Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Fabrice29 said:

I'd say the chances of the bolded above going anywhere are slim at most. Rest all likely to leave and rightly so.

I reckon there will be takers for Downes, and he seems the sort who will jump ship at the whiff of trouble - he tried to do it in January.

Manning/Stephens, maybe they will be hard to shift this summer, that's why I think this remould will take a good few windows to accomplish as we may well be waiting for some contracts to expire.

Another season of Stephens at CB isn't going to fill the stadium though, that's for sure.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

I'd say the chances of the bolded above going anywhere are slim at most. Rest all likely to leave and rightly so.

Only because Argyle or Truro can’t afford his wages.

[LGTL]

Yeah Downes will go because he’s a little cry baby pussy. Would absolutely love to sell Manning, Stephens and Smallbone too. What a trio of absolute wank they are. Unfortunately we’re probably stuck with those gimps.

[tdmickey3]

5 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

I'd say the chances of the bolded above going anywhere are slim at most. Rest all likely to leave and rightly so.

And loved/ signed by your hero, Russell fuckin Martin

[Fabrice29]

5 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

And loved/ signed by your hero, Russell fuckin Martin

Only because he made you look like an idiot last season 

9 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I reckon there will be takers for Downes, and he seems the sort who will jump ship at the whiff of trouble - he tried to do it in January.

Manning/Stephens, maybe they will be hard to shift this summer, that's why I think this remould will take a good few windows to accomplish as we may well be waiting for some contracts to expire.

Another season of Stephens at CB isn't going to fill the stadium though, that's for sure.

Not convinced Downes will attract the suitors needed tbh. Will take an offer around us getting our money back, or at least somewhere close so presumably a PL budget. Would a newly promoted team go for him again based on this season? Not sure. 

My prediction isn’t necessarily based on the players quality btw. It’s opportunity, affordability and wages that rules out moves for those guys. 

Edited May 3 by Fabrice29

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Fabrice29 said:

Only because he made you look like an idiot last season 

Not convinced Downes will attract the suitors needed tbh. Will take an offer around us getting our money back, or at least somewhere close so presumably a PL budget. Would a newly promoted team go for him again based on this season? Not sure. 

My prediction isn’t necessarily based on the players quality btw. It’s opportunity, affordability and wages that rules out moves for those guys. 

£18m for Downes wasn’t it? Cannot see anyone wanting to pay anywhere near that, maybe £10-12m from Ipswich if McKenna stays there and still interested.

[EBS1980]

Tbh I don’t really care who goes. They have shown (bar a couple) they aren’t good enough for the PL, so as long as we get a fair price for them I’d sell anyone who isn’t up for the fight of returning straight back up. 

[qwertyell]

Just a note for those who are convinced most of our current squad options will be fine for a Championship promotion push. Luton got relegated from the PL last season on 26 points (15 more than we're going to get), scoring 52 goals (we've managed 25), and conceding 85 goals (we're on 82 with 3 games to play).

They retained mostly the same squad. And they'll be in League One next season.

Football's pretty merciless when you're a bunch of losers who have become comfortable with losing.

Clear them out. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

Edited May 3 by qwertyell

[Wade Garrett]

Can we do something revolutionary when signing players in the Summer.

Look at what they can do now, not what they might achieve in 3 years time.  I am fucking sick of our recruitment policy.  Can we be like a normal football club.

[revolution saint]

57 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

This is going to be a busy summer. This is who can go as far as I'm concerned. I've accepted Ramsdale, THB, KWP, Aribo, Suguwara, Dibling and Fernandes will leave

Bednarek - His inability to defend has ruined my Saturdays for almost a decade. Needs to go

Stephens - One of the worst CB's we've ever had. Needs to go

Manning - Not good enough what so ever. Needs to go

Downes - Injury prone and pretty lost. Get what we can for him, he's probably still got some value there. He's lost without his mate, maybe he can buy him for Leicester when he becomes their manager.

Sulemana - Just fuck the fuck off. Awful player.

Stewart - Pay him off and let the poor bloke retire.

Archer - Terrible footballer, need shot.

Smallbone - Awful player, weak as piss. No good keeping players of his standard around, drags the rest down.

