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Saints pay Charles his wages directly - so he wont have been impacted at all. SWFC pay us a fee equivalent to his wages. Not sure how/when that is paid, but potentially there will be a debt. As we know from our own history, the other football clubs get paid first, the other non football debts get settled afterwards.

we must see Bree/Sugawara as 'OK' otherwise RB would have been deemed 'critical'.

Seems a good price. I guess we think Sugawara will work out.

It will be interesting to see how much they and Sunderland spend in total this summer and on how many players.

Looks like Demarai Gray might be going back to Brum. I'm a long time admirer - he always seems to cut us to ribbons - but the timing (of his transfers) has never been quite right for Saints.

Ghana soccernet says Sulemana's medical is this Sunday https://ghanasoccernet.com/kamaldeen-sulemana-cuts-short-ghana-holiday-to-undergo-atalanta-medical-after-e21-5m-deal

Not sure if this was posted earlier in the week, but I see Lumley got a gig at Bristol City. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce83m37023ko

Not necessarily. What if the contract offer was way below the level he could get elsewhere?

Went over this at the time - he did provide end product, it's just that some fans don't really understand what that means. Personally I am disappointed to see him go. Edozie and Fraser are not as good.

We were told we could sign three players without having to sell and then if players leave we can potentially sign others.

another winger `fails' at Saints.

If he hasn't got a relegation release clause in his contract, then any angst (and there won't be) should be put at his agent's door. Can't see him going to Turkey. Bournemouth need a keeper.

Emegha signed for Strasbourg for quite a decent sum £11m. They'd probably want double what they spent, which might be an issue. Right age and profile. I know jack about Edon Zhegorova other than he missed most of last season through injury. I think Santos was similar. Didn't he do his cruciate? Seem to recall Lamine Camara was mentioned on a transfer thread last season or the season before? Central midfielder with one really great long range goal on his youtube video and a shed load of sliding tackles.

If Ramsdale sees his wages cut by 40% (assuming he has a contract reduction similar to other Saints players), then if we loan him out , he will only get paid (by us) that much lower amount. I would imagine he'd much prefer to continue to get the full 100% amount, so unless the PL agrees to pay more (thus matching his wages from last season), he might push for transfer that would probably ensure the PL size wage.

I don't think championship sides sign players that, on paper, are good enough for the Prem. If they were "good enough", that's probably where they would plying their trade. That means you either sign players on loan that can't get in a PL team, like we did with Brooks, or sign players we think/hope can make the step up. I don't think we will be spending £15m on "championship players" like Sargent or £10m on Maja to get us up fully expecting they won't cut the mustard in the PL. We will invest in players that we feel can get us up and then compete in the league above. You could argue that we already have the tried and trusted "championshp" players like Edwards, Charles, Downes, Armstrong etc. In the end, the club just need to sign the very best they can. The league we are in (and budget available) will dictate that.

Are the reds the same shade S_C? they look different on your pic.

Let's just buy him now.

Some turnaround from me having to defend their transfer policy on here to it now being lauded. They sold their best player in Johnson to balance the books a couple of summers ago. Last summer they didn't really have to fend off the vultures. Looks like they might price their star players out of moves. Fair play to them.

Loan in talent to get us up and then look again if we go up. Next summer we can offload more players (out of contract etc) and the attraction of PL football (hopefully) helps us buy a better caliber of player.

That's makes sense, but we can't buy decent championship players this summer on three year deals and discard them if we go up. We will be buying players we think can get us up AND then compete at PL level. Perhaps someone like Jack Rudoni meets both criteria.

Thanks. I forgot about all of those. Olusegun is a right back and Zeneli a traditional central midfielder, so not sure they fit the attacking midfielder description. I don't know Rudonis game so will check him out.

the top players in the league are looking for moves to the prem. We will get the leftovers - championship players that the PL don't think are good enough. Is that who we want?

If Downs is possibly the striker, who is the attacking midfielder? Can anyone remind me who we have been linked with in that position?

Maybe he can relocate to the monkey chicken petting zoo car park? Hang on, that is part of the St Marys gentrification plan, right?

The championship will provide the extra time and space his crap first touch needs, so he might be effective at that level. It will be some turnaround/improvement for him to be a PL player should we get there.