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Summer Transfer Rumour Thread.

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by SaintsFanAlex, Apr 6, 2012.

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  1. saints4life

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    Villarreal have been relegated. Who shall we go four? Giuseppe Rossi (dreaming)?
     
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  2. Joe!

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    Woah, that's a shock! They have a ton of great players who will surely want to leave. Then again, Deportivo went down last season and were able to keep hold of Guardado. Sometimes players can surprise you with their loyalty.

    Having said that...Rossi, Nilmar, de Guzman, Zapata, Cani.

    It just occurs to me that Jonathan de Guzman would fit into our team perfectly. Canadian attacking midfielder, 24, versatile, talented. Sign him up!
     
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  3. Saintmagic

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    Villarreals best players imo are Rossi, Bruno, Borja Valero and Diego Lopez, unfortunately I can't see us signing any of them
     
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  4. JDub

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    Ermmmmm... SIGN HIM NOW NIGEL.
     
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  5. AdamBanana20

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    Zapata would be a great signing.
     
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  6. Joe!

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    Yep, 6ft 2 and pacey, can play anywhere at the back. Sign him up.
     
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  7. ChapelSaint07

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    Woah, is that the same Borja Valero who flopped massively at WBA?
     
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  8. Saintmagic

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    Yeah it is, has been very good back in the Spanish league though, might have had issues settling in England.

    Zapata has been terrible this season, looked decent before so could just be a confidence issue
     
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  9. JDub

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    Would cost a fair bit, but would be an absolutely, positively f*cking superb signing.
     
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  10. saints4life

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    are you joking Zapata has been awful. Trust me this season he has really left his team down concidering how much they payed for him.
     
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  11. Saintmagic

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    Rossi is out til January with an ACL tear, very sure he has had the same injury at least once before, so can't see him leaving in the summer (not that we would have much of a chance to get him anyway)
     
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    Was gonna say this. :p

    I wouldn't mind Weiss from City, his contract's up next month.
     
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  13. CambSaint

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    DeGuzman? Zapata? - you guys need to take your CM glasses off for a minute
     
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  14. CambSaint

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    Steven Davis would be a great signing - imo

    And speaking of Davies - Mark Davies from Bolton would be great too
     
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  15. pass the football

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    Indeed, even in football manager these guys would never come to us.
     
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  16. Banksy

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    I don't know. Cortese is a very persuasive man. In League 1, we managed to pry Guly away from Serie A, I mean to scale, that's a similar move to us signing a player in the league of De Guzman, Zapata.
     
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    Here's someone not to sign

    579378054.jpg
     
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  18. pass the football

    pass the football Well-Known Member

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    Guly wasn't wanted by Cesena and he didn't play for them in Serie A. He was sent to us on loan. It's not comparable. It would be like Barnard going on loan to Bournemouth, in other words not at all unusual.
     
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  19. JDub

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    You need to accept that we have ambitious owners. Get with the programme, man.
     
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  20. Joe!

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    Have you guys forgotten that we're in the Premier League? We can sign these kinds of players now.
     
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