Summer Transfer Rumour Thread.

well im just thinking what positions are priority and LB is low on the list haha we cant buy players for every position

 

To be honest, The Fox signing is what gave me the most faith in Nigel & Nicola because I thought just the same thing when we signed him. Do we need a new left back. After seeing the qualities that he brought the team and our style of play I thought, apparently, yes we did.

So to answer your question, I think the same. Do we need one? - Well my lesson has been, If Nige, thinks so then yes we probably do. I don't know why we need one but we'll probably find out.

 

I thought Harding was off somewhere? Or was that my imagination? I seem to remember brendy going into heavenly raptures......

 

There was a rumour he was off to Sheff Wed?

 

Well I might not know much, but I am pretty sure that Nigel will bring in the best players he possibly can. No one is coming in to be bench warming material. That said, there's no question that Fox will be an important player for us, and if this guy can play in midfield (if stories are true) then even better.

Anyway, when Fox swings one onto Lambert's head in the 89th minute and Nigel celebrates in the Etihad dugout, they'll know the scousers have really arrived.

 

That was started by me on football-rumours. Not an ounce of truth in it.

I was conducting an experiment.

 

Or... was it...?

 

Buttner looking likely to join Saints according to Dutch Press?


http://www.voetbalinfo.nl/nieuws/46...as/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


Vitesse have accepted he will go and so he has been to see the facilities of and talk to representatives of Saints, QPR, Fulham and supposedly Werder Bremen, and has said we are his preferred choice.


We just have to offer the requested asking price, which according to Dutch press has been made clear by Vitesse Arnhem. Then agree terms of course.

Get it done Nicola. (Rumoured fee is €3m, which is £2.42m)

 

Rumour on twitter saying we are favorites for Mariappa of watford now? Is he good enough, thought our boys ran rings round the watford defence
Last season?

 

Plays for Watford, so must be ****e.

 

Article was up on uglyinside about 5 hours after the Harding rumour was posted on there. Suggests correlation.

 

Nah you're just claiming all the credit - you're just as bad as John Terry.

 

Rumbled! Damn!

 

And that experiment was a total success

 

Nigel will want a back up for Fox and he may be thinking of Harding, but personally I can't believe it's not Buttner.

 

REYYYYYY!!!!!!!

 

If he's as good as people are saying then fair enough.

I can't stand people that rate players purely based on FIFA stats like some people do...


One rumour that was on Twitter earlier was that Mariappa was going to sign for us, with Barnard going the other way on loan.

 

Regards Buttner (and apologies if it's been posted before and i've missed it), the below article certainly makes him sound like the type of player that would fit into "The Southampton Way". Sounds like he's committed and got his head screwed on right anyway....

http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org...der-buttner-vitesses-confident-left-back.html

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I just hope he's better than our last Eredivisie import

 

True Dan, true. Might all be balls anyway, but based on all the paper talk so far it looks we're still going for younger players with the potential to break through, on what you'd imagine to be more reasonable wage demands. Might be similar to Moneyball theory, sign a squad of potentially undervalued players on lower wages and we can afford for the odd De Ridder to not work out as long as the sum efforts of the team that are on the pitch, over a whole season, are maximised. If we were going for more expensive players, we'd sign less of them, and be over reliant in the event of injury/suspension etc.

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