Transfer Rumours The Summer Transfer Rumour Thread 2016

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fatletiss said:
Why another contact Fran? Next year he'll be very useful, but the year after he's going to be slipping off rapidly. Unless he was happy with a year extension, then I'd say keep him next season and then let him go.
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Give him an improved 2 year contract...he'd still have a season to run after next and we'd still get some money and have him in case JRod/Austin don't play much. . He would get better wages and still be in the EPL to keep his Italy manager happy. Win, win.
 
fatletiss said:
Why another contact Fran? Next year he'll be very useful, but the year after he's going to be slipping off rapidly. Unless he was happy with a year extension, then I'd say keep him next season and then let him go.
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Can't assume Pelle will decline rapidly. He is obviously not dependant on speed and may continue to play at this level a while longer.
 
Cowtownred said:
I think we have to ask, why the British press don't want to see, a successful Southampton FC?
For instance, I did read that Payet may stay at WHU, but where is all the speculation, of him joining, AB&C clubs?
It really is tiresome, of reading this negative crap, day after day. I know some will say, don't read it, if you don't like it, but hey, I want to read some positive gossip about my beloved Saints.
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Beddytare said:
Trouble is if Saints continue to act like a small club they will be treated as such...............I have said it so many times.....decisions on how this can be achieved will have to be made.
Again a chicken and egg situation.........They have to either move to a bigger ground or at the very least expand St Mary's. They will not draw in the bigger crowds until they can accommodate them. They have expanded the academy now they need to expand or Move in the next couple of years. It is just as much a consolidation of our existing standing with in the EPL as is buying the right players to improve.
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I read Beddy's first line as a reference, in part, to us regularly selling players. If so, then for me this goes a long way to answering the first post.

If you have a club who is known to be a selling club (and I'm not criticising the club for this etc, just stating a fact), then it is surely only natural that the media will continue to link players away from that club. Whether such stories have any actual substance to them or not, they will generally always come across as being plausible until the club ceases to be known as a selling club.

I absolutely do not think that it's because the media simply dislike us.
 
Lovelocum said:
Can't assume Pelle will decline rapidly. He is obviously not dependant on speed and may continue to play at this level a while longer.
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I'm not assuming Fran, I'm seeing it. I'm also told that part of this is down to a knee problem. I think it is pretty fair to judge a type of player and what they can contribute at an older age based on size, fitness, etc.

For me Pelle has been a huge benefit for Saints and I can see him being a contributor next season too. I can't see him being much beyond that. He isn't that good at holding the ball up and our play is much more fluent when he is not playing, but that's not to say he is not a player we should keep. I just believe that we've had he best from him and one more year would be about it. I certainly wouldn't want to be paying out a big wage to him for the two seasons after next.

Edit: oops, that was not Fran but lovelocum.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
Give him an improved 2 year contract...he'd still have a season to run after next and we'd still get some money and have him in case JRod/Austin don't play much. . He would get better wages and still be in the EPL to keep his Italy manager happy. Win, win.
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* I quoted the wrong person above, sorry*

Maybe a 2 year extension would be OK.
 
Beddytare said:
Trouble is if Saints continue to act like a small club they will be treated as such...............I have said it so many times.....decisions on how this can be achieved will have to be made.
Again a chicken and egg situation.........They have to either move to a bigger ground or at the very least expand St Mary's. They will not draw in the bigger crowds until they can accommodate them. They have expanded the academy now they need to expand or Move in the next couple of years. It is just as much a consolidation of our existing standing with in the EPL as is buying the right players to improve.
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Agreed.
They are trying to act like a bigger club. Fact is now, they are a bigger club. Unfortunately they are a bigger club saddled with a very nice and pretty stadium that was too small on the day it was opened in 2001.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
http://news.ladbrokes.com/football/...ampton-through-another-successful-summer.html

Article from Ladbrokes......not trying to sell our players, but pointing out that the Euro 2016 championship could be the time to cash in on Pelle as he will get a chance to showcase his talents. He'd better stock up on hair products then. :)

I think it is time to form an action group to Save Our Pelle....we should call ourselves the Soppies<laugh>
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I'm already making the banners and t-shirts can be ordered from me at any time :D
 
TheSecondStain said:
Agreed.
They are trying to act like a bigger club. Fact is now, they are a bigger club. Unfortunately they are a bigger club saddled with a very nice and pretty stadium that was too small on the day it was opened in 2001.
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Yes, I reckon a big European night against a giant club and we could easily fill a 40,000 plus stadium. But the club are doing it the right way building Staplewood to take care of the on the pitch product and investing in the players, then when the team become successful maybe slowly expand SMS. Rome wasn't built in a day and we know the pitfalls of expanding too qucikly. Have faith in the board, they are doing things the right way for continued success.
 
Saints_Alive said:
Yes, I reckon a big European night against a giant club and we could easily fill a 40,000 plus stadium. But the club are doing it the right way building Staplewood to take care of the on the pitch product and investing in the players, then when the team become successful maybe slowly expand SMS. Rome wasn't built in a day and we know the pitfalls of expanding too qucikly. Have faith in the board, they are doing things the right way for continued success.
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Agreed, incremental and sustainable steps. Whilst St Mary's was too small when it opened, it wasn't a total disaster, and I can understand up to a point why the then owners built it to that size, through financial constraints. The Dell was built way back at the turn of the last century with a capacity of 30K in a smaller town with a much smaller population, with much smaller disposable income and far less mobility. Back then that capacity gave Saints room to breathe. So to up it by 2.6K one hundred years later in a city twice the size that it was, with a much bigger, much better off and much more mobile population, with a much increased catchment area due to those factors, seemed a little short-sighted, in my opinion. Nevertheless, that was all they could afford and it set the limit on their ambition at the time. How times have changed.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Agreed, incremental and sustainable steps. Whilst St Mary's was too small when it opened, it wasn't a total disaster, and I can understand up to a point why the then owners built it to that size, through financial constraints... Nevertheless, that was all they could afford and it set the limit on their ambition at the time. How times have changed.
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The reigning champions made exactly the same mistake.
 
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Can always get a ticket. I don't think it is conclusive yet that enlarging the ground will repay the cost in any reasonable time scale. The only advantage is offering reduced tickets to kids and getting more fans in the next generation. I suspect the matter is being monitored by the board every season.
 
Archers Road said:
How was St Mary's ever too small? As I recall it was never near to being full until after our Cup run in 2003. After that, and even since our return to the PL in 2012, I don't think it's ever been hard to get tickets to home games. Better a full stadium than a half empty white elephant, surely?
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Only way I can see us filling a bigger stadium in the short term is reducing tickets to about £20.
 
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I think we should wait for safe standing. Could increase capacity without as much cost thay way and also provide cheaper tickets.
 
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