Despite Saints having more striking options than most, we still get linked with every young striker in Europe, this time battling with Stoke & Bournemouth.

Saints are apparently looking to sign Ajax striker Anwar El Ghazi in the January transfer window, despite having five international strikers on their books at the moment.

El Ghazi is able to play on the right wing or upfront, as made 55 appearances for the Dutch giants, scoring 17 goals along with 10 assists.

Despite his name he is actually Dutch although of Morrocan extracton, he has been capped at every level up to U21 and he has just been called up to the full squad for the next round of matches, with Danny Blind believed to be keen to secure his services at full international level with the Morrocon's sniffing around.

Also in the frame are Stoke City and Bournemouth, Stoke like Saints would see El Ghazi as one for the future and that could perhaps swing it for Bournemouth who after the loss of leading scorer Callum Wilson for possibly the rest of the season are now desperate for a striker and almost certainly they will have to buy in January.

El Ghazi might prefer a club who can offer him almost guaranteed first team football rather than a more squad player role, however it could be that the Koeman factor might swing it and the player himself might take a long term view that being able to develop at a club like Saints would be better for his career rather than a short term view of first team football immediately.

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ItchenNorth added 09:31 - Sep 28 It's September, please! Leave the speculation to the tabloid and media trash.
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SanMarco added 11:10 - Sep 28 Yes - it would be good if 'quality' and intelligent sites like this one ignored all of the twaddle. If everyone ignored it it would disappear - that's not going to happen but if it wasn't endlessly recycled it would appear less important...
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Jesus_02 added 11:35 - Sep 28 While I agree with te comments above, I also like to make comments about twaddle: I'd rather get a quality RB in to take the pressure of Cedric. I think he has a great future but continued mistakes can wear a young player down. Up front we already have Juanmi waiting in the wings for opportunities
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IWOZTHERE added 15:17 - Sep 28 Might be true? Stranger things have happened.... I know back-up in other positions is the priority but good strikers are more difficult to find and as a rule much more expensive so there may be more justification in this case. He might just be a 'Diamond'. Mind you, I'm contradicting what I've been saying about the academy 'stalling?'
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michaeljoycetf added 08:04 - Sep 30 I love a bit of gossip personally and I would rather find out about any interest we may have in other players on this site.
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