Wesley Hoedt

[derry]

14.57 Sport Witness now saying after meeting with the agent the transfer is proceeding.

[S-Clarke]

http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-see-bid-wesley-hoedt-finally-accepted-defender-wave-goodbye-club/

  Quote

After a few doubts earlier today about the possibility of Wesley Hoedt signing for Southampton, it seems the Dutch centre-back has been given the green light to team up with Virgil Van Dijk at St Mary’s.

 

Seemingly brought in to partner the former Celtic star, the 23-year-old was having to wait for a meeting to take place between Lazio and his agency, but that appears to have gone well.

 

According to TuttoMercatoWeb, Southampton’s offer of €17m bonuses included has been accepted by the Serie A side, and the player is said to be ‘about to wave goodbye’ to his current side.

 

The Italian website report Hoedt will sign a four-year deal that includes ‘big numbers’ with the Saints, hinting at a rather impressive pay rise from his Lazio contract.

 

Considering the Serie A outfit got the centre-back on a free from AZ Alkmaar two years ago, a €17m profit ends up being a tidy deal for a club looking to raise €30m before the end of the transfer window.

[St.Patrik]

Comon Chalet - Sticky time : )

[Millbrook Saint]

That article says 4 year deal, could this be the first side affect of our stance with VVD? ie no player will want to sign for 5 years as it hands us too much power.

[Charlie Wayman]

  Nolan said:

I wondering if Advocaat would like the potential of a Dutch centre back pairing playing together week in week out. It's it a very shrewd move on more than one level.

 

Something Spurs hoped for two years ago when they signed Toby alongside Vertongen. Nothing new there.

[benjii]

  Millbrook Saint said:

That article says 4 year deal, could this be the first side affect of our stance with VVD? ie no player will want to sign for 5 years as it hands us too much power.

 

4 years is pretty common for an initial contract. It's not worryingly short, is it? It's what Mane and Clyne signed (and probably a host of others), for example.

 

So, no.

[Toadhall Saint]

  Millbrook Saint said:

That article says 4 year deal, could this be the first side affect of our stance with VVD? ie no player will want to sign for 5 years as it hands us too much power.

 

More like we see how he goes for a season then offer in improved deal which will keep him here for a further 5 years.

[Millbrook Saint]

  benjii said:

4 years is pretty common for an initial contract. It's not worryingly short, is it? It's what Mane and Clyne signed (and probably a host of others), for example.

 

So, no.

 

Understood but didn't Lemina sign for 5 years? I thought that was part of our new way of doing things was so that we don't end up in the position where we have to sell someone like Mane quite as soon.

 

I see the point of giving out a 4 year contract, that getting him to extend it if he proves successful, let's just hope he doesn't look at the VVD situation before deciding.

[Batman]

I'd rather have hoedt on a 4 year deal than a 0 year deal

 

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[SuperSAINT]

  Pass the Dutchie said:

No problem. If they won't let Hoedt go because De Vrij won't sign, I'll gladly take De Vrij instead.

 

What's your opinion of Hoedt, Dutchie?

[Chez]

  Batman said:

I'd rather have hoedt on a 4 year deal than a 0 year deal

 

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zero hour contracts? Could work.

[VectisSaint]

  Millbrook Saint said:

That article says 4 year deal, could this be the first side affect of our stance with VVD? ie no player will want to sign for 5 years as it hands us too much power.

Just means that we won't have to change both CBs the same year, we can move Hoedt on a year earlier than van Dijk.

[Millbrook Saint]

  VectisSaint said:

Just means that we won't have to change both CBs the same year, we can move Hoedt on a year earlier than van Dijk.

 

Like your reasoning, once again great foresight from the club

[Saint_Ash]

Seems he's having a significant payrise to £2m pa, so just under £40k a week. Doesn't seem to be too much for a Dutch international.

[SuperSAINT]

  LeG said:

Sounds about right. Lazio wanted Clasie (they have lost Biglia), so wouldn't be surprised to see him sold or loaned out as part of the Hoedt deal.

 

Thought they replaced Biglia with Lucas?

 

Makes sense though as Jordy's been linked with Lazio every year he's been here.

[Pass the Dutchie]

  SuperSAINT said:

What's your opinion of Hoedt, Dutchie?

 

To be honest I probably don't know a whole lot more than you do. He played for AZ in the Netherlands and I don't follow that club specifically, so I only saw him in the highlight and defenders usually don't get a lot of attention in those. I've seen him play a few time for the Dutch team, and he seemed solid enough without standing out.

[SuperSAINT]

  Pass the Dutchie said:

To be honest I probably don't know a whole lot more than you do. He played for AZ in the Netherlands and I don't follow that club specifically, so I only saw him in the highlight and defenders usually don't get a lot of attention in those. I've seen him play a few time for the Dutch team, and he seemed solid enough without standing out.

 

Cheers mate. What's interesting is we were 1st linked to both him & Lemina in the same season 2 or 3 years ago. So obviously both been on the radar for a while.

[Toomer]

  SuperSAINT said:

Thought they replaced Biglia with Lucas?

 

Makes sense though as Jordy's been linked with Lazio every year he's been here.

 

As he is know in the dressing room as not so.

Edited 18 August, 2017 by Toomer

[St Chalet]

  Toomer said:

As he is know not in the dressing room not so.

 

Feel free to edit into a readable sentence!

[Faz]

  St Chalet said:

Feel free to edit into a readable sentence!

 

Thank God you posted that. Was beginning to think I'd suddenly become word blind.

