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- K,Billy’s little clue... - Sparkes leaving his current club. - Now following Saints staff Pretty positive signs

TOP TARGETT Aston Villa eye £10m bid for Southampton left-back Matt Targett as Dean Smith continues transfer spending spree: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9275947/aston-villa-southampton-matt-targett-dean-smith/

Curious how many interested parties there would be for £200m+

Are we on the market, Eric?

http://sportwitness.co.uk/group-probed-takeovers-southampton-newcastle-looking-european-club/

I like Romeu. I think we could improve on him. But not sure the budget stretches anywhere close to signing a class defensive midfielder. Striker & Centre-back are more pressing this summer.

Very quiet on the signing of any new scholars front too. Normally get a few whispers of them leaving their clubs for Saints.

Would agree with this, largely because others can chip in with goals. Nobody can really cover a class centre-back.

Indeed. We play 3 at the back to largely to cover deficiencies of individual defenders. A new defender pretty much needs to combine height & speed for Ralph to use 4-2-2-2. They won’t be cheap.

In theory, he replaces Austin & Sam G in the squad.

Guan said the Gabbi fee received pretty much helped clear the Ings fee.

Was out with a hamstring injury wasn’t he? I imagine he will be good to go for pre-season. Preventing it recurring will be our priority with him from there, I imagine.

Because 'multi-million pound professional football clubs' are NEVER influenced by things agents say.... Yeah right.

Cheers for the info, LeG.

Perhaps wages can total to vastly different amounts...

Alan Nixon saying Burnley still interested in Adams (& J-Rod)

Did they edit this article later on? Unless I'm dreaming, I could have sworn it implied he was our No.1 striker target It now reads "The Daily Echo understands that Adams is one of several striking targets identified by Hasenhuttl and that if the Blues ask for a fee far in excess of Saints’ valuation that they will quickly move on".

Would imagine this is agent talk. I think there's a reason why our striker target is £15m tops.

Good source?

I suppose this means they are less likely to get included?

Wages don’t count to anyone moaning about where the money has gone.

Admittedly, this thread is very premature, especially given that we’ve just had all our loan players return, but wanted to start it anyway. Lots of work to do to get players shifted. But gives people with better understanding of who qualifies to be named & who doesn’t a place to talk about it.

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He got offered around the premier league & we were smart enough to take him. We both benefitted from the move. He also behaved himself (apart from his lateness to some team meetings).