Southampton Rumours Archive January 28 2013

28 Jan 2013 21:03:07
Billy Sharp could well be on the verge of a return to Southampton. Pochettino has been talking to Nicola Cortese about increasing the up front options and over talks seems to have convinced Cortese that Southampton could benefit from Sharp returning. Cortese is set to hold talks with Sharp tomorrow with Pochettino mediating the meeting, assuming things go well the loan spell at Nottingham Forest could be cut short with compensation in the region of 400k going to Forest and Sharp could be available to face Wigan!

The recall option deadline passed on the 17th January. He is Forest's for the season and 400k isn't going to change their mind.

Unfortunately the Billy Sharp loan does not have the option to recall the player

Would love this to be true, he hasn't stopped scoring this season. Yes I know its the Championship etc, but even if he scored half of them goals in the Prem, he'd be on 5 for the season- more than punch, Guly, JRod, Lallana etc etc. Can't see it happening though. Shame.

Saint Christopher

All loans have the option to be cancelled but may require a compensation fee, 400k is the valuation of the remaining loan.

I would love to see sharp back, should never have loaned him out.

Billy Sharp sharp sharp! love this guy but can't see him playing for us again :(

This would be amazing but i'm cetrain this won't happen, as a real saints fan I would love this to happen and as a jeesture of goodwill i'd like to give them guly forever for free if we can have sharp back

st stuie

What exactly happened there, I heard there was some sort of falling out?

No there wasn't he cannot be recalled the recall deadline has passed he hasn't fallen out with anyone and cortese fell out with sharp and sharps agent

IMHO judging by Billy Sharps repeated tweets re- Saints results he is very much still a Saint at heart. Also at the back end of last season he looked a little overweight, a tad short of pace despite shouting goals. He was loaned out because he wouldn't have cut it in the premier league and from what i've seen of him this season he's still very much a championship level player. I wish him all the best but don't expect to see him pull on a saints shirt again unless of course we are relegated.
Tomorrow or Thursday will see the addition of 2 players, a central midfielder and an attacking midfielder/wing Forward. I would imagine that also we may bring in another young right back to develop as cover for Clyne, although Cork can do that job if the right central player is brought in.
Lots of speculation flying around, the Barnsley rb could be the youngster. I would hope that the central mf has a Spanish speaking background, with a good command of English to help MP communicate and that the attacking player had a fair amount of pace.
I think the later will be Roberto Firmino and the central player likely to come from la liga

28 Jan 2013 18:39:24
ince to saints

Did you dream this rumour or have you got inside information?

Don't think so

Were is this from?

Trev saint

Think this would be a great signing for now and the future, but we would need one more

Can't see him going South of the M62.

Considering the feelings between Blackpool and Southampton after the Saints tried to tap up Matty Phillips, I doubt Karl Oyston would even answer his phone (if he had one).

And Ince wants to play in the Prem.....I doubt he would join Southampton as youre not 100% to be there next season and after the way you treated Adkins I doubt many UK players would want to join a club who treats it's employees that way

To be honest, saints look in a good position to survive and Ince would have a reasonable chance of first team football. I just doubt this somehow as he prefers life up north.

Did he tell you personally he prefers life up north? I doubt we will sign him but a player in the championship will not turn down the chance of premiership football just because they 'prefer it up north'

When he joined Blackpool he chose them over other clubs like Crystal Palace and Reading at the time stating it was entirely because he didn't want to move down south.

With 19 games left it's you Wigan, Reading, QPR & Villa in a relegation battle so don't count your chickens as none of the other teams have just potted their manager for a guy who can't even speak English.....lookingbleak#

If you think a relegation battle with the teams you have just named is looking bleak then I assume you know nothing about football, I also take it that you are a skate

st stuie

I wish we did have 19 games left !

Wondered where the haters had gone since we started our unbeaten run. Hope its not a skate - thought we had upgraded with scousers
SaintGazza

West Ham will get dragged into it. Fulham too maybe, but I think Sunderland are clear now. Their manager is too good for them to get relegated.

I am personally not worried about relegation, the team have more than shown they have enough to survive this year.

As for looking bleak. From a skate that is classic. Portsmouth have had it, HMRC are just delaying pulling the trigger. You have been trading insolvent for a year, outbidding championship clubs for players instead of paying your local debtors as a minimum.... all the whining about some right to be competitive rather than manning up, paying what you owe, and playing your youth players like stockport had to.

Even if saints got relegated, your disease ridden corpse of a club would still keep us all happy, watching you slowly implode is the perfect cure for any ills saints might have.

He does speak English just not good enough to speak to the media but enough to communicate to the team. Go back to your own rumor website and see who you are signing on another month loan. I'd rather be in a relegation fight in the prem than 1 in league 1. It's going to be not league for you next season anyway!

28 Jan 2013 12:28:48
in Pochettino's first interview about Southampton, he said he wasn't sure if the team necessarily needed a new signing. I doubt we will sign anyone but if we do it will likely go to the wire and maybe and attacking mid/wing forward could arrive on deadline day. Players rumoured are Lazio and Wellington Nem, Jermaine Lens was linked previously. However I wouldn't be surprised if 2/3 fringe players were allowed to leave.