Onouachu - A big lump of shit in all honestly. Get what we can for him.

ABK - Waste of a wage, just pay him off at this point.

Fraser - We probably got his last somewhat usable year out of him, he's now done and we need shot.

Larios - The wind would injure him. He needs to leave and play at a lower to amateur level in Spain, as his body cannot deal with the rigours of professional football.

With the expected departures and the above also hopefully going, it'll leave us with McCarthy, Wood, Edwards, Wellington, Charles, Armstrong, BBD, Taylor, Bree. Obviously no where near enough, so we need to be signing lots and lots - and because of the upheaval that will likely take place over a couple of transfer windows, we will not be competitive for quite some time.

Step 1 - Sort out the recruitment setup, looks like we've made a start at that.

Step 2 - Use the new recruitment setup to appoint the correct manager and coaching staff to take us forward

Step 3 - Use the new recruitment setup, the new management and coaches to build a team.

Those steps happen over a few years for me, this isn't being fixed in one summer.

As a wish list of players you’d like to get rid of then fair enough but realistically I doubt we’d be able to shift all of them.  
Take Downes, what did we pay? 20m? No premier league club either wants him  or would pay that, and no championship club could justify it either. Ipswich possibly might want him but can’t see them paying anywhere near that for him. Sure you can take a loss but don’t go crying if PSR bites us in the ass in the future.

[Matthew Le God]

6 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Can we do something revolutionary when signing players in the Summer.

Look at what they can do now, not what they might achieve in 3 years time.  I am fucking sick of our recruitment policy.  Can we be like a normal football club.

The younger players haven't really been been the main issue. It is the older ones we've signed that are not good enough!

[trousers]

12 minutes ago, qwertyell said:

Just a note for those who are convinced most of our current squad options will be fine for a Championship promotion push. Luton got relegated from the PL last season on 26 points (15 more than we're going to get), scoring 52 goals (we've managed 25), and conceding 85 goals (we're on 82 with 3 games to play).

They retained mostly the same squad. And they'll be in League One next season.

How can that be? I thought relegated teams were almost guaranteed to be better than your average Championship side...?

[BarberSaint]

9 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why do you think AS Roma made a bid for him?

Clickbait, nonsense, or too much wine.  Don't care. Can someone just take him, Capn Jack, THB, Manning and Wood please?

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

£18m for Downes wasn’t it? Cannot see anyone wanting to pay anywhere near that, maybe £10-12m from Ipswich if McKenna stays there and still interested.

Possibly Leicester might bid for him if Lego goes there. 

[Gloucester Saint]

44 minutes ago, Badger said:

Possibly Leicester might bid for him if Lego goes there. 

It’d have to be later in the window to shift some PSR lumber and even then, can’t see how they’d get close to what the club would want. Ipswich is the most likely. 

[tdmickey3]

2 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

Only because he made you look like an idiot last season 

Not convinced Downes will attract the suitors needed tbh. Will take an offer around us getting our money back, or at least somewhere close so presumably a PL budget. Would a newly promoted team go for him again based on this season? Not sure. 

My prediction isn’t necessarily based on the players quality btw. It’s opportunity, affordability and wages that rules out moves for those guys. 

You’re constant defending of him like a obsessed groupie through and after the utterly pathetic shit show he served up makes you the ultimate idiot.

 I admitted I got it wrong..but only just.

You however are clinging on pathetically like a jilted lover, defending what every other person can see, Russell Martin was completely out of his depth and clueless.

Dry your eyes and accept it

[Fabrice29]

8 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

You’re constant defending of him like a obsessed groupie through and after the utterly pathetic shit show he served up makes you the ultimate idiot.

 I admitted I got it wrong..but only just.

You however are ..clinging on pathetically like a jilted lover, defending what every other person can see, Russell Martin was completely out of his depth and clueless.

Dry your eyes and accept it

I think my main defence of him has been that it wasn't just "he" that served up a shit show and the majority of the people that served it up still continue to play each week and continue to serve up a shit show. I'll probably continue that defence for now if that's okay with you, especially as I was told quite specifically by you and others things would undoubtedly be better when he left and my predictions that we would go through 3 managers again this season were laughed at...

