{"id":85167,"date":"2023-08-28T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=85167"},"modified":"2023-08-28T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:54:57","slug":"southampton-ready-to-make-third-bid-for-wood-after-captains-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/08\/28\/southampton-ready-to-make-third-bid-for-wood-after-captains-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton ready to make third bid for Wood after captain&#8217;s injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton are reported as being set to make a third bid for Nathan Wood as Russell Martin tries to reunite with a player that he signed for the Swans last summer.<\/p>\n<p>After the first two bids were rejected &#8211; the second being, according to Michael Duff, a rehash of the first &#8211; it is now believed that Southampton will come back with a third which can only leave us to believe that their determination to land the player will eventually be rewarded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='3VEt_F_hQhZT5h9E-8u9ow' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1625588832' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'3VEt_F_hQhZT5h9E-8u9ow',sig:'sipshQ62R-Mkfs7lZh4LFyWFbxvCziWJt9wniP6hJoE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1625588832',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/08\/26\/i-want-a-ferrari-duff-warning-for-southampton-over-wood\/\">As reported on Saturday night<\/a><\/strong>, Duff was clear as to the Swans stance on Wood when he said\u00a0<span data-reactid=\".145qhqpsury.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;He is a good player, that&#8217;s why people want him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".145qhqpsury.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".145qhqpsury.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;He&#8217;s our player and he has two years left on his contract. The total value of the second bid, I don&#8217;t think was any different from the first one. The sell-ons and things just got juggled around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".145qhqpsury.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\">The reported deals in the past have suggested that the package for Wood offered by Southampton was around \u00a310m with the belief that the Swans want a figure in the region of \u00a312m &#8211; broadly the same fee reported as being received for Joel Piroe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southampton will make a third offer to sign Swansea defender Nathan Wood this week amid fears skipper Jack Stephens faces a long injury lay-off. Leeds full-back Cody Drameh is also in Russell Martin\u2019s sights before the deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/soton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#soton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Southampton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Southampton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/scfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#scfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SwanseaCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SwanseaCity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Darren Witcoop (@DarrenOWitcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenOWitcoop\/status\/1695733931088175507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Southampton&#8217;s need appears to be increasing with those fears that Stephens will face a long injury lay off after the captain was forced off in their weekend game after just 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Martin said &#8220;It looks like a bad one. I think we need to fear the worst on that one, unfortunately. If it\u2019s anything better than the worst I\u2019ll be happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely devastated for Jack if it\u2019s as bad as we think, but we will have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That injury will only serve to intensify their need to secure Wood so a third bid will seemingly absolutely happen and with the two sides becoming very close on their valuation it seems almost certain that Nathan Wood will end this week as a Southampton player.<\/p>\n<p>Which of course increases the need for us to strengthen at the back.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s been said before but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/08\/24\/just-a-week-to-go-busy-transfer-activity-in-sa1-window-latest-news\/\">it&#8217;s going to be a busy week<\/a><\/strong> here in SA1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='u8BTJOM2SgtDKOWavdia8w' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1640339939' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'u8BTJOM2SgtDKOWavdia8w',sig:'U1PNhLu5nGmBoQaQ9tNILoY0zl2eUwQEWS4TPVAyRDw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1640339939',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton are reported as being set to make a third bid for Nathan Wood as Russell Martin tries to reunite with a player that he signed for the Swans last summer. After the first two bids were rejected &#8211; the second being, according to Michael Duff, a rehash of the first &#8211; it is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[1409,726,1509],"class_list":["post-85167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-nathan-wood","tag-southampton","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}