Saint86

Fucks sake, sometimes is genuinely painful being a saints fan.

Well said MLG.

I would say this summer has gone pretty much as expected given his quotes tbh. That will change if the signings are poor though.

Circa £1M-1.25M (assuming 20-25% of profit)... Which would be paid in installments and subject to any sell on clauses. So we'd pocket nearly all of it at least, although i doubt we'll be free to reinvest more than 75%.

JWP also isn't carrying any baggage related to injuires. He's remained largely very fit and untroubled - so you would think he can go on for a fair while. If ever we were going to bring a player back to end his career at saints, JWP would seem the best option.

Isn't it just fiddling the sale so that they pay less sell on for Marmoush?

As much as a tie up with Valve / Steam could be good for the commercials - i sadly doubt there is anything other than coincidence in it for Saints.

As would Fernandes, KWP, Bednarek, and even AA in January. I actually think freshening up the squad isn't a bad thing in general - sides need that to change things up to move forward (or it gets too stale and comfortable). I wonder if Brentford fans were panicking every day of the transfer window whilst they player trading their way to consistent playoff finishes and building a new stadium in the 2nd tier? 🙄. We have an owner who is publicly committed to the club this summer, and a DoF who has credit in the bank... And at the start of the summer pretty much everyone would have acknowledged at least 2 bigger names being sold and replaced - So far we've only lost Charles and the signs suggest he will be replaced... The window hasn't slammed shut just yet!

Spors isn't Rasmus... But equally, significant harm has already been done.

Why do people care what other fans think of our fans? I thought we'd already acknowledged that everyone is going to abuse us as cheats this season and so we had moved swiftly on to circling the wagons and adopting a siege mentality 😅😆

Had forgotten what our fans can be like tbh. 1 defeat and we seem to be going straight back to digging out certain players and hyper focusing any negative facet of their games, social media posts on turning St Mary's toxic if we lose to stoke, and calls for the manger to be sacked. Utterly mental - think some people are forgetting just how bad the atmosphere was at St Mary's for multiple seasons - put spy gate to one side, and we've had a fantastic 2026 - all the fans need to stick behind the team and make sure we don't let go of the atmosphere last season created... We surely didn't stick with tonda just to throw everything in the bin after a poor 45min in the opening game 🤦‍♂️

Personally think it's a bit like moving house at the moment. We did get some good business done early, but now we need to sell players to get further additions (and the club have been open about the desire to shift a lot of players), and we are stuck waiting in the general malaise where other clubs need to make their moves to unjam the chain - still think we'll get 1-2 more players. It's easy to attach negativity to this, and fret about the impact of the -4points or potential Tonda sanction, but end of the day, players come here for a good pay cheque, to develop, and to have a shot at the premier league or get themselves a bigger move in a few years... Saints tick all those boxes comfortably for this division... And if we weren't attractive we wouldn't have signed Peretz (best keeper in the league), Larin, or dobbin. I recall as well that last summer had a similar feeling before we cleared house and then got in the quartet at the end of the window.

Sounds like Anel won't be happening then, seems Burnley have got in ahead of us.

Would have been pretty hard not to improve that squad in fairness. They had nothing coming off the bench really, not for a promotion side anyway. And it's not like Conway or Whittaker are good enough for autos either. Saints don't need to go scatter fun all over the squad, we need 1-2 quality additions - it's a totally different scenario.