Southampton Rumours Archive July 22 2015

 

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22 Jul 2015 22:33:39
So what's the deal with our transfer business right now? As far as I'm concerned it seems we aren't serious about signing anyone right now, though we need a centre back similar to Toby's level, and possibly a wanyama esc midfielder and maybe a winger, does anyone know of any solid rumours for players?

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22 Jul 2015 23:33:04
We've signed 5 players before July and we've now got at least 2 decent players in every position, I think with the exception of another centre back the squad is pretty much done.

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23 Jul 2015 01:07:40
Do you know who our centre back priority is, van dijk perhaps or vlaar?

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{Ed007's Note - I'll say it's Van Dijk, Vlaar is far too much of a risk for a team like Southampton who can't afford any passengers if they're going to try and kick on next season.}

23 Jul 2015 11:09:42
Hear me out guys! i'm going to say something that might seem like i'm moaning,Im not really but just making more of an observation. Iam actually happy with our transfer dealing so far in the window but would just love to see 2 key areas strengthened.

It does annoy me though when people say we have strengthened the squad, if you actually look at who we have brought in you could argue most if not all are straight replacements for personnel who have left the club.

1: Forster for Steklenburgh
2: Alderweireld for?
3: Clyne for Cedric Soares
4: Schneiderlin for Clasie
5: Elia (loan) for Rodriguez
6: Duricic (loan) for Juan Miguel Jiménez López (Will not be played as a striker as some people keep saying)
7: Jack Cork for?

The only player to come in and not replace a player leaving is Cuco Martina. I personally think we need an out and out striker to help Pelle, as we found out last season he can't do it all on his own, I know people will disagree but central defence and a striker for me and I would be happy with the squad along with the youth pool to pick from.

Would love to see Charlie Austin in a saints shirt but I know i'm dreaming. What does every one else think? Edds?

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23 Jul 2015 12:16:28
Harry reed is the replacement for cork. J-rod will be used as the main striker this season as well as out wide. We have 6 forwards! (including Sam Gallagher who I hope will be given a chance this season) which should allow koeman to rest pelle when needed and give us other options. I really don't understand fans who aren't happy unless we start throwing money around. 15 million on Austin to be a back up striker? J-rod is obviously an improvement on elia (if he regains previous form) juanmi has more potential and positive reviews than duricic. Soares already looks twice the player Clyne was in the last 3-4 months of last season. Clasie is pretty much a like for like for schniederlin. That's why we've improved the squad.

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23 Jul 2015 12:56:04
You did not read my post properly Milkysaint, I said i'm happy with the youth pool to pick from! Harry Reed is not a replacement for Cork, it was common knowledge we wanted to replace cork with vilhena (Edds?) but there have been circumstances that have made that not possible for now.

J-Rod will not be played as the main strike?? Pelle will be played as the main striker. And I don't get how you can say our new recruits are better than the players that have left? we will have to wait and see on that comment ( obviously I hope they are better than clyne, spider, toby.)

And when I talk about improving the squad I was talking about bodies! numbers!! as we are going to be playing in Europe and there is the possibility of playing a lot more games in the coming season. Yes we will play youth players and that is good, but we Defiantly need a central defender of at least Tobys quality and I was just saying I would love to see Austin ALTHOUGH I KNOW i'm DREAMING!!!

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23 Jul 2015 15:59:05
Not sure whether we need a much bigger squad. Chelsea did OK playing a small squad last season.

Keeping a tight squad makes maintaining team spirit much easier as you have fewer players always sitting on the bench and becoming bitter. (Why did Cork want to leave?)

I think you will find Les has already commented on this, and made it pretty clear the club wants players ready and champing at the bit to play twice a week throughout the season if required. Always a difficult balance but I would not expect more than a couple more signings (unless we move someone else on.)

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23 Jul 2015 17:21:58
I am occasionally astonished at how clueless some people are to the project, our philosophy and our youth players coming through. "Let's just buy loads of players for silly money and go completely against what we've been talking about from day one."
Seriously, research the club, listen to less reed. Trust the management and the board. What makes you think throwing money at a squad is an instant certainty of success? It's not!

We need a centre back. Agreed. I have a feeling if a very pacy and promising winger became available to loan then we might step in too. Otherwise our squad is good. Potentially better than last year.

