Turkish Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 this story cant be true, we have been told on here only a few weeks ago the mirror just make stories up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St_Tel49 Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 No one put a time frame on it. Just a rumour that came true that was in the Mirror. If "imminently" isn't a time frame I don't know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 I'd love to see us sign him, quality player. He wasn't at his best on Saturday, but when they played the ball into his feet instead of lumping it in his general direction, he looked to cause us problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Said he looked disinterested. If I was playing against a team supposedly interested in me I wouldnt look disinterested tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chin Strain Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 If I was playing against a team supposedly interested in me I wouldnt look disinterested tbh. Depends if he was interested in playing for us I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Sorry to bump this one up the rankings again, but for those of you who attended Saturday's match how did this lad play ? Did he look like the £4 million "wonderkid" the Mirror quoted? I see he was substituted on the hour mark... Pretty much invisible first time I really noticed him is when he came off........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Could we spend £1m more and buy the next Scott Parker instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 This is becoming farcical. The player is obviously quite good so why would he want to come here when PL teams will be in for him if he has a tremendous first half season especially as he is now a very high profile young lad playing for Pearce's XI. One gets fed up reading this sort of nonsense when we know Saints will inevitably bottle any bid deal where competition from other bigger clubs are involved. Leicester beat us in the transfer market and on the pitch. Let's face it our track record for completing deals of this quality is rubbish - we just don't have or won't spend the dosh - just like Gooners in fact who go on to win Arsene-all! Spot on post. I was constantly told throughout the summer that i was wrong about our lack of signings from May right up to the very last hour of the very last day of the transfer window. 'Not a bean' I said and was absolutely correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 FACT alert. We are two points clear at the top of the league and quite patently the best team in the league. Just thought all those ambulance chasers could do with a reminder... Obviously vitally important that we sign a player who was so good against us we could have put ten past his team... Bugger me. Mental. We're supported by people on day release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu0x Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Spot on post. I was constantly told throughout the summer that i was wrong about our lack of signings from May right up to the very last hour of the very last day of the transfer window. 'Not a bean' I said and was absolutely correct. Hilarious. You're so desperate to whinge, you didn't even notice you've already whinged in this very thread and quoting the exact same post. Top skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Spot on post. I was constantly told throughout the summer that i was wrong about our lack of signings from May right up to the very last hour of the very last day of the transfer window. 'Not a bean' I said and was absolutely correct. Apart from De Ridder, Cork, Fox and Hooiveld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 It's the striker buying process that I find the most perplexing. We've clearly bid for both up & coming players like this nipper but players such as Ebanks-Blake and Sharpe who are older and established. Not based on any fact - except the signings we have made to date and the players we have been in for, but we seem to have a clearly defined criteria of the sort of the players we want to bring in; namley young with potential. Our entire squad is now locked down through contract extensions, with a healthy list of potential academy players coming up behind them. I don't think Cortese has any intention of signing journeymen or even proven strikers who would simply last for the length of their contract and their resale value greatly reduced. It seems to all tie in with his initial objective of making the club sustainable and developing more of our own players, whilst at the same time creating a "Southampton" brand of football. Huge objectives, that no one in the top two divisions have really ever managed, with the exception of Utd and Arsenal, but then they always had the odd 30 million to help them on their and I dont ever see us paying that sort of money. ..... but I wouldnt bet against Cortese getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 Not based on any fact - except the signings we have made to date and the players we have been in for, but we seem to have a clearly defined criteria of the sort of the players we want to bring in; namley young with potential. Our entire squad is now locked down through contract extensions, with a healthy list of potential academy players coming up behind them. I don't think Cortese has any intention of signing journeymen or even proven strikers who would simply last for the length of their contract and their resale value greatly reduced. It seems to all tie in with his initial objective of making the club sustainable and developing more of our own players, whilst at the same time creating a "Southampton" brand of football. Huge objectives, that no one in the top two divisions have really ever managed, with the exception of Utd and Arsenal, but then they always had the odd 30 million to help them on their and I dont ever see us paying that sort of money. ..... but I wouldnt bet against Cortese getting there. Have they really achieved this objective? They play a brand of football which can be beautiful to watch but which is utlimately delivering very little and the promised dream team has failed to materialise despite countless promises. Only United have actually delivered success based on this premise and, as you point out, it is still supplemented by quality purchases - Rooney, Ronaldo, etc. To achieve what United and Barca have is possible - it will sinply take the decades that it took them!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 Spot on post. I was constantly told throughout the summer that i was wrong about our lack of signings from May right up to the very last hour of the very last day of the transfer window. 'Not a bean' I said and was absolutely correct. That would be very true if it was not for the fact we signed 4 players, but I suppose that would detract from your 'not a bean' statement just a tad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainchris Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 Under-21 "wonderkid" suggests to me that he's far more likely to sign for a Premiership team than us. Not after what I saw on Sat! Does that mean if we call Forecast a wonder kid we will millions for him - think not - if only ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cestrian Saint Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 If he was available for anything less that £1.5m then fair enough. There's no way he's worth £3-£4m! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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