Saint Garrett

Southampton's £21.4m Cody Gakpo bid rejected by PSV Saints' offer for long-standing Manchester United target has been turned down by Eredivise club who want £17m more Southampton have had a bid of €25 million (£21.4m) rejected by PSV Eindhoven for Cody Gakpo. The highly-rated 23-year-old Dutch international has been of interest to Manchester United but they are now not expected to make an offer having finally agreed a €100m deal to sign Ajax winger Antony, who was their No1 target. Southampton’s offer for Gakpo falls significantly short of PSV’s valuation for the player which is understood to be around €45m (£38.4m) including add-ons. It is also lower than has been reported. PSV, who failed to reach the group stages of the Champions League last week after being knocked out by Rangers, are prepared to sell Gakpo but only if their price is met. They immediately rejected Southampton’s approach. It is unclear whether Southampton, who face Chelsea at home on Tuesday evening and are 13th in the table, will return with an improved offer having already made five signings this summer as they look to strengthen Ralf Hasenhüttl’s squad. Other Premier League clubs have expressed an interest in Gakpo but Southampton are, so far, the only ones to have made an official bid. Gakpo, a PSV academy graduate, was asked about his future – and Antony’s impending move – at the weekend and said: “Fun for [Antony] but for me and my future, I think that has no influence. It’s like a puzzle so in the next few days I will see which puzzle fits best. For me, it would certainly not be bad to stay at PSV. We’ll see.” Gakpo, who scored 12 league goals last season and is represented by the same agency as United manager Erik ten Hag, also confirmed that United had shown interest in him, adding: “United are a serious option. I can hear it all. I try to shut myself off from it, but it’s difficult.”

Yup - I thought exactly the same when he was linked the other week with Man Utd, It feels like he needs to come to a club like Saints before he makes that next move in his career. I just cannot see us spending £40m on 1 player, but lets see what happens.

Yeah, same thing did cross my mind tbh.

Tuesday medical booked....hmm More than just Villa in for Bednarek. Expecting plenty of movement in and out in next few days it seems....guessing amount of money we spend will depend on who goes out.

I expect he'll go somewhere in the next few days, will be interesting to see whether thats in the premier league or whether he ends up out on loan in the Championship.

Yup, definitely don’t think he fits our profile. We shall see what we can do in the next few days. Club seems to be pretty confident there will be movement. I just hope we don’t leave ourselves short. I see Broja still hasn’t moved anywhere yet…

Agree. Either he isn’t that good, or doesn’t really fit other clubs styles. Surprised he’s signing for wolves though as he’s not Portuguese

Yeah watched that one, will give the C4 one a go cheers. 👍

What is it called and what channel? Heard a few ppl mention this.

A free hit. Give it a go and hope we can nick a result. Feel much more confident about not conceding with Sali and ABK at CB, wouldn’t surprise me if Perraud started at LB. Would expect a few changes but will also probably depend on what’s happening with the transfer window.

Easy to get the wrong Armstrong. 😂 COYS

Not sure we’re really of interest tbh

Bazunu; KWP Sali ABK Moussa; Lavia JWP SArmstrong Elyounoussi Aribo; Che In a 433/4141 shape probably…

Tbf, all transfers aren’t solely down to him.

Because we have a winger playing at left back. On a side note, anyone know if the cricketers opens early for early kick offs? 11am or so? if not, anyone know of other pubs open around that time? cheers

It was incredibly brave to go 4 at the back against Leicester, it might well be a shocker to go 4 at the back against Man Utd with Moussa at LB. I'm hoping Perraud will be fit enough to play LB in a 4 this weekend, or I think we have to go to a back 5 for this one, or I think they will kill us down our left.

Yup - definitely been under appreciated on the whole by our fan base. He's been exactly the player I thought he would be. Decent enough, flashes of brilliance, but never quite had it to push on and be a top player, but for £12m he's been a bargain really.

Tbh, maybe now because they’re in the champions league they don’t wanna sell him so stuck a big fee on his head

Broja?

Nkunku? He’d probably cost £100m + 😂

Wolves bid again for Kalajdzic - €15m, they want €20-€25m supposedly, wonder if we’re still interested, probably not .

Though he was signing for Forest?!

Quincy Promes? Was involved in drug trafficking or something. I still don’t think we’re in for Ramos, and I’m also unconvinced “Rob” knows what he’s talking about.

Always a shame not to get a new ground away draw, but got to be happy with that one, if we want to go far. Atleast 7 prem teams going out. Win this and then who knows what happens….!

Still think we have as good chance as anyone. Bigger issue is that Chelsea don’t want to sell him, and dont think we want a loan, so stalemate.