Southampton Rumours Archive January 13 2014

 

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13 Jan 2014 20:37:10
Given all the chat from various parts of the Club about targeting Europe and beyond, and given the obvious weaknesses that have been shown in the squad of late (no depth at CB, and a lack of creativity up front meaning we carve out very few clear cut chances), am I the only one who will be confused if not disappointed if the Club doesn't sign anyone in this window?

With the squad we have now, we will stay 9th. However, with even one quality signing I could see us push up above Newcastle at least, and maybe even into 6th or 7th. Tht would be a massive boost in terms of keeping our star youngsters and attracting new talent.

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IF we can keep the usual first 11 fit once Wanyama is back, especially Boruc Fonte Lovren, Shaw and Wanyama then I can see us being top 8. We've got a strong enough first team to do that and with Ramirez hitting some form and Osvaldo looking like he was close before his suspension, there's no reason why we can't do that.

We're only going to buy a CB if someone of Lovren's quality or better, like Astori, become available and at a good price, otherwise it'll wait until the summer. Hooiveld and Yoshida, Yoshida especially, are good enough for cover in this league (we're not a massive team and we're not in a Euro cup as of yet, there's no way we're going to have 4 Lovren's in the team at the moment), there's no reason to panic buy a CB when they're around, if they were injured too, then we'd probably need to buy, as is stands we have 4 CB's who are good enough for this league. Stephens and Turnbull will be stepping up at the end of the season, so who knows, we may not buy another CB for a long time.

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I'm not sure if Hoiveld and Yoshida are good enough cover but understand your point about Turnball and Stephens, but I'd rather see them play now as they would at least learn from their mistakes and become better players because of it which, Hoiveld and Yoshida don't seem to do, same point with using Matt Taggart instead of Fox and either Isgrove/Rowe/Sinclair in for Guly on the bench

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If you think Yosh and Hooiveld are good enough for Premiership then there must be others of the same name elsewhere because ours are c*** and championship level at best.

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I think we have a reasonably strong starting XI but outside of our Defensive Midfielders we are lacking in the sqaud depth to be challenging for a european place. We need to be bringing in players either from other clubs or the academy who will challenge our current first XI for a starting place rather than just bringing them in for cover. That way everyone will have an incentive to challenge for their place in the team.

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They are good enough for cover though, you're judging them by Lovren and every other STARTING CB in the leagues standards, we aren't going to have players that good sat on the bench, not until we're in Europe atleast, you need to realise that and outside of the top 6/7 we probably do have the best back up for CB's, which, is EXACTLY where we are right now.

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Weve not lost a league game with Guly in the squad, let's leave him in for the time being ;)

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Outside the top 6 /7 we have the best back up cb's in the league? What have you been smoking? Jos is no where near good enough for a 4th choice cb in the prem, Yoshida is weak as well, but may just be good enough for 4th choice, for the time being. That fact is that Lovren and Fonte, should be being pushed for their starting spots in the team. It's clear the backroom staff don't believe Turnbull or Stephens are ready to make the step up, same with Targett by the sounds of it. So we need to buy, because frankly if Lovren gets injured we are screwed.

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The only problem I have with Hooiveld or Maya in the team is we look beatable. With our first eleven, defensively at least, we look very, very strong, and we are only every going to let two goals in at the most and against a very strong team. With our 'back ups' we could let in five or four against teams around us. It looked like Hooiveld scored his own goal against Spurs on purpose. He just looked inept, I know he's a great bloke and did us proud in the Championship but personally I don't see him as cover in our team I see him as a liability and to be fair Kevin and Gazza aren't really up to the Premiership either. Both are Draculas - terrified of crosses - and look Championship standard. Once more if you're the opposition the first thing you must think is 'We're going to get a goal or two today'. It's not about having backups that are as good as those they replace but for goodness sake you have to be confident that they will do a good job.

I'm not.

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I disagree, we wouldn´t finish above 8th this season even if we signed 4 top players. Wait till Jan for signings, that´s what I´d do. I think we´re good up front, Lallana, Lambert, Rodriguez, Osvaldo, Ramirez. Sure we can sign an attacking player in the summer, but no rush, let's give Ossie and Gaston plenty of playing time for now, as the rest of this season is pretty meaningless (we´re going to finish 8th or 9th clearly), experiment with what we´ve got, give what we´ve got a chance to show what they can do.
We clearly need a cb in the summer too, but for reason stated above, no need to sign one yet

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13 Jan 2014 08:09:03
Southampton scout is going to porto? Incoming transfer.

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Clubs are always scouting. Southampton have long term scouts. No reason why it won't be for summer or for after that. Good planning

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Apparently the scout was there last night when they lost to Benfica but then again scouts are always out so doesn't mean anything really


Fat saint

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Fat saint you have the best sign off name ever

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13 Jan 2014 00:03:35
Southampton are set to begin negotiations for their only incoming transfer of the January window. They are preparing a £16m bid for Benfica Cb Ezequiel Garay.

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I'm willing to bet that the only reason for this rumour is that Garay is Argentinean, like Poch.

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Messi is Argentinian, as is Aguero, we're going to win the Champions League xxx

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