St Martin is right when he says that cork left last year because he wasn't first choice for us and wouldn't get a game ahead of Morgan and big vic. What is the point in us spending more money to bring someone in that will probably be in the same situation and end up unhappy and possibly disrupting squad morale. Does it not make more sense to say "we have some good youth players in that position. Let's make one of the nippers back up, and give him a chance. If he takes that chance and steps up then we have a replacement without spending anything, and we have given another Young English lad a chance to make it. Something not many other clubs are doing.

Austin is being offered massive wages (60k a week from Newcastle) so how can we compete with that?! We're a club that believes in potential. So let's give our youth a chance to impress! Why is everyone so obsessed with Austin!?!?!

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23 Jul 2015 17:33:19
I read your post just fine Basingstoke. I think you need to read mine properly! I said j-rod will be used as main striker AS WELL AS OUT WIDE! The front players are more versatile than other positions, and I think we will see more of j-rod down the middle with others playing off of him. As his career progresses that's where he will end up. Plus there is Gallagher as the understudy.

So we could have a front line of;
Mane-pelle-j-rod
Long-pelle-j-rod
Juanmi-j-rod-mane and even
long/juanmi-gallagher-mane/j-rod.

That's If we play with 3 up. We have so many more options than last year. Charlie Austin will add nothing, cost too much money, and block the path of our youngsters.

But that's just my opinion.

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23 Jul 2015 20:59:27
Vilhena is an attacking midfielder, the tadic, Juanmi, hesketh kind, not a defensive midfielder. Reed is Corks replacement (and every bit as good)

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23 Jul 2015 21:32:54
I don't get it. Yes, we have replaced a majority of those going out with other players bar Cork and Toby. but why is no one picking up on the fact that last season, especially towards the end, we struggled with squad numbers. without Europe. We certainly need more. I am hoping (HOPING) for at least 3. Centre back, Right Winger and Striker. Striker I know, we have a few, but praying Sam goes out on loan for another season and we buy a goalscorer. Pelle, Long and Juanmi are not goalscorers. Look at how well Villa have done with Benteke. Imagine if we had a player like that.

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23 Jul 2015 23:28:33
It wasn't necessarily a lack of squad depth really, it was the lack of creativity we had, teams figured us out and we just couldn't score goals when we needed them.

We seem to fixed a lot of those problems and look to have a much more intelligent and varied team this year in terms of opening other teams up, Soares varies his runs and gets into space where Tadic/Mane/whoever else can lay it off to him, where Clyne would make similar overlapping runs all game. Clasie can play inch perfect passes over/through defences for a quicker player to run onto, that's something we lacked last season, teams that liked to play an offside trap stopped us dead, we should be able to combat that now. We've got a lot of quick players too, if any combo of J-Rod, Pelle and Mane/Tadic/Juanmi/Ramirez/Long can get a similar thing going to Lambert/J-Rod and Lallana, we could be very dangerous this year. Not only that, J-Rod should gain us 10-15 at least this season alone

Barring a centre back (although I believe Yoshida is more than good enough) or 2 now Gardos is out until after Xmas, we have a very good squad

Europa league is nothing to fear, if we play a team of mainly youth and players who don't see a lot of first team action in the FA Cup and League cup the Europa league will be no different to a cup run like last season

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23 Jul 2015 23:35:27
When I said j-rod as main striker, I meant as the alternative to pelle. Pelle will be the main man through the middle, but if he gets injured or needs a rest then j-rod will be his replacement, as well as competing for one of the wide roles

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24 Jul 2015 10:56:10
There is no way that Charlie Austin would move to our club to sit on the bench.
And I can't see him starting in front of Pelle.
We have great striking options, better than most of the teams around us in the league as stands.

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22 Jul 2015 15:33:25
Saints have enquired about Filip Djuricic on a permanent deal.

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22 Jul 2015 16:54:48
Ron must have seen some potential in him 'cos he didn't exactly set the place on fire.

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22 Jul 2015 18:16:35
He was injured a lot, but hardly stepped up when Tadic was out. Had a good game (or at least a good goal) in the Euro U21's but all his interviews whilst at Saints seemed to paint the picture that he considered himself a CL player, so whereas Elia seems desperate to join us, I never thought that Djuricic would want to.

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22 Jul 2015 18:36:54
I would imagine it means Gaston will be moved on if we do go in for Djuricic I understand we want him in a season long loan but Benfica will only entertain a permanent deal

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22 Jul 2015 19:40:57
Nah there's better out we've got loads of potential on the bench and the academy do we really need anymore? We need seasoned players with experience

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23 Jul 2015 09:55:11
He's a money maker if the potential turns into consistent talent

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23 Jul 2015 10:38:47
Correct Romsaint

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