Saint Charlie

Breaking on Sky: Modric flies to Madrid on Thurs to sign for Real - that probably makes Ramirez to Spurs very likely.

Any comments Dibden?

Breaking news on Sky is that Modric flies to Madrid on Thursday to sign for Real, I think Ramirez's agent said his move to Spurs would be more likely once this happened so quite possibly he will end up there.

Im am not so keen on Dann either, but the guy was linked heavily with Liverpool and Arsenal last summer and was deemed a 6m player so is no mug and still young enough to improve.

They tend not to be because they are harder to prise away from their clubs and have more options so it's in their interest to wait and see what develops. Nearly all the players we have been linked with have not yet moved anywhere.

If you can get an 8/10 player on the last day of the window or a 6/10 in June, what would you go for? Ultimately, having two extra players will make no difference vs City. Wigan - yes but again if we have to wait til end of the window thats ok as long as what we get is good enough - thats the key.

No need to let sensible, rational thoughts get in the way of a bangwagon. DPS decided about 3 weeks ago that our transfer dealings were lazy and ill thought out - and since then has let eeveryone know. Many times.

Unfortunately, this.

Think he is just talking about Italy v England...

Renewed interest in Dann according to Nixon..

Nixon thinks we are getting used - probably right - someone like Ramirez would be so hard to persuade to come here.

Apparantly he had a little injury. I think any deal like this, for him to move to any club, will take a bit of time. Lets be honest - when Inter, Liverpool and Spurs have been interested, he would take a lot of persuading to move to Saints.

Think those quotes were a few days old. The other journo said Cortese was meeting that Agent yesterday (no reason for an Italian to make that up). Looks like the whole package would be pricy but as I said earlier, he would have a high resale value. Either way, interesting to be linked with a top prospect and maybe this is why we havent rushed into buying inferior players?

This guy reckons Ramirez is on about €600k a year - pretty sure with a pay rise he could easily fit into our budget.

Agree it seems farfetched. However, apparantly Inter don't have a lot of money and the fee is an issue for them (believed to be about €15m). Wouldn't imagine Bologna are huge payers so the wages shouldn't be an issue assuming he isn't unrealistic. The bizarre bit is that Spurs wouldnt offer him enough money, so if they won't then I would be suprised if we do. However - who is to know whether that is really true - maybe Spurs didnt want him but the agent didnt want to say that. Will be interesting to see what happens anyway.

He has taken it from the feed of a Gazzetta dello Sport reporter: Carlo Laudisa ‏@carlolaudisa #Inter. Seria l'insidia del #Southampton per #Ramirez. Lui verso il si. Ora parola al #Bologna. #rischio #gds

They signed 3 midfielders yesterday two of which can play wide I think.

Whilst it seems very unlikely, Ramirez would have huge resale value given his age, and you would imagine he isnt on mega money at Bologna so there might be something in it, who knows.

MLG hasn't commented on this thread. He does his business like Saints, talks behind the scenes in a professional manner.

Im sure we did as he is a very highly rated player but we have scouts at loads of games.

That guy was talking about the Mexican player not Ramirez. First Ramirez link was in the Italian press.

On the Fierro thing its just one guy, a Saints fan. Almost certainly a dodgy rumour.

Jaidi just now on Twitter says nothing imminent that he is aware of.

These twitter rumours are probably less reliable than the Football Rumours website (or they come from there)...

Negative post IMO. What do bookies know?