Celtic forward is allegedly on ‘loan’ to Southampton | Report…

We are entering the final week of the transfer market, and negotiations and rumours are becoming more serious, with the newest claims claiming that Saints have made an approach for a winger.

This is not a new tale; the individual in issue is Manuel Benson of Burnley, and we were believed to be in pole position a week or so ago until talks broke down for unknown reasons.

Leeds were quick to come in and make a bid, and we were out of the picture, but there has been another twist, and now footballleagueworld.co.uk, and indeed Sky Sports Mark McAdam, are stating that Southampton have made a fresh approach and are presently in talk.

This seems to have a turn or two left to come though, it seems Burnley are not keen to do business with us due to failing to land Nathan Tella on the cheap, however it is also claimed that Southampton is the preferred destination of Manuel Benson himself.

So it seems that Saints are being encouraged potentially by the players agent to keep pushing for the deal, whereas Burnley are content to try and force a bidding war between the two clubs to try and get the best deal financially and if that is Saints then all the animosity will be forgotten after the soothing reconciliation that money can often achieve between two football clubs.

From a Leeds perspective it seems that they have to sell Gnonto before they can buy, if he is not sold they have a plethora of wide options and there is rumour that he is about to sign a new contract, which would definitely see Leeds out of the running and therefore mean that Burnley might only have one option left willing to pay what they are looking for to secure Benson on loan for the rest of the season.