{"id":345997,"date":"2026-01-01T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:16:10","slug":"bayern-munich-goalkeeper-reportedly-signing-for-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345997\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich goalkeeper reportedly signing for Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Teams can sign players again from January 1, with the St Mary&#8217;s side said to be on the verge of confirming the 25 year old Israeli international.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Peretz is currently on loan at Bundesliga outfit Hamburg, but he has served as backup to the number one and played only two cup matches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In December, Peretz told national press: &#8220;I expected to be number one. So far, this has not been the case. Of course, I&#8217;m not happy about it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I make no secret of that. I don&#8217;t think any footballer is satisfied if he doesn&#8217;t play. My goal is still to play every game.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, Saints are looking to improve on Gavin Bazunu, who has been statistically one of the worst shot-stoppers in the Championship this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  German football outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/ueberraschung-hsv-keeper-macht-den-abflug-69554840a75a88580a6dc9b7?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bild<\/a> have reported that Peretz is now set to switch Hamburg for Saints &#8216;with immediate effect&#8217;, joining on loan for the campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saints have been regularly linked with Peretz, including ahead of the summer transfer window earlier in 2025, when they did not sign a number one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Peretz has made seven appearances for Bayern since joining from Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2023, where he played 24 times in UEFA competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He saved two Erling Haaland penalties in a World Cup qualifier in October this year, although the striker scored a hat-trick as Norway won 5-0.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Head coach Tonda Eckert has refused to be publicly critical of Bazunu, 23, but is said to privately agree that the position needs to be bolstered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams can sign players again from January 1, with the St Mary&#8217;s side said to be on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-345997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}