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Interesting article. Says he’s 1 of many players Newcastle are going through & even though he doesn’t fit their recruitment model, the knockdown price might appeal. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-offered-chance-snap-16636925

He’s more likely in the Cédric / Hoedt camp.

Arsenal set to sign Ceballos on loan from Real Madrid. So that’s their central midfielder sorted.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/17785849.southampton-boss-ralph-hasenhuttl-confident-can-trim-squad/

Ralph interview: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9560071/queen-fan-hasenhuttl-hopes-to-make-southampton-very-very-frightening-with-klopp-style-pressing/

Is that not like on FM where players get % increases every year in their contract? No interested club could get to what he was on before the increase anyway, so Nixon’s report is a bit odd.

Interesting... So that means he's not in #TeamFrozen : Lemina / [Formally] Clasie / Carrillo / Austin Does that mean he's in the Cedric & Hoedt camp of #semi-frozen-but-sort-of-thawed-out

He probably wasn't fit enough for even for Mark Hughes Saints, let alone Ralph Saints

No. A damn fine podcast though.

Apologies, thought we were talking about Slattery.

He's in the Macau 20-man squad, FYI.

Nowhere near as good (or as expensive )

I love watching Boufal, but beggars can't be choosers & that £9m might be able to get us 50%* of a centre-back. (* MLG pedantic disclaimer: I mean 50% of the value of a centre-back, not literally half of an actual human body)

Can do both. Primarily a centre-back though.

14 August is when articles are time-stamped when it was announced.

Imagine his wages are noticeably smaller too.

Hopefully that's the permanent £9m switch that was mentioned last week.

Clasie joins AZ Alkmaar: https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2019-07-22/announcement-jordy-clasie-southampton-az-alkmaar-transfer (looks like Poch is the coach there!)

Yeah, if you ever watch/read any of the scholar intake articles, the players mention where they've come from.

I think van Hanegem even said he was worried about his physicality in the prem. I suppose we just needed shot of him in the end. His wages were always going to be massive for the Dutch league. Still paying a % of his wages is fair enough as it's only 1 year & he's absolutely nowhere near the 1st team. *Sigh* I remember Kante being linked that summer too!

It is?! Source: http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-player-undergoing-medical-with-another-club-will-then-sign-four-year-deal/

I'd completely forgotten Gao had an option for the remaining 20%.

Always hard to tell. He & Ramsay could both be injured too.

The point that I really liked was the approach to 'what can you get for 300k' when comparing players for the 1st team vs academy recruitment. So true. If 1 or 2 really catch fire than the potential returns are massive.

A positive article?! Interesting we were in for Harvey Elliott.