Saint Gaston! (continued; mobile-friendly thread)

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Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but the Bologna FC twitter account posted this 12 hours ago "@GastonRamirezOk signed with Southampton" followed by a link to an Italian website. I used Google to translate the article:

Bologna, Ramirez signed with Southampton

After a long negotiation seems to have got the white smoke. According to reports from the industry expert, Gianluca Di Marzio, on his blog, Gaston Ramirez signed with Southampton. For the official transaction missing only the exchange of documents between the two clubs.

Promising news?
 
So? Players have been thrown into matches before, and Adkins might feel he needs reinforcements for United.

Would be surprised if no new recruits were in the squad, and even if they aren't, if they want Adkins to have the choice, they need to be registered.

What gives you the impression he will sign at all....just curious......as I have seen very little as regards him flying over etc?

Edit.... except the above of course!
 
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but the Bologna FC twitter account posted this 12 hours ago "@GastonRamirezOk signed with Southampton" followed by a link to an Italian website. I used Google to translate the article:

Bologna, Ramirez signed with Southampton

After a long negotiation seems to have got the white smoke. According to reports from the industry expert, Gianluca Di Marzio, on his blog, Gaston Ramirez signed with Southampton. For the official transaction missing only the exchange of documents between the two clubs.

Promising news?

I think that is a fans account so not official. But that is the general message coming out of Italy.
 
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but the Bologna FC twitter account posted this 12 hours ago "@GastonRamirezOk signed with Southampton" followed by a link to an Italian website. I used Google to translate the article:

Bologna, Ramirez signed with Southampton

After a long negotiation seems to have got the white smoke. According to reports from the industry expert, Gianluca Di Marzio, on his blog, Gaston Ramirez signed with Southampton. For the official transaction missing only the exchange of documents between the two clubs.

Promising news?

I heard Guly put the papers in a shredder.
 
I think that is a fans account so not official. But that is the general message coming out of Italy.

Yeah I think you're right. The Bologna website takes me to a different account. Still though, the Italian websites are saying the deal is as good as done.
 
What gives you the impression he will sign at all....just curious......as I have seen very little as regards him flying over etc?

Edit.... except the above of course!

Er, just the last two weeks of positive updates to be honest <laugh>

I'm curious, how much info do you normally get about who is on flights into southampton?
 
Don't mention faxes.......I was doing my sea training and was asked while abroad to fax some documents to the local embassy. I had never seen a fax machine before. Any way I punched in the numbers I was given put in the documents and pressed send. Just after I pressed send the clerk shouted stop....but it was too late the documents had gone through and was being sent.
You see the number I had put in was the Russian embassy and not the British embassy. I had been given the wrong number.
This at the height of the cold war........Luckily it was just about one of our crew that had been taken to the local hospital. Strewth though that clerk was in big big trouble non the less............
 
Er, just the last two weeks of positive updates to be honest <laugh>

I'm curious, how much info do you normally get about who is on flights into southampton?

Not sure there are any from that part of Italy.........Usually though the Italians have someone who gets to know what flights Footballer are on. They sell their info to the british press the same as they do for the Italian press. Whether there would have been enough interest in this player is another thing though!
 
Not sure there are any from that part of Italy.........Usually though the Italians have someone who gets to know what flights Footballer are on. They sell their info to the british press the same as they do for the Italian press. Whether there would have been enough interest in this player is another thing though!

Well the reports said he was ready to get onto a private jet to come last week until the Bologna president told him to forget it. I'd imagine it'd be a charter flight at the very least in which case it would be made public knowledge (anyone know if any charter flights are heading to Southampton from Italy today?), but if it's a private jet I'm not sure how much information is available.

Edit: It's possible to fly from Bologna to Southampton via Amsterdam today, arriving at 9:20pm. But as I said, I think it's unlikely he'll be on a standard flight. I would certainly not be too pleased if I was him and I didn't have a direct flight!
 
Not sure there are any from that part of Italy.........Usually though the Italians have someone who gets to know what flights Footballer are on. They sell their info to the british press the same as they do for the Italian press. Whether there would have been enough interest in this player is another thing though!

There's a bunch of quotes from journos in Bologna saying it's done.......DL_Corriere for one....