Southampton Rumours Archive July 14 2013

 

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14 Jul 2013 21:53:49
Apparently les Reed has been asked to do all he can to get Alex oxlade-chamberlain back to southampton. Word is we will go to £15m

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Would be brilliant if true!

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What a load of tosh.

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Thought this page was for rumours not COMPLETELY made up stuff. So boring scrolling through your boring lies to find a rumour with the potential to be true.

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Never in a million years. He gets to play for England as a result of sitting on the Arsenal bench counting his wages. Why would he give that up?

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In other news, Wayne Rooney wants to join us while riding a donkey made of tyres.

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I had a dream

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No he doesnt! Wayne Rooney is staying at Manchester United!

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. but Rooney does ride a donkey made of tyres though.?!

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The tyres are from around his belly lol true about the donkey though

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I heard that the donkey was made out of his old hair

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I have heard that Les Reid is trying to persuade Michael Owen out of retirement, to come play for us next season! ( about as likely as your OXO rumour )
FG

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Aha! but Rooney is a donkey!

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What does heskey have to do with Rooney?!

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No. Rooney is Shrek. Suarez plays the donkey :-)

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Hes a good young player is chambo but i'm not sure he would get in the saints team now

st stuie

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Les Reid is trying to persuade Jimmy Greaves to come and play for us. May not happen tho.

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Saint & Geavesie

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14 Jul 2013 20:59:39
our young lads love a bit of 1D haha, i'm with dejan lovren on the music front! can't beat a bit of rock and roll!

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This is a rumour how?

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Thought I posted that on Banter page, sorry lad!

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Wrong link instagram.com/p/bwguZEgzNa

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14 Jul 2013 18:46:45
Saints closing in on Downing from Liverpool. Classy player but a little on the old side. Competition for him from WBA and Hull

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I hope not!

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Saints not interested in players that are even below Liverpool standards.

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Here, here! Don't want or need him!!

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Please, this a rumours site, but I find even this hard to believe

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Absolute tosh. No way do Saints need or want Liverpool's cast-offs. He wouldn't improve our squad so not worth looking at.

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He closes his eyes when he goes to head the ball they can keep him

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Downing is tosh!

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Why even write such rubbish. Do something more worth your time instead of making things up. Like go play in the road or something

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No thanks!

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14 Jul 2013 15:13:33
I just want to make a point people keep saying we need a right back etc which we do but can you take into account we won't just buy buy buy to cover all lack of depth are manager is known for bringing youth through the system and fast tracking them. With this in mind expect the young players who have gone to the training camp to be used to bolster are squad I don't think we will sign a right back if we buy we buy quality who would we buy to play second fiddle to clyne? We won't so expect chambers to be the cover and I think we will deff see a striker of quality a playmaker hopefully banega and MAYBE a winger but take into account isgrove.

clarkey saint

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Dont forget Cork can cover RB. The way I see it, we have a grear RB with cork & chambers as more than adaquate cover

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*'our'. not 'are'.

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Yoshida can cover rb

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People also forget how good jack cork is at right back

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People also forget how good Jack Cork is would also be an adequate statement considering the comments regarding Wanyama's arrival. Sounds like he was crap for us based on the lack of a look in it sounds like he'd get.

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People also forget how good jack cork is at right back - Sarcasm right?

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Thank you Clarkey Saint! The voice of reason at last! Keep hearing people post about us signing another 4 players. That would be 6 signings in one window!

Don't these people look at the way the club works? Yes we're ambitious and we have a few quid, but that doesn't mean we'll act like TF of off QPR.

Personally I don't think we'll sign a winger as we have Isgrove. No cover coming in re full backs, since we have Chambers, and also Targett coming through

Loving the Chaimberlin rumour, but that won't happen either. We'll bring in a Striker and maybe one attacking midfield player, so 1-2 more players, not 3-4.

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6 signings isn't a lot at all, how can you compare us wanting/expecting sox signings with qpr, who bought 11 at least and that wasnt even there problem it was the fact they sold 11 as well pointless point! I do agree we won't buy a rightback it doesn't mean we don't need one, and Isgrove I fail to see hiw he will have a meaningful future at the club

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Good post, I completely agree and it's likely as Poch likes looking to youth players like he did at Espanyol, he will do the same here as he said he wants 2-3 quality addittions

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14 Jul 2013 13:53:33
Don't see why everyone is desperate for a new CB. Yoshida showed he was more than capable last year, and Fonte and Hooiveld are adequate cover. Therefore the rumours should focus more on attacking players in my opinion.

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Right back anyone? Also think we need better than Hooiveld considering he got 3 official (and really 4 but the last one didn't count as his for some reason) own goals last season. We can't afford to throw goals away and Hooiveld was putting in his own bid at a record last term for all the wrong reasons.

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Partly agree. Would say that it should be Yosh and Lovren starting but disagree that Hoiveld is adequate cover. And I suppose if we are to sign a new centre back he might as well be for the first team rather then just a squadie.

