Shane Long

[Smirking_Saint]

You need to make your mind up mate

 

You've done well trawling glasgow but the sarcasm has woooshed over your head mate

[saint-crinny]

BBC's Nabil Hassan tweeting the Long deal is completed

[JxgrSaint]

@solentsport: BREAKING: Sources tell us Shane Long has completed his move to #SaintsFC (via @NabilHassan79)

[Matthew Le God]

[Webby]

Hull City manager Steve Bruce says Southampton's £12m bid for striker Shane Long was too good to turn down.

According to the Hull Daily Mail, Southampton's initial bid was close to the £7m Hull paid to sign the 27-year-old striker from West Bromwich Albion in January, but when that was rejected the offer rose to £9m and then on to the figure which was accepted by the club on Tuesday night.

"We'd not been looking to sell Shane but it's a fantastic offer and we've decided to accept it, and to be honest with you, we'd have accepted 10m" Bruce tells the newspaper. "The challenge is always to become bigger and better and this money will be put towards strengthening again. Whether you are Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, everyone in football has got their price. Myself and the owners didn't want to lose Shane but we accept it's a very good offer, especially when you consider what we paid in January. I've got no issues."

 

What wasn't said in bold.

[mcjwills]

Sibley has just started following Shane Long therefore done deal

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Welcome aboard, Shane.

[Colinjb]

Just saw that the club accounts had started following Shane Long, so of course it could only mean one thing.

 

Welcome aboard Shane.

[iamasaint]

??? woohoo!

[the saint in winchester]

At least he looks like a foreign national.

 

Pleased to have him on board, but - agree with most of you - £12M is way too much.

[Saint Charlie]

More competition for places, good stuff.

[Beckenham Saint]

Have warmed to the idea of Shane Long playing for us, although was massively against it when the reports first came out regarding our interest.

 

Hope he does well for us!

[grezz]

No point crying over spilt millions now. Welcome aboard Super Shane.

[Saint Charlie]

Doesn't matter how much he cost, he is a Saints player now so let him get on with it. Fee not in any way determined by him, he just needs to go and play his normal game.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

At the end of the day, he's signed now, we've paid the money and so the fee should become irrelevant. We have another hard working, good quality striking option. Let's support him. I'm excited to see him play for us.

[Heisenberg]

I am pleased - think he will do well for us.

 

Welcome Shane

[Gemmel]

Well bang goes my theory ....... Thought this was all about forcing Burnley's hand.

[madruss]

Great signing. Welcome aboard Shane

[The Hoff]

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/14082014-announcement-shane-long-southampton-1828920.aspx

[buctootim]

His hair is okay but not keen on the jumper over shirt.

[KingdomCome]

He's got no control over how much we pay for him, so will get full support as deserved.

Think £12m is far too much but no doubt a reflection of a number of factors pushing the price up.

[Saint_Abroad]

I see his twitter handle has his Secret Service number, 009, part of it. Was it 009 who died in one of the Roger Moore movies?

[Greedyfly]

Welcome Shane! I'll be as much of a **** as everyone else in the rumours and build up, but once signed you have my full support!

 

Can't doubt his energy and workrate, antithesis of Osvaldo and I have a feeling he'll beat his goal tally! In fact, I bet Long scores more for us than Osvaldo does for Inter this season.

 

Maybe just. Another super underwhelming signing.

 

Welcome aboard I guess.

[pap]

Good signing for us, although watching the armchair football managers pretend they'd know what the fúck to do with £12m was a grim spectacle to see. Very different types of threat going forward now, which could be very interesting.

 

Welcome aboard, Mr Long.

[saint_ed]

Good first few comments from him.

[ALWAYS_SFC]

Welcome Shane...

 

Ignore those who are going to slag off you and the fact you have signed

[washsaint]

good luck to the guy - not his fault we have paid massively over the odds for him. Just the stupid, unsustainable nature of todays market.

[Patrick Bateman]

Awesome, welcome Shane! Great signing - just the type of striker we needed.

[Killers Knee]

Welcome aboard Shane, 12 goals this season please.

[SNSUN]

Welcome aboard Shane and good luck!

[Baird of the land]

Poor signing imo. Will have to score a lot of goals to justify that massive fee.

[saint_ed]

Ignoring the fee I think he's a good signing and very much the sort of player we need. I do still think we are missing another winger and another centre back after Gardos. I fully expect a winger/AM to come in though.

[JxgrSaint]

Welcome Shlong! Be interested to see what shirt number he's given, if he doesn't get 7 that might indicate a marquee signing on the horizon?

[sentry]

Good luck SHane. Lot of money, but it is now a days to get a striker from the prem. If he gets 12+ will be worth it. Still a good age. ANd has potential re-sale. In the right team he should do well. Not the next level signing I was hoping for, but a solid signing.

[Saint Charlie]

Welcome Shlong! Be interested to see what shirt number he's given, if he doesn't get 7 that might indicate a marquee signing on the horizon?

 

Hope he doesn't get 7 because loads of wally Saints fans will give him stick about it and heap even more pressure on him than his price tag has.

 

He has never scored 10 PL goals in a season before, if he does this year then he has done his job.

[Bearsy]

gr8 signing he's always been my #1 transfer target. What a coup!

[for_heaven's_Saint]

I notice he mentions the formation will suit him. Not quite sure where he's been signed to fit into the formation, unless it's instead of Pelle?

[WATERSIDEIFASAINT]

Welcome Shane. Happy with the signing. We have got top dollar prices for our players who have left and in a massively inflated market we have to expect paying some silly fees for players we want. Cant have it both ways!!

[Saint_Ash]

Great signing, well happy with that, no worries about learning the prem, can imagine Long to start on Sunday now.

[saint_ed]

Welbeck isn't leaving Man Utd.

 

See this....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2724399/Danny-Welbeck-targeted-Hull-Man-United-striker-faces-bit-role-new-boss-Louis-van-Gaal.html

 

and this... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-uniteds-danny-welbeck-transfer-4046635

 

Watch them be taken down by this afternoon.

 

See....

 

(Mirror will be down tomorrow).

[Bearsy]

I notice he mentions the formation will suit him. Not quite sure where he's been signed to fit into the formation' date=' unless it's instead of Pelle?[/quote']

 

I assumed he'd be running the channels or whatever, is that not his game?

[Saint Charlie]

gr8 signing he's always been my #1 transfer target. What a coup!

 

Definitely a coup. Apparently beaten off competition from a host of top European clubs to land him. Have tracked him for a number of years.

 

Proper coup.

[Restark19]

Decent signing all said. Get ings signed up in Jan to join next year though.

[Saint Garrett]

Average player - hugely overpriced. Thought our club was different to the others. Oh well.

 

12m is a fortune to spend on a player who wont get in the team, however a decent enough alternative to Pelle for £5/6m.

[ExSt Peter Saint]

Welcome to Saints, Shane. I hope you become a very important player for us this season, regardless of the fee we paid.

[solentstars]

good signing and suits our style despite the bedwetters who seem to post such negative rubbish on this forum over the last month,thank god they don,t manage the club .

[simondo]

v happy with that! will be awesome along side JRod

[iansums]

His hair is okay but not keen on the jumper over shirt.

 

yeah, wearing a jumper at this time of year is a no, no.

[lifeintheslowlane]

Think we've paid over the odds to ensure we quickly get a man who RK thinks fits into our style of play. Welcome Shane hope you prove the doubters wrong...but don't worry, whoever you were there would always have been doubters.

[DT]

Will help defend from the front at Liverpool at least. Hope he gives Lovren a torrid, David Luiz-type time.