Webby Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 New 7m bid for Hooper according to Sky http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7766094/Saints-eye-new-Hooper-moveI'd rather have jay rod to be honest.
mulletsaint Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 I've been more impressed with Ince the few times I've seen them both this season, year younger too I believe.
Johnny Shearer Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Dare I suggest, that instead of posters keep going on about 'back up' players, that we look for better than we already have, then the likes of Fox could be the back up players, just a thought. *Sigh* Ok Shorey => Fox > Harding, its how I see it. Yes, agree that its only worthwhile buying players better than that we already have but would that be feasible across the whole team in every position. In some instances we would need decent player that could do a job so similar level. I'm not advocating dross coming in as Saints had the last time they were in the Premier League.
S-Clarke Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Agent_ITK @Agent_ITK Southampton bid for Hooper is in the region of £14m. #Football #celtic
Stud mark of doom Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Rudi Skacel bagged a brace in the Scottish cup final today..... Not sure there is time to sign him for next season though.
Dig Dig Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 ok now that tweet has vanished.... Hopefully on the basis that it's bull****!
beavis17 Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Agent_ITK @Agent_ITK Southampton bid for Hooper is in the region of £14m. #Football #celtic £14 million!!!? Silly season.
S-Clarke Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Hopefully on the basis that it's bull****! Indeed, that would be overpaying..... I'd imagine if it is true, it's ''up to 14m'' and it's based on all sorts of random clauses.
Badger Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Rudi Skacel bagged a brace in the Scottish cup final today..... Not sure there is time to sign him for next season though. I'm staggered that it has taken 32 pages and over 1500 posts before this name appears. Can we get Carsten Jancker, Oliver Bierhoff, and Javier De Pedro out of the way as well, whilst we're at it ?
pangy Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 £14 mill LOL You could get Jarvis,Ince and Phillips for that
Badger Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Agent_ITK @Agent_ITK Southampton bid for Hooper is in the region of £14m. #Football #celtic B0ll0cks ! No way will we spend that on a single player this summer, certainly not on Hooper.
Dig Dig Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Indeed, that would be overpaying..... I'd imagine if it is true, it's ''up to 14m'' and it's based on all sorts of random clauses. Clauses or not, it's way over the odds. If we have 14M to spend on a striker I'd hope we would get someone with a far higher pedigree. Sure it's not true but even the 7M being quoted is too much IMO but I guess these prices are relatively normal these days.
SaintNeil90 Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Would you lot realise that this agent itk is a wum and your biting every time. Wake up!!
Ruffo Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Ryan Nelson ex Blackburn central defender. I know he is getting on but great player out of contract. Could play another season and would settle the back line.
pingwing Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Ryan Nelson ex Blackburn central defender. I know he is getting on but great player out of contract. Could play another season and would settle the back line. Definitely not, too old and no better than anyone in our team. Probably the weirdest transfer ever him going to Spurs over christmas in the first place but Owen has more of a place in our squad than him. Craig Gordon trending on twitter, seems like every fan of all 92 league clubs want him to sign, supposedly the red hot favourites to sign him are..........Ipswich!! 91 clubs, doubt Sunderland want him back just now....
SNSUN Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Agent_ITK @Agent_ITK Southampton bid for Hooper is in the region of £14m. #Football #celtic I think £1.4 million for him is a bargain. Oh, wait...
CWD Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Drogba on a free after this game... HCDAGJFU? Nah, he's clearly past it
Saint J 77 Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 £14 mill LOL You could get Jarvis,Ince and Phillips for that Hopefully with a fair bit of change left over too
PhilippineSaint Posted 19 May, 2012 Posted 19 May, 2012 Rudi Skacel scores 2 in Scottish cup final for Hearts HCDAJFU
Lighthouse Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Mods, please can we have a sticky announcement thingy explaining the following: Signing Skacel and Messi - It's just not funny any more. The following 'jokes' have been made on this forum every day since the beginning of time. They aren't funny and they barely raised a chuckle the first time we heard them: "Hey Skacel just scored a goal, HCDAJFU" "We need a new LW/LB now that xxxxxx has gone. How about that Czech bloke at Spurs" "We've brought back Chaplow and Cork from the past, how about Skacel, HCDAJFU" "Rudi Skacel has just bought a house in Winchester next door to Martin O'Neil and Karsten Janker" and then there's "No don't sign xxxxxx, we need to sign Messi FFS!" (Apparently sarcasm makes this funny). "Our fans wont be happy unless Messi FFS!" (usually said by a complete mong in response to a perfectly reasonable "I don't rate xxxxxx HCDAJFU" post) "We're going to build a 70,000 seat stadium and sign Messi." and so on. It's like Godwin's law of internet message boards (basically every internet discussion will eventually end up in a silly comparison with Hitler or Nazi Germany. Except it's 'Lionel's law of Saints web discussions; Every conversation will eventually end up with a retarded, sarcastic comparison to Messi.
