Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[saintant]

10 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

 

They've already spent almost 90,000 Euros on 3 new midfield players.

Edited yesterday at 21:16 by saintant

[Hamilton Saint]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

Strasbourg. I assume this could  be a Joe Shields inspired move then if he’s still part of Chelsea (as owners of Strasbourg).

Edozie always seemed to fall within the ‘all fart and no shit’ category for me so pleased to see him go. But hope we have a healthy sell on % should he ever discover an end product. 

I've been to Strasbourg a few times. Lovely city. And it sits in the Alsace region, which has really good white wines: riesling, gewürztraminer, pinot gris, sylvaner. So, good move on Edozie's part!

[James]

Don’t like the deal for Ramsdale. Either sell him or

keep him. £4m doesn’t give us anything for replacement. Bazunu as number 1 is the stuff of nightmares, can see the howler v Pompey and the “Agent Bazunu” tweets already. 

[Football Special]

21 minutes ago, Teamsaint1 said:

Can’t be right, he loves the ( our ) club. I’m sure I read that.

Anyway, £4m sounds like one year of repayments of the fee we paid, so just getting him off the books really ? Which was as good as it was going to get I suppose. 

Doesn't seem that good a deal to me, huge lack of quality throughout the team and lack of balance, IF we end up with Baz back in I'd say that's the end of automatic promotion hopes 

[Badger]

Not impressed by £4m loan fee. Seems a pittance given Newcastle’s wealth, even allowing for them paying his wages. 

[James]

Just now, Football Special said:

Doesn't seem that good a deal to me, huge lack of quality throughout the team and lack of balance, IF we end up with Baz back in I'd say that's the end of automatic promotion hopes 

We are on the way to being a much weaker team than the last time we went down. At least last time we actually signed a few decent players, this year we’re on the way to stripping out all the quality and have signed a couple of back ups from the bargain bin.

[Football Special]

3 minutes ago, James said:

Don’t like the deal for Ramsdale. Either sell him or

keep him. £4m doesn’t give us anything for replacement. Bazunu as number 1 is the stuff of nightmares, can see the howler v Pompey and the “Agent Bazunu” tweets already. 

We can all see it coming  😞

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Badger said:

Not impressed by £4m loan fee. Seems a pittance given Newcastle’s wealth, even allowing for them paying his wages. 

I think we paid an initial fee of something in the region of £18m so don't think 4m for a one year loan plus wages saving is a bad deal.

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, James said:

We are on the way to being a much weaker team than the last time we went down. At least last time we actually signed a few decent players, this year we’re on the way to stripping out all the quality and have signed a couple of back ups from the bargain bin.

Good job the transfer window is open until September then. The business so far hasn't been great but it's never all done before the season starts. 

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Given how much we have pulled in from the sales of Tall Paul, Sulemana, Edozie & Bednarek plus the loan fee we will get for Ramsdale not to mention the saving on wages getting all those (and KWP) off the books, surely we are in a pretty damn healthy financial position now? It was alleged we weren't really in a bad financial situation before all of these sales and only really needed to reduce the squad size because we had too many players from a coaching and who can be involved in the matchday squad perspective.

 

If this is the case then I would like to propose we don't fuck about with our prized Fernandes asset. Say we won't take less than £60m for him now and if nobody is willing to pay that then he remains with us. Villa did it with Grealish a number of years ago and he stayed and played in the Championship. Vardy (albeit he was older) did it with Leicester a couple of years ago when I'm sure he could have moved to a Prem team for a last hurrah rather than stay in the Championship.

 

Show some balls Saints. if we don't desperately need the money then hold out for a ridiculous fee. If Brighton can buy players for peanuts and regularly sell them for £50m+ a year later then why can't we do it with our star asset? He has 4 years left on his contract and seems like a decent lad. Tell him we will sell him next summer if we don't get promoted or if we do get promoted and his stock rises further, we will sell him for what we deem an acceptable amount then.

 

Liverpool have just paid £80m odd for a player who has just had one decent season in the German league. Prior to that, as a striker he scored 4 goals in 15 appearances in 2023-2024 and 3 goals in 25 in the 2022-2023 season. Hardly pulling up trees on the goalscoring front in previous seasons.

 

Young talent is now being sold for big money. £40m seems a bit meh for someone with as much potential as Fernandes who has proven he can cut it in the top league.

[Saint_lambden]

On 28/07/2025 at 14:32, Saint_lambden said:

From what I've heard this summer (not since Ramsdale news came out this afternoon mind), Spors and Still want to bring in another goalkeeper if (when) Ramsdale goes to compete with Bazunu, with McCarthy becoming the third GK who is actually looking to get in to coaching when he retires which will likely be at the end of this coming season. 

Bump. 

[James]

2 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Good job the transfer window is open until September then. The business so far hasn't been great but it's never all done before the season starts. 

