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We won’t get relegated because we didn’t block the pathway for a youth team player, if we get relegated it will be because the starting 11 and senior backups were not good enough. I was talking in general and if you read what I said it doesn’t apply to this individual if he is that far off the first team.

This is crazy we should always be making transfer decisions with the academy in mind, if we have a lad who is on the verge of first team selection we shouldn’t block his path by bringing in another player in that position unless that player is already proven good enough to displace the player occupying that position. Bringing in a gamble that then clogs up the squad for two/three years is crazy when we could have gambled on the youngster and lost nothing.

It is the same one, he has had a decent career since leaving us, was always talented just not really suited to English football.

So who is the right consulate who is affordable? Plenty of people on this thread saying bring in a new goal keeper on a free but who and can we actually afford them? Clearly we could have adjusted our priorities and found some Money but we are not talking £100k a week plus so let’s have some names!

If redmond was consistently as good as he is in flashes he would be a top 4 player he isn’t hence he plays for us!

We’ll see but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if he turns out to be anything other than average (average isn’t a bad thing!) looking at how he has done so far. I’m not saying he is a bad player or that he won’t have a decent career with us just that we won’t be selling him on for 60 million in a couple of seasons. This isn’t a bad thing we need a base of decent average premier league players but it does mean there will be an opportunity for this lad joining us.

I don’t think we need to get rid and I didn’t say anything of the sort I just said he seems a bit m’eh. I’m not convinced yet and you can hardly argue he’s been outstanding so there is an opportunity for this lad to displace him.

Is Sergio Romero still going on a free surely he’d not what that much this late in the window and he must be better than what we have!

Peraud looks a bit m’eh to me this lad might bench him if he is as good as reports make out.

He’s played over 100 premier league games so he is clearly a decent footballer and is a great squad player for us or any other mid lower table team as others have rightly pointed out who better then him is going to want to be at saints and not be a starter? I hope he see’s out his career with us he’d be a very handy player if we get relegated and will always do a job when needed if we don’t. Not every player can be VvD and if they were we wouldn’t keep hold of them Stephens, Romeu etc are the consistent base of our squad that we need with the inevitable comings and going’s of better players.

As long as the buy back clause is substantial enough! The nightmare scenario is when it is too low and Chelsea but him back just to immediately sell him in for even more money!

Must be ban worthy? It is utterly bizarre behaviour!

Who has said Carrillo was a good signing I think he is the only pretty much universally acknowledged obviously terrible deal apart from the two or three nutters that thought he had a career record of a goal every other game! I’m really not sure what you are trying to say what clear and obvious errors every club makes mistakes and we have made plenty but most were understandable gambles as is this latest proposed signing.

Boufal had his moments and it was obvious why we bought him he looked like a good player, similarly with Elyonoussi although I’m puzzled how the scouts missed his total lack of pace but clearly neither were obviously rubbish players before they came here and Boufal was a close shave with a decent signing. The revisionism that goes on round here really is something special! Forsters contract really isn’t that baffling it was around the time he was in the England squad and before his decent into mediocrity had kicked in, there was a time when he looked a very good keeper. Long’s contract I agree was odd and Walcott I still think is a decent squad player for us, I’m really not sure who people on this board think we should be signing!

Lemina had the potential to be an outstanding signing and make us a decent profit unfortunately his character has ruined his career! Hoedt also looked potentially decent but turned out to be a disappointment and Gunn while over priced looked like a good buy for the future but unfortunately we ruin goalkeepers somehow! It certainly isn’t fair to compare them to Guido who was obviously pants they were all much more calculated risks that just didn’t pan out, pretty much every club signs more duds than stars regardless of budget as you can never be sure when you bring someone in even more so when operating on a budget!

Brilliant finish that will certainly give his confidence a boost, never looked in doubt the second he got the ball! Fingers crossed that is a sign of things to come!

Crap day so far then as Tottenham seem to be joining Leicester in chasing JWP the club really need to resist all but the most stupid offers for him. The CB situation is baffling it’s been obvious he was going for weeks and we had shown how it should be done with Armstrong lined up to join as soon as Ings left. Not what obafemi is thinking as I don’t see home getting a lot of game time this season and when the club have made it clear they don’t want you surely you are better off going!

Any transfer news? This thread has been off topic for ages!

FF there was a really good keeper in there once so maybe he can finally find his form again (just in time to earn another bumper contract then turn pants again!)

He had his moments briefly in his first season but his injury record before we signed him was absolutely dire and then low and behold he retired after 2 seasons, making him our record signing at a time when we didn't spend a lot of money was bonkers

Hirst what a waste of 2 million quid that was! Imagine the row on here if we made a 30 year old with a dodgy injury record our record signing this summer! back on the positive side Williams and Telfer must have both been 29/30 when Strachan signed them and both of those deals turned out well for the club.

Hughes and Kanchelskis were both dire so far over the hill they were out of sight, Le Saux was brilliant and played with real commitment and professionalism even in our relegation season when his class was still obvious. I'll throw another crap oldie in Stuart Ripley, I was hoping for a good swansong from him when he arrived but he was dire.

That would depend on the wording of the clause if we had any sense it would be 20% of any profit we make. I’ve never understood a sell on clause being enforced if you make a loss on a player.

Lambert for now, his story with the Saints is just too good.

I don’t think anyone blames him personally! If someone offered me a fortune to do a job I’m incapable of and a three year contract I’d snap it up!