[Wade Garrett]

3 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

The younger players haven't really been been the main issue. It is the older ones we've signed that are not good enough!

ABK, Bazunu, Edozie, Charles, Larios, Sugawara, Wood off the top of my head.  None of them can make the first team, although Charles was mismanaged and is the one out of them that could make a contribution.  
Add the older ones (and there are more of them) that are garbage and it paints a picture of a complete shitshow.

[saintant]

12 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why do you think AS Roma made a bid for him?

Maybe their recruitment team is sub standard.

[Matthew Le God]

12 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

ABK, Bazunu, Edozie, Charles, Larios, Sugawara, Wood off the top of my head.  None of them can make the first team, although Charles was mismanaged and is the one out of them that could make a contribution.  
Add the older ones (and there are more of them) that are garbage and it paints a picture of a complete shitshow.

So you agree with my post!

[Wade Garrett]

24 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

So you agree with my post!

Partly.  The young ones have been mostly shit and the older ones have been mostly shit.

[Gloucester Saint]

Alan Nixon saying we are looking at Anthony Patterson if Sunderland don’t go up. Mix of views on their forum, in summary very good shot stopper, less good off his line and communication not great. But at 25 those could be fixed. Some slight concerns about weight control/fitness as well. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Patterson

Can’t see us paying what they might want but positive to see another goalkeeper link as Bazanu’s Belgian stint finally brought the club into reality.

Edited Sunday at 12:53 by Gloucester Saint

[Suhari]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Alan Nixon saying we are looking at Anthony Patterson if Sunderland don’t go up. Mix of views on their forum, in summary very good shot stopper, less good off his line and communication not great. But at 25 those could be fixed. Some slight concerns about weight control/fitness as well. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Patterson

Can’t see us paying what they might want but positive to see another goalkeeper link as Bazanu’s Belgian stint finally brought the club into reality.

I'm glad we're seeing links to keepers. Baz is no way near good enough.

[Doctoroncall]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Alan Nixon saying we are looking at Anthony Patterson if Sunderland don’t go up. Mix of views on their forum, in summary very good shot stopper, less good off his line and communication not great. But at 25 those could be fixed. Some slight concerns about weight control/fitness as well. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Patterson

Can’t see us paying what they might want but positive to see another goalkeeper link as Bazanu’s Belgian stint finally brought the club into reality.

When was the last time the club has improved a goalkeeper? 

[Gloucester Saint]

47 minutes ago, Doctoroncall said:

When was the last time the club has improved a goalkeeper? 

We used to - Timmy, restored Beasant’s confidence, Jones, Niemi - but since Forster’s knee injury and Kelvin’s retirement, the goalkeeping department has been pathetic. Gunn we overpaid badly on (City yet again, what an aggregate of shit with Bazanu), McCarthy has gone backwards, Forster totally lost his mobility, Bazanu throw in far too young and badly overpaid.

Coaching department miles away from the days of David Coles for keepers.

Edited Sunday at 14:11 by Gloucester Saint

[bangkoksaint]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Alan Nixon saying we are looking at Anthony Patterson if Sunderland don’t go up. Mix of views on their forum, in summary very good shot stopper, less good off his line and communication not great. But at 25 those could be fixed. Some slight concerns about weight control/fitness as well. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Patterson

Can’t see us paying what they might want but positive to see another goalkeeper link as Bazanu’s Belgian stint finally brought the club into reality.

Sunderland owe us big style for mugging us off over Ross!!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, bangkoksaint said:

Sunderland owe us big style for mugging us off over Ross!!

A SR spokesman that "following Stewart's transfer, Southampton FC, along with our insurers, conducted a full review of medical and strategic risk at the club. 

We are pleased to be renewing our transfer dealing with Sunderland, with confidence in both our structure and in the talent of their goalkeeper."

 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, bangkoksaint said:

Sunderland owe us big style for mugging us off over Ross!!

It’s up to the buying club to run a thorough medical and do the necessary due diligence, and very robustly so when the buying DoF is the selling manager’s brother. Obvious it was a huge risk and no certainty he’d be fit again, had only played 11 Champ games and was out of contract within 12 months 🤦‍♂️ 

In most firms, that kind of highly foreseeable and costly blunder = a meeting with the CEO/Ops Director, HR and strong hints to look elsewhere for a fresh start.

