28 Jan 2019 09:52:59
Seeing the players rumoured in among others are right backs Maehle and Tavernier, and forwards Che Adams and Ranger's Moreno. Which if true then I am very pleased about. Another player I think the club should be looking at is Norwich's Todd Cantwell. Young, English, and under Farke this season has shown great attacking quality and high workrate and willing to press. If we do let Lemina go, Cantwell should definitely get a shout. The lower leagues and less famous leagues such as the Scottish, Belgian, Danish, and Austrian leagues are filled with quality players. Which league the players come from doesn't necessarily dictate the impact and quality they can bring to the team. After all, Mane and Bednarek came from Austrian and Polish Leagues, whereas Boufal and Hoedt came from the higher reputationed French and Italian leagues. It's these kinds of players we target and eventually recruit that prove the effectiveness of the much admired blackbox. Plucking them from absolutely nowhere and polishing rough gems.

1.) 28 Jan 2019
28 Jan 2019 13:00:26
Very much agree - the old Southampton way that gave us great success for several seasons. Van Dijk, Wanyama from Scotland other examples of good players from poorer leagues, whilst Osvaldo and Ramirez also came from more prestigious backgrounds.
Very much happy to go back to the grassroots as it were and plucking some diamonds from the rough - happy to see this kind of player linked with us as opposed to players like Slimani who would be on massive wages with little quality shown in the last three/ four years.

2.) 29 Jan 2019
29 Jan 2019 08:45:58
With RH's background and RB Leipzig's background could we start poaching players from RB Salzberg? If you look at Leipzig's history under RH a lot of their players come from Salzberg. That being said, there is an obvious connection between the two teams, as both are owned by Redbull.