Gallagher off on loan again?
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This is another transfer that is darggggggiiiinnnnngggggg on
Ah, from the Ugly Inside
Saints attempts to sign Wesley Hoedt from Lazio are being held up, not because of anything that Saints can do, but because Lazio have an issue with the players agent.
Saints signing of Hoedt is a deal that all three parties seem happy with, Hoedt wants to come and Lazio are quite happy to sell him, however the Italian club have an issue concerning Hoedt’s agency and another player on their rosta Stefan De Vrij.
Media reports in Italy are suggesting that no deal will be done though until Lazio and De Vrij’s agent come to an agreement.
De Vrij like Hoedt is represented by SEG and Lazio want clarification about Van Drij and could be using holding up the Hoedt deal as leaverage.
Van Drij’s current deal ends next summer and as of yet he has not signed a new contract and Lazio want clarification from SEG about the players intentions, the players is allegedly demanding a 20 million euros release clause in any new deal and Lazio are reticent to put in a figure that low feeling that if they sold him now they could get 30 million euros.
They feel that the agent is trying to push through something that they are not comfortable with and that being the case want to sit down and reach agreement, not being happy with having to either sell him cheaply or see him run down his contract.
The only real leaverage Lazio have is to hold up the Hoedt deal to force SEG to the negotiating table and loosen their demands regarding the release clause.
Once again nothing is simple with a Saints transfer, although in this case this is something that has nothing to do with Saints and is beyond their control.
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Come on Les. How about a neatly timed release about our interest in another centre-half (Wimmer?) to give Lazio the hint we’ll go elsewhere, if they continue to bugger about?
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Rumour has it that Wimmer is off to WBA for £15m
As a Johnny Evans replacement??
Could be!!
Our GK Gazza going to Spurs… is Levy apologising for off loading Tommy Forecast on us…
knowing he was not a goalkeeper
and convincing our Rupert that he was a world class prospect and Saints GK staff did not have a clue. 
Levy wants to get back in our good books to have a shot at VVD when Toby leaves for Real 
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Hopefully the Hoedt deal all sorted
Like others his old playing partner for Lazio and Holland…SDV…(.unable to spell his name) 
would be a good but costly buy 
Maybe another day.
Stefan de Vrij 
*Puts tin hat on*
I honestly don’t think Sakho is all that bad, least not as bad as the stick he gets would suggest. Again, when he plays regularly he looks much better, as his form at Palace last season showed.
£30m, yeah, seems steep - but transfer fees are just straight up ridiculous now. They all are. Particularly when moving from one Prem team to another.
I also quite like(/rate) Johnny Evans.
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Johnny Evans is good but age/injuries…out at the mo.
Sakho…you are right 
30 mil…Liverpool having a larf coz they were originally thinking Sakho for VVD etc
Noooooo chance
Maybe Liverpool thinking Evans /Sakho swap deal.
I can see Ottery St Mary reserves putting in a bid for Sakho…nobody else wants him. 
Pint of Otter Ale and a pkt pork scratchings
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I will settle down when the transfer window closes i can get back to helping… Mauriccio coaching and selecting the team 
COYS
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Good, he’s back on the pink pills, I was starting to get a bit worried.
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And with that, I’m off to get on with the important job f pickling my internal organs whilst krGF is away for the weekend.
Peace out Sotonians.
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Try not to make your knee any worse with a drunken tumble…
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Fuck me, the dippers have just rejected £114m bid for Phil