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Mario Lemina - Official: Signs for Nice

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miserableoldgit

miserableoldgit

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Nice. Don't know how you know and that doesn't matter but for me this is quality confirmation.
Nice? That's southern France isn't it? Is he signing for a French club?

 

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trousers

trousers

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He flew into UK yesterday.

 

Did he fly into a southern airport or one in the Midlands??

 

A Southern airport.

 

Sounds promising. Cheers!

 

Unless "a southern airport" excludes London airports, a flight into London would still be a valid stopover route to the midlands I suppose :)

Saint_Ash

Saint_Ash

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Ulrich is ITK as it gets when it comes to flights :thumbup:

 

That's why I got a bit excited when posted Lemina has flown into a southern airport. Looks like we're going to sign a first teamer. Great stuff

DT

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I would have thought his budget would stretch to a direct flight from Italy...

 

 

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trousers

trousers

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I would have thought his budget would stretch to a direct flight from Italy...

 

Would appear the only direct flights from Juventus (Turin) to UK on a Sunday are via London.... https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/trn/uk/170820/cheapest-flights-from-turin-to-uk-in-august-2017.html?adults=1&children=0&adultsv2=1&childrenv2=&infants=0&cabinclass=economy&rtn=0&preferdirects=false&outboundaltsenabled=false&inboundaltsenabled=false&ref=home :)

DT

DT

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Milan, Genoa, Nice all pretty close. Or he might even charter a plane. Bottom line it sounds hopeful

 

 

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GarrettIvo

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Reckon we'll confirm him on Friday, the perfect feel good factor the day before our opener vs Swansea!

 

 

Why on Earth would the club wait four days to unveil a new player? Assuming it happens today that is. Or indeed at all, which seems fairly probable now.

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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Why on Earth would the club wait four days to unveil a new player? Assuming it happens today that is. Or indeed at all, which seems fairly probable now.

 

Perhaps we had to wait for Lander to stump up the money, then again 4 days would be much too soon.:rolleyes:

S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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Why on Earth would the club wait four days to unveil a new player? Assuming it happens today that is. Or indeed at all, which seems fairly probable now.

 

To troll all the impatient supporters.

nta786

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Why on Earth would the club wait four days to unveil a new player? Assuming it happens today that is. Or indeed at all, which seems fairly probable now.

 

Well like Caceres did he could be training behind closed doors using our facilities, timing is everything they say until we announce him.

 

Also by announcing him on a Friday not even the dinlows on here could expect him to start on Sat, whereas some on here were he to be announced today would already want the bloke straight in!

trousers

trousers

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Milan, Genoa, Nice all pretty close. Or he might even charter a plane. Bottom line it sounds hopeful

 

 

Indeed (The pessimist in me is just playing the reverse psychology card :) )

The Hoff

The Hoff

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Happily, there isn't an AFCON this season either.

 

AFCON will be held in the summer in future so will not clash with PL

 

 

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benjii

benjii

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AFCON will be held in the summer in future so will not clash with PL

 

 

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Ahh, good. Makes sense!

Micky

Micky

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High likely, don't see why Juve would want to loan him out instead of just selling him outright to Saints now.

 

No make English...!

EBS1980

EBS1980

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I would have thought his budget would stretch to a direct flight from Italy...

 

 

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I would imagine SFC would pay for the flights not the player.

hutch

hutch

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AFCON will be held in the summer in future so will not clash with PL

Not necessarily, it will be mid winter for half of Africa.

VectisSaint

VectisSaint

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I'm not confident we've got this fella until I see a pic of him sat next to Les wearing a new watch.

 

You'll wait a long time, we stopped the watch business 2 or 3 years ago. Eterna? are not sponsors these days.

way down south

way down south

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This guy looks extremely quick for a cm looks like he could play in any wing position too seeing as how on whoscored.com one of his strengths is crossing. We could be getting a really good player here. Can get past his man with pace and trickery, can protect the ball under pressure, can win the ball with a tackle also pulls out some occasional 30/40 yard crossfielders aswell.almost Looks too good to be true.

Wurzel

Wurzel

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This guy looks extremely quick for a cm looks like he could play in any wing position too seeing as how on whoscored.com one of his strengths is crossing. We could be getting a really good player here. Can get past his man with pace and trickery, can protect the ball under pressure, can win the ball with a tackle also pulls out some occasional 30/40 yard crossfielders aswell.almost Looks too good to be true.

 

Pah. I could do all that

 

20 Years ago :(

 

Down the park :( :(

 

Against my daughters :( :( :(

 

 

Seriously, the more I read about him the more I like the sound of him. Yet another foreign signing I've never heard of previous to us being linked with them, but we haven't got too many wrong so far.

MongoNeil

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You'll wait a long time, we stopped the watch business 2 or 3 years ago. Eterna? are not sponsors these days.

 

Glad to see I've still got my finger on the pulse :)

Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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Well like Caceres did he could be training behind closed doors using our facilities, timing is everything they say until we announce him.

 

Also by announcing him on a Friday not even the dinlows on here could expect him to start on Sat, whereas some on here were he to be announced today would already want the bloke straight in!

 

Call me stupid, but as long as he's match-fit, I would expect to see him playing on Saturday.

the saint in winchester

the saint in winchester

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Call me stupid, but as long as he's match-fit, I would expect to see him playing on Saturday.

 

You're stupid (you told us to call you that) but on this, logically you would be correct. I would expect him be well along with pre-season training with his current club and able to ready to play very soon. If we can have him training with us and identifying his role, that could possibly be this Saturday. It would be odd to expect our existing squad to play another friendly just to give the new signing some match practice.

Bearsy

Bearsy

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He would clearly take a few weeks, at least, to get into the rhythm of the team and how we play.

 

Yeah that could be an issue. Coming from Juve he may well be accustomed to scoring goals + winning trophies, but I'm sure we can quickly get him upto speed with The Southampton WayTM

Verbal

Verbal

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Yeah that could be an issue. Coming from Juve he may well be accustomed to scoring goals + winning trophies, but I'm sure we can quickly get him upto speed with The Southampton WayTM

 

Not so sure you can be that pessimistic, Brian. Last year's signings seemed to slot into the missing goals/losing trophies thing very quickly.

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