Saint_clark Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Rudi Skacel scores 2 in Scottish cup final for Hearts HCDAJFU Definitely.
CWD Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 (edited) Royston Drenthe is out of contract with Real and won't be signing for Everton as he fell out with Moyes. No idea what wages he'd ask for, but he's the sort of pacy, goal scoring winger who CDAJFU. Unlikely I know, particularly as he's said he wants to head back to Holland, but just another name to throw in the hat. Edited 20 May, 2012 by CWD
Raging Bull Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Has anyone mentioned Clarence Seedorf? No cos he's about 50!
Thedelldays Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 (edited) rumours..today Hooper (seem to be everywhere) Philips Reo-Coker Clyne Curtis just had a flick through some Celtic forums...they are NOT happy what so ever at the fee of £7m being banded around. he is a complete goal machine up there and scores all sorts of goals and is still quite young. (their words) and that WHEN he goes south then he is easily heading for bigger things than southampton. Jelevic has done well at Everton and Hooper scores a lot more goals...and all different types too Edited 20 May, 2012 by Thedelldays
SuperSAINT Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 rumours..today Hooper (seem to be everywhere) Philips Reo-Coker Clyne Curtis They aren't even the best rumours from today... http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/southampton-could-replace-nigel-adkins-with-di-matteo/
Glasgow_Saint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Saints are going to sign an ex-Premiership winner within the next two weeks - fACT! Your two weeks are up!!!
Glasgow_Saint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 They aren't even the best rumours from today... http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/southampton-could-replace-nigel-adkins-with-di-matteo/ OMG! :badger::badger:
capitalsaint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 No cos he's about 50! Didn't seem to bother Milan, nor will it bother Ajax...
krissyboy31 Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Mods, please can we have a sticky announcement thingy explaining the following: Signing Skacel and Messi - It's just not funny any more. The following 'jokes' have been made on this forum every day since the beginning of time. They aren't funny and they barely raised a chuckle the first time we heard them: "Hey Skacel just scored a goal, HCDAJFU" "We need a new LW/LB now that xxxxxx has gone. How about that Czech bloke at Spurs" "We've brought back Chaplow and Cork from the past, how about Skacel, HCDAJFU" "Rudi Skacel has just bought a house in Winchester next door to Martin O'Neil and Karsten Janker" and then there's "No don't sign xxxxxx, we need to sign Messi FFS!" (Apparently sarcasm makes this funny). "Our fans wont be happy unless Messi FFS!" (usually said by a complete mong in response to a perfectly reasonable "I don't rate xxxxxx HCDAJFU" post) "We're going to build a 70,000 seat stadium and sign Messi." and so on. It's like Godwin's law of internet message boards (basically every internet discussion will eventually end up in a silly comparison with Hitler or Nazi Germany. Except it's 'Lionel's law of Saints web discussions; Every conversation will eventually end up with a retarded, sarcastic comparison to Messi. TBF Rudi has scored 18 goals this season.
pingwing Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 They aren't even the best rumours from today... http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/southampton-could-replace-nigel-adkins-with-di-matteo/ Confirms Dorgba is ours!!!
MOSaint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 They aren't even the best rumours from today... http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/southampton-could-replace-nigel-adkins-with-di-matteo/ Alex Pearce just can't keep his mouth shut...
Dig Dig Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Manual Fernandez is a free agent. Was very good at Everton a couple of seasons ago.
