Midfield_General

What’s the record?

Thank you for rescuing my absolute shambles of a post

Yep, probably. I've had a few beers tbh

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That's his song sorted anyway Bang bang!

Surely we have to give him squad number 99

Everything seems very, very quiet on ABK, Sulemana and Onuachu. Can see Onuachu going later on as the Turkish window stays open for another two weeks, but thought we might have had at least a sniff of a loan for one of the others by now. Upside is that KWP is still here and with six hours to go there haven't been any rumours (yet). Would be such a result if we can keep him, at least until January.

Fuck me he's good 🤣

Yep. Ramsdale was in the Saints end for the play-off final, dressed in that fancy dress costume, to support his mate Brooks who was playing for us

Absolutely incredible signing. Has the potential to be the most important single player we've signed since Ings, and the best keeper we've had since Niemi. Welcome aboard Rambo

Even so - 18 years old, not broken into the first team, way down the pecking order and going into the last year of his contract.

£10m??

Ah yes, a phenomenon known in scientific circles as 'The Scowcroft Paradox'

and four years away from playing on it

Aah ok, didn’t get that, apols. Fair enough then, maybe just change the title to ‘non-Saints deadline day’ or something then, because the first post doesn’t really set that up and talks about what Saints are going to do

Totally. @Lighthouse can we merge these and keep it all to one thread otherwise it's going to be really hard to follow

Yup, agree. But bringing in Cornet who likes to play on the left makes me wonder if the longer term plan is to use BBD more centrally when we need to or if Archer doesn't work out. I hope so, because BBD doesn't look like a winger to me and Armstrong has never worked down the middle. Still feeling greedy and hoping for a deadline day centre-forward.

Yeah I know, I'm not saying that we'll play 4-2-1-3, it's more just meant to be a rough sketch of the general areas of the pitch that these players tend to play in. Obviously many of them are interchangeable and can play different positions, we'll play different formations etc. Just trying to illustrate it in terms of the general 'at least two players for every position' rule, to see if there's anywhere that we obviously still look too weak.

I wonder if this is essentially the squad for the season now then (with players in brackets unlikely to stay/ be available). If Onuachu, Sulemana, ABK and Manning can be shipped out over the course of tomorrow, maybe there's still room for a more traditional centre-forward type, possibly that Gift fella or someone like him.

Could well be decent in his own right, but he's another one who likes to play wide so if that's the end of our business then that still leaves us very light at centre forward. Onuachu obviously doesn't have a future, Stewart can't be expected to suddenly get fit and stay fit. That puts a huge amount of pressure on Archer, because what are our other options down the middle? Armstrong we've tried many times and it doesn't work. What other options do we have at no. 9 if Archer doesn't work out - move Brereton-Diaz into the middle? Looks like we're relying on Archer, Armstrong, BBD and Cornet for most of the goals, plus whatever Fernandes, Dibling, and maybe SAA/ Lallana can chip in. I wouldn't count Edozie or Sulemana as a goal threat based on their records. I'm really not convinced that's enough firepower at PL level. Hope I'm wrong though.

Personally I’m quite glad we’re not spaffing £18m on Alberto, looked like a very high-risk signing to me.

Hahaha good Win / win

"Still fucked", was Martin's surprisingly frank answer in the presser earlier.

Welease Wamsdale!