Saint Florin!

[JayRodriguez9]

Radu Baicu @rbaicu 3m
Breaking news over here: Steaua's central defender Florin Gardos has been sold to @SouthamptonFC...

 

[Schad]

Sounds like we might have our mystery backup option. Curious what that means for the other pursuits.

 

[SouthamptonFCroatia]

N reason to doubt this, Radu Baicu has never been wrong before.

 

[Dan]

Withholding judgement on him because I've never even heard of him, but I really hope this doesn't mean the Rojo and van Dijk deals are dead.

 

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I don't mind saying this... but he does look pretty awesome in his youtube vid!

 

[A Touch of Clas]

€6 million apparently. Agree with Dan, would like to think Dijk and Rojo are still goers. Not sure I can see us signing three CBs in one window though.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Shouldn't the title be "Saint Gardos" and then wait for Chilco to change it?

 

[SAINTDON13]

Are we going to call him Two Bob?

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Lets all cross our fingers that one of the journalists is paying enough attention to Twitter to ask Koeman about Gardos.

 

[Dan]

€6 million apparently. Agree with Dan, would like to think Dijk and Rojo are still goers. Not sure I can see us signing three CBs in one window though.

I'll take one of them and this guy quite happily, means Fonte can still start unless this guy turns out great.

 

[tiggermaster]

Why am I underwhelmed..?

 

[MMJ]

i'd be hapy with buying this guy and rojo, fonte should still have a good chance of first team football and we wouldn't rely on yoshida or hooiveld as immediate backup

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Why am I underwhelmed..?

Because you've not heard of him before?

 

[Schad]

€6 million apparently. Agree with Dan, would like to think Dijk and Rojo are still goers. Not sure I can see us signing three CBs in one window though.

My guess is that we're still pursuing one, but not both. K Billy's statement yesterday suggested that this was backup if something happened with one of those transfers...if Celtic opted to pull back because they advanced a round by default, I think we owe whichever low-level Legia employee mucked up the registration many sternly-worded letters.

 

[Joe!]

Cool. Definitely looks like the plan is to buy two CBs then.

 

[NISaint]

Gardos + one of the other two defenders we're linked with would be very decent. As someone said above, the fee for Rojo is possibly too high now and van Dijk might be more worthwhile.

 

[A Touch of Clas]

So if we're given the choice of either Dijk or Rojo...? I'd probably go for Rojo.

 

[Jose Fonte baby]

Good news, he can play DM...

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Ronald Koeman confirms that Saints are interested in Florin Gardos, but as far as he is aware the deal is not done yet.

 

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Ronald Koeman confirms that Saints are interested in Florin Gardos, but as far as he is aware the deal is not done yet.

Looked at his watch..which suggested that it was close. Also confirmed we are interested in Rojos....was quite emphatic about that.