Mayuka Going To Sochaux on Loan (Confirmed)

[Glasgow_Saint]

Not surprised by this one...........

[pingwing]

How long for? Not a bad idea for someone who hasn't made a massive impact here.

[Matthew Le God]

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport 50s

French club Sochaux lining up a loan bid for Southampton's Zambian forward Emmanuel Mayuka, we understand #bbcfootball #frenchconnection

[Saint Garrett]

No bother. Do worry about us having no pace/plan B though.

[Bewildered]

Best of luck to him, never looked short of effort on his fleeting appearances even if the quality wasn't there.

[Dig Dig]

So he hasn't actually gone yet then?

[Window Cleaner]

So he hasn't actually gone yet then?

 

think he has, season long loan.

[lumuah]

If only there was a thread to discuss Deadline Day transfer speculation......

[St Chalet]

If only there was a thread to discuss Deadline Day transfer speculation......

 

Looks like this one has happened, so its ok to lament the loss that is Mayuka here.

Edited 2 September, 2013 by St Chalet

[Liquidshokk]

Shame.

 

Seen comments about him coming back a better player and next season being his season with saints, but how often do players actually come back and play more of a role than before they left?!

[Hatch]

Shame.

 

Seen comments about him coming back a better player and next season being his season with saints, but how often do players actually come back and play more of a role than before they left?!

 

Beckham went on loan to Preston once.

[Dig Dig]

Beckham went on loan to Preston once.

 

Wiltshere was at Bolton, as was Sturridge

[cellone]

never looked short of effort on his fleeting appearances even if the quality wasn't there.

 

Apart from attempts at headers.

[Bucks Saint]

Best of luck to the modern day Nicky Banger

[Give it to Ron]

Shame.

 

Seen comments about him coming back a better player and next season being his season with saints, but how often do players actually come back and play more of a role than before they left?!

 

Ricardo Fuller loan to Ipswich? came back a far better player for us.

[JRM]

Best of luck to the modern day Nicky Banger

 

more of a Frankie Bennett i think.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

still means we have less pace than ever

[Window Cleaner]

thought he could have done better than Sochaux, they aren't all that good but as it's right on the Franco/Swiss border perhaps this is a move to put him back nearer where he wants to be. Thought we might have been interested in Boudebouz from FCSM but he's now going to Bastia for a measly million €s

[Tokyo-Saint]

Respect to GS for breaking another story.

[Lighthouse]

Will have difficulty replacing all the goals he scored last season... hmmm.

 

Good luck Yukka, come back a better player.

[DuncanRG]

He's shown some moments of potential in his fleeting appearances but will need to prove himself with regular football to get into the side. Good luck to him, and I sincerely hope he can be a success for us because I like his style.

[Bucks Saint]

still means we have less pace than ever

 

We need pace which produces real threat and end product. We have the same amount without him

[Glasgow_Saint]

Respect to GS for breaking another story.

 

Thank you mate - you dont hate, you appreciate and that is all I ask.

[pingwing]

Just read they have sold their top striker as well, sounds like a decent move if they are going to stick him out every week for the rest of the season.

[Glasgow_Saint]

 

AGSE! x

[richard]

Good Luck Mayuka!

 

Hope the move works out for him.

[davefizzy14]

Good luck Mayuka. Hopefully he will do well there

[Giordano]

Sochaux just became one of my favorite French teams. I shall watch them on BT1+2 whenever possible and report back. I am interested to know what Mayuka can do if given a run in a team that believes in him. I wanted to see him play but it does not seem to be that we will, unless its for the french lot. He is meant to be fast and a goalscorer. Hope he scores plenty goals quickly. Good luck,Mayuka. If im ever over there i might go visit. And I hope he does well for the Chipolopolo.

Edited 2 September, 2013 by Giordano

[aintforever]

Surely this means we are going to get someone with pace in as a replacement?

[Window Cleaner]

Sochaux just became one of my favorite French teams. I shall watch them on BT1+2 whenever possible and report back. Ickly.

 

 

you risk being seriously disappointed then, they are awful, narrowly escaped relegation last season and this season isn't really looking any better. No money because of all the Peugeot layoffs over the years. He'd have been far better off going to the NPC

but I seriously suspect that he wanted to be nearer Switzerland for some reason or other. To judge the level of your average ligue 1 team you just have to look at the Europa League qualifiers, St Etienne booted out by some Danish side or other and

Nice (4th last time round) overturned by a Chypriot club I think. PSG+Monaco = loadsamoney,Marseille keeping battling and hoover up some young French talent cos Marseille well it's Marseille but the rest is garbage. Lyon were put out of the CL fairly easily by Sociedad...yeah right.

