Southampton Banter Archive June 14 2013

14 Jun 2013 22:14:59
Lovren is a class signing, absolutely brilliant work by Cortese and Pochetino! Hopefully can conclude a few more deals, like Full back cover at both positions, a winger and a striker, so: Gamez, Lamela and Adrian?

14 Jun 2013 21:19:07
Dejan Lovren from Lyon that will do nicely thank you, good signing let's hope its just the start. COYS

14 Jun 2013 21:15:27
So Saints get Louvren. now that's class. announced on twitter by Cortesse. go and see. :-) Its a fact!

Whoopy do, accident waiting to happen

14 Jun 2013 21:04:41
Southampton have signed dejan lovren!

14 Jun 2013 11:55:28
From our rumours I'm hoping for Astori (£10m), Bueno (£8m), Banega (£8m), Gamez (£3m).

Also like to add a young prolific Goalscorer to that around the £12-£15m mark (e. g. Luis Muriel).

Total spend £40 - £45m.

Would like to sell Guly, De Ridder, Lee, Sharp and Hooiveld for about £5-£7m combined. Net spend of about £33-£40m.

So you want us to keep fox!?

I would love Lovren, Astori, Gamez, Wanyama, Sinclair and Heung-Min

Hi, OP here.

In terms of priority I would personally keep Fox as cover for now. I'm trying to be realistic with the budget and think other areas need strengthening before our back-up LB (e. g. CB, RB back-up, creativity going forward & goalscorer).

However if there was the option for a LB on top of that, I would obviously happily upgrade since Fox will need replacing this year or next.

Hope that helps. Please post your ideal transfers if you disagree!

Heung-Min, Verdu and Douglas have already signed for other clubs.

Hoping for Astori, Lamela and Wanyama.

Still need a RB as cover as well as LB as Fox is no where near good enough. ST is largely more difficult. Wanted another bull upfront like Rickie but Lukaku is staying at Chelski and I don't think we would ever go for a loan.

RB, LB, CB, CM, AM and ST.

Realistic Saint

Ideal transfers for me would be Astori (£10-14m), Gamez (£3-5m). Sinclair (£5-8m)

Those would equate to between (£18-27m)

Don't feel the need for Banega as we have plenty of good options in central midfield areas (defensive and attacking). Then maybe Bueno or just a random good player who hasn't been linked with us which is likely to happen.

Talk of a Striker but seeing as Mayuka hardly played last season I don't think we should get another one unless he goes, would like to see him given a chance really. Play Lambert less and Mayuka more, Lambert is a fantastic impact sub if we're behind as well. I think he only came off the bench twice last season and scored both times within minutes!

Would happily see Fox and Hooiveld go to Reading or another team in the Championship, wouldn't mind Guly going but I can't see it.

IQ 134 saint.

You shouldn't call yourself realistic Saint if you are hoping for Lamela, he has stated he wants to stay at Roma after interest from Chelsea and City. Would be amazing but it ain't going to happen

IQ 134 saint, what are you thinking! Lambert has been a class player at all levels. Mayuka is the sub for a late impact.

In all honesty I think we need to be careful with the spend this summer. If we have a big budget we should attempt to bring in as much as we possibly can with it in terms of playing talent.

I'll start with goalkeepers, I think we're fine for now. Kelvin and Gazza are both good options if something goes wrong with Boruc who is a great keeper.

Moving to Central defence I heard that Dejan Lovren was on our wish list as well as David Astori and potentially Frederik Sorenson. In my view out of those we should look to sign either Lovren or Astori with Sorenson as a younger option hopefully for a maximum of £15million between the two signings but I'd hope to pay even less. This would hugely boost our defensive ranks and allow us to sell Hooiveld and potentially give Forren a loan while still having options (think if Forren isn't in our first few starting line up plans next season we need to send him to a Championship team for the season to see how he develops in English football).

At right back I don't know who would be a good addition to the squad really and I'm not going to pretend I know much about potential targets here other than Gamez. All I will say is that at absolute most we want to spend £5million, preferably less on someone who we can rely on a good 4/5 years from so we don't need to worry about that position again any time soon. As for left back I think Fox and Targett will do for cover for now. Plus Clyne can play left back so our Right back cover could go on the right with Clyne playing the left.

In the Centre of midfield we don't need any additions to Ward Prowse, Cork, Spiderman and Davis but if we are to sign one I'd hope to go for one who is young and hungry for play time to really keep Cork and Spiderman on their toes. Max spend here is £10million if we can shift Chaplow and Dean Hammond off for reasonable sums. But either of those are decent cover with the others. It's not a priority build spot really.

As for Wingers, I really hope this is where we spend some money. We need one more with serious pace and technical ability to threaten the positions of Ramirez, Lallana and Puncheon. Guly may be worth keeping as he's good for the training attitude apparently. Maybe not first team quality all the time but possibly worth having in the camp. De Ridder on the other hand I hope finds a new club this summer.

Finally onto the attack, I hope we see a good young goal scorer come in to really pressurise the attack in the first 11. We need options to play with up front so we can rotate if a striker loses form. Mayuka needs more game time next season to show what he's got. Lee and Sharp should both be sold as it'll be difficult for them to re-adjust to the team again especially having been previously told they aren't good enough for it and sent away on loan.

Really I can see us spending in excess of £50million this summer depending on how much we earn in player sales of course. But if we make even close to £10million out of Hooiveld, Chaplow, Hammond, De Ridder, Sharp, Lee and potentially others who may be sold (potential for Fox or Guly I suppose despite my defence on keeping them earlier or maybe even Fonte could be sold even though I rate him highly). I imagine that kind of spend could happen.

I think realistic saint did say hoping! And why post interest from Chelsea and City as if Saints were not interested? Think you will find there are several sources that clearly stated we were and had made an approach to Roma. Yes, he is probably another step up from Gaston, but I don't see it as unrealistic-you do need quality players if your target is top 6 in the EPL.

Saint Martin

Yes saint martin I never said we weren't interested, we were but he wasn't interested in us

14 Jun 2013 07:06:13
Nigel Adkins wants to make a triple raid on Saints for Danny Fox, Guly and a Season Loan for Ward-Prowse. TBH Ward-Prowse is better of here this season as for the other two I will drive them to the Madjeski myself.

I totally agree about the other 2, but I personally think a loan out for WP to get 30+ matches under his belt in the next year would be a good thing.

Nah did you see JWP doing those volleys in England training? We need him in our squad, I think he is going to be better in the advanced role in centre midfield both equally capable of holding as well.