Surman to Reading?

[St Louis]

I have never once claimed to be an ITK'er on this site, but just thought I would share it that unless something drastic happens that causes the deal to collapse, then Surman will be a Reading player this month! I have this on VERY good authority!

 

Obviously any deal can fall through, but this one is at 99% at the moment!

[Master Bates]

His Aunty says he's staying, true story

[hypochondriac]

I have never once claimed to be an ITK'er on this site, but just thought I would share it that unless something drastic happens that causes the deal to collapse, then Surman will be a Reading player this month! I have this on VERY good authority!

 

Obviously any deal can fall through, but this one is at 99% at the moment!

 

Which would mean that the club have told him to leave and I will seriously be considering whether to bother anymore.

[saintkiptanui]

Which would mean that the club have told him to leave and I will seriously be considering whether to bother anymore.

drama queen.

[saintkiptanui]

oh noes we're going to lose an average left back for loads of money which will help keep the club afloat, sounds like a good idea to me.

[ottery st mary]

We all know he loves the club but he may be told he has to go because of the finances.

I believe the ball is already in motion and there is no doubt that Reading are already dealing but Stoke may come in with a better offer for Davies and Surman and like many others will be GUTTED.

[Whitey Grandad]

Out of interest, does anybody have this year's calendar? It's usually a guaranteed guide to who is leaving and when.

[ottery st mary]

Out of interest, does anybody have this year's calendar? It's usually a guaranteed guide to who is leaving and when.

 

Just looked at it and there is no one left.

[hypochondriac]

We all know he loves the club but he may be told he has to go because of the finances.

I believe the ball is already in motion and there is no doubt that Reading are already dealing but Stoke may come in with a better offer for Davies and Surman and like many others will be GUTTED.

 

Surman doesn't want to move too far from Southampton because his girlfriend is training to be a nurse I believe.

[Weston Saint]

Look, it is as simple as this. If Saints come to him and say they have had an acceptable bid and need to sell him he will go but will be very sad.

[saint lard]

£2.5 million is the touted offer from Reading,according to Meridian.

[Toadhall Saint]

Look, it is as simple as this. If Saints come to him and say they have had an acceptable bid and need to sell him he will go but will be very sad.

 

So will I TBH. Better grim reality than grim reaper I suppose. Bloody hurts though!

[madruss]

£2.5 million is the touted offer from Reading,according to Meridian.

 

Much as I hope he stays - if £2.5 million meant we could sign a specialist left-back, I'd bite their hands off!

[ottery st mary]

Much as I hope he stays - if £2.5 million meant we could sign a specialist left-back, I'd bite their hands off!

 

Mills is your man.

[saintjinksie]

against probably the best team in the league after giving them a lesson in football in the first half, FFS FFS FFS last year we would of lost by 5 or 6.

 

u r deluded if u think we have improved, we beat WBA at roughly the same time last year. Wake up and smell the coffee, we are turd.

[forever a red and white]

if we lose surman that would top it for me.

 

its bad enough losing davies.

 

surman has potential, and with the empahisi on the young etc etc.

 

we need players who are coomtied to this club and a player like surman.

 

cannot believe just how far down we are going

[Saints foreva]

Surman is the most overrated player ever.

 

No pace what so ever and can't play at left back.

[Professor]

if the Surman story is just that, a story manufactured by the press, of which there are hundreds every year, will those who immediately made comments as if it were true, agree not to post on here for at least a month? You know who you are.............

[alpine_saint]

if the Surman story is just that, a story manufactured by the press, of which there are hundreds every year, will those who immediately made comments as if it were true, agree not to post on here for at least a month? You know who you are.............

 

Why should we ?

 

I got a load of abuse from SOG on another site about how dare I assume the Davies gossip is correct.

 

Why is it difficult to understand that the responses are based on the assumption a story is true, and are therefore invalid if it is not ?

 

I'd like to know how even you can deny that this story does fit with the trend at SFC at the moment.

[Master Bates]

Look, it is as simple as this. If Saints come to him and say they have had an acceptable bid and need to sell him he will go but will be very sad.

 

I believe this has happened

[scooby]

Surman is the most overrated player ever.

 

No pace what so ever and can't play at left back.