Edited Sunday at 18:20 by Gloucester Saint

[Chez]

5 hours ago, Doctoroncall said:

When was the last time the club has improved a goalkeeper? 

...and by 25 haven't got pretty much the finished article anyway? If you don't come off your line at 25 you never will.

[HarvSFC]

Only our recruitment team could go to City and spend big money on Gunn and Bazunu, while they had a perfectly capable young goalkeeper in James Trafford.

[Morse]

We need to bust a gut to get as many of these miserable, useless wage thieves off our books. Losing becomes a habit and these fairies are addicted. Bednarek, Stephens, Manning, Smallbone etc etc etc. Should never be seen in a Saints shirt again. 

[Chez]

Perhaps pointless to suggest a load of players when we have so many on our books that we will probably have to keep or will take all summer to offload, but what's the harm? I'm going to imagine the current lot have all fucked off. All of them. Every single last one...except Ramsdale. I don't have a clue about keepers, so will let someone else address that position. Anyho, in no particular order
Omar Richards (Forrest)
Tørborjn Heggem (WBA)
Bindon (Forrest) 
Issa Kabor (Man City)
Chakvetadze (Watford)
Rak-Sakyi (Palace)
Riki Shaw (Bristol Rovers)
Andrija Maksimovic (Red Star)
Josh Murphy (Skates)
Sainz (Norwich)
Kasper Dolberg (Anderlecht)
Simon Banza (Braga) 

Could maybe add Vardy and a couple of old school defenders like Ben Mee, but mostly I want to see some talented dribblers like Chakvetadze.
 

 

  

Edited Sunday at 23:09 by Chez

[HarvSFC]

11 hours ago, Morse said:

We need to bust a gut to get as many of these miserable, useless wage thieves off our books. Losing becomes a habit and these fairies are addicted. Bednarek, Stephens, Manning, Smallbone etc etc etc. Should never be seen in a Saints shirt again. 

Aside from Bednarek who's already done it. Imagine lining up with those at Fratton Park. Stephens would get caught up in the moment and get a red card, Manning would stay even further away from the touchline as he currently does when defending and Smallbone would get dominated by a fired up Portsmouth midfield. That's the worry for next season. Bournemouth and Brighton have already moved ahead of us as clubs, but we can't let Portsmouth move ahead of us.

[benjii]

15 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

Aside from Bednarek who's already done it. Imagine lining up with those at Fratton Park. Stephens would get caught up in the moment and get a red card, Manning would stay even further away from the touchline as he currently does when defending and Smallbone would get dominated by a fired up Portsmouth midfield. That's the worry for next season. Bournemouth and Brighton have already moved ahead of us as clubs, but we can't let Portsmouth move ahead of us.

To be fair, those guys all handled the playoffs very well, with plenty of bottle. 

Although this season has been shite, let's not go into next with unnecessary doom.

[LuckyNumber7]

11 hours ago, Chez said:

Perhaps pointless to suggest a load of players when we have so many on our books that we will probably have to keep or will take all summer to offload, but what's the harm? I'm going to imagine the current lot have all fucked off. All of them. Every single last one...except Ramsdale. I don't have a clue about keepers, so will let someone else address that position. Anyho, in no particular order
Omar Richards (Forrest)
Tørborjn Heggem (WBA)
Bindon (Forrest) 
Issa Kabor (Man City)
Chakvetadze (Watford)
Rak-Sakyi (Palace)
Riki Shaw (Bristol Rovers)
Andrija Maksimovic (Red Star)
Josh Murphy (Skates)
Sainz (Norwich)
Kasper Dolberg (Anderlecht)
Simon Banza (Braga) 

Could maybe add Vardy and a couple of old school defenders like Ben Mee, but mostly I want to see some talented dribblers like Chakvetadze.
 

 

  

Chakvetadze is a good shout. Sainz is near the top of my list too, been a standout performer for Norwich. Might be too expensive though.

[Chez]

29 minutes ago, LuckyNumber7 said:

Chakvetadze is a good shout. Sainz is near the top of my list too, been a standout performer for Norwich. Might be too expensive though.

