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On sky sports news he did not give much away, apart from we are of course interested.

 

I do not think we will get him, as he is an important part of the Celtic team. If I was as fan of Celtic and we lost our star striker to an English championship side I would not be happy.

 

Even though we are probably on par with them on a football pitch, as a club they are much bigger, it just gives out all the wrong signals to there fans and the football world,

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I was told yesterday that the club hope to wrap up a deal for one of two strikers that we have been linked with Sordell or Jay Rod in the next few days, this Hooper & Rhodes is to put pressure on Burnley & Watford to accept our offer or we will go elsewhere.

 

Very interesting tactics and I will believe it when I see it.

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If you look at the statistics, Sordell and Jay Rod both average circa a goal every 4 games. Trotta Whilst arguably untried at this level has a better goals to games ratio, capped at u18 Italy, and would be much cheaper than the others. From what I've seen recently, his goalscoring looks the part and I think he would be worth a punt. Hooper number 1 target followed by Trotta for me

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I think this was alluded to earlier, but I reckon we may hear something by close of play today! After being 'sighted' in Southampton, it would be strange to appear in Green and white stripes tomorrow! It is also ominously silent which suggests to me something is happening in true Soton silent style. Could be good or bad, but by tomorrow, I believe we will know one way or other!

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Graeme Bailey from sky is doing a transfer debate online at the moment

 

@SkyGraemeBailey I am hearing rumours #saintsfc using hooper bid to hurry up burnley and watford on bids for jay rod and sordell. Any truth?

 

I don't think they will give up on Hooper, but I can't see Celtic selling this month. I know they are one of those in for Sordell but not sure they will push that. Rodriguez they like too, but think both are back-up options at the moment.

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Update from my Celtic colleagues. Apparently there was a Q&A with Lennon last night. One of the guys asked about Hooper and apparently Lowell (Celtic chairman) had told Lenno to tell the agent "no, and don't call back." There's still quite a bit of worry up there as there seems to be a consensus that 8mil might be enough to tempt them, 10mil definitely would. A lot of it has been through the Agent who seems to be pushing this hard. Celtic can't match the wages and won't talk about new contract until the summer, although Lennon apparently has been trying to get a better contract for him. Again, not ITK, just posting back what I heard. I honestly can't see it happening.

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All this talk about us bidding for Hooper to hurry up Burnley into selling Rodriquez'' doesn't quit emake sense to me.

 

How would us bidding for Hooper make them look and say ''Oh no, they're not going to buy rodrquez as they've got another target. Quick, let's sell him to Southampton''

 

At the end of the day it's not like Rodriquez's price is going to drop, he'll gain value as he gets older.

 

Makes no sense.

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All this talk about us bidding for Hooper to hurry up Burnley into selling Rodriquez'' doesn't quit emake sense to me.

 

How would us bidding for Hooper make them look and say ''Oh no, they're not going to buy rodrquez as they've got another target. Quick, let's sell him to Southampton''

 

At the end of the day it's not like Rodriquez's price is going to drop, he'll gain value as he gets older.

 

Makes no sense.

 

Agreed. The only way it would make sense if there is any evidence to suggest Burnley need to sell due to financial issues and as I don't think they are desperately trying to get rid of him, the whole idea of bidding for Hooper to hasten a Rodriguez transfer is insane.

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Agreed. The only way it would make sense if there is any evidence to suggest Burnley need to sell due to financial issues and as I don't think they are desperately trying to get rid of him, the whole idea of bidding for Hooper to hasten a Rodriguez transfer is insane.

 

it could be burnley playing hardball and think saints will eventually pay asking price. by showing interest in hooper maybe saints are trying to force their hand. to be honest i dont have much preference over hooper, jay rod or sordell although out of the three jay rod is the most lambert like. yes we won our last two games with out lambert but we definitely need someone to play his role when he not available.

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I'd love it if we signed Rodriquez. I've seen him life a couple of times (once live) and he is class, trust me. Touch and tecnique wise he's premiership bound.

 

This

 

He plays in a poor team. With better players around him he would be that much better. Far prefer JRod or Sordell or even Maynard to Hooper

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Probably not, after all he is a **** manager, and certainly not good enough for us, as you've been desperate to keep telling everyone. We've only been top for 4 months now, very poor

 

I have never implied he is a **** manager,just that i do believe he has failings.

 

When you look back at this season the only thing that will be recorded will be who got promoted,not the side that stayed top for 4 months(i strongly suspect that we will not be top after Saturday unfortunately).

Our home form has been fantastic,thankfully,because our away form has been pretty poor until very recently.

We have been very fortunate that many of the sides tipped for promotion and to give us a run for our money have seriously underperformed.

 

This transfer window is crucial to where could come at the end of the season,we have looked on occasions to be lacking when it come to injuries and suspensions are effecting the squad.

 

If we blow promotion from here who would you blame?....i for one would look towards Adkins and Cortese.

