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Jay Rodriguez - Signs on a 4 Year Deal

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well, lambert is clearly good enough.

not too sure who you would expect us to sign? darren bent?

 

I've seen Lambert easily handled by the bottom clubs of the Championship. We get round that by throwing more players forward until free space has to come. But if that had no guarantee of working against the bottom clubs from the Championship, I really doubt it's going to be default starter for the Premier. We have potential but until J Rod, without the pace.

 

If J Rod were to be are only main forward signing. I would have preferred the likes of Yakubu. Don't get me wrong as I see the possibilities in J rod, just not prepared to throw all the eggs in one basket for the Premier. What comes as a concern given Butland being the other player we have made a bid for, nothing to underline the ability to stay in the Premier. If Adkins pulls off the same trick as he did last year in pre-season then I doubt we will have problems, but he can only guess what is expected in the Premier.

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S-Clarke

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Yakubu doesn't fit anything we do though. We don't sign players like that, and I'm pleased we don't.

 

We sign players who have huge potential and potentially a large sell-on value, that's our transfer strategy and we won't change from that.

 

Lambert will have no problem in the premier league. If Danny Graham, Mamdy Sidibe, Grant Holt, Steve Morrison can all score 10 goals, then so can he - easily.

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Legod Third Coming

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Congrats on being the first moan about our first signing of summer.

 

Have to say, Legod , I would have been disappointed to have drawn your name if such a sweepstake had existed. Alpine & Dalek will be heartbroken that you have taken their thunder quite so early.

 

Hahaha! Not remotely complaining! My point was why prioritise scoring when we were the league's top scorers by a country mile?

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Hahaha, I went to college with the poster of the photo. He is now having a breakdown and is in very hot water!

 

Sacked from where ? Presumably not a club but hotel employee.

 

Just occurs to me, how and why no one in The Potters Heron made a flurry of phone calls back in 1980 before the KK news broke. Someone must have seen him have a quick Barbican with Lawrie , or nip to the Gents before he strode out into the news conference.

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Alan Nixon apparently has an ''update'' on the situation tonight :lol:.

 

Credit to him for being right about our interest, but he's been lost on this story for the last week. We've broken it before him!

 

Been obvious from the outset that he has a Burnley source rather than a Saints one. It wouldn't have been in our interests to leak that we had had an offer accepted. Since then he hasn't had a clue

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Legod Third Coming

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Sacked from where ? Presumably not a club but hotel employee.

 

Just occurs to me, how and why no one in The Potters Heron made a flurry of phone calls back in 1980 before the KK news broke. Someone must have seen him have a quick Barbican with Lawrie , or nip to the Gents before he strode out into the news conference.

 

That my friend is the power of mobile and social media. In 1980, you would have had to find Yellow Pages, find the number for a news outlet and then find a working public phone... And you would have phoned whom? And what would they have done, broken it on the same news programme on which the news was actually... er broken... :)

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http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2807639,00.html

 

Jay Rodriguez has become Saints' first signing since the club's return to the Premier League for a substantial undisclosed fee.

22 year-old striker Rodriguez is widely regarded as one of the hottest properties outside of the Barclays Premier League, with his prolific goal scoring record moving him on to the radar of several top-flight teams.

The deal to sign the promising young forward was formally agreed whilst Rodriguez was on holiday in Mexico, and today he put pen to paper on a four year contract alongside Saints Executive Chairman Nicola Cortese.

 

Burnley-born frontman Rodriguez has been The Clarets' top goalscorer for the previous two seasons, during which time he also gained international recognition with England Under-21s.

He made his professional debut in the Championship aged just 18 and went on to finish his opening season on loan at Scottish side Stirling Albion where he grabbed his first senior goals in an 11 game spell.

 

Jay went on to play a bigger role the following year as Burnley earned promotion to the Premier League. He landed the Club's Young Player of the Season award, whilst he also added League Cup goals against Fulham and Tottenham to his name.

Despite not featuring in his hometown side's sole top-flight campaign due to an injury setback, Rodriguez maintained his match sharpness with a loan spell back in the Championship with Barnsley.

 

It paid off as the youngster went on to strike 15 times in Burnley's return to the second tier, although a Clarets side which also featured current Saints duo, Danny Fox and Jack Cork, narrowly missed out on a place in the play-offs.

He elected to stay on at Turf Moor when Cork and Fox departed for St Mary's last summer, but the youngster continued to enhance his glowing reputation, finishing as Burnley's outright leading scorer with 21 goals, a feat which also won him the Club's Players' Player of the Year award.

 

Rodriguez ended the campaign just four strikes short of 50 career goals, and was also named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year alongside Saints stars, Kelvin Davis, Adam Lallana, and Rickie Lambert.

His move to Saints provides Rodriguez with an opportunity to realise his aspirations at both club and international level.

 

Jay Rodriguez said:

"I'm really relieved that we've got it sorted now, and it's done. I really can't wait for the start of the season, and the start of pre-season.

 

"This is a great club, a massive club, and they're where they belong. It's a squad I want to be a part of, and it's really exciting.

"As an outsider, you look at the club from where it started, and the drive they have to move up the leagues in quick succession is amazing.

 

"The sky is the limit. You see how good the players are at the club. They want to push on even higher, and carry on the way they're going."

Nigel Adkins commented:

 

"Jay is an exciting young English prospect, so I am really happy he is our first signing of the summer. There has been a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes on several fronts and we are delighted Jay has signed us as we get ready for our pre-season schedule.

 

"He is an exciting forward thinking player who has already scored a lot of goals at a young age over the past couple of years. His characteristics are what we have been looking for.

 

"He has demonstrated a superb attitude and when we have met him it has only confirmed what our research has told us. He has a hungry and enthusiastic attitude with a desire to work hard in the positive environment that we have at Southampton where will be able to develop his talent."

 

 

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That my friend is the power of mobile and social media. In 1980, you would have had to find Yellow Pages, find the number for a news outlet and then find a working public phone... And you would have phoned whom? And what would they have done, broken it on the same news programme on which the news was actually... er broken... :)

 

I landed just after KK arrived at Sou and as I walked into the terminal the BA duty officer who was a friend/supporter came out and told me KK was with LM signing for Saints and on his way to the Potters Heron. Nobody ever thought of phoning anyone.

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Legod Third Coming

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I landed just after KK arrived at Sou and as I walked into the terminal the BA duty officer who was a friend/supporter came out and told me KK was with LM signing for Saints and on his way to the Potters Heron. Nobody ever thought of phonong anyone.

 

No, but then you didn't arrive with a BT payphone in your pocket.

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I've seen Lambert easily handled by the bottom clubs of the Championship.

 

Yeah, they handled him so well that he was the top scorer in the division and voted as the Championship's best player.

 

And how do you know we are "throwing all the eggs in one basket"? Is this to be our only signing? Will we sign other players? This is the earliest in the transfer window that we've made a signing since the Liebherr revolution, and we know that interest has been shown in a number of other players.

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So much waffle on twitter.

 

''If he's worth £7m, I'm worth £3m''

 

''He's not even worth half that''

 

''Jay..who? They paid £7m for who...?"

 

So many ignorant idiots out there. I doubt they've ever watched him play.

 

To be fair, I doubt many saints creaming themselves over the signing have seen him play either.

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