Sport Republic

[SaintNewForest]

22 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Romulo has stated in the press part of the reason he joined Göztepe was the Southampton connection and route to the Premier League.That is a benefit of the model. Things change after relegation. 

Had we stayed in the Premier League we would have been on a better position to sign him. But it is delusional to think a player would turn down a move to RB Leipzig to join us in the Championship. 

You can't say something that might have happened if we hadn't got relegated is a benefit to us 🤣 

Where in the press did he state that, out of interest? Be interested to see his exact wording, and what was asked. I do agree with you, however, that its unrealistic to think we can just click our fingers and he'd come here over RB Leipzig just because he's part of the ownership group. 

[S-Clarke]

49 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Bullshit! Did you not bother reading it? The first paragraph gives a benefit of the model. Which you asked for!

i.e players being attracted to moves to our sister clubs because they see it as a pathway to the Premier League. Romulo stated that the Saints connection influenced his move to Göztepe. 

I then explained how relegation made a move to us less likely  especially when as a Championship club we aren't going to be more attractive than a move to RB Leipzig. That doesn't mean there isn't a benefit, players will still see the potential pathway to us. But if a better option like RB Leipzig is on offer it is less likely to happen.

So there were no benefits to it then.

Let's rewind a bit then, why didn't we pick him up before Goztepe did? We could have loaned him to Goztepe and then had him back as our player. We did the same with Matsuki and Juan, who ended up going there anyway.

Why are Goztepe having better results with scouting, when we should have been the 'flagship' club of their model? Romulo was grabbed from the Brazilian leagues during the same time we were shopping around for Juan and Wellington - irrelevant positions for us in the grand scheme of things.

The relationship doesn't help us. We help them. We got a smaller fee for Charly so Gotzepe could get a Brazilian on loan as part of the deal, again - doesn't benefit us.

[Osvaldorama]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

So there were no benefits to it then.

Let's rewind a bit then, why didn't we pick him up before Goztepe did? We could have loaned him to Goztepe and then had him back as our player. We did the same with Matsuki and Juan, who ended up going there anyway.

Why are Goztepe having better results with scouting, when we should have been the 'flagship' club of their model? Romulo was grabbed from the Brazilian leagues during the same time we were shopping around for Juan and Wellington - irrelevant positions for us in the grand scheme of things.

The relationship doesn't help us. We help them. We got a smaller fee for Charly so Gotzepe could get a Brazilian on loan as part of the deal, again - doesn't benefit us.

Yep, the relationship is parasitical, not reciprocal. 
 

They are using saints as a cash cow to fund the rest of their tinpot clubs. 

[Mboto Gorge]

6 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

How could anyone get sucked in by that complete drivel?

 

There’s a very prominent poster here who thinks he’s of a superior intellect to most others here, who clearly has been.

[FredVaFC59100]

13 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Yep, the relationship is parasitical, not reciprocal. 
 

They are using saints as a cash cow to fund the rest of their tinpot clubs. 

what what what? you got Joachim Kayi Sanda on the cheap for 5M Euros! "Best center back in the world" dixit Ben Chorley, former sporting director at Valenciennes FC and now back to the UK as Head of Recruitment for Sport Republic.

If there is one club being taken advantage of, it's us ! You'll make your money back tenfold while we will be collecting pennies!

[Badger]

12 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

what what what? you got Joachim Kayi Sanda on the cheap for 5M Euros! "Best center back in the world" dixit Ben Chorley, former sporting director at Valenciennes FC and now back to the UK as Head of Recruitment for Sport Republic.

If there is one club being taken advantage of, it's us ! You'll make your money back tenfold while we will be collecting pennies!

Not sure if your post was serious or not, but feel free to message and remind me of it when we sell Sanda for £50m. 

[FredVaFC59100]

12 hours ago, Badger said:

Not sure if your post was serious or not, but feel free to message and remind me of it when we sell Sanda for £50m. 

You know I am serious when I talked about SR and Wizard Ben Chorley in the same sentence.

[Weston Super Saint]

17 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

Yep, the relationship is parasitical, not reciprocal. 
 

They are using saints as a cash cow to fund the rest of their tinpot clubs. 

That's because you still think we are the 'keystone' club.  We're not.  Goztepe have a much better chance of Champions league football where the real money is.  We're just their feeder club to help them get there with a bit of player trading thrown in.

