S-Clarke

''i thought he'd go somewhere better'' ''Southampton! Why bother moving'' ''I thought bigger clubs would be in for him" etc.

To be fair, I'd need the toilet under my seat at St Mary's if Fox was played as a CB in the PL!

25 imo.

Oh yeh - we'll have the championship select soon enough! Our signings seem to be based on a long-period of scouting, as we've been linked to Clyne for 18 month's/2 years now. Same was the case with Jay Rodriguez, and Tadannari Lee - I expect we've looked at Butner for a long time too. It's just refreshing to see us buying genuinely good players who are better than what we have after a long period of checking them out, not players that just add to the squad and are signed on the back of little work. Man Utd wanted Clyne not so long ago, that was a very valid interest too, so we've pulled off a good one here if it all goes through.

I'm still amazed that people are convinced we aren't looking for defenders. Chill.

I think this guy will be an absolutely outstanding addition, for such a snip too. I love what we're doing in terms of young, talented British/european players. It's refreshing and will serve us so well for years to come. He's quick, skillful and full of energy, he fits the style we like to play superbly. Him and Richardson as our 2 right backs is pretty impressive for next year.

I am amazed at how many seem to think you can only do 1 thing at a time. We have shed loads of staff and agents working on numerous deals at any one time, some may be for backup if a certain signing falls through - but it's silly to think we're doing this one at a time. We'd be here all year if that was the case.

It was actually Nuffield Health Centre in Calenders ford afaik.

I bet you it's someone completely out of the blue.

#swfc close to signing Michail Antonio for fee of around 750k. Also trying to sign Jay Bothroyd and DJ Campbell on season loans 750k is INSANE for Antonio IMO.

Fourth Official ‏@FourthOfficial_ Do they sell Buttner in Southampton? Do love Dutch crunch bread #tasty

That is a stunning signing for them, they clearly are throwing the $$$$ around.

The guy seems a bit of a car crash these days if we're honest, we won't get any comeback from it, the only comback we get is the unfortunate bad press and all the limelight will be on us on our return for the wrong reasons. So thanks for that Claus, you complete baffon. Don't want him associated with this club anymore as far as I'm concerned.

Sounds liek it may be Michu I guess, but I don't really see a position for him now we have Davis tbh, the last thing we want is to overcrowd everthing.

Buttner is a left back though, and I'm not sure what Bolton would have to do with that one. Bolton were also in for a very talented young midfield from Europe a few weeks back, so assuming it's the same one. no idea on the name though

We were apparently looking at a couple of midfielders from Euorpe as a backup to Davis, but once we sorted out Davis we didn't need to pursue them, so I don't think this is a case of missing out. We got our number 1 target I'm sure.

I think in many ways he's had his innings, and the format is getting old for sure and it's time for a change. Whatever you say about him, to hold a breakfast show for 8 years and constantly pull in the listeners is a great effort. He's a bit like marmite, no in between with him, but I kind of liked him and his sense of humour and have had it on my radio for the last 6 years. I can imagine they'll go out with a pretty big bang, so I expect we'll see a country wide tour of sorts again!

Absolutely, the key word being fit though, of which he hasn't been for the last 3 years.

Exactly, there isn't a problem. Not sure what Rangers are achiving with this if I'm honest, they're not making any fans but they're not going to benefit at all themselves. Seems silly.

The development squad seem to have a totally different transfer remit than Adkins, this is a signing instigated by the development scouts and Hunter I'd expect, with a view to potentially being first team, but this isn't a signing for the first team now.

The problem with Hargreaves is that he won't stay fit, it's not possible. He's knees are totally shot, I'm surprised he hasn't retired if I'm honest. If it's pay as you play, no harm at all, but don't expect many games from him if he does sign.

Nope, just the ''Football way'' of doing things. There isn't any transfer in the world which is straight forward, trust me. There are so many niggly bits of paper, and clauses to go through before anything can happen. This has just been released into the media, that's all. If it wasn't for his club this would still be a 'rumored' interest, and we wouldn't be panicking etc. All of what Vitesse have said should really have stayed behind closed doors if we're honest.

He's basically at the same level as Neymar, in terms of stature and reputation over there. Big, big clubs are tracking him.

good one skates, their football knowledge was always pretty poor.

If we've got 40 million euro's lying around, let's go for it!