Southampton Receive Formal Transfer Request In Writing From Player
Saints have apparently had an official transfer request handed in to them by a player desperate to leave, but Southampton supporters will not exactly be rocked by this news.
According to sportswitness usually one of the more reliable sources of transfer news, Southampton have been handed an official transfer request by Paul Onuachu.
They state that the striker is unhappy at the fact that he has been forced to return to training at Staplewood and has handed in the request after speaking with Russell Martin.
The Turkish media are also running the story and it seems that the Turkish club who are so desperate to sign Onuachu that they are willing to pay around £5million are now upping their pressure campaign on Saints to sell a player whose value on transfermarkt is still around the £12 million mark, some £4 million less than Southampton paid in January 2023.
If Onuachu has indeed put in the transfer request to Saints, then perhaps he would do well to also put in a similar request to Trabzonspor and ask them to stop mucking around and if they rate him so highly, to actually pay something like his market value.
Saints here are doing nothing wrong, they too would like to see Onuachu leave, but they are not willing to give him away, the media is full of stories either emanating from Turkey or Nigeria all saying a deal is close, that Trabzonspor have upped their offer, but the truth is it only goes up a little as the Turks try to get the player on the cheap and put pressure from all sides.
If I was Onuachu I would be extremely frustrated at the delays in signing him and i would be suspicious and worried about joining a club who seem to act in this manner.
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