SaintNeil90 Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 They aren't even the best rumours from today... http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/southampton-could-replace-nigel-adkins-with-di-matteo/ Alan Nixon (Sports write for The People/The Mirror) talking about this on twitter: simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko was that your piece on Adkins Al? Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 Yup. Complicated as u can see. Been a nagging doubt for a few weeks. See how this one unfolds. simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko is there a vibe in the ether? His comments after cov game were strange, we all thought something was afoot! Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 I don't know whether Adkins is fearing a problem or whether there is one. That's why I held off for weeks. Cortese wants sexy ... simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko saying that NA deserves his shot, players play for him and he has done wonders! RDM wont get cfc job but too big 4 us now Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 I don't know the workings of the top man's mind. It could be that the manager is just a bit jumpy. But heard it from three angles. simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko so imp for us to recruit prem players now for impetus in new season, not change manager! NC could risk everything Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 Big call for club. Do u go for big names or not? If u r loaded, why not? Could be a Don Mackay-Kenny Dalglish moment ... @dankiz1 As always it will come down to the man who controls the purse strings. A situation to be watched. simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko I am torn tbh! Still think 1 or 2 experienced prem players with potential of Ince and Phillips would be way forward Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 U can't knock Cortese's management even if he is a man of mystery. Shrewd and prepared to spend. It is down to him. simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko on another note, do you think RDM will get #cfc job? Listening to players last night, vibe was no? Was capello there? Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 Who knows where Chelsea go from here? Roman done what he wanted. Does he kick on or lose interest? Not my problem. simon thorpe @dankiz1 @reluctantnicko can see Roman walking but u r right, not our problem! more to think about seeing if saints can get 4th place lol Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko @dankiz1 If u spend wisely it will put u ahead of your rivals. Money makes a big difference in bottom half.
S-Clarke Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 There is no smoke without fire, it's 'building' like the Pardew rumours built.
Crab Lungs Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2012/05/20/3115000/owen-admits-he-is-open-to-southampton-offer
Saint Garrett Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 To be fair to that guy, he was first to know about the Billy Sharp deal. He certainly seems to have some links in Southampton. Fingers crossed we just let Adkins have a go, he could be our Alex Ferguson.
S-Clarke Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 To be fair to that guy, he was first to know about the Billy Sharp deal. He certainly seems to have some links in Southampton. Fingers crossed we just let Adkins have a go, he could be our Alex Ferguson. That interview at the end of the season was still odd though.
Saints foreva Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 If Cortese gets rid of Adkins now then he can **** off. No doubt some people will still see him as a "legend" though...
itchen_dan Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Seems the Mirror have also picked up on the Owen tweet http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/michael-owen-has-hinted-he-could-join-840716
Saint-Armstrong Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 That interview at the end of the season was still odd though. Exactly. I would write this straight off, but that interview and the fact it has come from this guy, who's been on the ball for announcing several deals before they were officially announced or well-known makes me at least consider it to potentially have some credibility.
Saint Garrett Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 That interview at the end of the season was still odd though. Yep, I completely agree. Would be an incredibly strange decision by Cortese if he did do this. Successful clubs have stability, and we have the potential of that for a long time.
Suomi Saint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 I remember Pardew's comments after the tonking of Bristol Rovers - this could have all the hallmarks of a repeat. I really hope not, but if Cortese is as ambitious as he seems to be, then 'evolution' may not just be limited to the players? It would be a terrible and unjust decision which wouldn't go down well with the true fans. Football is taking over the asylum.
VectisSaint Posted 20 May, 2012 Posted 20 May, 2012 Mods, please can we have a sticky announcement thingy explaining the following: Will we be allowed to refer to Oliver Bierhoff, deMarcus Beasley or Michael Owen once your ban on references to Messrs Skacel amd Messi is introduced. If you have a problem reading stuff on internet message boards then find yourself something else to do, its not meant to be taken seriously (although some people clearly think it should) and when there is no football actually being played it becomes a joke in itself. Anyway why would we want Messi, can't even get his team into the CL final, clearly washed up, we can do better.
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