Golac's Cunning Stunts

I do get we have to cut our cloth and all that. But I think with Tella and Che we go up. So selling them is massive (perhaps unnecessary?) risk and for the money we get for them it’s peanuts compared to a return to the prem. Hoping for good replacements if they go but who is going to sell good players this late on in the window (apart from us it seems)

Take all this with a pinch of salt, but Wales Online report that Saints were in for Piroe and Leeds did a better job. Also state that Piroe preferred a move to Saints Wales Online state that Piroe was actually quite keen on a move to Southampton after talks with the Saints, excited to reunite with Russell Martin. But, Leeds did not give up and worked hard to get him. “The level of effort Leeds made to sign him proved to be a key factor in persuading him to move to west Yorkshire, working round the clock with Piroe’s camp this week to thrash out nitty, gritty bits of the deal.”

Leeds had loaned a massive amount of players didn't they? Lucky their owners are backing them with some dough or they would be screwed

I think loan deals are always a big part of teams strategies when relegated from the PL. I know there needs to be a balance, but you don't want to be stuck with a load of championship players on long contracts if you find yourself promoted back to the PL?

Leeds apparently in advanced talks for Paintsil. Deal to be worth around £8.5m

...don't have to be Nostradamus to predict the rest of your sentence?

I confess to never having heard of him. Is he any good?

To be fair, I think we would have kept Che but what chance do we have when his middle name is Everton?

He won't sign a new contract. We can take the £15m now and invest in a new striker or we can run his contract down and keep him for the season. Problems with 1st option: Need to replace the goals he would likely score for us this season. Need 20 - 25 goals from a new striker. Get that wrong and it would likely be the difference between getting promoted or not Problems with 2nd option: If we do not get promoted, he walks for free and we have to get a new striker minus the £15m we could have used for that purchase. Also, we run the risk of a pissed off player who doesn't settle and give his all for us (think that wouldn't be the case with Che as he is an honest lad) As he won't sign a new contract, I think the club has to sell in order to protect a £15m investment. Everything depends on the quality of replacement (obvious signing is Piroe i think)

🙂 fair play

always up for an insane signing. It's been the downfall of many a saintsweb poster

Apart from the old firm, playing in the Scottish leagues is probably similar to playing San Marino every week

Come on what chance has he got against the mighty che 😀 He did score in scotlands 6-0 win v San Marino I see 💪

Might be wrong, but wasn't that the first season they went to 3pts for a win and if it was still 2pts for a win, we would have won the league?

Get the Bristol city lad - looks class

Flynn is going to be sorely disappointed when he gets down to reading Saintsweb and finds out our ambition is actually to spend a season or two in the champs rebuilding and fixing our losing mentality 😂 (can't remember which poster on here was saying that the other day

We know he has hunger ffs, but will he use it to perform on the pitch or to eat more raw chicken livers..

If he got a knock it certainly wasn’t from the ball hitting him

Rumours are that brentford are sniffing round that guy so probably a nothing story as far as we’re concerned

In January Che will be able to negotiate his own deals

He is a fully converted cult member of sports republic. Honestly wonder if he is a plant or works for them in some way