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.
De Vrij'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.