Why are you writing him off due to height and his club? In 1997 would you not want Claude Makélélé to sign for Saints because he is 5 foot 9 and plays for Nantes?
Flynn Downes isn't as small as his Wikipedia page and other websites claim. He is not 5 foot 8! Heights of footballers on lots of websites are often nonsense.
I think random Saints fans on X with 120 followers are unlikely to get transfer exclusives. X is a hive of random fans making up transfer rumours. I don't think it even warrants an "apparently"!
Their income and wage budget would still be tiny compared to ours. Our matchday income, commercial deals and most significantly huge parachute payments blow them out of the water.