Southampton Banter Archive August 08 2014

08 Aug 2014 23:03:41
Hi to all saints from a celtic fan.

looks as if Big Fraser is heading your way. great keeper. £10m is a good price.

hope your season goes well.

Cheers
cprs1

08 Aug 2014 22:01:48
Re Fonte new contract:

Very happy to get him committed need corky next.

However, a lot of hype and in a personal opinion if we kept all out team together with lovren. to push on I'd have said another CB to partner lovren? What does everyone think?

08 Aug 2014 18:50:44
Fantastic news that Fonte has signed a new contract, he's a key player and a leader who will make a great captain!
Koeman has confirmed interest in Rojo and it sounds like he didn't want to say much on the matter, the same with Forster. From what he said though it sounds like we are close to signing Florin Gardos from Steau Bucharest, the Romanian press seem to think the deal is done! I don't know much about him but looked him up on youtube and has seemed to perform well in the Championsleague against some top clubs and I think he'd be a real coup for us. We've also just been linked to Sam Byram, he's a top young player and would be a great signing if we needed a RB, as we have Clyne ofcourse, we do lack depth there but we know Cork can play there too and we have young McCarthy coming through too. Talking of Cork, I hope he's next to sign a new contract as he's a top player and very underated. Any news on any of these deals Eds? We need a striker too soon!

Les says no chance re new contract for Cork.

St Sam I agree regarding Cork, he is an awesome midfielder who we need to keep, excellent tracking, interception, positioning, passing, tackling and distribution, I'd be pissed if we didn't at least try to tie him down to a new contract

And do you know Les then Saint Dez?

When does Les's contract come up? Think we should put him out on loan for a while, any suggestions?

08 Aug 2014 17:13:29
Florin Gardos can play Defensive Midfield. Mainly a Centre Back though. Got a 10 game ban for breaking that players leg.

08 Aug 2014 20:16:33
Think the plan should be to sign him up and keep him to a restricted diet of raw steak until February, by when he should be ready to be let lose against a step over or two!

08 Aug 2014 15:36:39
Jose Fonte has signed a new 3 year deal.

08 Aug 2014 14:31:33
If you look at our squad from next year, we're starting look pretty solid, especially if you look at our midfield, the only place that looks like it needs strengthening is CB and if we're being fussy we wouldn't mind a striker and a keeper either, it wouldn't take much to make our squad look solid for next year though:
Goalkeepers
1 Davis 25 Gazzaniga 31 Boruc 41 Cropper
Defenders
2 Clyne 3 Yoshida 6 Fonte 26 Hooiveld 33 Targett 35 Stephens Bertrand
Midfielders
4 Schneiderlin 8 Davis 10 Ramírez 12 Wanyama 16 Ward-Prowse 18 Cork 27 Isgrove 38 Reed 45 McQueen Taïder Tadic
Forwards
9 Rodriguez 24 Mayuka 40 Gallagher Sharp Pellè

If it wasn't for J Rods injury we probably wouldn't need a striker, but oh well, our midfield looks quality at the mo

08 Aug 2014 11:34:32
Apparently we are set to break our transfer record to bid for Rojo for £13m, would be a great signing, also hope the Forster deal goes through regardless of weather he's playing in the Champions League or not, Celtic have signed a good keeper in Craig Gordon anyway, so they shouldn't be too disappointed in losing Forster, next onto a striker, then if we have enough time maybe another CB

08 Aug 2014 12:51:01
Transfer record? What about Osvaldo?
Did we not get screwed for more for him?

I read in an article that it would beat our transfer record as Osvaldo was £12. something wasn't it? Not sure if there were add ons included in that or not though

Didn't Osvaldo cost £12. 8 m? Plus possible add-ons?It would be nice to think that deal could be beaten. If only to remove Osvaldo from the top of the list of most expensive players. Although he was probably underused and sometimes out of position, he obviously saw SFC as a big pay-day. Still need to replace him though. Will be interesting to see how we play against Leverkeusen. Come on Saints. You can beat this Sh#t.

A certain sports reporting news channel decided Osvaldo was 15million Pounds not Euros just to up their ridiculous "transfer totaliser". Really it's 15million Euros (12.8million Pounds at the conversion at the time). Although strictly speaking those figures probably aren't all that accurate anyway, you know what the press are all like.

I agree with Armstrong, I don't really want Osvaldo being our record transfer deal, also think we should break to show ambition too

08 Aug 2014 10:39:12
Celtic reinstated to the Champions League!

Guess that puts paid to any deal regarding Forster?