{"id":23167,"date":"2022-07-09T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/09\/southampton-confirm-5th-summer-signing\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T19:00:35","slug":"southampton-confirm-5th-summer-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/09\/southampton-confirm-5th-summer-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton confirm 5th summer signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Premier League outfit Southampton have, on Saturday, unveiled the latest addition to the club\u2019s first-team setup.<\/p>\n<p>The summer transfer window, to date, has of course proven an altogether productive one on the part of the powers that be at St. Mary\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Amid ongoing efforts to reinforce a squad which finished just five points clear of the Premier League relegation zone last time out, the Saints, before today, has secured a quartet of new signings.<\/p>\n<p>These came in the form of Manchester City talents Gavin Bazunu, Romeo Lavia, VFL Bochum defender Bella-Kotchap, and free agent shot-stopper Mateusz Lis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaintsFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaintsFC<\/a> is delighted to announce the signing of Gavin Bazunu from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ManCity<\/a> on a five-year deal! ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC\/status\/1537813266604384256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Evidently, though, Ralph Hasenhuttl and co. are of the opinion that the work is far from done.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, on Saturday, yet another new face has come through the door at St. Mary\u2019s, in the form of long-time target Joe Aribo.<\/p>\n<p>Recent weeks had of course seen midfielder Aribo, fresh off a fine campaign in Scotland with Rangers, hotly tipped to take his talents to the south of England with Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>And, this weekend, the transfer team at the latter finally did enough to convince their Gers counterparts to bid the 25-year-old farewell.<\/p>\n<p>As per a statement across the club\u2019s website and social media platforms:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Southampton Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Joe Aribo from Rangers on a four-year deal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The deal is understood to have set Southampton back an initial fee of \u00a36 million, rising to a potential total of \u00a310 million including add-ons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aribo announced \u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaintsFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaintsFC<\/a> is delighted to confirm the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Aribo19?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@J_Aribo19<\/a> on a four-year contract from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RangersFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RangersFC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC\/status\/1545823843247349761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/saturdays-transfer-rumours-raphinha-dembele-ake-sterling-more\/\">Saturday\u2019s transfer rumours: Raphinha, Dembele, Ak\u00e9, Sterling &amp; more<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/mikel-arteta-responds-to-arsenals-youri-tielemans-links\/\">Mikel Arteta responds to Arsenal\u2019s Youri Tielemans links<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League outfit Southampton have, on Saturday, unveiled the latest addition to the club\u2019s first-team setup. The summer transfer window, to date, has of course proven an altogether productive one on the part of the powers that be at St. Mary\u2019s Stadium. Amid ongoing efforts to reinforce a squad which finished just five points clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}