Southampton Rumours Archive June 27 2013

27 Jun 2013 20:43:55
Miroslav Stoch has signed for Southampton, this will be announced soon

I am not sure if this would be good news or not. Doesn't strike me as a particularly impressive talent.

I'd have to agree with you on this one - I have never been convinced by little wingers since McCant.

And can you tell me how you know this?

This is what he earns at fenerbache

Fenerbahce gave Stoch a two-year contract extension in 2012. Stoch is contracted to the club until 2015–16, making €1. 75 million and €15000 per match in 2012–13. He will earn €1. 75 million in addition to €16000 per game in 2013–14, €1.8 million plus €16000 per match in 2014–15 and €1.9 million as well as €17000 per game in 2015–16

hope saints are not as wasteful with their money {Ed003's Note - =-O }

Nothing wrong with little wingers do you remember the Councillor Mr Paine. Just wish the late great Ron Davies was still around to explain. Tricky quick player Stoch and I think would go well with Rickie and J Rod etc. Gastons skill and reading of the game would work well with him. Love Adam Lallana but needs to get his act together in front of goal.

All I'm suggesting is not all wages on Football Manager are correct.

Lallana not only needs 2 get his act together infront of goal he needs 2 sort it with corners and free kicks! Most of them either go out for a throw/goal kick or end up in the keepers hands! I'm amazed Pochettino ain't spotted it and stripped him of puttin the balls in!

27 Jun 2013 19:10:37
I really hope the kit being chucked around on a social network is not the real thing!

27 Jun 2013 16:22:58
New kit will be revealed at 9am tomorrow.

Hope it is good

It's horrible, not buying that. how is that a saints kit, arrrgghhhh

I don't care what it is like tbh, i'll still buy it and support the team, i'd only EVER refuse to buy a kit if they changed it to blue, just saying. I don't mind red/white or just red, people need to move on, just like the club has in recent years

Sooooo! You hate and refuse to buy a kit you haven't seen yet!

Personally my favourite kits from the past didn't have stripes. Xerox kit, sash kit, all red with hire shoulders draper tools kit 1985-87, all red kit 1980 to 85 when we had our highest ever league finish.

Hope I'm never in the trenches with some of you lot. Stripes are NOT an integral part of our history. They are simply the most frequent occurring design in our home colours. I personally think a change in shirt design fits the new era. This is just my opinion!

Jannersaint

You can't go turning your back on traditions like that^. Southampton are a red and white team. We are turning our backs on our history which includes an FA cup win and a league finish in 2nd.

If its anything but equal amounts of red and white on the shirt its wrong.

An FA cup win that we were wearing yellow in I believe? I wasn't born so wouldn't know for sure ;)

As I said. We were in a red shirt with black shorts the year we finished second in the old first division.

As long as its red and white it'll be alright.

Jannersaint

I was there at Wembley 1976 where the roar from the crowd was COME ON YOU YELLOWS!

When we finished second in 83/84 the shirt was red with a large white panel, Rank Xerox sponsered, and looked great. Unfortunately that same year our away kit was two shades of. BLUE

27 Jun 2013 14:14:21
Victor Wanyama deal back on with Saints

An article on tv app has comments from Neil Lennon, he mentions that Celtic are happy with the deal an it appears they want to sell, he also mentions it appears to be a third party (presumably agents) stopping any deal with saints, hoping this means that it's not wanyama holding on for more money, it's his agents trying desparately to get any extra cash possible! Come on NC, slap these agents down and get this beast to Southampton!

It was never off in the 1st place. As it currently stands it is a bit of a "stand off" between the agents & NC. (We know who will win that one!). The agents are probably hoping someone else comes in & matches saints offer but if not & waynama moves nowhere this summer then the agent has completely screwed up. However, this deal is far from over.

I I believe it's off. They have said that waynama agents and Southampton are miles apart in personal terms. I hope cortese is already looking somewhere else. I hope he hurries up and signs for somebody to put this story to bed
Saintsmiff

Anything is possible but if he does come to us then his agent would still have egg on his face. I also have no doubt that we were looking elsewhere even before the bid was accepted.

Surely this one should have died already.
Celtic said they thought our deal was good for the player and paid us some nice compliments.
Agent and?player said no. End of

What's the hurry the transfer window doesn't officially open for a few more days plus over 50 days till the start of the season there is plenty of time. (Ever heard the story about the turtle and the hare)

Player wants to move, Celtic are willing to sell, the only reason he hasn't signed yet is the agents ridiculous fee he's asking for, almost double what we paid to all agents last year

As I understand it, Cortese has left them with a take it or leave it offer.

Lenny

27 Jun 2013 13:45:41
http://bit.ly/10XYXUN

Interview with MP from italian website: highlights

- Southampton were informed that Osvaldo is available, but won't make a bid

- We tried to sign Astori, but in the end opted for Lovren

- Ramirez is happy here and he is not going anywhere.

Cheers mate, well found

More sourced info like this would be great. Good job finding this.

26 Jun 2013 23:34:01
Miroslav Stoch has all but completed a move to Southampton from Fenerbache whilst Ever Banega and Erik Lamela are also close to signing. Double announcement rumoured on Friday with 2 of these.

Stoch perhaps but Banega and Lamela? I think you are very hopeful mate. I hope I'm wrong. Also surely we will only go for both Stoch and Banega if Gaston is off in the other direction?

I think we may be in for both regardless of losing Ramirez in order to provide some serious options. I would love to sign Lamela but that's just too high a price to pay I think.

Lamela is priced at over 20 million. We won't spend that much on one player. Not considering we still need to strengthen other areas (i. e. back up full back, and a striker).

I've also heard Stoch is a done deal though. Not sure about banega.

Aussie Saint

Banega would be a very nice signing, great vision and technical ability.

Lamela- WOW if we got him I would be absolutely delighted, and I think his complex ownership gives us an outside chance at it. Very very talented player who can shred defences up.

But Overall i'm not sold on Stoch yet, obviously if he signs i'll be right behind him and wish him the best. He had a thunderous strike and scores some wondergoals. but last season 0 goals in 2473 minutes of gametime and only 3 assists. His strength is his speed and turning, which makes me worried about his knee a little as well.
#1

From my sources all of this is within the realms of possibility & I'm picking up snippets that we are going to unveil a record £22m signing but i'm not sure who that is going to be at this point. Hopefully NC has walked away from the Wanyama saga & this has released additional funds to put the icing on the cake for another deal to go through.

Stoch is more of a wide player isn't he? If so I can't see us signing Lamela as well

Lamela's price is rumored to be 35M Euros.

I can't see him coming this year as it's too much, and too complicated a deal, but love it to be true.

I could however see us going back for him next year. I believe that next year it will be far easier for us to pick up the bigger signings that Don Cortese is after.

I think Lamela is out of our reach. Too much interest from other clubs. Banega is just about in our reach. Stoch is very much in our reach.

Lenny

If there was an ounce of truth in the Stoch rumours, then they wouldn't have surfaced repeatedly. I think he was Saints plan C or D at best if our other targets fell through. Which they haven't I would guess.

Lovren deal was being kicked about in open for a short while too. Just because we are used to the "saints way" of keeping silent until the ink is dry, this is much more difficult to do in the PL. previous campaigns & different leagues ensured we could hroud our deals with a degree of secrecy but because of our ever increasing profile this is much harder to maintain.