Swansea City linked with Montpellier midfielder Benjamin Stambouli One year left on his contract and a great prospect! Get it done Huw!
How many players have we been linked with so far? Only 2 arrived , will believe it when it's on the Swans' website.
http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2014/swansea-make-offer-for-benjamin-stambouli/? This is the same source that was right about Gomis and also reported about Payet. also what do you mean only 2 arrived? Gomis...1 Fabianski....2 montero...3 siggy....4
Only Gomis and Montero were wanted by other clubs, Fabianski and Siggy were nailed on transfers, Emnes and Kingsley were arranged last season. Others such as Besic have chosen other clubs.
Palace had a bid excepted for Siggy. Ok maybe a game played by spurs to push the Davies swap. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9385548/crystal-palace-agree-fees-for-gylfi-sigurdsson-and-fraizer-campbell
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...li-look-cover-significant-losses-defence.html Him and Fernandez fill all the key gaps in the squad.
http://www.butfootballclub.fr/1581765-asse-exclu-stambouli-un-deuxieme-perrin/ Anyone understand French and care to translate?
Google translate. Former Deputy Chairman of AS Saint-Etienne sporting director today in Poissy (CFA2), Gerard Soler keeps a watchful eye on the Mercato Greens. In the columns of "Goal! Saint-Etienne "where he writes a column each month, the former international striker has given his opinion on two issues: Daniel Wass and Benjamin Stambouli. Soler has a clear preference. "There was a discussion at the club for the end of Mercato. Wass is on the market. He's a good player, versatile, but for me it's more a defender right environment, and its position was Hamouma. When I see a player like Stambouli is on the market, I would not hesitate. This would be a great reinforcement. For me, it is a second Perrin, a player of the highest level, the copy mentality, a great personality. A lot of players are overpriced but it is the contrary, it is undercut, as Perrin. This is a boy who will make a great career. If he comes to us with his versatility, he will strengthen even more the axis. " Only downside (not least!): The player does not want the moment to negotiate with AS Saint-Etienne. L.h in Saint-Etienne. So Etienne are interested but player doesan't want to talk to them, good news for us then.
I hope we sign this guy! Things seem to have gone quiet! [video]Benjamin Stambouli - Intense: http://youtu.be/ADSDRsFYocY[/video]
Link not working for me SAO. Might be a problem my end. (Edit - works if I cut and paste into address bar - gives Google results by the looks of things) This vid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADSDRsFYocY Looks a cracking player.
Montpellier boss Rolland Courbis has mocked Swansea's interest in signing midfielder Benjamin Stambouli Quote translated: “After Newcastle signed (Remy) Cabella I heard Swansea are in for Stambouli. Our players, who are internationals or furture internationals, attract the attention of big clubs. If I’m Benji, I wake up tomorrow in Wales, I’m training with my teammates Swansea, if I’m not happiest footballer in the world or the happiest guy in the world, it means that I do not understand anything. “Swansea to me is not a big club, but it’s a good club. Montpellier is a great club, but it’s a good club. It’s like you have a country that has an international player and Montpellier are interested in a player there, you have the coach or player who say ‘well, it’s not that it’s Ajaccio, Evian Thonon or Valenciennes asking you but this is not Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille and Monaco either, it’s Montpellier! So for me, Newcastle is the Montpellier of England. And Swansea, I do not know if it’s even the Montpellier of England? Already, it is not in England, it is in Wales. “I am surprised that there are no ten major clubs that are vying for him because he has the qualities to be. “I see Stambouli (as a 15m Euro player). This is not the condition, it is the act of watching what he does. When I see the clubs interested in (Lyon player Maxime) Gonalons, and when I see the clubs interested in Stambouli, I say maybe I see Stambouli bigger than he is. “I’m not tying to advertise Stambouli to sell him, I’d like to keep him and he is sold in a year, best selling to a bigger club, with financial conditions also the double or triple of what we are trying to propose. “Because when (Swansea’s interest) came to my ears, I almost laughed and took a nervous giggle. There’s even that sum? Wales ... this financial monstrosity ... and a 8-year contract, too?!”
