{"id":628182,"date":"2023-09-01T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=628182"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:33:53","slug":"southampton-complete-signing-of-scottish-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/09\/01\/southampton-complete-signing-of-scottish-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton Complete Signing of Scottish International Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton have completed the signing of striker Ross Stewart from Championship rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/09\/01\/sunderland-finally-address-problem-position\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a>. Scottish international striker Stewart has signed a three-year deal at the South Coast club with the transfer fee believed to be worth up to \u00a310 million. The transfer was confirmed via the Southampton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southamptonfc.com\/en\/news\/article\/saints-swoop-for-sunderland-striker-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6lloJkN-L_Q\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LWOF YouTube<\/a> channel for live transfer deadline day news.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Southampton Complete Signing of Scottish International Striker From Sunderland<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The collection is complete \ud83c\udf81 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cP4o3VKJf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cP4o3VKJf6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC\/status\/1697738553839529994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was an on-and-off transfer saga throughout the majority of deadline day. Reports suggested that the striker failed his medical; however, these were wide of the mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">27-year-old Ross Stewart has not played since January when he was injured in a FA Cup game at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/28\/tosin-adarabioyo-fulham-monaco-fabrizio-romano\/\" target=\"_self\">Fulham<\/a>. However, he is expected to be back in action in around a month. The Scotland international played just 13 games last season but scored 10 goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Saints were also interested in the Black Cats winger <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/31\/sunderland-transfer-deadline-day-eve-round-up\/\" target=\"_self\">Patrick Roberts<\/a> having offered up to \u00a35 million on Thursday evening. Sunderland stated that the offer was well below their valuation, therefore a deal is now looking unlikely at this stage of transfer deadline day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Ross Stewart on Moving to Southampton From Sunderland<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Ross Stewart spoke to the Southampton official website shortly after signing from Sunderland. The striker said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted. It\u2019s been a really long day, but it\u2019s been really good too. In the end, I\u2019m delighted to get everything done in time and I can move forward now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouthampton is a massive club. In recent years it\u2019s been a Premier League club and for me it\u2019s a great challenge to come down here and play football for a team that\u2019s going to be competing at the top of the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Saints Director of Football on New Signing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Director of Football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southamptonfc.com\/en\/news\/article\/saints-swoop-for-sunderland-striker-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Wilcox said<\/a>: \u201cRoss is a really dynamic and intelligent player, so we\u2019re delighted to have added him to the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis form and development over the past couple of seasons have been very impressive, and we\u2019re confident this will be a great place for him to continue that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a fantastic work-rate and he\u2019s a great character too, so we believe he\u2019ll be a really popular addition and an excellent fit for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Featured image courtesy of https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/photo\/431334 via Wikipedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton have completed the signing of Scottish international striker Ross Stewart from Championship rivals Sunderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":628228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,20,22,28],"tags":[7891,6802,6579,2604],"class_list":["post-628182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-southampton","category-sunderland","category-transfers","tag-ross-stewart","tag-southampton-transfer-news","tag-sunderland-transfer-news","tag-transfer-deadline-day"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}