Southampton Rumours Archive August 23 2012

23 Aug 2012 20:59:12
On saints web forum it saints we have bid 5 mil plus punch for phillips

We won't be offering 'plus punch' for anyone. He's been quality so far this season. I'd accept 'plus de ridder' or 'plus seaborne' if for a defender but still.

With punch getting so much pre season and starting against Man city I doubt hell be going anywhere

His played on game and de ridder hasnte been given a chance

But he's still the weakest link in attack. Get rid.

Liabilty in own half, happy to see him go!

First commennt why would we swap another cb? Haha and this season 1 game.

23 Aug 2012 16:30:45
Heard that Southampton have made bids for both Matt Phillips and Tom Ince. The bids are supposedly separate but if both players become saints Ince would be loaned back to Blackpool for the season.

Can believe this but can also believe that we will nickle and dime with them over half and mil and the deal will collapse... NC has been great in structure but we have to remember that Phillips would of already been our player for 2.5m if he just did the deal last season

Brilliant point about £2.5m could have been done for Phillips last season, but we messed about... Therefore, if we have done our homework properly on Ramirez, which we bloody well should have done, then, at only 21 years of age now, how much will he be worth when he hits his peak in four of five years time, by which time there will surely be yet another, even bigger, monster new Sky Premiership contract and player values will have also gone up yet again... Really excellent point mate! ;) NC, INVEST IN THE BEST!!

NC has been great. How do you know if we bid and at what price last season. As NA said today 'He said, she said, they said - stuff like that'.

My god this rumour stuff is tiring its simple though if we dont get players in we may struggle I think we have a competitive 13 players but its a squad game now and our squad is not big nor competitive enough if we get injuries or lose players.

Thanks mate... i think you also have a major point in the sky deals... apparently next year is a 70% bump for teams that stay in the league.. so if we ever wanna not get relegated its this season!!

Why are you whinging we didn't sign Phillips last season?? We signed other players and were promoted to the Premiership-so, simples, NC got it right!

Leave the man to do his job. This is not fantasy football, it is the real thing and involves NC investing millions of £s on behalf of his employers. It is vital he gets it right and sets a standard that other clubs start to recognise Saints are not an easy touch.
NC will be a breath of fresh air in the Premiership. Get behind him!

Saint Martin

I am behind him, as i said he has been superb in structuring the club. It's just that in hind sight if we snapped him up last season it would of been a very shrewd bit of business and who knows that could of been the bit of difference that won us our first championship!

Why not add Cathcart as well!

Well said Martin. As far as I can tell NC hasn't put a foot wrong. But what he has done is put us back in the Prem. 3 years ago I thought we were about to be AFC Southampton...Where do you think we'll be in 3 years time?

And if we had signed Messi we might have won the Championship too!

We signed Jos, Lee and Sharp and they were all key to us getting promotion. The fact we were promoted shows we did not need Phillips then. We could have signed all sorts of players who were cheaper last year than this, but I suspect that arguement would not have been sensible to NCs employers.
Yes, the Premiership requires a stronger squad but you can not argue we should have started recruiting them in 2011-"just in case."

Last Sunday shows we are not a long way away from where we need to be, and now NC has to be pretty selective to make certain that the last pieces of the jigsaw are just right. Phillips is a good prospect, but will he not compete with Ramirez for a place, as well as Puncheon/Guly etc.etc.? So, I don't think we have any need to be too worried and after a few more days I am confident we will have a squad that will push well into the top half of the Premiership.

Saint Martin

So we still getting ramirez or not anymore cause theres alot sayin both?

Highly doubt Blackpool would of sold him for 2.5 mill last season

It was when he at wycombe we wanted him for 2.5m but went to blackpool instead

And let that be a lession to all players that decide to go anywhere but Saints.. perhaps he like donkeys and rock! His loss

23 Aug 2012 14:04:47
Southampton are now trying there luck with inter milan midfielder Philippe Coutinho, will more than likely be a season long loan.
He has just returned to milan afer a 6 month loan deal with espanyol ended.
espanyol also want him back for a year long loan
*sorce El Periódico Latino (spanish paper)

I'm not sure we'd take him. I mean not in a needed position and not quite right for us.

Can't see the point of that. Fantastic and very young player but by the time he settled in at Saints it would be time to go back to Inter

Hope ur rite

You have been playing fifa mate

23 Aug 2012 10:54:36
Saints believed to be in the running for central midfielder Raul Garcia of athletico according to AS spanish newspaper

Ok, any other details given? How good is this player?

He gets amazing on the football managers haha

No other details, just that saints and Liverpool are both interested.