[percy windham]

Good luck sweet prince xx

[IOWSaintDaz]

About his level playing in the french league, was pants for us when given the chance, hope we reinvest the money on his wages on a winger we are desperately short of pace in the team now he has gone

[Window Cleaner]

About his level playing in the french league, was pants for us when given the chance, hope we reinvest the money on his wages on a winger we are desperately short of pace in the team now he has gone

 

oooh don't kid yourself that Sochaux will be financing his salary all by themselves, not on meagre LFP handouts and 10000 home crowds. Sochaux's total budget must be somewhere around 32 million £, about half of our PL handout not to mention commercial and ticket revenues.

Edited 2 September, 2013 by Window Cleaner

[the saint in winchester]

84th best player in the world, IIRC.

 

Must mean Guly, Barnard and Sharp are staying!

[Window Cleaner]

84th best player in the world, IIRC.

 

Must mean Guly, Barnard and Sharp are staying!

 

what for ? Loan window doesn't close and none of those 3 will be going to a top flight team..well unless it's in Albania or something.

[aintforever]

Mayuka must have been worse value for money than Delgado.

[pap]

We'll sign who we want

We'll sigh who we want

We'll bin them next year

But we'll sign who we want

 

Loan move good for him, but was expecting to see him feature in cup games. Youth players for those?

[Barry Sanchez]

Another belting signing, cheers Leslie.

[maysie]

Another belting signing, cheers Leslie.

 

Saw your name as the last post and guessed the content. I was spot on.

[hutch]

I'm sure the Chelsea fans were saying exactly the same when they sent that crap striker Lukaku out on loan for a season.

[Charlie Wayman]

Great policy ideas chaps, keep buying "much sought after" players we've never heard of who never kick a ball in anger for Saints then we let them go again for next to nowt. Only explanation can be that it is some kind of tax fiddle otherwise you couldn't make it up

[Barry Sanchez]

I'm sure the Chelsea fans were saying exactly the same when they sent that crap striker Lukaku out on loan for a season.

 

There is one difference between Lukaku and Mayuka, Lakaku is awesome and Mayuka is shiit but other than that wey hey!

[Saint_clark]

Have to say I am quite surprised at this, although I think with his young age he could easily impress there on loan and come back to do a job for us.

[Dig Dig]

Have to say I am quite surprised at this, although I think with his young age he could easily impress there on loan and come back to do a job for us.

 

That's probably him finished with us though. Hardly used in first season, loaned out the next and even if he does well there, he'll come back with a year or two on his contract and would prob want to opt to go elsewhere rather than risk another season of being not used or loaned out.

[sammysaint]

Sharp may as well get some game time now, no need for the management to not inc him in the 25 man squad, one injury or 3 game ban and were short of strikers.

[ART]

Sharp may as well get some game time now, no need for the management to not inc him in the 25 man squad, one injury or 3 game ban and were short of strikers.

Not so sure whether we can bring ourselves to make use of every single body at the club. We seem to like to let the odd couple of million go to waste. I ask myself if Mayuka was a genuine deal or a 4 million euro money laundering deal. That we have so much supposed waste money being frittered away by a chairman who's one of the best financially astute dealers around leaves me thinking the loose strings have to be tax evasion loopholes.

[ART]

P.S. I note that Billy Sharp's Number 11 shirt is still not taken. Why is it no one can tell us what Sharp and Co have been doing since the Eastleigh game to earn the money we are paying them. Have their been any genuine sightings of any of them on the training ground?

[S-Clarke]

P.S. I note that Billy Sharp's Number 11 shirt is still not taken. Why is it no one can tell us what Sharp and Co have been doing since the Eastleigh game to earn the money we are paying them. Have their been any genuine sightings of any of them on the training ground?

 

Billy, Barnard, Tananari have all been told they are not in our plans. They have not been included in the squad and have been told not to turn up to staplewood any more.

 

Lots of clubs have tried for Billy, but none of them want to match his wages. Personally, I think Billy was a bit of a panic deadline day signing for us.......not the sort of signing we usually make, as it was clear he wasn't ever here for the long-term. We obviously overpaid on him in terms of wages to get it over the line, as he was never massively keen to move down South.

[SuperSAINT]

Billy, Barnard, Tananari have all been told they are not in our plans. They have not been included in the squad and have been told not to turn up to staplewood any more.

 

Lots of clubs have tried for Billy, but none of them want to match his wages. Personally, I think Billy was a bit of a panic deadline day signing for us.......not the sort of signing we usually make, as it was clear he wasn't ever here for the long-term. We obviously overpaid on him in terms of wages to get it over the line, as he was never massively keen to move down South.

 

I agree that we overpaid him. But I think he was purchased for exactly what he did - To give us the extra fire-power to ensure promotion.

[alpine_saint]

I agree that we overpaid him. But I think he was purchased for exactly what he did - To give us the extra fire-power to ensure promotion.

 

And he did that admirably.

 

I fail to see the sense to not even give him his (still open) squad number...just in case...especially as we have limited striking options and we are paying him.