 

Agreed. It would be a nice bit of business by Lowe if we got a few million for him.

[Master Bates]

Surman doesn't want to move too far from Southampton because his girlfriend is training to be a nurse I believe.

 

His girlfriend is expecting a wee baby. Reading is only an hour drive so doesn't need to move.

[jam]

Mills is your man.

 

No he aint.

[Guest Hacienda]

I'm a totally gormless mong who really hasn't a clue but get my kicks pretending that I worship Lowe's rectum.

 

I've corrected it for you.

[alpine_saint]

i've corrected it for you.

 

lololololol

[Professor]

Why should we ?

 

I got a load of abuse from SOG on another site about how dare I assume the Davies gossip is correct. Why is it difficult to understand that the responses are based on the assumption a story is true, and are therefore invalid if it is not ?

I'd like to know how even you can deny that this story does fit with the trend at SFC at the moment.

Problem is that some people assume that every rumour that is to the club's discredit is true, and claim that everything to its credit is 'spin'. I have no idea whether the story is true or not, and apart from the people involved, no one else does either but some people immediately overreact as if they want it to be true, so that they can have something else to complain about. I really don't understand why people spend hours on a football club forum just to slag off the club concerned.

 

As for the football story, I would be more sorry to see Surman go if he was still first choice at LMF, but as a left back, I think we could do better. I accept that leaves open the question of how he would be replaced. I would like to see a specialist LB brought in and if that did not happen, I would be disappointed. The club is not just in selling mode, as the signings of Forecast, Perry, Schneiderlin and Wooton have confirmed, so the answer to the question is, no this story is not in line with a trend at the club and a signing cannot be ruled out.

[scotty]

Some won't go because of money. Some won't go because of last seasons cr@p football. Some won't go because of Lowe.

 

SFC is haemorrhaging fans at the same rate as players.

 

 

and some wont go because they lost their corner seats.

[Master Bates]

Some won't go because they are in a land far far away, with flowers, bright green grass, rabbits jumping about in colonies and a rainbow smiling, like icing on a christmas cake waiting to be eaten, tasting like fruit brandy.

[magie]

Surman got too big for his boots once England came knocking. Rupes is to blame for all this which is why the Brum game had a low attendance - (sad really but the joke is on Rupes and his cronies)......

[Weston Saint]

Surman got too big for his boots once England came knocking. Rupes is to blame for all this which is why the Brum game had a low attendance - (sad really but the joke is on Rupes and his cronies)......

 

What a load of rubbish. You do not know him, you do not understand him, you do not understand his families values or you would not have made such a rediculous statement.

[saintrich]

Some pis*ed up woman walked past me on Saturday and decided to tell me she knew Surman and he wasn't going.

 

Probably off then!

[dubai_phil]

Some won't go because they are in a land far far away, with flowers, bright green grass, rabbits jumping about in colonies and a rainbow smiling, like icing on a christmas cake waiting to be eaten, tasting like fruit brandy.

 

Sorry that is rubbish.

 

You missed out the 2,500 24-28 year old single air hostesses and the Bullfrogs

 

Almost as many air hostesses as posts per day of doom and gloom. Know which I'd rather wade through

[ottery st mary]

Problem is that some people assume that every rumour that is to the club's discredit is true, and claim that everything to its credit is 'spin'. I have no idea whether the story is true or not, and apart from the people involved, no one else does either but some people immediately overreact as if they want it to be true, so that they can have something else to complain about. I really don't understand why people spend hours on a football club forum just to slag off the club concerned.

 

As for the football story, I would be more sorry to see Surman go if he was still first choice at LMF, but as a left back, I think we could do better. I accept that leaves open the question of how he would be replaced. I would like to see a specialist LB brought in and if that did not happen, I would be disappointed. The club is not just in selling mode, as the signings of Forecast, Perry, Schneiderlin and Wooton have confirmed, so the answer to the question is, no this story is not in line with a trend at the club and a signing cannot be ruled out.

 

Not sure what your saying Proff or with your previous post on this one.

The press get to hear about Reading interest from say an agent for example after discussions have taken place and report same. Posters hear about it and post their opinions and feelings.

