Southampton Rumours Archive September 01 2014

01 Sep 2014 22:11:58
How much longer have we to wait before SFC confirm any signings?

Are we really stronger than last year?
Lambert v Pelle
Shaw v Bertrand
Lovren v Gardos
Lallana v Tadic
Gaston v Long
Boruc v Forster
Osvaldo v Taider
Chambers v no replacement

Think they're just waiting until sky have done their round up to announce them, they love to mess with the media

Alderweireld signed on loan, another loan deal.

Toby signed confrmed

Alderweveild confirmed

01 Sep 2014 23:51:14
Alderweireld confirmed

02 Sep 2014 10:21:23
Boruc? Thought he was still at saints

Willsasaint; and others, just another loan deal?? Loan deals are the way forward my friends!

I wil we had a loan with a view to buy osvaldo as he will go for probably 7 mill meaning a loss of around 5 mill!

Toby and Bertrand are loans with a view to a permant move at the end of the loan if we wish to make them permanent. Great business southampton and dare I say it les reed. I was one of the les reed haters but putting my hands up and saying sorry.

But and there is a but! I will hold judgement to see what he does in January! Will spider still be a saint? I sure do hope so. But for now COYR!! Let's get win after win and show the premier league who we are!!

01 Sep 2014 21:26:36
Gaston Ramirez has gone to Hull on season long loan.

It is wild that we've let him go.

No depth in those positions at all.

Surely we must be signing Saido Mane AND Nathan Redmond to justify this.

Gaston has never done the business! If struggling he can always be recalled

01 Sep 2014 22:05:18
Exactly what has Gaston contributed to Saints progress over the last two seasons?

A few flashes of talent, lots of injuries, missing in 1st game of season, and lots of money.

Too much of a luxury for a grinding unforgiving league. Shame he's gone in a way, but prefer the new boys.

PS Commiserations to anyone who put Taider on their replica kit (or Vorren for that matter)

Lets be honest now. He has never really had a good game for us and when he came on vs west ham he did like 3 good passes that is it! He is the player that never did and we are still giving him a chance by loaning him out.

It's a shame he's gone just a few days after one of his most promising outings in a long while at West Ham, but he's brought little to the first XI for a year or so now. Injury prone, generally unfit and lethargic, he hasn't done his talent justice.

Weird that Saints didn't offload him to Sevilla when they had the chance - loaning him to a PL rival could bite them in the backside. But, ultimately, he's one of the squad's highest earners yet he never plays. Averages something silly like 30 minutes per game over the course of his Saints career.

Gaston's got the potential to be great but for every good game he's had for us he's had a few mares. A season playing first team football for hull will be better than him sitting on our bench, hopefully he'll come back less injury prone and more of a consistent player

Don't forget who told you this first.

01 Sep 2014 20:55:14
I'm hearing Hull are interested in taking Gaston up north. Hope not!

Gone to Hull on loan? What on earth? Unexpected to be honest and not sure what the intentions are there. Wonder if they want him gone for good or if this is an attempt to get him more PL experience?

01 Sep 2014 21:23:54
SSN reported he has completed a season long loan. :(

Looks to be done, season long loan. Didn't think he was going anywhere.

01 Sep 2014 22:10:40
Massive shame. I really thought this was going to be his season to shine. He hasn't proven himself but I still had hope

01 Sep 2014 18:26:16
Does anyone know if capel actually signed today?!

Wont happen as we are signing Mane from Salzburg for 11.8m

And that's a good thing. He's pants.

01 Sep 2014 15:24:11
Jos Hooiveld on way to Norwich.

Waaaaaahoooooo!
Good luck to them! Sorry I mean him!
Good luck just not prem standard? still good servant to the club! But would struggle to get a game now! Plus frees up wages!

Do ya reckon that could be something of an indication that we might get redmond. I did like the look of that salzberg player but would it still be a possibility being so close to the window closeing

Always did his best, and was loyal. Good luck son.

01 Sep 2014 16:30:18
As anti said. Thank goodness for that.

Good luck! He was a force in the championship and helped massively towards our promotion. Will be a big asset to norwich. Just a shame he couldn't cut it in the prem

Sounds like Toby A is a cert, otherwise why let one of your only 4 cb' s go?

Good luck to him, he played a massive role in getting us into the prem hopefully we can use him in the Redmond deal then

01 Sep 2014 17:18:55
Toby A AND Mane having medicals at Saints NOW-according to Tony Husband.

01 Sep 2014 17:23:24
Toby Alderweireld and Sadio Mane are currently having a medical with the club

01 Sep 2014 17:58:59
He's not off to Norwich, it's made up

M13 Source: Warren Haughton

It's all over Newsnow from a lot of good sources

Thank god for that I was devastated when I thought he was leavening! Phhhhhhhhhhwww?