We must get the right people in,only Adkins can make that decision of who he targets....lets hope they are more in line with a improvement to what we have and not a Forte,Bignall,N'gussan and i would even add De ridder to that list.

In the summer it was reported we were after all and sundry when it came to attacking options,none materialised....lets hope Tadanari does not fall into the catagory of player i have already mentioned.

You cant force a player to sign or a club to sell......but you can influence that in the way you operate with the people you are trying to deal with.

There are suggestions in certain quarters that we don't necessarily go about it in the correct manner.

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I have never implied he is a **** manager,just that i do believe he has failings.

 

When you look back at this season the only thing that will be recorded will be who got promoted,not the side that stayed top for 4 months(i strongly suspect that we will not be top after Saturday unfortunately).

Our home form has been fantastic,thankfully,because our away form has been pretty poor until very recently.

We have been very fortunate that many of the sides tipped for promotion and to give us a run for our money have seriously underperformed.

 

This transfer window is crucial to where could come at the end of the season,we have looked on occasions to be lacking when it come to injuries and suspensions are effecting the squad.

 

If we blow promotion from here who would you blame?....i for one would look towards Adkins and Cortese.

We must get the right people in,only Adkins can make that decision of who he targets....lets hope they are more in line with a improvement to what we have and not a Forte,Bignall,N'gussan and i would even add De ridder to that list.

In the summer it was reported we were after all and sundry when it came to attacking options,none materialised....lets hope Tadanari does not fall into the catagory of player i have already mentioned.

You cant force a player to sign or a club to sell......but you can influence that in the way you operate with the people you are trying to deal with.

There are suggestions in certain quarters that we don't necessarily go about it in the correct manner.

 

Please elaborate.

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Please elaborate.

 

Christ please don't encourage him, there's enough trolling on this board as it is. He is probably refering to some random posts on twitter, from people CLAIMING to be football agents (but in reality could be absolutely anyone) saying Saints are difficult to negotiate with.

 

His post is just nonesense. Moaning about Bignall and Forte signing, whilst ignoring Cork, Jos, Chaplow and Fox. Adkins "has his failings" really? A manager who isn't perfect!? Get rid of him straight away we need to hire a Messiah. He has been on Adkins case from day 1, even though we've gone up 40 odd league possitions in the 15 months since then. Another one for the ignore list.

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Christ please don't encourage him, there's enough trolling on this board as it is. He is probably refering to some random posts on twitter, from people CLAIMING to be football agents (but in reality could be absolutely anyone) saying Saints are difficult to negotiate with.

 

His post is just nonesense. Moaning about Bignall and Forte signing, whilst ignoring Cork, Jos, Chaplow and Fox. Adkins "has his failings" really? A manager who isn't perfect!? Get rid of him straight away we need to hire a Messiah. He has been on Adkins case from day 1, even though we've gone up 40 odd league possitions in the 15 months since then. Another one for the ignore list.

You`re right! I apologise. What was I thinking?:)

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I think this was alluded to earlier, but I reckon we may hear something by close of play today! After being 'sighted' in Southampton, it would be strange to appear in Green and white stripes tomorrow! It is also ominously silent which suggests to me something is happening in true Soton silent style. Could be good or bad, but by tomorrow, I believe we will know one way or other!
He was never sighted in Southampton ffs!
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Just a brief reminder of what Hooper himself said on Monday:

 

"I don't want to go anywhere.

 

"I'm a Celtic player and very happy here, winning games for Celtic and we're two points clear at the top."

 

He isn't going to come here. Maybe in the summer, who knows. Move on!

 

In unrelated news, here's another Celtic player saying exactly the same thing on 3rd Jan, I wonder if they read it off the same sheet ?

 

http://www.eyefootball.com/news/11873/Victor-Wanyama-wants-Celtic-stay.html

 

Hmmm : Emmanuel Adebayor being "very happy" at... Arsenal : http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/636156-football-booty-adebayor-compares-ac-milan-interest-to-being-fancied-by-beyonce

Harry Redknapp on the England job (Dec) : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16167110.stm

 

here's Michael Bradley pointing out that he was very happy at a club he left... http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1614/americans-abroad/2011/10/06/2699462/michael-bradley-is-back-to-focusing-on-football

 

plus there is this lot... which all remain to be seen...

Raul at Schalke : http://www.espnstar.com/football/bundesliga/news/detail/item731514/Raul-eyes-Schalke-extension/

Mario Balotelli (Jan) : http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4050639/Carlos-Tevez-transfer-news-Inter-Milan-confirm-bid.html

Jordi Alba of Valencia (Jan) : http://www.valenciafootballclub.com/2011/11/jordi-alba-offers-i-am-very-happy-here.html

Marteen Stekelenberg of Roma (Dec) : http://www.footballpress.net/?action=read&idsel=95769

Franck Ribery at Bayern (Jan) : http://www.bet365.com/news/en/betting/football/bundesliga/ribery-happy-at-bayern

Isaac Boakye of Bielefeld : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Boakye

 

It's a well used phrase, not always genuinely.

