Bewildered

This whole witsel rumour appears to have originated by a guy on twitter named @Swanie_888. I wonder if that is the same guy who used to post fake transfer rumours on 606 under the name Rocket Swanie...

Sounds like another who told the club he wanted to **** off as soon as the last game ended.

Pelle last season 23 league goals (28 league appearances) Steve De Ridder total goals in Dutch football, including second division goals and cup goals (3 seasons at De Graafschap, plus one season at Utrecht - 136 appearances) - 24 goals Steve De Ridder career goals - 50 in 230 games Graziano Pelle league goals scored in last 2 seasons - 50 in 57 games

Don't forget, we still have Billy Sharp!

Probably sign some guy from Eredivisie who gets found out at this level.

Does the transfer list have a bargain bin?

What rumoured 50m fund? The only rumours are SSN claiming a 70m fund and Guan claiming 35m before sales.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/michu-close-southampton-exit-club-3764260 Spot the mistake

http://www.vi.nl/nieuws/southampton-en-sevilla-melden-zich-voor-tadic.htm The well respected Voetbal International also believe we want Tadic, but face competition from Sevilla, who want him as a replacement for Rakitic. Howver Sevilla won't meet the 12 million Euro valuation. At least that is what I gathered from this google translation

So what about with sales?

Just got sent off

Hopefully potential replacements are already being sounded out so if/when deals go through the process of bringing in said replacements is quite quick. Last summer, Spurs had already spent pretty much all the Bale money before they finally accepted Real's offer.

A promosing player as an Under 21 who simply didn't kick on. Was on loan at Sevilla last season but was a bit part player.

Typical

Sounds a bit definite. Have the club already got a new striker lined up? Pelle?

lol what a way to use the third post of the day

He won't last long, Cellino loves sacking managers. 37 managers in the 22 years he owned Cagliari

Someone in the Koeman Appointed thread posted this opinion from a dutch football fan about Koeman. Gives the impression that he is quite flexible re: formation and tactics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2659381/Ronald-Koeman-faces-fight-Adam-Lallana-Luke-Shaw-Southampton.html Alfred Finnbogason on saints radar in addition to Pelle according to this article.

To be fair, hitting double figures in terms of goals from CM two seasons in a row is pretty good and according to Whoscored he was the 5th best player in the league (Pelle was the number 1) http://www.whoscored.com/Regions/155/Tournaments/13/Seasons/3851/Stages/7790/PlayerStatistics/Netherlands-Eredivisie-2013-2014 Obviously stats can end up being pretty meaningless and the Eredivisie is not the best, Koeman will know him well and we should trust that he knows enough about the players from his old club to know which ones can do a job here. Personally I'd be looking at younger players than Pelle and Immers, but the new manager wanting to bring in the two top scorers from his old club is no surprise.

Indeed, signing 28/29 year olds who have only shown they can do it in Holland would be a risk. If they fail we are either stuck with them or have to get rid at a loss. Same reason I wouldn't take Pelle either.

Rooney wide left, Sterling in the no 10 position apparently.

Paper round?

I would like to see him get De Vrij if he wants to poach some of his old players http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/feyenoords-de-vrij-scored-in-his-world-cup-debut-lazio/ According to Di Marzio, Feyenoord only want 9m euros for him.

I remember when "Sky Sources" understood we were about to appoint Paul Hart as manager a few years ago...