MarkSFC

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At the risk of sounding stupid, who is TP?

Best players GK...AmC. need an upgrade! LB...Taylor, Manning, kids. 👍 RB...KWP (if stays), Sugawara. 👍 Bree. Not so good if KWP goes in terms of back up. CB...Bednarek, THB 👍. Edwards. High potential. Stephens, okish back up. Wood. Doesn't look great so far. Ideally (unlikely) get rid of Stepehns and get someone better than the lot of them!! CM....Downes 👍 Charles, not great. Smallbone, average. NEED SOMEONE ELSE AM....Alcarez 👍 Smallbone?? Dibling, looks good. Lallana, happy eith him as sub. NEED SOMEONE BETTER THAN ALL OF THEM WINGERS/FRONT PLAYERS Edozie 👍 Sulemana, jury out. Armstrong 👍 BBD 👍 SAA 👍 STRIKERS Stewart. Hopefully comes good as I think he can. Armstrong 👍 BBD 👍 Mara, get rid. NEED AN OUT AND OUT STRIKER So my take on our situation is that we need players in these positions that are BETTER than we have. GK- Ramsdale 🤞🤞🤞 CM - 🤔 AM - O'Riley still available but who knows STRIKER - 🤔 CB - I'd take Gomez from Liverpool. But someone with good experience or huge potential. I still expect us to get Fraser back too. So far a good window, and a bottom 6 team, need 4 or 5 quality signings / loans to push further.

Like I've said in other posts, his value will mostly be on the training pitch and his sharing of his experience which cannot be underestimated. Of our current squad he has the most in that regard. He is clearly a coach in the making and we will benefit from him for sure, even if on the outside it looks like he's not contributing alot on Match day on the pitch. I think he's a very good signing.

Now he would be awesome!!!!

That does not mean he is better than S Armstrong is/was!!!

Whenever a player touted as our big/main signing of any particular window seems to drag on (for weeks after first link) I think it rarely happens. It's clear he has other suitors, and as I've stated already, I believe if we are to get him it needs to/will happen this week. The reason I think that is that this delay indicates that one party at leastis not settled on the idea; either we are limiting our bid (which indicates we don't hold him "that highly or important"), or he is not completely sold on the idea (which is clearly not great), or Celtic are playing hardball (which will just drag it out further and probably create a bidding war). All this delay tends to dampen the excitement of this potential. We certainly need a player of a higher level in the attacking midfield area, and if MO proves to be we shall see but I cant help thinking we have moved on already (caveat, it happens today or tomorrow🤣🤣).

I think Lallanas value will be more in the training pitch. That doesn't mean he won't have a part to play on match day but I think it was a very shrewd signing. Probably as much with a view to doing the coaching team in a year or two as sharing his immense PL experience with our developing youngsters. I can see why every player has been signed so far, this is exciting, we seem to be very clear in our targets. O'Riley (🤞🤞), an out and out striker (still wonder about Broja being worth a punt), another DCM (on the basis Charles does go) seems necessary, plus of course the most important signing, a GK. Great to have a really positive summer window!!!

Well the Mets stadium was a replacement for the Shea stadium...and presumably the bolt of lighting referes to a bright light in the sky of signings or that it strikes again at celtic🤔🤔🤔

As does Ben Brereton Diaz!

I'm sure the club is days ahead of the "news" in their actions. It always amuses me when people comment on these tweets as if they are live news!!!

If we REALLY do want O'Riley and he's that good for us, then I don't see why we've not made it happen yet given at least one other team seems interested. Some players are just "one on the list of suitable options" and some are more specific. If we don't get this done this week I doubt we will.

Yeah I agree, 5 more sounds alot but it is needed. Some players will go, ABK, Lis, Sulemana maybe, and a few of the youngsters will no doubt go out on loan. Dibling should be in the squad, as should SAA. I also agree GK is critical. We've heard whispers that lots is going on so likely there will be a few more new players by the end of the window.

BBD is a decent if unspectacular signing. Unlike many I think Stewart will come good and I suspect the club will assume this. We still have AA who can of course play through the middle but I'd love it if we get one more. If we can get O'Riley (who I admit I've never seen play, but from all reports is decent) plus this lad from metz then that's some good attacking business. I think we still lack another DCM, hopefully another coming in there. Plus a GK. If we can get these done then it will be a very good window, which is going very well so far!

Just get him in!!! 20m or 30m....who cares!!!

It's an Ox eye daisy

SR, Dragon, have stated their desire to be a top 8 contending club if I remember correctly. This means they MUST invest in some quality players. Too many clubs are now purchasing players for 20, 30, 40m, clubs who we might consider outside the top 6. The reality is, they either step up or we will just go straight down or certainly not last more than a couple of seasons. I expect 3 more players at least in the 20-30m bracket to sign this window regardless of what many people seem to think is a very limited budget. These guys aren't actually srltupid!!! As for the youngsters conversations, of course ideally we keep them and they develop into PL class players but if the clubs judgement is that they won't or the money is too much to refuse (and helps current scenario) then so be it. I don't care what name represent Saints, I just want those names to be good enough to help us compete every season in the top 10/12 without any potential worries for relegation - but this is getting harder every single season - hence the need to buy some quality now.

This does not say AMc us number one GK....

How do you define "right players for our system"?

If the owners are serious about stating in and competing in this league they will have to spend big 25m+ on at least 1 or two players each season. The quality in the top 10 is getting better and better and only those outside that who can find some gems but also get a few decent quality players in their team will not be fighting relegation. We have potential in our twma and squad and that's good but we need some real quality NOW. Ramsdale would be just that. Here's hoping the club know this and can pull it off.

He's played there a lot! But I get your point.

Is it possible that we are planning on KWP staying and signing a new deal and that Taylor will actually be used as a left-sided CB (probably in a 3), with Sugawara/KWP and KWP/Manning/Larios as the wing back choices and as the youngsters develop?

Ramsdale would be a very decent signing, preferably permanently but on loan is clearly most likely. Even if he cost 25-30m he'd be worth it as he is still only 26. Personally I think he's better than Pickford. We've done some good business so far, and unlike some others I do believe we will splash a bit of cash on 3 or 4 really good players, as in 20m type of bracket. Ramsdale (ideally!!), a striker, and a winger. Still think we need another DCM (Ghoddos sounded like a good option to me, but seems to have gone very quiet), even the OX. Jack Clarke I think would be a good signing and then we need a striker. Breton-Diaz would be OK, even that Luton striker. We need a couple really.

What problem?

I think we will spend 15-20m on Downes, 15-20m on Clarke, 20-25m on ORiley, 10-12m on this French CM and 20m on a striker of note. We have some income already, which may of covered the signings made, and we will probably sell KWP for 10-15, ABK for similar, Alcaraz for 15-20, and maybe Sulemana for similar. Which broadly speaking covers a big chunk of that. It's folly (not yohann🤣) to think we won't spend 15-25m each on 4 or 5 players because the league is so much stronger than even a year ago and I'm pretty confident our owners get the importance of stating up for quite a while!!! We may not get our first choices as such but there will be many choices that we have of good quality. I have a good feeling we will be very pleased in a few weeks with the business completed.