Southampton Rumours Archive June 22 2013

22 Jun 2013 21:12:18
Last day of the season, Poch said we had two signings really close to being done & dusted. Lovren was obviously one, who was the other and what happened?

Nainggolan was the other. It was all going on since april & he has now come out saying that we have offered him a decent personal deal but had yet to sign. This may have been pushed into the open due to the stuff going on with wanyama. Notice how there appears to be a lot of backtracking from the wanyama camp ref comments regarding saints as negotiations are obviously still continuing.

Maybe Lovren wasn't one and there are two players on a free coming in on July the 1st

He didn't say that. tv wrote article saying we were close to two new signings but no quote from saints

Its astori

Poch didn't say anything, it was a tv journo that said it

See this is why Adkins didn't say anything regarding transfers. Because because (not necessarily yourself) become agitated and annoyed of a deal falls through

That's a very good point. Makes you wonder what happened

I think the guy talking about the free transfers may be onto something. We could be waiting for contracts to end to get one or two frees.

Last game last season on the radio commentary before game had a interview with poch and he said then two players where close to singing

Is Douglas still unsigned to a new club yet?

Regarding Naiggolan and Wanyama do any other fans feel frustrated that they have possibly publicised our interest in order to tempt clubs in better competitive positions i. e. champions league to bid for them. whilst we are certainly not at that level I would have thought our ambitions and style of play would be very attractive attributes alongside the solid wages we are able to offer. I guess time will tell on both these potential deals, but I would much rather we signed a player who is willing to take risk by joining an up-and-coming club such as ourselves rather than one who will willingly take turns as a bench warmer simply for a taste of European football.

Saint Q

For the last time its definitely not Astori!!

Poch said it himself, not a TV journo. We'll obviously have to wait and see.

I posted the free transfer comment. Don't forget that players can be signed up 6 months before the end of their contract abroad. Seeing as saints like to keep things quiet the player could of kept his mouth shut as well and we could be getting 2 free transfers. Or two young players from Argentina. or no one. let's wait and see

22 Jun 2013 16:12:15
Nainggolen has reportedly said "I received a great offer from Southampton, their proposal is economically the most important of all, but I do not play for money. My priority is to have a major career. But I have no problem to move to England. It 's still wide open, we will see. "

Good signing if we get him


AFR94

Not really sure what he's saying. that he's interested or waiting for a bigger club

Its on the daily echo website

Basically he wants a move to the prem but although we have offered him a great deal he would prefer it to be with a top six side so that he has a shot at CL football. That is what he is saying. Cortese is a great negotiator and we have cash ready but in terms of us progressing this is going to be our biggest obstacle in getting hold of top notch players now.

Just do a google search under his name & the quote is common knowledge

A top 6 side does NOT get CL football. The top 4 are unlikely to sign him and I would wager the number 5 and 6 sides will not qualify next season.

There are only so many CL teams about and most of them already have high quality players. I'm sure NC is quite capable of pointing that out, and then proposing which teams could become CL contenders and why. Whether or not a player believes it and gets the right message from his agent is another matter.

22 Jun 2013 12:59:32
We shouldn't get rid of sharp. I personally think he's a classy player!

Agree, just love him to be given a chance to show if he could do it in the Prem, or not.
Think he's been treated pretty shabbily.

Give sharpy a chance

God what could billy sharp possibly add to the squad he's an excellent championship striker and a mediocre prem striker at best. Forget buying championship players who are way past their prime saints are a club moving on to bigger things keeping billy sharp instead of signing a proven 15 goal a season striker would be a massive step backwards

Think billy sharp would
score more goals than
jay rod if he was given a
chance
and that is what its all
about
scoring goals

To the above post. How can you describe sharp as a mediocre prem striker when he has never actually had the opportunity to test himself at this level. I'm not saying your incorrect but remember that there were tons of 'experts' who told us lambert wouldn't make the step from league 1 to the championship!

That is very true but to be fair I don't rate sharp anywhere near as highly as I rate lambert. Lambert outshone sharp in the championship I know we didn't see him in the prem but can you honestly say you think he would do well?. I really don't see him getting more than 7 in a season and that would be a good season for him.

Honestly? I just don't think you can call it unless he gets a chance. I didn't imagine LeFondre would be capable of getting the amount of goals he did so.

I think Jay Rod has shown himself to be very handy and probably better than Sharp.

Jay rod has more pace!
But you can't argue that sharpy is a fox in the box! i'd like to see him have a chance.
Even if you combined the two of them, lambert would still be better!

Sharp is certainly not a "classy player" but he is a hard working forward that hassles defences non stop for however long you leave him on for, and if there's a sniff of a chance he will smash it in, how is that a bad thing for the premier league?, hernandes has done it for three years at utd I would at least have him on the bench, but unfortunately we will probably sighn some italian for 9 million or something stupid instead who will play exactly the same way but has an exotic sounding name

st stuie

21 Jun 2013 23:24:50
Southampton have had a bid of 10 million rejected for victor wanyama as it did not meet celtic valuation arsenal are now to step up there interest in the player

What a load of rubbish, go away portsmouth! the player him self has told the media the clud have accepted our offer!

You are wrong, Wanyama himself confirmed that the bid from Southampton was accepted and he was about to begin contract talks. Celtic realise they won't be able to sell for much more than £10million or risk losing him for free next summer which isn't exactly favourable for them so they are in a position where they will take what they can get.

Get yourselves ready for Oxford, LOL.
Think you will find Arsenal are after Fellaini and Wanyama himself has reported a deal has been agreed between Celtic and Saints.
But other than that, pretty spot on!

Saint Martin

Abit late are you not? It has been said saints increased there offer to just short of 12 million and it has been accepted.

I still do not think we will sign him but who knows, no smoke without fire.

clarkey saint

Jealous skate or disgruntled Celt!

He was in the press yesterday saying they have accepted a bid just personal terms to sort out. Rumoured to be around the 12m mark.

Thats rubbish the deal between saints and celtic was agreed yesterday saints now having personal talks with wanyama

Who cares really! Midfield we have! Defence we have! it's up front we need to get sorted.

Do a bit more research before you attempt to troll

They wouldn't risk losing him for free next summer, he has 2 years left. They would risk him going for less next summer though

Wanyama has 2 yrs left on contract, its hooper that's free end of season. do sum research. if vic comes to you whatever price you have to pay its cash in the bank, he will play for a huge club in a few yrs, he's just that good. bhoywonder

Lose him for free next summer? Are u mad? He's contracted for the next 2 years! Celtic can command more than 10 millions for wanyama! Wanyama himself is bigger and better than Southampton I hope big vic will see sense and not want to play a relegation battle next year! If not, he's money orientated, and it won't be long before he's cracking at a move away from Southampton

Wanyama has 2 years left on his contract, so we will not lose him for free next season.

It must be really depressing being a Portsmouth fan these days, I mean, for more than the normal reasons.

Wanyama has said the quotes in the paper were made up by a Kenyan journalist. It's not even confirmed you've bid for him. It's all speculation started by the Daily Mail, who also said he had one year on his contract, so they have no idea what they're talking about. Why would Celtic accept a bid so early when there's so many teams supposedly interested? I don't think he'll go to Southampton but if he does, I Hope we get a big sell on percentage because he'll leave Southampton a year or two later.