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Saints Terminate Osvaldo's Contract
Wednesday, 1st Jul 2015 15:33

Southampton Football Club has confirmed that it has terminated the contract of Osvaldo with immediate effect.

It is not clear the terms of the termination whether this has been triggered by an event or whether it has been mutually agreed by both player and club, but certainly it brings to an end one of the most expensive follies in the history of Saints.

From the very start of his career at Saints it was unclear just why Saints had brought Osvaldo to the club in the fact that here was a player who had wanted to leave his former club because he was not used as a central striker yet Mauricio Pochetino never gave him a chance to play in this position.

You had the feeling that Osvaldo himself thought he had been signed under false pretences and it didnt need a crystal ball to predict that there would soon be a falling out, I dont particularly blame Osvaldo here in the fact that he was clearly not being played in the role that he had been promised to lure him to the club.

In fairness the few games he did play weren't that bad and he scored a wonder goal against Manchester City showing just what he was capable of but alleged assault on Jose Fonte in the January of 2014 saw his shipped out never to return.

It has been expensive, his £15 million pound fee, his rumoured £65k a week wages all add up to the fact that each game he played probably cost the club around £2 million when taking into account bonus's and other payments such as pension & National Insurance contributions.

So whose fault was it that he came, it would be easy to blame Mauricio Pochettino, he had managed him before at Espanyol, but knowing the player he then failed to use him properly, it was almost as if it wasn't a Pochetino didn't want him at all.

More likely it was Nicola Cortese and another of his marque signings, but again like Gaston Ramirez we paid well over the odds both in terms of transfer fee and wages for the player.

So whether Saints have got off cheaply by managing to find a loophole to terminate the contract and thus save themselves a small fortune in his wages for the next two years o or whether there is an agreement between both parties is not yet clear.

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welhamdowed added 16:22 - Jul 1
Terrible signing, but you can't win them all.
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davepid added 17:50 - Jul 1
Les Reed normally takes the credit when an overseas signing does well!!
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cheltenhamsaint added 18:27 - Jul 1
Terrible news. He was going to be in my fantasy league team this season too.......
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sidsaint added 20:26 - Jul 1
Agree with davepid, although we can't get it right all the time there have been some bad ones under Reid's stewardship including some very expensive ones that quite frankly are humiliating for the club. Blaming those that are no longer at the club is an easy way out.
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REEDYREEDOREEDZ added 09:14 - Jul 2
Osvaldo couldn't play in the same team as Lambert, and Poche couldn't afford to drop Lambert, so it never worked. If Poche recommended signing Osvaldo, which is possible, then it was a big tactical error.
Glad to see the back of him anyway. I think its a good move for the club to get rid of him now rather than wasting time trying to find a buyer. They can focus on getting the right players in instead.
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SaintBrock added 10:47 - Jul 2
At least, somebody, remember to bolt the stable door so that the idiot can't get back in.
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BaselSaint added 11:03 - Jul 2
Nut job. Saints would have known that if they'd done some proper research.
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Jeanette_Kranky added 12:21 - Jul 2
Och! noo
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BoondockSaint added 18:57 - Jul 2
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Jesus_02 added 15:11 - Jul 6
Osvaldo was a Marquee signing that made people belive we where going places. Around the same time we also signed big Vic for 12.5 and Lovren for 6.8m. Lambert, Lallana, and Morgan all signed new deals as well a year later we would be selling three of those for a collective 50m

Osvaldo as a player was an unmittigated flop but as a confidence trick bit of business it worked. The total cost given in some quaters "£25m" is a bit sensationlist. The deal was up to 15m and im not sure what add-ons he would have triggered. Also his 65k a week wages would not have been entirely paid by saints during his loan periods. That would have been insane.
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