{"id":453690,"date":"2026-02-02T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453690\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:06:07","slug":"southampton-talks-over-signing-second-striker-reportedly-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453690\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton talks over signing second striker reportedly stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Archer, 24, had been edging closer to joining Scottish giants Rangers on the final day of the window in what is believed to have been a loan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saints sources claimed they would not allow Wolves-bound Adam Armstrong and Archer to both leave the club without suitable replacements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Cam Archer last scored in late December (Image: Matt Watson\/Southampton FC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/sport\/25815428.deadline-day-2026-latest-southampton-fc-transfer-news-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"omni-lead-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deadline Day Live: All the latest Saints transfer news and rumours<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A report from talkSPORT now suggests that will be the case as Southampton&#8217;s talks to sign a second striker, alongside Cyle Larin, appear to have stalled.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saints will complete a loan deal for the Canada international to replace Armstrong, who will join Wolves for \u00a37million and \u00a32m in add-ons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Archer, a \u00a315m signing when Saints were promoted to the Premier League, has only managed three goals across all competitions this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archer, 24, had been edging closer to joining Scottish giants Rangers on the final day of the window&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-453690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}