Transfer Rumours JANUARY TRANSFER THREAD

If we do it now, we'll steal the march on our competitors who'll have an agonizing wait until the summer to do the same!

 

I wish people would leave Branfoot alone all he did wrong was badly manage the club leave out your best player sign Dixon and Speedy and Hurlock bring in Peter Ried as a player after he got the sack managing Man City whats wrong with that?

 

Yeah and we qualified for Europe.

We've cracked it

 

Hearing we might get Youssef Poulsen in from Leipzig. Striker/Winger who looks like a skinny Van Dijk.

 

Denmarkhampton

 

OMG I'd forgotten about the little s**t Speedy. One of two players that I really did not want to see in a Saints shirt (the other being Sparkie).

 

Any good?

 

If we are talking ideal signings...Michy Batshuayi has just had his loan move cut short by Valencia. For the right price he'd seem the perfect fit.

 

Hurlock was a beast Didn’t he have an on the pitch punch up with one of his teammates?

Forgot all about Peter Reid, was that towards the end of his tenure?

I started watching saints as Nichols left and branfoot came in. If it hadn’t been for Matty I probably would have lost interest as a 6 year old.

 

I think Hurlock had a punch up with Speedy. Yes Ried was in Branfoots last season.

 

Yessir. Would anticipate an either/or with him and Lookman.

 

Nice. Sounds feasible.

 

I hated Branfoot back then, and like Sauron's ring, the memory endures!

 

Latest from Ralph Hasenhüttl in today's pre-match press conference...

On whether Fraser is in his plans this week…
No, not really. I made the choice to have two strong keepers with Angus Gunn and Alex McCarthy. I think they did it well, both of them. So it will always be like it is, if you have a good experience with one goalkeeper then you don’t look for another one. It can be that Fraser can take a game in the under-23s. It’s possible to do so in the future because he needs games to get back in the position where he is an option for other clubs maybe and that’s what we try to force in the future.

On whether Fraser might therefore leave the club as he trims the squad…
Yes, that’s right.

On Gabbiadini going to Sampdoria today and why it didn’t work out here…
It’s difficult to say. If you are a new manager and you come to a new club, you get the first experience and first impressions about a player and for me it seems that he is a good player with fantastic technique, but with this intensive pressing system we try to play, I think to be honest it’s not his way of playing. So it’s better to find a solution that is better for both sides. We can’t show him what he wants to see from us and he can’t bring us what we want to see from him. So it’s better to find a different solution and I think it’s a good step for him to go back to Italy and I wish him all the best. I know that he is a fantastic player and I am sure that he can score in every club in the world, his goals, but we try to go a different way and I think for that we need different players.

On if signing a striker is his priority now…
That’s right. That’s what we are forcing and what we are looking for. To bring someone in, in this transfer period is not so easy. Because we must find a guy who is also not for the short-term to make us better, but also for the long-term. I only want to take a transfer which is also with a future, that it is helping us for the longer term and that’s what I want to see.

On whether upcoming games mean we need to move faster in the market…
Sure, it’s better to make it as soon as possible. But it’s not so easy in the winter transfer period. We have very important games now, that we are facing and we have a good squad. We have a little bit of a problem with injuries in the front, that’s right. But we don’t want to be hurried. We’ll take time, think about it and if we are 100 per cent sure that this guy makes us better, we will take it. Not earlier.

 

He and Werner have a fantastic partnership, it’s a shame we couldn’t get both of them but I’d be happy with either!

 

Puts lie to the idea that McCarthy would step aside for Forster....confirms yet again not to believe rumours that gain power by endless repeating in various outlets. We never learn though, do we?

 

Wesley Hoedt can go ... Ralph is a man after my heart ...

 

Saying it as it is, but still being respectful. Ralph for Prime Minister.

 

Nice and from my point of view very fair summary. I don’t get this anti- Hughes line promoted by some. I think he did the best job he thought he could, any one watching the MU game could see that being freed from LR’s influences he was prepared to try new approaches. I feel his main weakness was his apparent blanking out of decent players such as Bednarek yet retaining Hoedt. That seemed a problem for me anyway. All water under the bridge however and we now see how and if Ralph can get a better hand with an enriched group of players who add something to the squad in quality and desire.

 

It doesn't really help a player's value, mind, does it? Although we've probably tried to sound out every club going already