Saints agree fee for Davis

Southampton will today complete the signing of goalkeeper Kelvin Davis from Sunderland.

After a week of haggling Saints have finally agreed a fee – believed to be around £1m (€1.5m) – with their Championship rivals for the 29-year-old, who cost Sunderland £1.25m (€1.8m) from Ipswich last summer.

Manager George Burley is in desperate need of goalkeeping cover at St Mary’s, with only 38-year-old Kevin Miller and rookie Michael Poke fit.

Last season’s number one, Polish teenager Bartosz Bialkowski, will not be available until September at the earliest as he continues his recovery from a knee injury.

Davis will become Burley’s sixth signing of a busy summer, following the arrivals of Grzegorz Rasiak, Jermaine Wright, Marcelo Sarmiento, Bradley Wright-Phillips and Portuguese centre-back Pele.