Summer 2013 Transfer Rumour Thread

http://m.skysports.com/article/football//8795947


If this lad was any good, I wonder if we were looking at him, considering Pochettino's past?

 

Posted earlier , he's decent. Was majorly hyped when he first turned up at 18, but he is still only young so may still reach his potential.

 

I thought someone mentioned the signing but couldn't recall any comments on him. I'm surprise we weren't sniffing.

 

Some people are so desperate for transfer news... A few on twitter trying to say we're linked to Eduardo Salvio, and buying him and Gaitan for £27 million for the pair.

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/10514033._/?

Forgot about the third one!

 

Since when do we believe anything in the Echo!

 

I know! I know! Just thought I would post it anyway.

 

The Echo title says Saints in no hurry to sign Erazo....think they could just delete the last word. We sign players at the speed of an arthritic snail who's lost his walking stick.

 

Another Equadorian? Don't we learn by our past mistakes?
Noooooooooooo!
Brits preferred, Europeans are fine and others fron RoW who have played successfully in Europe are worth a punt but anyone else.....no!

 

So you wouldn't have fancied Neymar then...!

 

Anyone know anymore about this lad? It's niggling me that he may be a good signing.

 

Not sure he's first team material yet. If Poch has as much faith in Stephens and Turnbull as he says, maybe he thought we didn't need this guy.

 

yes, that could be true. I just hope he doesn't turn out a world beater, seeing as where he came from.

 

Not sure we are looking for any more CBs. When asked about Astori, Mauricio confirmed we had looked in the past, but we had now signed Lovren. Sounded like he thought we had completed signings for that position. Have to admit he was talking to a foreign newspaper, so may have been lost in translation...those tenses can be little buggers.

 

Past tenses I take it Fran, before they grow up into great big bloopers.

 

If you post the original, I'll translate. But I work on a fee basis

 

That's kind of you

 

I see what you've done there. Working for free goes against everything I stand for

 

Allotted - Neymar (a world class talent) straight into theremin still would be a massive gamble for that sort of money but this guy certainly isn't a Neymar that's for certain!
Can you imagine Neymars first game as he runs out at the Brittannia Stadium, all eight stone of him against the Clay Head Giants! Be like sending children out to face apack of dogs.

 

I think you're generalising a bit. I say a bit, I mean massively. Completely depends on the mentality, physicality, ability of the player as to whether they adapt to the relatively unique demands of the premier league, not their nationality. You question Neymar's ability to cope with Stoke - but then being 8/9 stone never did Juninho any harm at Middlesbrough, when teams that play with the physicality of Stoke were more common.

Likewise, I suspect the likes of Hulk and Fred would do just fine over in the EPL for different reasons. Granted, we've not had a lot of luck with players from Ecuador previously, but that's everything to do with the fact they were the wrong players (for various reasons from ability through to mentality and fragility), and nothing to do with the fact they were Ecuadorian.....