Convict Colony

Stephens has been immense in that 1st half, redmond very good, tadic not really offering too much tonight

Ciro Venerable, market expert Rai Sport, it revealed that Manolo Gabbiadini is very close to Southamphton. The British have proposed 16 million plus 4 million bonus, and these are decisive times for the success of the negotiation. The two clubs are negotiating at this time. Gabbiadini is in Milan to take advantage of the day off. Tomorrow is expected in Castelvolturno but everything is related to the negotiation of these hours. For the sale of Gabbiadini, then, could this be the turning point. So basically we are close and if we get it over the line today he could be signing later this week.

Great and very interesting articles based on facts. Looks like Les follows that football Radar twitter

I think we can all agree JWP needs consistency of performance. It's been a long time between drinks since his last great performance in milan. For a guy who gets as many minutes as he does he should be having more games like this and whilst he is young he has played over 150 games for us so I don't think can be used as a reason anymore.

I really think it was the tempo and the midfielders looking for a forward pass 1st instead of the sideways and horizontal rubbish we've seen recently. Pass it fast and look to pass it forward as your 1st instinct

Yeah agree with you heisiey More direct play, greater speed and even a JWP goal :-) Thought he played well today, thought Pierre was good until he shot Glad for Stephens we didn't concede when he came on good for his confidence.

2 points Jose was never a top premier league player otheriwse he would of gone to a top club (he has benefited from have a defensive system and some of the best CB partners in the EPL next to him) No one with a brain has considered Yoshi a league 1 player based on his performances this season in Europe and League

Really am not bothered about this. Jose when he played conceded penalties (Sunderland/Arsenal) or gave the ball away to conceed a goal this season, think yoshi would be hammered for if he did it. Got 8m and the wages off the books for a defender who is probably currently at the same level or maybe slightly below yoshi.

So based on the stats of the last few days we can't score and our goalie can't save shots. Great...just great.

You can read all about it in his autobiography "Uli Uli" and he is youth coach at Feyenoord Book: http://www.veltman-uitgevers.nl/sport/2146-uli-uli-ulrich-van-gobbel-zwijgt-niet-meer-9789492199867.html

Let the goal and hopefully win not disguise we have been utter rubbish tonight in both formation and execution against a norwich team even worse than us

JWP and then Redmond with chances sums up our hopes of scoring. I ****ing give up, pile of ****

As a Dalek can you recieve it via your own metal prong thing ? is it DAB or AM etc ? I expect Norfolk only have AM and those wind up radio's that they used to say were destined for Africa on Blue Peter :-)

Haven't listened to the radio for a game for nearly 15yrs, think I'm gonna top myself

The RAI journalist Ciro Venerable, has issued statements to Radio Crc: " To Gabbiadini is the strong interest of Southampton, but there is no agreement with Napoli, asking 25 million."

I was agreeing with you and laughing about the rotation, it made me chuckle

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Yeah I'd guess that after reading their forum or playing him at the tip of the diamond as that seems to be his 2nd position.

After reading the napoli forum I am slighlty concerned he sounds a lot like what we have now, a outside forward who needs a lot of chances to score !!! http://tifosidelnapoli.forumfree.it/?t=73020569&st=825 56 pages about him if your interested

Yeah thats how I read it, it does also say that the italians would like to try and get a bidding war going amongst english clubs hence all these other clubs being rumoured being interested. This one has had enough smoke there must be some truth, lets just see if this loan and buy comes off.

Gazzetta reporting 3hrs ago we are in pole position on Gabbiadani. "Southampton, which at this time is in pole position, take Gabbiadini tomorrow in loan sale (two or three million) with the right of redemption (also set at twelve or thirteen, but conditional upon attendance) so as to "share" in some way with Napoli the risk of a major investment on a sure bet attacker and reliability but, as mentioned, has played little in the last eighteen months." http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercato/16-01-2017/gabbiadini-panca-via-napoli-piu-southampton-wba-180442311712.shtml

The hype does not equal the return he gives us as a player. Good player but not a premier league player, its too fast for him, he could be a great championship midfielder but he isnt a DM or a central midfield shuttler in the premier league

Some stats: Over the last 9 league games we have had 111 shots, scored 5 goals (3 v Bournemouth) which means we are averaging 12.3 shots per game and have a shot to goal conversion rate of 4.5% Based on those 9 games then we needed to take 22 shots before we scored a goal !!! If we scored in every game we would at least have 9 goals and a conversion rate of 8.1%

Super impressed by the official site http://www.ilpost.it/2017/01/15/sito-calcio-southampton/

Linked to Napoli guy again but not apparently interested until the summer !! http://www.tuttosport.com/news/calcio/calciomercato/2017/01/15-20039380/west_ham_e_southampton_su_gabbiadini_ma_per_giugno/?cookieAccept