Saints are being linked with an audacious move for two of Portugese side Porto's players, but is there any truth in the rumour.

Over the past couple of days Saints have been linked with Porto due Bruno Martins Indi and Juan Quintero.

Martins Indi is an obvious link as the player played under Ronald Koeman at Feyenoord for three years before both left in the summer of 2014, Koeman for Saints and Martins Indi for Porto for a fee of around £5.75 million.

A left sided player who can play either left back or primarily as a central defender he has been linked with a move to Saints in the press over the past few days although some reports are saying that this is more likely to happen in the summer than now.

But today Juan Quintero has also been thrown into the picture, the player who will turn 22 in a couple of weeks time is a central midfielder who can play in either a holding role or as an attacking midfielder, he was linked with a move to Arsenal last summer for around £15 million .

The Columbian has been compared to Lionel Messi in the way he plays but this is perhaps as much for his diminutive style at 5ft 6 than anything else.

How much truth in this rumour is open to speculatio, but certainly Saints are being linked with a lot of central midfielders in this transfer window suggesting that the word on the street is that Saints are looking to have a replacement in place this season should Morgan Schneiderlin leave the club in the summer as seems highly likely.

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SanMarco added 11:53 - Jan 6 Schneiderlin replacements will be high on the rumour list until he goes - which hopefully wont be until the summer (I think he will go even if we do come 4th as I reckon a deal was made with him last summer)...
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TimSaint added 12:07 - Jan 6 Renew Cork's contract and he will fill in perfectly for a departing Morgan. I too am convinced that he will be leaving us in the summer, but I will be surprised if he leaves for a club that finishes below us !!
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Stephen added 12:50 - Jan 6 Ronald said we have enough midfielders.
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saintandy11 added 14:35 - Jan 6 I'm sure Morgan will be allowed to leave in the summer and this was agreed with him last summer. that's why he shut up about wanting to move. And it won't matter where we finish in the league either. we cannot afford to pay the wages that the likes of man ure, city, chelski, arse, spurs or lpool can pay.
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SaintNick added 16:21 - Jan 6 If Saints did get in the champions league then assuming chelsea and city are bolted on that would mean only one out of arsenal, liverpool and spurs could qualify, than being the case we could have a good chance of holding on to him
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BarnetSaint added 22:07 - Jan 6 Hope you're proved right Nick
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Jesus_02 added 22:16 - Jan 6 OK we may not be able to compete with the wages but we have Morgan on a contract. Spurs and L'pool cannot afford to by him full stop. I can see him staying at saints unless Wenger is ready to stump up 35m+. Spurs are not going to make a "swoop" by "luring us" us with a 10m + Dros Townsend deal!
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