Agreed but realistically we need a fast start. We’ve got a young and inexperienced manager and a weaker team that’s low on confidence given how bad last season was. We’ve got until September but we know it doesn’t take long for heads to go down amongst this group. 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Saint_lambden said:

Bump. 

I hope you’re right but that they are obviously better than Gavin straight away in training so Still picks them. Don’t mind Bazunu as #2 so much.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Saint_lambden said:

Bump. 

Did you hear this from someone you consider a reliable source?

[Rebel]

Anyone else think we are selling Edozie because we can't sell Fraser or Bereton-Diaz and we need the money - or am I just being very cynical?

[LGTL]

It’s a shit deal. £4million, what’s the fucking point? Doesn’t generate anything to get in a decent replacement and we’ll be stuck with Bazunu playing against Pompey. It’s a nightmare scenario.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Rebel said:

Anyone else think we are selling Edozie because we can't sell Fraser or Bereton-Diaz and we need the money - or am I just being very cynical?

Nah, I think he wasn't considered good enough - his agent was probably told to find him another club.

[Badger]

5 minutes ago, Saint_lambden said:

Bump. 

Any idea who they want as GK ? 

[Whitey Grandad]

14 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

I've been to Strasbourg a few times. Lovely city. And it sits in the Alsace region, which has really good white wines: riesling, gewürztraminer, pinot gris, sylvaner. So, good move on Edozie's part!

I supplied them with a pair of 10m x 1m led scoreboards over 20 years ago. The last time I looked they were still working although they have installed a pair of modern full colour ones in the corners.

You're right. It is a lovely city.

[SuperSAINT]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

It’s a shit deal. £4million, what’s the fucking point? Doesn’t generate anything to get in a decent replacement and we’ll be stuck with Bazunu playing against Pompey. It’s a nightmare scenario.

The 100k a week saving adds to that of course.

[Badger]

10 minutes ago, saintant said:

I think we paid an initial fee of something in the region of £18m so don't think 4m for a one year loan plus wages saving is a bad deal.

Newcastle were prepared to pay £27m for Trafford. I think Saints should have extracted more out of them as they seem desperate for a keeper. 

[EBS1980]

Think Ramsdale loan needs to be put into context, wages being covered in full and £4M for one year. I’m not sure what people really expected from a loan deal?! I’m happy with that.

i just hope given we knew the likelihood of Ramsdale leaving that we know what keeper we want to bring in (be it a number 1 or 3) and push that deal through quickly now.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

It’s a shit deal. £4million, what’s the fucking point? Doesn’t generate anything to get in a decent replacement and we’ll be stuck with Bazunu playing against Pompey. It’s a nightmare scenario.

I presume it covers depreciation of his value over the fraction of what's left of his contract.

[James]

3 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

Think Ramsdale loan needs to be put into context, wages being covered in full and £4M for one year. I’m not sure what people really expected from a loan deal?! I’m happy with that.

i just hope given we knew the likelihood of Ramsdale leaving that we know what keeper we want to bring in (be it a number 1 or 3) and push that deal through quickly now.

I hope to god we are not considering a deal for a number 3. Anyone that can’t immediately displace Baz or McCarthy isn’t worth thinking about. 

[SW5 SAINT]

7 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

Think Ramsdale loan needs to be put into context, wages being covered in full and £4M for one year. I’m not sure what people really expected from a loan deal?! I’m happy with that.

i just hope given we knew the likelihood of Ramsdale leaving that we know what keeper we want to bring in (be it a number 1 or 3) and push that deal through quickly now.

So if we were to get any fee for Ramsdale next summer north of £14m, Saints have made a profit…..!

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, James said:

I hope to god we are not considering a deal for a number 3. Anyone that can’t immediately displace Baz or McCarthy isn’t worth thinking about. 

Baz is still young. Not saying I agree but it would not surprise me if SR's thought process is that he will develop quickly and they'll be able to turn a profit on him. Can see him starting in goal against Wrexham.

[EBS1980]

6 minutes ago, James said:

I hope to god we are not considering a deal for a number 3. Anyone that can’t immediately displace Baz or McCarthy isn’t worth thinking about. 

Guess we’ll find out based on who the 3rd keeper is. Personally I would go for a new number one with the aim of getting us promoted, who would then be number two next season if Ramsdale returned, Macca is out of contract next year so we would be back to 3keepers again 

[Smirking_Saint]

People losing their minds over a loan we basically all knew was coming

Ramsdale had an agreement that he could go if we were relegated, not sure any of the promoted teams interested him much, but we can’t deny him a move to Newcastle 

4m fee with wages covered is a decent deal, if they buy him at the end of the year great… if they don’t we have a PL keeper returning

 

[Fabrice29]

2 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

So if we were to get any fee for Ramsdale next summer north of £14m, Saints have made a profit…..!