Is he going or not? I am sure we will know very soon. Personally I don't think he would make this decision very lightly and most of us would not want to see him go. By the way the press rumours make it more fun for us gossip posters and therefore please give us a bit of slack as yours is not always the best opinion on any matter, whether or not true.

[ottery st mary]

Some pis*ed up woman walked past me on Saturday and decided to tell me she knew Surman and he wasn't going.

 

Probably off then!

 

I think that was the NOTW reporter.

[hypochondriac]

His girlfriend is expecting a wee baby. Reading is only an hour drive so doesn't need to move.

 

I was really referring to the stoke bit. I didn't realise Laura was pregnant, will send my congrats.

[hypochondriac]

What a load of rubbish. You do not know him, you do not understand him, you do not understand his families values or you would not have made such a rediculous statement.

 

I nicer guy you couldn't wish to meet.

[cambsaint]

[quote=.[/What they what to hear is that most of the £8.5m raised from the sale of David Kitson to Stoke and Nicky Shorey to Aston Villa will be reinvested in the transfer market.

 

It isn't going to happen.

 

Reading received a parachute payment of £11m but Madejski reckons relegation from the Premier League cost his club £22m. What's more, he has made it clear that plenty of funds have been used in extensive "remedial work" on the stadium. Add to that the large squad of players at the club and reduced season ticket sales of 14,000 and the owner has a strong case for suggesting that the club need to "cut our coat according to our cloth."

 

I've been told that the staff at the club took a substantial pay cut as a consequence of relegation, while the cash raised from the sale of players will be used to underpin the deficit incurred as a result of Reading dropping out of the Premier League.

 

I think there is a lot to admire in a chairman running his club with a very definite eye on the bottom line. Football is littered with tales of boom and bust, ridiculous overspending and chronic mismanagement. Fans want to hear about exciting new arrivals, though surely not as much as they don't want to hear about their club entering administration.=.

 

If you read Paul Fletcher's blog on BBC Sport part of which I have quoted above then any large spending on a highly paid Surman by Reading looks unlikely.

 

 

Cambsaint

[Luxemburg89]

If you saw him with the fans yesterday he certainly didn't look like he was going anywhere, if he is then it's so cruel on the kids that queued for about 40 mins to have their photo taken with him, he will stay.

[Chez]

If you read Paul Fletcher's blog on BBC Sport part of which I have quoted above then any large spending on a highly paid Surman by Reading looks unlikely.

 

 

Cambsaint

 

They have sold Kitson and Shorey and Harper will go as well. Money will be available for Surman if Coppell decides he is the left back they need.

[suspect everyone]

Out of interest, does anybody have this year's calendar? It's usually a guaranteed guide to who is leaving and when.

 

Don't know why I bother getting a Saints calendar each year. By mid-summer your wall is guaranteed to be adorned by players who no longer play for the club. August’s players are Makin and Safri, brilliant.

[OldNick]

Don't know why I bother getting a Saints calendar each year. By mid-summer your wall is guaranteed to be adorned by players who no longer play for the club. August’s players are Makin and Safri, brilliant.

Soon the kids will be so young in the calendar you wont be able to display without being accused of being a peado.

[ottery st mary]

Soon the kids will be so young in the calendar you wont be able to display without being accused of being a peado.

 

Suggest you get a picture of new players and stick over old player.

ie Pulis over top of Makin.

 

PS Makin is a better player even if played in mid-field.

[saint lard]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/display.var.2430871.0.jan_confident_surman_will_stay.php

[Master Bates]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/display.var.2430871.0.jan_confident_surman_will_stay.php

 

The Royals were expected to make a £2.5m swoop for the 21-year-old but it appears the move was part of a chain of transfers which has collapsed.

 

Is Davis to Stoke one that's collapsed too?

[saint lard]

Is Davis to Stoke one that's collapsed too?

 

Quite possibly,but i suspect that Reading may have had to off load someone first,IMO.

[Long Shot]

So if JP wants to keep him and Surman wants to stay how come a 2.5m deal was arranged. Doesn't make sense or does it?

[saint lard]

So if JP wants to keep him and Surman wants to stay how come a 2.5m deal was arranged. Doesn't make sense or does it?

 

Two word answer possibly" Lowe,Bank ?" IMO.