Saints are being linked with Swedish striker John Guidetti, but is this just a case of the Koeman connection or something more concrete.

It is perhaps natural that Saints should be linked with Manchester City's John Guidetti given that he had a very succesful season under Ronald Koeman at Feyenoord in 2011/12 when he scored 20 times in only 23 games whilst on laon from City.

The striker has never played a Premier League for his parent club and his only first team game for them came in the league cup in September 2010 and he has spent much of his time out on loan, last season he spent the second half of the season at Stoke, but made only 6 appearances off the bench and failed to score.

This season he has been at Celtic and in 13(2) games he has scored 6 times prompting Celtic to offer him a permanent move at a fee of £2 million, Guidetti originally looked set to sign but in recent weeks has gone cold on the deal prompting many to speculate that he is aout to rejoin the manager who got the best out of him so far.

At 22 he is still raw and there are some who would question why we would spend so little in the position we are in, but Koeman is a shrewd operator and knows that the key to saints continuing their success not just this season but in the year s moving forward is taking raw talent and developing it, after all that is what this club has done since the mid 50's and Ted Bates taking over.

It is all about building a squad and Koeman knows that although he has attacking options he needs back up and spending £2 million Guidetti is a gamble that Saints can well afford finacially and that it will bolster his squad for a tough end to the season.

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ClickInsect added 10:57 - Jan 21 Didn't fancy this in the summer & still not sure we need him with Pelle, Long, Mane & J-Rod who want to play through the middle. That being said, he's a fantastic talent and if he's proved his fitness after losing seasons with a weird illness, could be another top Ron bargain, with little risk. He's one of the few footballers that Ron follows on twitter, and at that point I've got a let Ron sign who he wants attitude to the whole thing. He's on fire.

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TimSaint added 18:02 - Jan 21 Not convinced about him just yet, but obviously Koeman sees something in him, having previously worked with him. He did nothing at Stoke on loan last season, but perhaps wasn't given a run of games. OK, he scored regularly in Holland and has scored (I think) 11 in about 20 appearances for Celtic, so maybe he is maturing and adapting well and is now ready for a spell in the prem. The thing is though, if he is any good, City will want to keep him - but I read that he will be allowed to go for £2m. We have to ask if he would be a good addition to the squad and would he improve us, bearing in mind we have Sam Gallagher and Jay Rod to come back soon. The other problem I forsee is that if we go to City to buy, they may be unwilling to sell to us, unless as recently rumoured, the deal would include Jay Rod going the other way. Therefore it is probably best to stick with what wee have - provided the injured duo return shortly :-)

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