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Dont need right back, the only time cork played rb this season he got motm, good cover already

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Hoiveld isn't up to it, FOnte and Yoshida are, look to youth or sign experience I say

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14 Jul 2013 13:17:09
Any thoughts on BERNARD AN�CIO CALDEIRA DUARTE of brazil only 20 years old 10 mil mark! Liverpool are after him would be a great sighning as we missed out on phillipe cortinho looks amazing going forward? England could not contain him when he came on for brazil!against us. think this lad has the ability to out shine any of Brazil's young starlets even naymar!!
Thought!

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I imagine Pochettino and Cortese will have considered him. He would be a superb signing but he'd also be very difficult to convince to come. Maybe could get a double deal of Brazilian danger from him and Damiao?

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I hope he is on our radar. Really versatile as well, plays attacking midfield or on the wing, cheap and young. If we could, this would be a fantastic signing.

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We already have the only cheap Brazilian!

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There is NO way Bernard will go for £10m. Try closer to £25m.

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Why not ronaldinho I know he's 33 but at couple of mil? Bags of experience to help are young lads as he as done for Bernard?i mean he's still got his world class footballer skills and think he could have one last swan song in the top flight football think he could still turn a few heads in the premier league!!giggs done it!

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We could swap Barnard for Bernard. Maybe they wouldn't notice.

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14 Jul 2013 13:08:18
We know CL is NC ultimate destination, therefore we must be patient in our transfer doings, yes there are a lot of good players going to other prem clubs, but many are not CL quality, they are not being fought over by the top clubs. We have set our sites on players that will want to play for CL teams, very ambitious and very exciting. We have bid aggressively and convinced a few that we are right for them, but others will still want to go to bigger clubs, nothing wrong with that, we are still perceived as a small club (I read all of the transfer comments on big soccer web sites by fans of the big clubs and see thousands of comments from around the world, our big transfers (VW, LS, Lovern) may get one or two at the most). We can match most clubs when it comes to meeting transfer fees, satisfying the selling clubs, but the players are still wanting to wait for bigger clubs. That is where I think we are at the moment, waiting on bigger clubs to do their transfers. Astori/Osvaldo is a perfect example, they are hoping to go to a bigger club even tough we can afford them, and maybe in the end when the the big clubs have done their mega deals they will still be available and come to the Saints. It is a blessing and a curse that our ambitions are so high. I am not worried, there are a lot of good players out there and we can put last minute bids in as the window begins to shut, but GREAT players are few and those are the one NC and NP want.

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Osvaldo rumours are just coming from his agent, total bs if you ask me. Can't see us spending that much on a 27 yr old. Also his attitude stinks and we seem to sign players of similar personality with a good head on there shoulders. I personally don't want Osvaldo anywhere near my club.

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Well said. In the end, I think we must stress that we are THE best place for bringing (potential) future world class players to their full potential. That is, of course, exactly what we are doing.

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We are not THE BEST for bringing players up to being the best in the world. Barcelona and Manchester United would argue with that for a start. Look at the players they have brought up between them, from David Beckham to Lionel Messi. We are one of the best, we produce talent like Bale.

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I disagree. It depends on how you measure success. If you simple look at output, yes, sure, Manchester United and Barcelona are better. But if you look at their success RATE then we are better. We are better at fulfilling the potential of those, fewer, talents we invest in.

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It makes me laugh people getting hung up on a players age 27 is still young lambert was older when we brought him in

st stuie

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Yeah but he cost just over 1 mill and is a good lad. Osvaldo will be a record signing and thinks he's the bees knees he's clashed with Roma fans and if papers are true rejected us as we aren't a big enough club. 27 year olds are fine if they don't cost a lot and fit in with our squad. Osvaldo does not

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Rubbish, if your good enough your good enough, end of what is 15-20 goals in the prem worth. who knows its priceless united spend 20 mill on a 28 yr old last season and won the league

st stuie

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Van Persie is twice the player of Osvaldo though and played in the Prem for years. Osvaldo has never played in england, could be a flop. Don't want him

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Well its lucky you have absolutely nothing to do with sighning players then isn't it or we would have a team full of school kids

st stuie

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14 Jul 2013 11:44:27
Southampton make £17m Pablo Osvaldo bid? latest;
source sports mole sunday 14/07/2013

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Such a load of tosh. Pochettino denied any interest in Osvaldo and he's stated he wouldn't come here anyway. Therefore this is a completely pointless move and I'm sure Cortese and Pochettino would know that.

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I hope not. Seems to have an attitude problem and has no respect for management decisions.

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Osvaldo doesn't want to come to Southampton. He is interested in going to Man City though.

The only thing that is certain is that Roma want rid of him.

Osvaldo for those of you that don't know was the chap that said of Mo-Po "He makes you work like a Dog! but it works. "

Get the feeling that working for Mo-Po again is not something he'd be happy to do.

I'd rather have someone less polished, but hungry.

