Summer 2013 Transfer Rumour Thread

I'd tend to agree with you Mikey - somehow it doesn't quite 'feel' right for Saints, although saying that, he's one of those players that I'd be very happy to be proved extremely wrong about. The environment and the way the team play down at SMS may very well suit him and he could flourish.....

 

390 minutes per goal and 5 assists last season compares favourably to, for example, Lallana's 743 minutes per goal and 6 assists this season. And he's still only 24, could yet develop into a very good player. If we can get him cheaply and not on silly wages he'd be worth a gamble.

 

Agree. I think anything lower 4 million would be a steal.

 

Of course, but you're comparing him to a player who has been heavily criticised for his poor goal-scoring record this season. And without Sinclair's penalties we'd be talking 780 vs 743, and since he wouldn't be taking penalties for us his penalty-scoring abilities are fairly irrelevant.

I agree with both you and LTL that he could yet flourish, any player in the right circumstances can blossom and improve drastically, and if we signed him I'd support him, but given the progress we've made and the progress we hope to make, I'd like us to be signing a different sort of player than him. If it was a true bargain, it wouldn't be bad business, but I just don't feel that both his fee and wages will be discounted enough to make it worth it.

Apart from anything he'd just add to our list of players, especially wide men, who can't cross a ball!

 

28 Pages and it's not even June yet

 

Leeds fans seem confident Billy Sharp is joining them over on their board

 

Alan Nixon on Saints:

"There will be something pretty big shortly."

"Your man is on his travels. With a cheque book."

 

Nixon also says...

"Gamez. Bid in. Not accepted yet. Think The Don of Dons is chasing something else right now"

Says Cortese is in Italy trying to sort out a transfer.

 

Welcome, Erik Lamela. Or Erik Estrada. One or the other, methinks.

 

Falcao!

 

Astori I hope.

 

Eric Clapton?

 

Was what I thought too.

 

I thought I was ready, but I'm not sure I can take another summer of this.

 

So that could be Astori, or Ogbonna, or Flamini, or Nainggolan, or Lamela... have I forgotten anyone?

 

Carlos Fierro.

 

Probably none of them.

 

Milan. Not one of their players, or even one of the teams...he's buying the entirety of Milan, which will now be a client city-state of SFC.

 

<optimism> Why can't it be all of them? </optimism>

 

Heard strong rumours that its Lorenzo insigne.