot quicker than he is used to so expect more of the same.

I`m no expert but I think the scouts may have looked further than the local press for Wanyama`s cv.

Jealous fan of another team above. We are southampton, we buy who we waaanntt. In cortese and MoPo we trust. push for top 8 us this season, COYR

Not a jealous fan, just a realist, this " we buy who we want" will mean trouble if you get relegated (not an unrealistic scenario, 2nd season syndrome perhaps, are you the next Wolves?), and did your scouts check out the Norwegian guy you just sent back? they are obviously good at finding young players, your record speaks for itself in that respect, but in Wanyama, oh dear oh dear!

11 Jul 2013 22:37:04
Wanyama was outstanding in the champions league so do not doubt what a player you have got here he might coast games but you will notice when he is out of the side all the best bhoys hail hail

11 Jul 2013 21:33:48
No doubt it will be a while until another player is signed. Can anybody tell me who signed Forren, because I can remember Nigel Adkins being asked about Forren and his reply was and I quote, you're asking the wrong person. Talk doing the rounds was it was Pochettino signing. Maybe it was or wasn't perhaps Les Reed or Cortese. let's hope our new signing is the choice of the manager.

What is the problem? MP has had a good chance to assess his players and has obviously decided the CBs need strengthening. He would not have decided that and then decided to keep all the existing players!

Saint Martin

Was a Cortese/Reed signing. They will have learned from there mistake now

Well Yoshida wasn't Adkins signing and he didn't even know about the Ramirez signing till the day it happened. Both Cortese signings so I think Forren was from Les Reed or Cortese. I knew this from Dean Wilkins little brother whom I used to work with

11 Jul 2013 20:25:12
Whats the story with Forren? why didn't MP fancy him?

MP isn't into that sort of thing. Prefers the ladies.

^ Beat me to it!

Maybe if he did his hair nice once and a while, you know made more of an effort. but I guess some men are just hard to please ;-)

11 Jul 2013 18:24:05
Wanyama deal done.

11 Jul 2013 18:17:43
Well guys i'm a celtic fan and just want to say congrats on your signing of wanyama, has the potential to be one of the very best around.

Cheers for the memories vic and all the best.

Cheers pal you're a gent. Hope you enjoy the spending spree that's likely to be on the cards for the buoys! :-)

Thank you. Nice to hear from Celtic fans that aren't deluded and bitter. Good luck walking to your title again mate

11 Jul 2013 18:15:40
Its official. Wanyama signs for Saints. Great signing and sign of things to come. COYS.

Saints and Celtic o. s

11 Jul 2013 16:21:39
Does the departure of Forren mean that we're going to bring in another CB? At least that's what I hope. I think Yoshida and Lovren is class, but except them it's not very good. Would like to see us signing a CB that can either take Yoshidas place or at least compete with him about the one next to Lovren. Fonte and Hooiveld just ain't good enough.

And by the way, the whole Forren story is extremely weird.

Cheers, Saint from Sweden

Hello Saint from Sweden.

I bloody hope so. Can't cope with another season of Hooiveld at LCB.

11 Jul 2013 09:33:55
Just a wee good luck tweet for big vic use guys who haven't seen him he can do the lot defend attack pass header run tackle and use have signed uraf a WORLD CLASS midfielder been watching for ure results and watched use a few times because of big artur so good luck for the new season

Thanks dude! All the best =O)

11 Jul 2013 10:12:40
Not really much of a rumour but if the deal for damiao falls through, I think we should try and hijack arsenals move for gonzalo higuain, worth around the same amount of money and he's a quality player too

Saint Number 34

I suspect wages would be an issue. Whilst Damiao would be costly it wouldn't be the same level as G-Hig

No matter how good higuain is we would never afford his wages
not with out fiddling with some books lol

11 Jul 2013 01:00:16
this is for those people that doubt our interest in Osvaldo. "ASRomaradio. it broadcast a conversation between club director Claudio Fenucci and director of sport Walter Sabatini, in which it emerged that they hoped that Osvaldo - who was out of the country - would also get a bad reception (from the Roma fans), convincing him to accept an offer from Southampton and leave this summer.

Poch revealed he was offered to us and we declined to make an offer. I for one really hope don't get him his attitude and personality doesn't fit in with our squad