That said, if he came to Saints, we'd certainly ruffle a few more feathers, so I wouldn't say no

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People keep saying Osvaldo is not coming to Saints, there is only one person that knows that and that is Cortese. I think he is a great talent and like was said earlier he is 27! not 37. I always look at bookies on these things and they very rarely get it wrong, we are 2nd favs. to get him. He is a flair player and I think he would love our support and we would love him. Look at some of his goals and assists and you might be surprised just how good he is.

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14 Jul 2013 03:07:26
wouldn't of minded martin olsson for £3.5 mil who's off to norwich. I know we were linked to him last year but that was with nige in charge. Swedish international and at just 25 years old I feel that he would of been a handy addition to the squad. I still feel we need to bring in about 4 players at least and offload the players MP has said. Instead of these 20 mil bids on osvaldo and damaio I would rather buy 4 players for around 20 mil and ad depth cause let's face it a couple of bad injuries in some certain areas and we will be left quite vulnerable. As much as I don't like to bag our players fox is a liability at lb, I can't remember how many times his defencive positioning cost us goals last year and yoshida for that matter aswell. Squad depth and rivalries for positions in the team is healthy not just buying overpriced big ego spoilt brats who don't really want to join us. But hey I do like our first 2 transfers so far and can't wait until the season starts. Go the mighty saints although I hate these new kits (both of them) just my opinion.

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Yoshida was brilliant last season so you obviously haven't got a clue what your on about

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Yoshida was ok not brilliant as you suggest or did you not go to many games last season?

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Yoshida is quality but can be caught out anticipating play but hey that's one of his strong points aswell

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Add depth was what we did back in the early 2000-s.
That don't get you anywhere, you would be standing still when other teams move forward.
We need 4-5 new players with the right quality. We have got 2 so far in this transfer window.

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Guys, Since Markus (RIP) bought the club, we have brought in between 3-4 first team players in the summer, and 2-3 in January.

This is entirely strategic led, with Cortese trying to avoid upsetting the squad harmony with a huge influx of players. Nicola has founded our growth on continuous sustainable growth, and will not change a policy that has been working so well for us.

So far this summer we've brought in 2 players in Lovren and Wanyamma, so we can reasonably expect one or two more signings.

We will but a striker, and possibly an attacking midfield player, but we aren't going to do a QPR and buy eight or nine players.

I fully expect Lloyd Isgrove to turn a few heads this year, and we may well see a couple of the other kids being given first team opportunities.

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I agree. For a start Dempsey is avaliable for prob around 4-5m. Good honest player with top flight and European exp. then someone like Sinclair or maybe even Moses for wide. That would still leave around 10m depending on NC negotiations. Couple of free players like Douglas and Honda and things looking really good. Would still like cover at lb and a natural rb as good as cork is there. But we don't want to bring to many in at one time look at QPR. I'm happy to build over this season and work out way up. No reason why with a bit of luck of the draw we can't target a cup this season.

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Just to point out last summer we did bring in 8 players; Davis, Mayuka, Boruc, Ramirez, Rodriguez, Clyne, Yoshida and Gazzaniga. It's not unreasonable to sign that many as long as they aren't all straight into the team players. Gazza and Mayuka seem to be more long run intentions.

Basically I'm saying you can bring in really up to 8 players without disrupting the balance if their characters are right and you know how they can slot in properly. Although don't expect 8 this summer. Expect up to another 2 (maybe 3 if we're lucky) relatively big money moves and a potential for a free or a cheap deal to provide a good squad member.

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People keep talking about signing players for the LB and RB positions. We won't sign anyone for those positions. We already have players in the squad that can cover those positions, plus we have Targett and Chambers, that are close to stepping up. Similarly I doubt that we'll sign a winger, as we've already signed one in Lloyd Isgrove.

Primarily Nicola Cortese is far to astute to needlessly throw his cash around on backup players. Secondly we as a club have a vision of having 50% of our first team coming from our own academy. Realistically this will take a few years, but it means that the pathway to the first team must be open for the right kids.

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Danny Fox is not that bad. If he was MP would have him out. I think our dynamic new manager will get the very best out of him. Ready for the back lash, bring it on!

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13 Jul 2013 22:42:16
Southampton still want to sign Frederik Sorenson, Ever Banega, Miroslav Stoch and Leandro Damiao.

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Source?

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Its probably just me, but does anyone not want Damiao? I mean i'd rather give Lambert another year and then spend £18 million or whatever on a striker

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I don't think Damiao is the best option, but he is a very good player and would be an excellent addition.

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Signing Damiao is 75% to get a good player (which he is undoubtedly) and 25% as a sign of intent and to lure a massive name and a Brazilian international.

In that respect I think he's worth it. We're getting a good player out of it and signing a superstar. As long as it doesn't affect the balance/morale of the squad it's a good move.

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I don't think it would be right to replace Ricky, I'd rather sign a young and up and coming player like Rhodes, Austin or Mcmanan, who have the potential to be in our first team, but aren't quite there yet, I don't think it's worth spending 20m on one player.

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Rhodes austin and mcmannaman are all "there"

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