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We are struggling to get rid due to the wages they are earning. Forte is a good example. The players rightly or wrongly aren't prepared to sacrifice the wages in order to get regular football. So it is a case of negotiation of the final pay off which takes a long time given cortese will drive the price down as far as he can. So I would say it has been a drawn out affair with some players still refusing to budge and will go to deadline day before we see a conclusion either way.

Soccer sauce is another fake account. Just rehashes existing stories and gets lucky now and again. 99% of it never materialises.

Doesn't mean anything either way that he is starting. This is like us playing the skates for inter so massive game plus they are 5th and 7th in league respectively so more than just pride at stake. Could be the ultimate goodbye by scoring the winner in a derby game.

Internacional play Gremio tonight which is a big derby game. Be good if someone on here does watch it and reports back on Damiao performance and qualities assuming he plays. Never seen him play so interested to know more.

Shop is open still. Someone on twitter said it was shut now reopened but his store been cancelled today. Could just be fans bored with lack of news and making sh1t up.

I agree. Although we improved defensively in second half of season we were still suspect against pace and power. Should Lovren get injured then sh1t will really hit the fan. I think Yoshida is solid enough on the whole but he really struggles against forwards who play off the shoulder. He doesnt have any recovery pace.

Chaplow had remainder of contract paid up and I assume the other players surplus to requirements will have the same. Given they are on decent wages no doubt it would explain why they are difficult to transfer. They wont take drop in wages unless saints pay up there contract, but Don will be hard negotiator hence time taking to sort out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2378319/People-thought-I-E-T-I-Ianded-Southampton-says-chairman-Nicola-Cortese.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Good read. Observes very closely on 1st team it seems.

Seems the media team dont even know if and when this feature will be shown. where did the OP get information about this supposed feature?

Poch hasnt done post match interviews at all during pre-season so I wouldnt read much into it. Be interesting to hear what the SSN feature talks about. I guess usual stuff - Southampton Way, We are Southampton we do what we want, Next level etc etc

I agree. It seems he has choice of us, zenit or stay in brazil. Zenit have hulk but he hasnt settled there and is looking to leave. Zenit will offer the mega bucks in wages but I think don is going to pull this deal off. Fingers crossed

No. Clubs with in there own transfer window can buy players from Brazil.

On the whole Ramirez been very disappointing so would not surprise me if we get banega in and ship gaston out. I have a feeling Ramirez will go AWOL rather than join up with squad later this week. Hope I am wrong

Final standings prediction based on current squads Chelsea Man city Man utd Arsenal Liverpool Spurs Saints Everton Newcastle West Ham Fulham Swansea Villa Stoke WBA Norwich Sunderland Cardiff Hull Crystal Palace

Another mayuka by the looks of it. Goal scoring record average across his career. Good job sky Italia know FA 90% of the time

The way transfers work these days is that the player gets sounded out about move before bid is made. if player interested in move then buying club contacts selling club. BTW the player in question could be christian tello, he has previously been linked and is currently in spain still whilst training with barcelona. be a great acquisition.

same site that said newcastle made bid for rooney.

top players attract a lot of interest so deals can take a long time for example Higuain has been on verge of signing for arsenal for the last 3 weeks. We dont have european football or rich history therefore we are reliant on selling the "project" and hope the player buys into it. Ultimately most players are driven by money so that gives us hope but still a long shot given the so called big boys we are competing with. Ideally we would have more players onboard by now to allow them to integrate into a whole new culture and environment but not that easy unfortunately.

Ever banega tomorrow. All this speculation about wanyama and daimao yet gone very quiet on banega apart from MP mentioning him on Thursday. So saints being saints they will do this deal on the quiet

So is deal likely to be done still?

is this the signing you have been alluding to?

OS makes direct reference to wanyama in this mornings article but not banega or daimao. Very unusual for saints to mention specific targets therefore I think deal could be close.

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport 2m Mauricio Pochettinho confirms deal to bring #celtic midfielder Victor Wanyama to #saintsfc is not dead

Oh marvellous, cue fan meltdown