Saint Marcos!

So €20m or £16m

 

This reminds me of the Ramirez deal.

 

I thought Van Gaal had already done Ron over, by advising de Vrij to sign for Lazio (was it them?).

 

And me. This will be another close call, I think.

 

De Vrij didn't sign for us because he was still angry at Koeman for stripping him of the Feyenoord captaincy and saying he wasn't man enough.

 

Van Gaal is outstripping Mourinho already on this season's "comedy villain" stakes. When the two play each other, it's going to be really quite entertaining methinks.....

 

Typical of dealings involving South American players..why do we bother with all this hassle? It's not like our dealings with South American players in the past has ever paid off.
Let's stick to UK and EU please

 

Our ESP last season was young, English players. We are moving away from that, though not by our own choice. Hopefully, if we get through the next season or so, a new batch will appear. Until then of course, Wenger has promised to provide the England team

 

Yes, that would do it

 

any more takes in the sweepstake? I'm still on €22m

 

yeah, lets not try and buy a good player because of his nationality, nice one

 

Lets forget Guly in League one and the Championship then.

 

From 'Right sider' on SaintsWeb:

Bumped into Les Reed in the car park this morning. Asked him how the trip to Portugal went. He replied that it was a night mare. I asked if that meant bad news. He said Unfortunately yes. Lots of politics, they never wsnted to sell and the lads got lots of mafioso surrounding him. I asked if the holding company was a problem. They certainly got in the way of things.

I then asked if there are others. Got a few lined up. Bit of a hurry really that's where I am going.

Never been Itk before. Just telling it like it happened.

 

So no rojo then. I assume Forster will be presented to the crowd today...

 

Hmm, I'm sure Les Reed strolls around the car park waiting for fans to come up to him so he can spill the beans as much as possible. I don't think we'll get Rojo, mainly due to recent reports, but I doubt Reed would say anything in regards to transfers coming in and going into that much detail...

 

Happened to me before, but not with Reed.

 

Think it happens a lot more than people expect. I remember sitting with Gareth Southgate at the Norwich game last year and he told me his first squad! Also told me which younger players would be bypassing the under 21s. Most of these guys love chatting to fans under less pressurised circumstances

 

I've just been on to the other forum, and it is amazing how many dismiss this post. Why would this guy make this up, and really, why wouldn't a Saints director talk to a Saints supporter in our stadium's car park?

 

One person went on to say that reed said that RK doesn't rate VVD.

 

off to Man Untd apparently