Southampton Rumours Archive July 17 2012

17 Jul 2012 20:35:50
southampton ins so far:
davis
rodriguez
clyde
buttner [fingers crossed]

Wooo it's not just me who accidentally calls clyne Clyde ;)

Mini-saint

Butters off.. wont happen now, he was back in training with vittese today - chris

Its still on actually, hes hes not been included in their new squad photo so he is off, weather its to saints or not know whos, but i would have thought talks were still on going, also on his facebook he updated his intrested to southampton and this was yesterday

JustASaint

He isn't coming here.

I didnt say he was, i just said hes not staying at his current club, and saints are obvs main contenders. check his FB if you want, but only time will tell

JustASaint

He will join saints, just you wait and see.
Summers.

Butner deal has fallen through. Fact

No buttner deal hasnt fallen through FACT! Otherwise it would be all over the Internet
Summers

Havn't seen a single thing to suggest thats fact. anywhere.

Buttner not playing for Vitesse in Europa cup match today so would assume he is going to another team at some stage.

teejaysaint.

Butter isn't in vitesse squad training and isn't listed on their player profiles on their official site. Doesn't mean he is still coming to us but he supposed to still be their player!

Buttner is coming to saints, he is even more cooler than Danny fox
Summers

Clyne also now. OHH YEAHH...

17 Jul 2012 18:08:48
The Buttner deal may not go through because Aktins has found another potential suitor in Bryan Oviedo.

Perhaps even better than Buttner and has all the same qualities

I seen on his facebook page in the last day he has changed his interests to southampton fc is this an indication to signing for us thoughts anyone

Oviedo is quite good, although not much of a defender. so my guess is any deal for oviedo would be for cover on the left wing rather than in defence. i've watched him here for fc kobenhavn and he'll be a good player, thats for sure, so would be a good signing for us
-icesaint

Hmmm, not sure whether either truly suit us. Why left sided attacking players? We need a right winger surely?

Lenny

They are both attacking LB's

We must be planning to overlap our attacks down the left wing. Fox gets forward and scores goals, so you need a left midfielder capable of covering his forays. Even better if both left sided players are threatening.
Am not so sure we need a right winger if we swap Lallana to the right. Could work well with De Ridder?

Fox score? More like Fox get forward all the time and rarely puts in a half decent ball but frequently found out of position for defence. Fox nearly cost us promotion. Don't like him.

How can you not like fox!? He was one of our best players, if anything if say he helped get us promotion, who set up a ton of goals forward last season, fox. Who held his own in defence and tracks back really well seeing as he goes forward alot, fox. You see players like Glenn Johnson doing thr same but not getting back, at least fox works hard.

JustASaint

Fox was out of position so many times last season, he also gave them SO MUCH time and space to cut inside or get the ball in the box. If you disagree clearly you dident go to St.Marys many times last season..

You dont like Fox? Wasnt he the 6th highest assist provider in the Championship last season? Fox was excellent for us last season. The only surprise was how much Harding raised his game to compete for that place.
mssaint

I went home and away many times last season. Fox cost us a lot of goals and wasted many good chances by blasting crosses out of play or simply making bad decisions. He's also a dirty git who will be a liability in the Premiership. As for scoring, you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Benali was a bigger threat. Fox got most of his assists from corners and again, most of them were awful. When you have a good passing side with talented forwards and you're always bombing forward yourself and taking 10+ corners a game, you should get bags of goals and assists... but Fox hurt the team more than helped. Harding was much more reliable and solid. We need a better LB. Glad we have Clyne as I thought we needed a better RB too whereas everyone seems to be panicking about CB. Jos and Fonte will be fine, just want more back-up. A classy winger should be next signing.

We each have our own opinion, and so do many others, lets just see what NA does.

JustASaint

There's no difference in signing a left or right sided winger because Lallana can play on both sides. He has been playing on the left pretty much all season so if I were NA i'd be looking at a left sided winger in order to allow Lallana to play on his natural side.

Dave

All have opinions, yes, but anyone claiming to have seen a lot of Saints games that doesn't rate Fox wasn't watching the game.
He is the quickest player we have at the back, is excellent with a dead ball and quite often it was only because of him covering for our pace challenged centre backs that we didn't leak more goals.
Easily the best left back in the Championship last year, has learnt a lot since coming to us and will be a transfer target for some of the 'big' clubs next year

17 Jul 2012 10:51:58
Swansea have had a bid accepted for saints target Michu

Mini-Saint

17 Jul 2012 02:16:01
Jonathan Forte still on Torquay Utd's wishlist although they're pushing it as he's a decent striker, also because Crawley Town, Notts County, Chesterfield, Leyton Orient, Barnsley and Crewe are all after him. Also Dickson looks set to drop to league 1 and join newly promoted Swindon Town.