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This

 

He plays in a poor team. With better players around him he would be that much better. Far prefer JRod or Sordell or even Maynard to Hooper

 

I thought that Rodriguez wanted to stay up north though?

 

Also, all this talk of Rodriguez or Sordell being reserve options if (or rather when) the Hooper move falls through. I can't see that if I were Rodriguez or Sordell, I'd be particularly inclined to want to join Saints if I were only a back-up option.

 

I really hope that we will not regret on signing Jutkiewicz, but as each day of the window passes, I fear that will look like a big-time mistake. For what he would have cost (£2m) we would still have had plenty of cash for other reinforcements.

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I think you'll find I put 'sighted' as in taken with pinch of salt!! he may be been visiting Jos for lunch as previously stated, so it could have been him!!! As ever I remain open minded lol

 

And he didnt have lunch with him in Southampton. He had dinner with a few old teammates in glasgow. One of them tweeted Jos saying have a good flight back. Amazing how stories are twisted, its like chinese whispers x

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And he didnt have lunch with him in Southampton. He had dinner with a few old teammates in glasgow. One of them tweeted Jos saying have a good flight back. Amazing how stories are twisted, its like chinese whispers x

The Glasgow meal was the night before, there was an intimation that the 'sighting' was GH returning the favour in southampton!! mmm, I'll go for Col Mustard with the candlestick in the billiard room!!!

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The Glasgow meal was the night before, there was an intimation that the 'sighting' was GH returning the favour in southampton!! mmm, I'll go for Col Mustard with the candlestick in the billiard room!!!

 

But it was Mehball who makes things up for fun and has done this before with other supposed transfers I'm sure.

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Agreed. The only way it would make sense if there is any evidence to suggest Burnley need to sell due to financial issues and as I don't think they are desperately trying to get rid of him, the whole idea of bidding for Hooper to hasten a Rodriguez transfer is insane.

 

This article on their o/s shows their P & L for the last 5 years.

http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/page/LatestHeadlines/0,,10413~2518841,00.html

 

Their 1 year in the PL (£14,447,000) has covered the losses in the previous years getting to the top flight. They then made a loss last year of £4M.

Therefore IMO I think they will need to sell in the summer if not before.

 

Some quotes from the report

This level of expenditure is not sustainable in the Championship. We will address these costs in 2011/12, whilst maintaining as strong a squad as possible to enable us to compete for promotion again.

 

This challenge, to eliminate our borrowings, is matched by the challenge presented by the intentions of the Football League Championship teams to introduce "Financial Fair Play" regulations under which all teams have to break even. At the time of writing, the final operation of the new regulations and the sanctions to be levied for non compliance are still to be finalised, but, apart from the season we were in the Premier League, our club has not broken even on an operational basis in any season in recent times. We therefore have considerable work to do over the next few years to ensure we match our costs to our revenues which, if we remain in the Championship, will decline considerably over the next 3 years as the FAPL parachute funding diminishes.
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Not sure how bidding for one player forces the hand of another team that's not looking to sell. Utter rubbish if you ask me. Oh and as I remember it the Burnley chairman was a bit of a gobsh:te so if we'd made a move for Rodriguez I'm sure it would have been made public.

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I thought that Rodriguez wanted to stay up north though?

 

Also, all this talk of Rodriguez or Sordell being reserve options if (or rather when) the Hooper move falls through. I can't see that if I were Rodriguez or Sordell, I'd be particularly inclined to want to join Saints if I were only a back-up option.

 

I really hope that we will not regret on signing Jutkiewicz, but as each day of the window passes, I fear that will look like a big-time mistake. For what he would have cost (£2m) we would still have had plenty of cash for other reinforcements.

 

What is it with professional sportsman not wanting to move up north or down south.

I've lived in a load of countries and I'm just a fan, people dont grow 2 heads when your 100 miles away from home.

I am led to the conclusion these players are inept as human beings or their girlfriends who are holding the reins are.

 

This is my number 1 bugbear with these numpties,fairplay to sharp but others !!!

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What is it with professional sportsman not wanting to move up north or down south.

I've lived in a load of countries and I'm just a fan, people dont grow 2 heads when your 100 miles away from home.

I am led to the conclusion these players are inept as human beings or their girlfriends who are holding the reins are.

 

This is my number 1 bugbear with these numpties,fairplay to sharp but others !!!

 

Why fairplay to Sharp but not others? And I can understand anyone not wanting to move up North. Other way around though is a no brainer!

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Chris McLaughlin

Southampton boss Nigel Adkins tells me he's all but given up hope of signing #Celtic striker Gary Hooper.

 

@BBCchrismclaug

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Adkins: #Celtic dont want to sell, so thats it. We move on. I know Gary and I'm delighted he's done so well. He's a top class striker.

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