Sainz has one year left on his contract, so its now or never for Norwich to cash in. £11m figure has been bandied around. 

We need to add some individual attacking flair, guile and craft to compliment or replace Sulemana and Dibling.

[Saint Matty 76]

I'd imagine Sainz is out of our league, but he's exactly the kind of player we need.

Dibling and Fernandes are the only two in the squad capable of taking the ball and driving with it, similar to what Stu did for us last year. I doubt either will be here so creativity has to be a massive focus. If you create Arma 50 chances he will probably score 20 in this league. I doubt anyone wants to take a risk on Archer again like we did and he's also seemingly pretty capable at the level. 

Archer
Edozie - ? - Armstrong
Charles - Downes

Hopefully we nail a loan signing again. We did do a good job at that last time around.

[EBS1980]

Archer only works as a striker if playing in a front two. He’s doesn’t have the qualities to play as the sole forward

[Chez]

On 24/04/2025 at 20:05, Matthew Le God said:

 

As we've already got them, why not use the ones we already have next season? Then get rid of them in summer 2026. 

Not looking for an argument, as I largely have agreed with you that existing players in the squad have shown they can do it at the lower division, so the drop down in division can see them be effective again. However, the pessimist in me has been concerned that goal scorers do often just stop scoring.

Previous records do not a guarantee future performance. There are lots of factors and reasons for this, not least a change in the team's style of football/approach, a lack of chances and/or loss of confidence.

Armstrong's failure to score goals at WBA is a concern. WBA don't create or score a lot of goals, but three in 16 games, one a pen, isn't great. Brereton has four goals in 17 games playing for the third best side in the league. 

[skintsaint]

Utd and the Hammers linked with Ramsdale in todays Mirror according to the BBC.

[Football Special]

On 03/05/2025 at 18:43, qwertyell said:

Just a note for those who are convinced most of our current squad options will be fine for a Championship promotion push. Luton got relegated from the PL last season on 26 points (15 more than we're going to get), scoring 52 goals (we've managed 25), and conceding 85 goals (we're on 82 with 3 games to play).

They retained mostly the same squad. And they'll be in League One next season.

Football's pretty merciless when you're a bunch of losers who have become comfortable with losing.

Clear them out. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

We've had AGES to prepare for next season, absolutely no excuse for being unprepared, but having watched our games this season I genuinely think we are going to struggle next year. Will need to see some real strategic planning in the summer and recruitment to match it, losing mentality is deeply ingrained around the club. 

U21s and u18s seem to have escaped the mess so far, would be great if a couple of those lads can step up 

[leesaint88]

On 05/05/2025 at 00:06, Chez said:

Perhaps pointless to suggest a load of players when we have so many on our books that we will probably have to keep or will take all summer to offload, but what's the harm? I'm going to imagine the current lot have all fucked off. All of them. Every single last one...except Ramsdale. I don't have a clue about keepers, so will let someone else address that position. Anyho, in no particular order
Omar Richards (Forrest)
Tørborjn Heggem (WBA)
Bindon (Forrest) 
Issa Kabor (Man City)
Chakvetadze (Watford)
Rak-Sakyi (Palace)
Riki Shaw (Bristol Rovers)
Andrija Maksimovic (Red Star)
Josh Murphy (Skates)
Sainz (Norwich)
Kasper Dolberg (Anderlecht)
Simon Banza (Braga) 

Could maybe add Vardy and a couple of old school defenders like Ben Mee, but mostly I want to see some talented dribblers like Chakvetadze.
 

 

  

Not sure on Murphy, few of the blue few I'm friends with seem to think he goes missing in games. 

Didn't we try to sign Rak-Sakyi last summer? 

[Give it to Ron]

23 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

Not sure on Murphy, few of the blue few I'm friends with seem to think he goes missing in games. 

Didn't we try to sign Rak-Sakyi last summer? 

If we were to buy from Skates but we won’t it would be Bishop. Weakens them and we don’t have that type of player in our squad.

[east-stand-nic]

20 hours ago, Chez said:

Not looking for an argument, as I largely have agreed with you that existing players in the squad have shown they can do it at the lower division, so the drop down in division can see them be effective again. However, the pessimist in me has been concerned that goal scorers do often just stop scoring.

