Wolves secure Jordan James loan, Southampton left short in midfield | OneFootball

Wolves have taken Jordan James on a loan with an option to buy that Rennes agreed on Wednesday, after a medical at Molineux. Southampton, who had targeted him, go into Stoke on Saturday with the issue unresolved.

Bragg started at Vicarage Road on Sunday and set up Cyle Larin’s goal, but playing ninety minutes every three or four days looks a stretch. Caspar Jander has not featured since July and, according to @SaintsExtra, was absent from Wednesday’s training images.

James was viewed as the fix. Leicester borrowed him last season and voted him their best player. He scores from central midfield, the habit Southampton lost when Shea Charles went to Fulham.

The package is around three million, and Fulham paid three times that for Charles, so this was not about affordability. Middlesbrough wanted him as well. It still stings.

Next options include Dan Gore, with Celtic also in the frame. He has been at Manchester United since boyhood, but little of his football has come under a crowd that expects to win, and the Championship in August is a hard classroom. Signing him asks supporters for patience while the team sits at the bottom of the table, and Eckert may not have that kind of time.

Behind Gore, the plan narrows to a possible loan for Everton midfielder Harrison Armstrong, who has not proved it at this level either. There is money available, yet none has gone into midfield. The deadline is before the first of September, and with Stoke at St Mary’s on Saturday, expect Moses Sesay on the bench while Eckert picks from what is already in the building.

Source: Sainstmarching.com

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