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

5 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

That's because you still think we are the 'keystone' club.  We're not.  Goztepe have a much better chance of Champions league football where the real money is.  We're just their feeder club to help them get there with a bit of player trading thrown in.

Ankerson said as much when SR first acquired Goztepe. He stated he saw them as the biggest club.

[CB Fry]

47 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

That's because you still think we are the 'keystone' club.  We're not.  Goztepe have a much better chance of Champions league football where the real money is.  We're just their feeder club to help them get there with a bit of player trading thrown in.

 

40 minutes ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Ankerson said as much when SR first acquired Goztepe. He stated he saw them as the biggest club.

It's absolutely sickening to see the Sport Republic priority lead club Goztepe swallow up all the focus and investment. I mean over the summer they signed a couple of players for about ONE MILLION EUROS.

Whereas the smaller feeder club Southampton is only surviving on the scrimps and scraps from Goztepe's table with out pitiful fifty million quids worth of players.

But there you go, we need to accept where we are in the food chain against these super rich giant mega clubs like Goztepe.

Edited 9 hours ago by CB Fry

[Weston Super Saint]

3 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

 

It's absolutely sickening to see the Sport Republic priority lead club Goztepe swallow up all the focus and investment. I mean over the summer they signed a couple of players for about ONE MILLION EUROS.

Whereas the smaller feeder club Southampton is only surviving on the scrimps and scraps from Goztepe's table with out pitiful fifty million quids worth of players.

But there you go, we need to accept where we are interested food chain against these super rich giant mega clubs like Goztepe.

You'll be mighty sorry when Goztepe step out in the Champions league and Saints play an away match in Barnsley or Huddersfield in our League One campaign, make no mistake.  By then the parachute payments will be drying up and we'll long for the days when we could spend ONE MILLION EUROS.

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

You'll be mighty sorry when Goztepe step out in the Champions league and Saints play an away match in Barnsley or Huddersfield in our League One campaign, make no mistake.  By then the parachute payments will be drying up and we'll long for the days when we could spend ONE MILLION EUROS.

Is this one of the benefits of the SR multi club model that MLG tells us about?

[CB Fry]

6 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

You'll be mighty sorry when Goztepe step out in the Champions league and Saints play an away match in Barnsley or Huddersfield in our League One campaign, make no mistake.  By then the parachute payments will be drying up and we'll long for the days when we could spend ONE MILLION EUROS.

I'd be pushing the club leadership to ensure we have a stadium big enough to match the breathtaking attendances at Goztepe of 16k fans packed in every match.

What would SR need to do to get us Champions League ready like those powerful Turks?

[Willo of Whiteley]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Is this one of the benefits of the SR multi club model that MLG tells us about?

Probably. Would should be grateful to live under Goztepe’s shadow and be run by such a clued-up bunch of chancers.

All hail SR. 🙌🏻

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, CB Fry said:

I'd be pushing the club leadership to ensure we have a stadium big enough to match the breathtaking attendances at Goztepe of 16k fans packed in every match.

What would SR need to do to get us Champions League ready like those powerful Turks?

Make us the 'keystone' club  

[saintant]

4 hours ago, CB Fry said:

I'd be pushing the club leadership to ensure we have a stadium big enough to match the breathtaking attendances at Goztepe of 16k fans packed in every match.

What would SR need to do to get us Champions League ready like those powerful Turks?

Maybe sign 3 or 4 powerful Turks.

Edited 4 hours ago by saintant

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Make us the 'keystone' club  

They've made us the keystone cops club, so nearly there. 🙂

[FredVaFC59100]

Valenciennes FC is the real deal; we are lurking in the shadow of Gotzepe to push the Turks out of the way and become the Keystone club of the group. after 3 years of eating crap under SR we've reached rock bottom and are due for a swift turnaround; Mark my words!

[Weston Super Saint]

26 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Valenciennes FC is the real deal; we are lurking in the shadow of Gotzepe to push the Turks out of the way and become the Keystone club of the group. after 3 years of eating crap under SR we've reached rock bottom and are due for a swift turnaround; Mark my words!

Anyone doubting this needs to look at the league table.

SR will have a revolving keystone club policy - whichever one they've fucked up the least that season gets the honour.

