Transfer Rumours Saints Summer 2017 Transfer Rumour Thread

[Beef]

Was this connected to the Matt Targett loan deal at all? If we were thinking of getting some cover for Matty in on loan, and then lost interest when Matty didn't go it would make sense.

In any case, a club making an enquiry with another club about a player is the correct way to proceed, and is a world apart from the blatant tapping up that Liverpool engaged in with Virgil. I can't see how you can draw any similarities whatever @Saintmagic.

With what I heard I would say no. Also according to a lot of Dundee Utd press and those close to the club we are pretty high on Robson.

 

[bencredible]

For the people that keep on going on about 6 cbs at the club. Have you seen Gardos play?

I think it will be more like this:

First team cbs:

Van Dijk
Hoedt
Yoshida
Stephens

U23s

Bednarek
Jones

Gardos to basically be around to his contract ends. So 4 first team cbs with Bednarek getting cup games here and there.

Saw him and mane against arsenal. Thought he looked decent at the time!

 

[Le Tissier's Laces]

The connection in my mind is simple, we have VVD who is unsettled despite no bid coming in for him, Dundee have Robson who is unsettled despite no bid coming in for him. That's it.

Except we spoke to Dundee and asked for him on loan. They said no, you have to buy. We said no.

As a result he felt unsettled. There's no comparison at all other than two unsettled players, who didn't get a move. The approaches were completely different.

 

[Beef]

Saw him and mane against arsenal. Thought he looked decent at the time!

Been injured and played U23 football since then. He gets mugged off a lot at U23 level,it will be even worse in Prem.

 

[Archers Road]

So we basically did to Dundee what Liverpool did to us with VVD

Only if you believe the Express. Which I don't ever.

Don't believe the Cedric deadline day story either.

 

[Schad]

Only if you believe the Express. Which I don't ever.

Don't believe the Cedric deadline day story either.

They're direct quotes from Dundee's manager. I'm not terribly fussed that we made an approach for someone without making a bid to buy, but it'd seem to be 100% clear that we did indeed do that.

 

[SAINTDON13]

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/...st-unsettled-dundee-united-teen-jamie-robson/

Dundee United's manager said that Southampton's interest in full back Jamie Robson on deadline day which resulted in no firm bid had unsettled the player. Saints were apparently interested in a loan, but not a purchase which didn't suit Dundee.

You have to ask why the player was unsettled, did he want to come to us knowing we could improve his future development, or was it for a bigger wage packet? A loan move would have given us an idea about whether he was good enough for us to take a gamble on, no harm in asking.

 

[Archers Road]

They're direct quotes from Dundee's manager. I'm not terribly fussed that we made an approach for someone without making a bid to buy, but it'd seem to be 100% clear that we did indeed do that.

I wouldn't know because I genuinely would not read anything written in the Express. But an article can be by and large factually accurate yet still set out deliberately to mislead.

If it's in the Mail, the Express, or the Sun, then to me it is a deliberate distortion unless proven otherwise.

 

[Schad]

I wouldn't know because I genuinely would not read anything written in the Express. But an article can be by and large factually accurate yet still set out deliberately to mislead.

If it's in the Mail, the Express, or the Sun, then to me it is a deliberate distortion unless proven otherwise.

It was the Evening Telegraph.

 

[SaintElliot]

So we inquired about a player, the player became unsettled because we only wanted him on loan and the club didn't want him to go (fair enough). Not really the clubs fault a player became unsettled because we wanted one thing and they wanted another....

 

[fatletiss]

Saw him and mane against arsenal. Thought he looked decent at the time!

Just the two of them?

 

[fatletiss]

It was the Evening Telegraph.

Well that paper is always behind the Morning Telegraph....

 

[Beddy]

Well that paper is always behind the Morning Telegraph....

Umm........ really must try it.........its about the only paper I haven't wiped my backside in.........