Previous records do not a guarantee future performance. There are lots of factors and reasons for this, not least a change in the team's style of football/approach, a lack of chances and/or loss of confidence.

Armstrong's failure to score goals at WBA is a concern. WBA don't create or score a lot of goals, but three in 16 games, one a pen, isn't great. Brereton has four goals in 17 games playing for the third best side in the league. 

There is a factor here that often gets missed and that is the depression running through the club that will no doubt be affecting players form and effort. I said it once before, that the negativity at the club for the last season seems to have crushed confidence and interest in all players. I think they likely all need to leave for our good and their own. It is akin perhaps to living in a house after your wife dies and you find it so hard to be there as the memories make you sad. Weird analogy I know (and no doubt worthy of the local loon leaving me yet another LOL emoji) but you see the point I am making. I would not mind betting that some of our players that leave will have good season next time around in new surroundings etc.

[sockeye]

28 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

There is a factor here that often gets missed and that is the depression running through the club that will no doubt be affecting players form and effort. I said it once before, that the negativity at the club for the last season seems to have crushed confidence and interest in all players. I think they likely all need to leave for our good and their own. It is akin perhaps to living in a house after your wife dies and you find it so hard to be there as the memories make you sad. Weird analogy I know (and no doubt worthy of the local loon leaving me yet another LOL emoji) but you see the point I am making. I would not mind betting that some of our players that leave will have good season next time around in new surroundings etc.

Agreed. Especially for those that have been here over a longer period, they will have suffered multiple record defeats, multiple relegations, and spent years with a club ambition of merely wanting to exist in the PL. Unfortunately for some players this will be the best gig they will ever get. It will be very difficult to shift them. I almost don’t want us to go up next season to give us a longer period of bleeding away contracts and reshaping the team. 

[Wade Garrett]

3 minutes ago, sockeye said:

Agreed. Especially for those that have been here over a longer period, they will have suffered multiple record defeats, multiple relegations, and spent years with a club ambition of merely wanting to exist in the PL. Unfortunately for some players this will be the best gig they will ever get. It will be very difficult to shift them. I almost don’t want us to go up next season to give us a longer period of bleeding away contracts and reshaping the team. 

We’re going to have to take a haircut on a good few of them.  Tell them they aren’t in the clubs plans.  If they can’t be sold, loan them out and subsidise their wages.  If we keep them, they will drag the rest down.  We need a fresh start.

[DT]

The best signing we could possibly make is to sack Rasmus Ankersen, whose 'out of the box' thinking has got us in this mess with terrible appointments and whose reverse Midas touch permeates throughout the whole club.

We need to do this quickly, and get on with hiring a manager asap even if it costs a little more, in contrast to our usual modus operandi.

Then sell our crown jewels early to pay for a solid defence and spine. Would like to keep Fernades but someone will come in for him.

Need to replace with strong and physical players who want to play for us, in an atmosphere not tarnished top down by Ankersen and his deluded thinking.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Rasmus shouldn’t be anywhere near a business, let alone a football club.

Absolute chancer.

[Wurzel]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

We've had AGES to prepare for next season, absolutely no excuse for being unprepared, but having watched our games this season I genuinely think we are going to struggle next year. Will need to see some real strategic planning in the summer and recruitment to match it, losing mentality is deeply ingrained around the club. 

U21s and u18s seem to have escaped the mess so far, would be great if a couple of those lads can step up 

We spent a whole season being unprepared for every next game, we've got no chance of being prepared for next season

[S-Clarke]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

We've had AGES to prepare for next season, absolutely no excuse for being unprepared, but having watched our games this season I genuinely think we are going to struggle next year. Will need to see some real strategic planning in the summer and recruitment to match it, losing mentality is deeply ingrained around the club. 

U21s and u18s seem to have escaped the mess so far, would be great if a couple of those lads can step up 

My feeling is that next season will be similar to our first season in the Championship when we were relegated in 05/06. Never in the promotion conversation, a bit of a recovery in the 2nd half of the season to finish top of the bottom half.

Football doesn't care for reputation or finances, if you have a losing habit then it can take some time to shift no matter what level you're at. We have a habit of not even competing, so god knows how long this will take us to reset.