Crouchie's Lawyer

Given how much we have pulled in from the sales of Tall Paul, Sulemana, Edozie & Bednarek plus the loan fee we will get for Ramsdale not to mention the saving on wages getting all those (and KWP) off the books, surely we are in a pretty damn healthy financial position now? It was alleged we weren't really in a bad financial situation before all of these sales and only really needed to reduce the squad size because we had too many players from a coaching and who can be involved in the matchday squad perspective. If this is the case then I would like to propose we don't fuck about with our prized Fernandes asset. Say we won't take less than £60m for him now and if nobody is willing to pay that then he remains with us. Villa did it with Grealish a number of years ago and he stayed and played in the Championship. Vardy (albeit he was older) did it with Leicester a couple of years ago when I'm sure he could have moved to a Prem team for a last hurrah rather than stay in the Championship. Show some balls Saints. if we don't desperately need the money then hold out for a ridiculous fee. If Brighton can buy players for peanuts and regularly sell them for £50m+ a year later then why can't we do it with our star asset? He has 4 years left on his contract and seems like a decent lad. Tell him we will sell him next summer if we don't get promoted or if we do get promoted and his stock rises further, we will sell him for what we deem an acceptable amount then. Liverpool have just paid £80m odd for a player who has just had one decent season in the German league. Prior to that, as a striker he scored 4 goals in 15 appearances in 2023-2024 and 3 goals in 25 in the 2022-2023 season. Hardly pulling up trees on the goalscoring front in previous seasons. Young talent is now being sold for big money. £40m seems a bit meh for someone with as much potential as Fernandes who has proven he can cut it in the top league.

That's my guess. Player thought he would have decent interest from top level teams this summer. Perhaps hasn't materialised as he had hoped. We come along and his gut reaction to us is "nah, I'm fine thanks" thinking he will get better. Better hasn't come along for whatever reason so his agent tells him to come out and say you will now consider the proposal from Saints, as this may mean that teams in the tier between Saints and the top level teams are alerted (the likes of Brentford, West Ham, Everton, Fulham, Brighton etc) if they see you saying you would consider joining Saints in the Championship. Would love it to happen but I'd be very, very surprised if it does.

Fair amount of bed wetting starting to show on here now. Am I happy with the current squad as it stands? No, not overly. I think there are a few key areas we still need to strengthen in and a number of players who I want to see leave. Do I think the squad will change by the time the window SLAMS shut (TM), yes. There will be a few who leave, a few who come in. Would it be better to have the full finalised squad sorted the day preseason starts? Yes, of course but that's not how the world of professional football works. Football is a food chain, the big guys normally eat first and what's left over falls down the food chain to the smaller teams. Christ, it even happens at under 10's girls football. We have a couple of players looking to join the team I help coach but I know they have a couple of other options they are waiting on (academies). If they get into those then they won't sign for us. If they don't get in, they will very likely sign for us. If it happens in non competitive kids football, it certainly happens in professional football where there are millions of pounds being spent and wages being earned etc. It's just how it works. Always been the way since these transfer windows came into effect and will always be the way. Some utterly stupid suggestions on here about just going out and signing the players we need before offloading our players. Yeah, the solution to shrinking our already bloated squad is to sign more players. What happens if we cannot get rid of the players we would ideally like to get rid of? We end up with an even bigger squad which is more difficult to manage not just from a financial sense (extra wages) but also from a coaching perspective having to coach many more players than you'd like. There is also a bigger chance of player unrest in bigger squads too which can cause upset in the dressing room.

Blackmore is loving being able to get away with saying Wanky as much as possible. He is milking it

Player just been bought on in goal for them is called Juan Key. Sums up how we are playing really... pretty Juan Key

I have 2 TV's in my house which I have the IPTV installed on. I don't watch the two at the same time and asked if I would be ok to use a one device subscription if I watch on two TV's but not at the same time. He said that was fine. I had the same with Saints Player (app installed on my phone and two separate TV's in the house). So long as you're not physically watching something on more than one device/TV at the same time then you can get away with a one device subscription. I think you only need a multi device if you are using them at the same time, e.g someone is watching a film in one room and someone else is watching the footy in another room on another device.

I too have lost access to Saintsplayer which is a little frustrating given I was 6 months into a 12 month subscription but it is what it is. I have just signed up for 2 months with Xtreme as above. Looks and feels just like SaintsPlayer to be fair. Assume therefore the football will play the same on this as it did on SaintsPlayer but that's why I have only signed up for 2 months rather than 12 months, just in case it isn't as good. User interface is the same if you use Smarters IPTV app (either on your iOS device or your smart TV. You just need to go into your IPTV and click the switch user in the top right and when you get your new log in details you can create a new user there. The website for Xtreme (as someone has linked above) has a WhatsApp number which you can use to communicate with them. They are very quick to respond. Subs can be purchased via Paypal, card or bank transfer.

Please bring in a #9 before the end of the window then I think we would have got all areas covered and I think it would be a pretty solid window. Can't rely on the Loch ness Drogba this season. He will be a Brucey Bonus if he a) returns to full fitness and b) is able to perform at Prem level given he has in essence jumped from L1 to the Prem. Without the option for a Prem loan now, and without shifting any of the deadwood it's unlikely to be a purchase at this late stage so would leave the prospect of it being a foreign loan or a player who is currently or will shortly be without a club... Can't see it happening but still holding out hope something comes about late on

To be fair, with the seeming lack of alternative options, given a sensible package which protects us against paying him a small fortune to sit on our physio table if/when he gets crocked, I'd take Ings back as that central striker, focal point I think the team needs. I can see him thriving off the kind of through balls Fernandes and Dibling were playing against Cardiff and him and Archer would provide good competition for that role. If we do get Cornet too, he would be a replacement for Edozie who may go out on loan and assuming he can stay injury free, would probably offer a better goal/assist contribution than Edozie too.

Just got a Google news ping on my phone about Saints lining up a 'double swoop' from West Ham in Cornet and Ings... Not seen any recent links to Ings (aside from some posters on here mentioning it) so thought I would share A separate article on Givemesport actually says triple swoop and includes JWP as one of the 3 but we know that's not happening with him seemingly off to Forest.

Never normally ITK but Fraser on a flight from Newcastle to Soton. Mate is on the same flight and just told me. Could be nothing, could be something

Wow, his non pen xG looks pretty terrible for a Striker at 0.24 and that pie chart thing has his goal threat really low too. Chance creation isn't much better and goal efficiency only slightly better too. Still ball retention is pretty decent which will fit in well with our sideways and backwards passing style... Despite what that Saints Brazilian poster has said and his goal scoring stats which to be fair look ok, I'm still not convinced by this signing but I guess we will have to trust in Russ and the scouting team if they genuinely think this is the guy who will hopefully be that focal point up top we so desperately need.

I appreciate we cannot loan from Chelsea and their small country population sized squad but there must be other options from other Prem teams for brink strikers looking to get game time?! Or even similar types of players from big European teams. You'd think there is more chance of a player playing in one of the big European teams perhaps being able to speak English better than someone who has spent the majority of their playing time in South America and there is also the climate too. Moving from South America to the UK would take a bit more acclimatization than say Germany or France. Personally I would take something like that over a loan for someone who seemingly has the ability to earn £250 from You've Been Framed every time he steps on the pitch going by that bloopers reel we have seen of Alberto.

If the advantages of shared scouting lead us to conclude this Brazilian, who their own fans seemingly do not want is the best option in the whole world for what we need right now then I don't think their scouts are up to much cop either

Arma just looks like a little kid playing against men. May be a bit quicker than some but doesn't have what it takes to beat a player and has no chance physically either