30 Apr 2013 22:51:38
southampton have been tracking belgian 20 yr old hannes van der bruggen who plays in midfeild for AAK gent and the belgian national under 21s, either in a holding role or has been known to play in defence as a right back, saints cheif scout sees him as a perfect under study for morgan shneiderlin
st stuie
Southampton Rumours Archive April 30 2013
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30 Apr 2013 14:47:41
Southampton preparing a �12 million offer for Leon Goretzka from Bundesliga 2 side VfL Bochum.
18 year old CM whose playing style has been compared to the likes of Michael Ballack.
Doubt it he will be in Germany team in couple of years time
Seems a lot of money to pay for such an unknown.
I think Vfl Bochum would do a Suarez if we offered that kind of money for him. (I. e. they'd bite our collective hand off).
30 Apr 2013 14:15:45
Saints are prepared to outbid West Brom in the race for Romelu Lukaku with a figure of 25million. Chelsea are planning a summer of high profile signings with Falcao and Cristiano Ronaldo on the top of their list, while Lukaku wants first team football.
Thomas Ince, Davide Astori, Victor Wanayama, Iago Aspas & Frederik Sorensen complete the list of top targets.
I know lukaku has looked good but for 25million we could get a high profile striker
I would love love love this to be true.
£25million is over-priced. But he could be one of the best strikers in the league and would be the perfect replacement for Lambert (strong, powerful, eye for a pass).
I'm highly dubious whether there are any legs in this rumour, but fingers crossed.
Tbh with the champions league wanted in 2 years I wouldn't be suprised if we tried this or a signing for the same money
Trev saint
Is this just because he ran us ragged on saturday
Chelsea paid about 15 if I remember rightly would love this to be true but carnt see it myself
How likely are Chelsea to actually sell Lukaku? Surely he is a better striking option than Torres or Ba for them? But would be a good player to sign if we managed it.
Financial fair play regs start this summer don't they?! 25mill is surely near our limit isn't it? Not entirely sure how it works but I'm confident out sponsorship deal isn't big enough to qualify us for massive spending, despite his much may be available? I would expect NC to be looking abroad for 10-15 mill value players instead.
Utter rubbish, for a start he's not being sold, he will go on loan to the albion again, and if he was for sale bigger and better clubs would be in for him. and you might want champs lge in 2 seasons but you ain't going to get it in your life time, you're little Southampton ffs, lol
^bitter skate
st stuie
It makes me laugh that people come on to our rumour site and make these angry comments about stuff that doesn't and mainly shouldn't concern them, but I better wrap this up because I have to go read about what people are saying about exeter, bristol and plymouth and then make some angry comments. I couldn't think of anything more lame. No offence to those teams mentioned but you get my point.
All this who we are going to buy talk when as yet we are still not safe from relegation. Spurs, Sunderland and then Stoke. Points first then we can do the rumours.
If you don't want to do the rumours yet, come back in 3 weeks!
Lenny
In fairness. He isn't going to displace Torres or Ba. If Jose comes back they will sign more players. They even paid for sturridge and let him out. And he has arguably been even more prolifc on current form.
In league 1 my dream signing upon takeover was Rickie, it happened. In the championship I wanted cork and Billy. they happened. This summer I want Lukaku. Come on NC. Or do I need to right you (Father Christmas) a letter and set it on fire again?
Well said lenny
30 Apr 2013 08:06:45
Arsenal believed to be putting in £10 milkion bid for schneiderlin. no chance
Leave our Morgan alone! You already took away Theo and Alec so hands off
Double it, then we'll talk.
Saw this on the sun this morning. 30million Wenger, then we will talk. As long as we can loan him back till he's 34
He's just sighed a new contract no chance!
It's not a big step up for schinderlin to be fair, Arsenal never win anything, the only better thing about Arsenal is champions league football, which they never stay in that long.
I can see Morgan heading to United one day. I would love him to stay at Saints but I think he will be Champions League quality in a few years time.
I'm sure there's 18 other prem clubs who also 'want' him for £10M but i'm equally sure he ain't going anywhere. Anybody who has a clue about Cortese knows this is page filling rubbish. Hopefully he will be playing for us in the Champions League in a few years time.
Suggest Wenger should read Morgan on the Saints WS!
Sorry Arsene, think you will get the message this time from NC!
Saint Martin
Can't see him leaving us any time soon, nowhere better for him to be at the moment, here he has first team Premiership football and a chance at being a top team within a few seasons if Cortese's plan is pulled off.
Arsene had his chance to buy Schneiderlin when we went down to the championship as well as when we went down to league 1! He turned them down because he loved the club so now we are in the pl no chance!
I agree totally. And to top it all, I think Wenger would far rather deal with another club for a similar player. I'm sure most clubs now will struggle to sign players from Cortese with any degree of ease, particularly if he wants to hang in to them.
He will go, don't know what planet you lot are on, you will never compare with Arsenal, he will get 1st team football and champs lge, the latter being something he will never get at Southampton. deluded, lol.
A lot of us our deluded but not about this he won't be up for sale for a price Arsenal will deem reasonable
£10m for one of the best cdm in the premier league, no chance NC will take this offer, plus Morgan has already rejected Arsenal twice.
The skate is back calling Saints fans deluded, go back to league 2 skate! It Still makes me laugh, league 2 HA!
Oh, I thought 'deluded' was the name he signed in as, lol. He's certainly very ignorant but don't suppose there's much need of prem knowledge in L2.
Haha true saint gazza
London, more wages, champions league and strong possibility of top 4 finish.
Come on if he wanted to move he will checks his stats I would be surprised if the arsenal are the only big 5 team who are interested.
I hope not but you have to realistic now we are back in the big time.
30 Apr 2013 02:50:29
Southampton assistant manager Jesus Perez was a Fir Part to look at Celtic winger Victor Wanyama {Ed001's Note - I hope he wasn't watching him thinking he is a winger, he is certainly not a wideman! The lad is a central midfielder.}
Did Wanyama not say only last week or the week before that he is going no where?
Ed, that's not fair! you shot down his rumour before it started! lol
Was reported in the papers. Not like most of the rumours on here which have just been made up {Ed001's Note - and what do you think the papers do? Oh yes, they just make it up! They even have competitions to make up the silliest stories and see if they get believed. I remember one caused outrage, regarding the EU regulations saying bananas had to be a certain shape, no such regulation existed, but no one questioned it because it was in the papers.}
Just saying I haven't made it up.
And Perez Did travel to Fir Park. Whether to watch Wanyana specifically I don't know.
He could go if nc thinks he can replace with better player