[Katalinic]

  Toomer said:

As he is know in the dressing room as not so.

 

Is that you Jisheng?

[Dark Munster]

  Toomer said:

As he is know in the dressing room as not so.

https://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php

[CB Fry]

He is known in the dressing room as "not so".

[Not so Clasie]

(Not so classy)

{Classy sounds and reads a bit like Clasie}

(("Not so classy" is a common phrase used by absolutely fu cking no one))

《End》

[goneawol]

  CB Fry said:

He is known in the dressing room as "not so".

[Not so Clasie]

(Not so classy)

{Classy sounds and reads a bit like Clasie}

(("Not so classy" is a common phrase used by absolutely fu cking no one))

《End》

 

 

[Jonnyboy]

  Toomer said:

As he is know in the dressing room as not so.

 

I like how even the edited version is gibberish.

[DuncanRG]

Assume this is the end of Gardos. Shame, I thought he looked promising in his first season.

[SaintJackoInHurworth]

  Toomer said:

As he is know in the dressing room as not so.

 

  St Chalet said:

Feel free to edit into a readable sentence!

 

  Jonnyboy said:

I like how even the edited version is gibberish.

 

Well... I came on here looking for news that we have signed Hoedt but just found Toomer's bizarre comment about 'not so'. Maybe we should have a sweepstake as to its real meaning? I would guess at him implying rather scandalously that Biglia is known to his team mates as 'not so biglia' but I'm probably miles off and the actual meaning is instead something to do with Clasie not speaking in a Geordie dialect!

[Maggie May]

Been a while (thankfully for some lol) but we are not getting Hoedt or anyone in the next two weeks.

 

Wish I was wrong.

 

And mega concerned about our new owners.

 

See you laters.

[Shance]

We are getting Hoedt.

[CWD]

  Maggie May said:

Been a while (thankfully for some lol) but we are not getting Hoedt or anyone in the next two weeks.

 

Wish I was wrong.

 

And mega concerned about our new owners.

 

See you laters.

 

Your last post was 10 days ago, it's not like you've been on some decade long ITK sabbatical

 

Well done though, this has all the hallmarks of a classic ITK post;

 

Limited actual info TICK

No mention of source TICK

Late night TICK

"Wish I was wrong" reverse psychology TICK

Odd suggestion that your posts are somehow endangered TICK

Mic drop ending TICK

 

10/10

[Ewell]

  CWD said:

Your last post was 10 days ago, it's not like you've been on some decade long ITK sabbatical

 

Well done though, this has all the hallmarks of a classic ITK post;

 

Limited actual info TICK

No mention of source TICK

Late night TICK

"Wish I was wrong" reverse psychology TICK

Odd suggestion that your posts are somehow endangered TICK

Mic drop ending TICK

 

10/10

 

That sums that one up perfectly!

[Saint-Reece]

  Maggie May said:

Been a while (thankfully for some lol) but we are not getting Hoedt or anyone in the next two weeks.

 

Wish I was wrong.

 

And mega concerned about our new owners.

 

See you laters.

 

You've been outed as a massive WUM before.

 

'Laters'

[31cc]

  Maggie May said:

Been a while (thankfully for some lol) but we are not getting Hoedt or anyone in the next two weeks.

 

Wish I was wrong.

 

And mega concerned about our new owners.

 

See you laters.

 

Not so

[Wimborne_saint]

  Maggie May said:

Been a while (thankfully for some lol) but we are not getting Hoedt or anyone in the next two weeks.

 

Wish I was wrong.

 

And mega concerned about our new owners.

 

See you laters.

 

Your ITK credentials (if you even had any in the first place) won't last for long seeing as Hoedt is done. What a pointless post

[Gingeletiss]

Is one to assume, that by becoming a sticky, the deed is done?

[trousers]

  Saint-Reece said:

You've been outed as a massive WUM before.

 

Nah... Can't be true. The mods don't tolerate obvious WUMs on here...

[SNSUN]

Sticky?

[Suhari]

  Gingeletiss said:

Is one to assume, that by becoming a sticky, the deed is done?

 

I find that the deed is rarely done without a sticky.

 

Let's hoedt so.

[Toadhall Saint]

Hope you're not tempting fate StC

[St Jim]

That's good transfer news, pity we can't thasfer some SaintsWeb posters.

[SuperSAINT]

  DuncanRG said:

Assume this is the end of Gardos. Shame, I thought he looked promising in his first season.

 

An interesting way to approach the Hoedt news.

[Donatello]

Stickied

[Mowgli]

Perhaps they are going to get Fonte to announce his own replacement as a curtain raiser to the game today. Just a thought.

[suewhistle]

Maggie May, they have taken her away...

 

So bad that Trousers didn't even give a score.

[krissyboy31]

is he signing on the pitch, like the good old days?

[Saint_clark]

Anything actually happened to make this seem more likely, or just all speculation?

[krissyboy31]

  Saint_clark said:

Anything actually happened to make this seem more likely, or just all speculation?

 

I think Maggie saying it wasn't happening made it nailed on!

[LGTL]

Maggie May was outed as a horrible dirty skate years ago.

[St Chalet]

  LGTL said:

Maggie May was outed as a horrible dirty skate years ago.

 

I am 99.9% sure Maggie May is not a skate and could possibly have some other perspective not in the public domain.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

  St Chalet said:

I am 99.9% sure Maggie May is not a skate and could possibly have some other perspective not in the public domain.

 

To the point where what he says threatens your 100% sticky record???