01 Sep 2014 21:07:14
If Jos does move on I will want to wish him all success. A real good guy, a true Saint and worth a huge amount in the dressing room and on the training ground.

01 Sep 2014 21:35:31
won`t have nothing bad said about jos. I had him as first goal scorer a couple of years ago . £5 at 40/1. I meant to do lallana , didn't have my glasses!

01 Sep 2014 22:50:17
Jos is an absolute gent and let us all not forget what he did for the club in that crucial 6 months of championship season. Good luck to him if he does leave, shame on those who ridiculed him!

01 Sep 2014 13:28:15
Spuds offer 14mil + Townsend for J. Rod.
Source: BBC

This would be good business as we already have Shane "The Prolific" Long in our team and will have no problem with scoring goals without Jay Rod. . I don't THINK SO!!!

Hopefully we have moved on from townsend. mane looks much more promising and would take the same kinda fee.

Do the deal. what a great bit of business that would be. j rod still not fit no one sure how strong he will be when fit. done well for us last season. but not a great goal scorer. in my opinion misses a lot more than scores. pelle and long when played in correct position will be fantastic. Townsend with tadic will scare the hell out of most.

01 Sep 2014 15:59:12
Sorry Smitty but you are SO wrong.
JayRod has the potential to be one of England's best strikers for years to come (if he comes back strong from his injury.)
I understand he smashes goals in from all angles in training, so suspect he will become a lot more prolific as he learns to manage in the EPL, and he is such a team player.
Townsend is selfish, and plays for his own headline, and is pretty injury prone. There are a lot better options available.

With all due respect Francis benali used to bang goals in from anywhere in training.

Good business IMO. Jrod done ok last year but didn't score enough for the positions he got in. Lots of pace but unless you play him as a striker he won't deliver in our current formation with wingers. don't get me wrong he is a good assett to saints, but when Townsend was on form last year he showed he has potential to be a lot better than jrod.

I personally would cash in get Townsend and mane just for extra options. We never know what way j rod will go after this injury remember cisse and Torres had major injuries lost their pace never the same players but then u've got the ramsays that have had bad injuries n come back stronger but can we afford to turn down a Townsend plus 14 mill cash and he doesn't come back stronger I don't think we can

I have to disagree - Townsend flatters to deceive and is injury prone - I'm much happier with Mane if he signs and keeping jrod

01 Sep 2014 19:42:29
dantheman-I suspect you would want a player to show some loyalty and integrity towards the club but you seem to want us to discard a really talented player because he MAY not recover fully from his injury?!

I know what I would call that attitude, but the Eds. would not post it. The Saints are a family, if you don't buy into that you really should look elsewhere for a club to support.

01 Sep 2014 10:39:53
Koeman has confirmed that Alderwield is having a medical today, so should be done before the deadline and he still wants an attacker hopefully we can tell spurs to go away with there J Rod swap deal bid and we get in Mane or Redmond, then I will be very happy, COYR!!!!!!

Mane's not happening. He's off to Spurs. Looks like Saints have given up on Townsend.

Unless they've got something up their sleeve, it appears the likely winger coming in will be Capel (loan), Kacaniklic (loan) or Redmond. Not crazy about any of them, but Redmond would be an investment for the future, only 20.

Stoke interested in him, though.

We've been scouting him for about a year so Mopo would of known all about him! Knicking are transfer targets! Low blow poch! But that's you underhanded!!!!
Buy the time you get him playing the way you want! your be sacked lol

Capel loan "almost done".

Bit underwhelming if that's the only wide player they bring in. Career's gone backwards in the last few years and I don't think he'll do very well in the more physical PL. Bit lightweight.

Ah well.

Agree very lightweight will get kicked all over the park in the English premier league need someone stronger more physical?

01 Sep 2014 14:50:02
Mane to Spuds??

Err, I thought MoPo didn't want to use wingers??
Think this, like the JayRod rumour, is just mischief.

Looks like you called it right, Saint Martin. Mane seemingly on the brink of becoming a Saint.

Come on Les/Ralph/that other chancer who's somehow CEO - let's get this and Alderweireld over the line and shut up shop, turn off the phones and go home.

01 Sep 2014 10:37:10
not a rumor as its transfer day.
SSN have just said they have received a call, saints have put a 3rd bid in for townsend for £15mill.
also toby alderweireld to hold talks over a season long loan

01 Sep 2014 14:03:05
Some of you must have different TV channels to me, been watching SSN and at no time did I hear about an increased bid for Townsend all I heard is that we have pulled out of that one. I hope so, watched him yesterday and was not impressed, lost the ball all the time and couldn't catch the full back. Too much money for a player that is always injured.

That's because townsend mind was already at southampton!

31 Aug 2014 23:36:43
Swedish sources report that we've agreed a loan deal for Alexander Kacaniklic of Fulham

01 Sep 2014 21:26:15
he's off to fc københavn. sources were wrong apparently.