[Göztepe]

On 04.11.2025 at 16:34, S-Clarke said:

O zaman hiçbir faydası yoktu.

Biraz geriye gidelim, neden Göztepe'den önce biz almadık? Onu Göztepe'ye kiralayıp sonra tekrar oyuncumuz olarak alabilirdik. Aynısını Matsuki ve Juan'a da yaptık, onlar da sonunda oraya gittiler.

Göztepe, onların modelinin 'amiral gemisi' kulübü olmamız gerekirken, neden izleme konusunda daha iyi sonuçlar alıyor? Juan ve Wellington'ı transfer etmeye çalıştığımız dönemde Romulo, Brezilya liglerinden kapıldı; bu pozisyonlar bizim için büyük resimde önemsizdi.

Bu ilişki bize yardımcı olmuyor. Biz onlara yardımcı oluyoruz. Charly için daha düşük bir bonservis bedeli aldık, böylece Gotzepe anlaşmanın bir parçası olarak bir Brezilyalıyı kiralayabildi, bu da bize fayda sağlamıyor.

Your help is practically non-existent, and your expectation of a top-tier striker like Sesko in return is far too high. No one said there would be such a benefit. If you had signed Romulo first, he would have wanted to leave after relegation, and nothing would have changed. The Victor Hugo loan didn't affect the Alcaraz transfer fee.

[AlexLaw76]

4 minutes ago, Göztepe said:

Your help is practically non-existent, and your expectation of a top-tier striker like Sesko in return is far too high. No one said there would be such a benefit. If you had signed Romulo first, he would have wanted to leave after relegation, and nothing would have changed. The Victor Hugo loan didn't affect the Alcaraz transfer fee.

Non-existent. Name one single player signed by Goztepe who was loaned to Southampton FC....just one player.

[Göztepe]

On 04.11.2025 at 16:38, Osvaldorama said:

Evet, ilişki karşılıklı değil, parazitiktir. 
 

Geri kalan kulüplerini finanse etmek için azizleri nakit makinesi olarak kullanıyorlar. 

How could Göztepe, which closed the last four transfer windows with a combined €16 million surplus, be using Southampton for cash? We also have the lowest wage budget in the Turkish league by far, with total expenses of €9 million and combined income of just €5 million.

[Göztepe]

8 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yok. Göztepe'nin Southampton FC'ye kiraladığı tek bir oyuncunun adını söyleyin...sadece bir oyuncu.

We don't have players we can loan from the Premier League or Championship; these leagues aren't where young, lower-caliber players can get playing time. Should we loan the 19-year-old striker we signed from the Jordanian league or the 18-year-old we signed from the Finnish second division? We've given Matsuki some experience, and he's contributed a bit to our scoring, so that's roughly the potential benefit between the two clubs.

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Göztepe said:

We don't have players we can loan from the Premier League or Championship; these leagues aren't where young, lower-caliber players can get playing time. Should we loan the 19-year-old striker we signed from the Jordanian league or the 18-year-old we signed from the Finnish second division? We've given Matsuki some experience, and he's contributed a bit to our scoring, so that's roughly the potential benefit between the two clubs.

There are absolutely no benefits for Southampton being linked with Goztepe. There have been benefits for Goztepe in this relationship.

We have bought players to play for you. That is a fact and it costs us

[skintsaint]

38 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Name one single player signed by Goztepe who was loaned to Southampton FC....just one player.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-loan-youngster-malak-from-goeztepe

[Matthew Le God]

25 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

There are absolutely no benefits for Southampton being linked with Goztepe. There have been benefits for Goztepe in this relationship.

We have bought players to play for you. That is a fact and it costs us

Goztepe have paid Saints money. They pay loan fees and also signed Juan on a permanent deal. Saints having more money is a benefit. They just fuck up how they spend that money. Goztepe have also helped in the development of our players. Matsuki had his first year of European football at Goztepe. Sure, he hasn't played much for us since coming back. But it is still a benefit for a player to develop at a sister club.

Edited 1 hour ago by Matthew Le God

[SaintNewForest]

12 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-loan-youngster-malak-from-goeztepe

And what impact did he make? 🤣

[skintsaint]

Just now, SaintNewForest said:

And what impact did he make? 🤣

not much.