25 million option sorted for next summer supposedly. Although I think Ramsdale will have to improve for Newcastle not to be looking elsewhere in the meantime personally. But in theory that’s a guide for anyone else that fancies him next summer if he’s still up for sale.

[Willo of Whiteley]

I think the most alarming statement on this page is that Alex McCarthy wants to become a coach.

God help future players

[Willo of Whiteley]

1 minute ago, Smirking_Saint said:

People losing their minds over a loan we basically all knew was coming

Ramsdale had an agreement that he could go if we were relegated, not sure any of the promoted teams interested him much, but we can’t deny him a move to Newcastle 

4m fee with wages covered is a decent deal, if they buy him at the end of the year great… if they don’t we have a PL keeper returning

 

DT meltdown incoming

[EBS1980]

6 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

So if we were to get any fee for Ramsdale next summer north of £14m, Saints have made a profit…..!

Apparently the option to buy is £25M (assuming it’ll be £21M plus £4M loan) so a good move all round I would say.

[Pat from Poole]

5 minutes ago, saintant said:

Baz is still young. Not saying I agree but it would not surprise me if SR's thought process is that he will develop quickly and they'll be able to turn a profit on him. Can see him starting in goal against Wrexham.

We bought him for £12 million, rising to £15 million with add-ons.

More chance of us starting with Chloe Kelly up front against Wrexham than us making a profit on him.

Chloe Kelly up front would be a bit novel, mind…..

[skintsaint]

19 minutes ago, Badger said:

Any idea who they want as GK ? 

Mathew Ryan.

[Pat from Poole]

4 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Mathew Ryan.

The ex-Brighton guy?

That’s too random to be made up…..

[die Mannyschaft]

Anyone know how much we have spent on players and income from sold players to date?

[ally_uk]

If we sell Dibs and Fernandes and try and be clever and bring in some cheap youth players. 

And don't get a replacement GK 

Then I'm f##king done with Sports Republic it's a continuation of tits at the helm.... 

[saintant]

13 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I think the most alarming statement on this page is that Alex McCarthy wants to become a coach.

God help future players

Never heard the saying, 'Those who can't, teach'

[Farmer Saint]

33 minutes ago, LGTL said:

It’s a shit deal. £4million, what’s the fucking point? Doesn’t generate anything to get in a decent replacement and we’ll be stuck with Bazunu playing against Pompey. It’s a nightmare scenario.

Except he will likely return when we get back into the Prem next season.

[Fabrice29]

9 minutes ago, Pat from Poole said:

The ex-Brighton guy?

That’s too random to be made up…..

Was Lens number 1 eventually last season so not that random

Edited 23 hours ago by Fabrice29

[2Morrow]

Mat Ryan was Stills GK at Lens after Xmas and is on a free. Would make sense as hes still only 33

[hypochondriac]

Anyone know if Ryan is any good? 

[trousers]

Yep, agree that Matt Ryan is an obvious option given the Still connection, the bonus that he's out of contract and at 33 he's still a good age for a keeper. What's not to like...? 

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Anyone know if Ryan is any good? 

 

[hypochondriac]

Just checked the lens forum and they seem to really like him in March last year. Sounds promising. 

[SW5 SAINT]

34 minutes ago, Pat from Poole said:

We bought him for £12 million, rising to £15 million with add-ons.

More chance of us starting with Chloe Kelly up front against Wrexham than us making a profit on him.

Chloe Kelly up front would be a bit novel, mind…..

The amazing thing is, Bazunu only cost £3m less than Ramsdale……..!!

Edited 22 hours ago by SW5 SAINT
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[saintant]

Ryan is very vocal - not surprising being an Aussie. There's a video of him during lock down playing for Arsenal at Villa Park when on loan from Brighton - there's a mic picking up all his shouts, commands etc and he certainly helps his defenders which is something we've not had for a while. He'd probably put a few well aimed rockets up some arses where necessary. Seems a decent shot stopper with loads of experience so might be worth a shout.

[trousers]

Just now, saintant said:

Ryan is very vocal - not surprising being an Aussie. There's a video of him during lock down playing for Arsenal at Villa Park when on loan from Brighton - there's a mic picking up all his shouts, commands etc and he certainly helps his defenders which is something we've not had for a while. He'd probably put a few well aimed rockets up some arses where necessary. Seems a decent shot stopper with loads of experience so might be worth a shout.

Exactly what we need...

[hypochondriac]

Sounds like this one makes a lot of sense. I'm surprised he wasn't mentioned earlier. Fingers crossed we get him in ASAP 

 

[egg]

37 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

Apparently the option to buy is £25M (assuming it’ll be £21M plus £4M loan) so a good move all round I would say.

Yep. And £4m ISH in saved wages. Decent business for a lad who was always going to move when went down.