albion534
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Clearly not needed at Southampton. And frustrated. Would love him here.
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Both Long and Rodriguez are likely to be off from Saints. The latter probably more talented, but the former more reliable / consistent / proven. Either or even both could do a job.
How comes they are not needed? Both scored last weekend.. (or maybe long just missed a penalty)
Nothing official, but the feeling among the Saints locals is that for both their time at the club is up. Both would be available for a small fee and both would be open to a new club.
Jay Rod needs a fresh start where he can get more games and isn't tarnished with the injury prone brush he's picked up there. Long at this stage in his career needs to start more games than he's been getting there recently as well. Saints expect to spend on their attack this summer (because it's the bit of their team that's crap) so chances for both would become further limited.
Long is a great athlete, bursts of speed and stamina, but his PL failing is considered to be his lack of tucking chances away.
Goals will keep us up. Long doesn't deliver on that front.
And indeed this. It's silly season. I'm guessing we'll be doing most of our shopping abroad anyway, where prices are a lot more reasonable!I am slightly perplexed that we are ''drooling'' over players who don't seem to have cut it elsewhere and that we should be looking at players who are surplus to requirements elsewhere.
We are now a PL team in our own right and we should be after players that teams DON'T want to lose, whether it be from abroad or in the UK
Shane Long is 30 and his Prem record is 1 in 5 - no thanks.
Jay Rodriguez would be a good signing but he's halfway through a 4-year deal so not likely.
I thonk we need to be more ambitious that going for Long - if we could have got him into our championship squad, fair enough. But now we are Premier League I think our money could be spent better. I don't know much about Rodriguez but would hope we can get a more experienced player to see us through out initial fight taking us up to Christmas. We need to have consolidated by then.