Transfer Rumours The Summer Transfer Rumour Thread 2016

What about that bloke we took from Blackburn ... Beattie was it?

 

So obvious it's nothing to do with Long. Painful 2+2 action!

 

We should stick some money on the table for Vincent.......................to at least bump the price up for the yobo's!

 

I just thought I'd put this out there for anyone who is worrying

 

I'd like to officially say welcome to the Liverpool and Everton fans. I think your stay here will be brief, but once you realise that we've moved on, Stoke is that a way >>>>>

 

Wish I could "like" a zillion times!!

 

Consider that done too.

 

I think that's the one that makes Chilco weep. Tbf, Frank Saul was a good honest player. But losing Chiv just because the ultra young Mick Channon was waiting in the wings.? Saul just couldn't fill that kind of gap.

The slightly annoying thing about Chivers is that although he was born in Southampton and came through the ranks, he considers himself very much to be a Hotspur to this day, with practically no reference to his earlier career. It makes one wonder whether we pissed him off at some point.

 

Nah..! Much as have a wee soft spot for Alex he's not a game changer anymore. As Koeman said in January, you can offer me a £100M, he's not for sale until we are good and ready.

 

All I do is imagine the player running around in any opposition's daft football strip, and scoring a goal against us if that helps to process it. If I'm not offended then they can leave with my best wishes. I have think long and hard about defenders because the goal bit doesn't really help. So I have to imagine them dominating our attack instead. That usually works.

I mean, just imagine Sadio in the worst opposition shirt you can think of [You know it's Arsenal for me] beating Jose for pace and then rounding Fraser to slot home while Bertie dives in to the net in a vain hope to stop the shot.! All this at the Emirates and we've got Alex in exchange who is injured again.

Oh, the embarrassment and shame.

Not going to happen.

 

Bold words. But if they offer 40m he'll be gone in a flash. Good thing probably no one will offer that much.

 

http://www.footballfancast.com/foot...ted-by-west-ham-and-southampton-given-19m-tag

Price for Zaza said to be 19 million. Don't know if this rumour has legs.

 

Quite right HR - at this present time the only player who I might (IMHO) consider as a 'possible' (based on what I have read and that's pretty unreliable at best) is VW. Others may know better (and a few others think they do) but some on here seemed to be being dragged into the hype the press is generating. The club knows what they are doing - we all know that. Have a good weekend all.

 

They expect to make 4 million profit on a lad who's sat on the bench for a year, has someone spiked their carbonara?

 

Just read over on saintsweb a poster saying we are in with a chance of getting zlatan......hahahahahaha

 

I'd heard that too, but I wasn't daft enough to admit it on here. Oh.!

 

Have you not been reading the OS and videos.? Saints are trying to create a culture where players don't leave unless Saints are happy for them to go. That culture doesn't come about if as soon as a club offers enough money they ditch their intentions. Saints would rather have the player, so unless they are entirely happy to release a player of the calibre of Sadio Mane for £40M he shouldn't leave, while they have the power to retain him [ie, with significant contract time left]. That's the intention. It won't always happen, especially if the contract is winding down, but a player like Mane will be a great test of those aims. We'll be able to measure Saints determination by the line-up for next season.

And no Zlatan.

 

They might be saying stuff like "£100m" in the media, but I think if someone did slap £40m down for Mane then, with Saints belief in their recruitment and Mane only having 2 years left then that would be in the realms of "Saints would be happy for him to go".

I don't think anyone will pay that much for him though so it remains to be seen what happens if the rumoured £25m bids are true.

 

Well yes, if they could unearth a game changer like Mane, then all well and good. But at £25M they'll laugh and at £40M I still don't think they'll take the chance. The money isn't stupid enough for Saints to potentially derail their plans. I do think there are a couple of clubs out there who are stupid enough to pay way over the odds though, so as mentioned before, we'll see how determined Saints are to say no. Thing is, no PL club of significance needs the money at the moment, so inevitably all this buying power will end up purchasing players playing in mainland Europe or elsewhere.