Jeremy Pied Out For The Rest Of The Season ! Right Back Dilemma !
It has been confirmed that Jeremy Pied will miss the rest of the season after injuring his knee in training, so do Saints keep Martina or let him go and look elsewhere.
The luck has not been with Saints so far this season and the situation has just got worse with the news that Jeremy Pied has snapped his cruciate ligament and will be out for at least six months therefore effectively ending his season.
That puts us back to square one in terms of the situation at right back, Cuco Martina is still at the club but the dilemma is that Everton have a £2.5 million offer on the table and this deal was about to be done until Pied's injury.
This is a good offer for Saints given that Martina only has a year left on his contract and that it is far higher than the £1 million that we paid for him just over a year ago, however it appears that the only people who rated Martina at St Mary's where the Koeman brothers.
The player himself understandably wants to move, so Saints have to make a quick decision whether to hold on to Martina who would then leave for nothing or sign a new right back as cover, the issue being that there is little time to source one at this late notice.
If Martina was allowed to go and no replacement was signed then the only true cover would be Yann Valery who although highly rated is still only 17, however that has not stopped Saints before, if a player is good enough then he is old enough.
Personally I would like to see Saints proceeed with the Martina deal and look to bring a player in on loan as cover.
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