Whos lazio ? you said "players rumored are lazio and wellington nem " lol

I'm not sure if we need to sign anyone until the summer apart from back up players. Boruc has been playing well. Shaw is class, yoshida has been getting better every week, Forren looks good hopfully is good for us, clyne is great at right back, fonte (when back from injury) hooiveld, fox and Richardson decent back up and cork for right back if need be. Cork and Schniderlin CDM's don't stop running and tackling, with Davis as decent back up. Lallana out on the left, Ramirez in the middle and puncheon on the right. I no a lot of people don't like him but guly is decent cover for lallana, people seem to only watch him on the ball, he works his socks off, off the ball and really helps on on the back line as de ridded dosent. Rodriguez can play out on the right if needed so can mayuka which are both also cover for lambert up front. Not sure decent cover for Ramirez or just play a different formation to the one I'm thinking of. That team is better than villa qpr and reading so we should be fine I think.
------------boruc
Clyne-Forren-yoshida-shaw
-----Schniderlin-cork
Puncheon-Ramirez-lallana
-----------lambert
Bench: fox, mayuka, fonte, Rodriguez, Davis, Richardson, guly

I'd agree we probably don't NEED a new signing, but that doesn't mean he's not looking to improve.

Lallana cover for remirez

I think we do need to sign someone. We need an experienced midfielder who is clinical. Everton showed just how many chances we miss. We need to start putting them ALL away if we are going to stay up. You cannot miss chances against teams like man united etc. you will get punished.

^^ forgot about a keeper on the bench

Forren is left footed... LCB for him. Cork is always RCDM and Schneiderlin is LCDM.

Guly out for up to 3 weeks

We need another striker as proficient as lambert ! another world class centre back, and for good measure another fellani type handfull in mid field .

I mentioned Southampton looking at a young lad called Gormley from Cliftonville in the irish league as a future prospect and was asked if I was having a laugh, well Brendan Rodgers was over looking at him on Saturday, so if he is sniffing around the kid must have something.

In professional football there is no such thing as 'RCM' or 'LCB'. roles are simply defined by who you are picking up and the role you are expected to carry out. suggesting forren should play 'LCB' just because he's predominantly left footed is ridiculous.

Do you go to games?
De Prado is awful off the ball, silky skills on it but he doesn't mark, support, no cover, basically a liability at this level,
Jos is a donkey, we need cover for wings, a cdm as the MP style going to lead to suspensions, and I think that we lack back up for Rickie, JayRod still developing others lack quality
Definite room for improvements

I didn't think of what side to put them because of their feet and that is why I am not a manager lol

Yes I do go to games, I haven't missed a home league game since we lost 1-0 to Blackpool the year we got relegated from the championship. The question is do you go to games? Since lallana has been injured Guly has played well, maybe because he knows its his chance to get back into the first team, which shows he can step it up when lallana is injured therefore good cover for lallana. Yes he is good off the ball, he helps out on the back line with shaw, stopping potential passes, he also breaks his neck to get over into that position. Hooiveld played good against Everton, admittedly a bit dogdegy but we have got fonte (I know he is injured but we don't really need him at the moment with yoshida and Forren, saying that is with the hope Forren plays well). J rod is class, yeah he is still developing but I think he would step up to the mark if lambert got injured, we are not lambert fc, we can play without him. There is always room for improvement, we wouldn't be 15th in the prem otherwise, if we get a player in better than what we have got then great, if not then oh well we are playing well, not shipping to many goals (apart from Chelsea which was in the cup anyway) and we are scoring goals.

To the guy who reckons there's no such thing as RCM or LCB etc.. Yes there is?!

Anyone that thinks guly is decent at anything other than drink driving is clearly dillusional the guys a joke and I don't think he deserves to clean the other players boots, please never insinuate that he is anywhere close to king lallana EVER again

st stuie

At st stuie I never said he was anywhere close to lallana, of course he isn't, lallana is pure class. Just saying guly has played well since lallana has been injured therefore good cover. Guly has got a good physical presence, and helps out with shaw on the back line. How many games have we lost since lallana has been injured and guly has been in the team? I know we haven't won many of those games and lallana may have been the difference. Just another guly hater! Support the players that play for your team instead of criticising them, negativity never does anyone any good! Look at Chelsea.

De Prado injured for three Weeks........
Their is a God
Thank you MLT

28 Jan 2013 10:54:52
Heard from a friend with connections that Tim Cahill could be coming to saints on loan until the end of season. Would be a great signing. Box to box player or backup for lambert with his aerial abilities.

H Train

No chance in this happening!

Nope, never like Thierry will only ever return to one PL club, Cahill will only ever go back to the Sticky Toffees.

Tim cahill said in an interview a while ago when being linked with liverpool that he would never under any circumstance play for another premier league club, other than everton.

Neither want or need him. Go and support Pompey if you want old and over the hill players.

Seeing the new MLS season is due to start soon, and it was sunderland that wanted him before jan on loan. (signing on january 1st) but that never happened and neither will this.

Not a chance, chelsea will not let a starting line-up/bench player go out on loan.

Different cahill mate

The awkward moment someone gets gary cahill and tim cahill mixed up.

TIM CAHILL!! not GARY CAHILL LOL!!

Tim Cahill not Gary Cahill

Tim Cahill is a number 10. Gary Cahill is a CB.