Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Matthew Le God]

2 minutes ago, John B said:

Do not feel very confident regarding the coming season as like previous windows have not recrited a decent CF 

Why have you dismissed Damion Downs being a decent striker at this level after a brief cameo vs Wrexham? Plus Archer and Stewart are good strikers for this level, as is Armstrong.

Edited August 14 by Matthew Le God

[OldNick]

The private jet that was waiting at Southampton airport ready to fly to Liverpool for TD seems to have an engine problem as it never seemed to go lol

Edited August 14 by OldNick

[John B]

4 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why have you dismissed Damion Downs being a decent striker at this level after a brief cameo vs Wrexham? Plus Archer and Stewart are good strikers for this level, as is Armstrong.

Having followed the Saints since 1960 I know what a decent CF is

In 1966 for instance we got promoted with Martin Chivers in Ted McDougall and Phil Boyer in helped us back into Div 1 1978 and of course Rickie Lambert in 2011 

You may not have been around in those days but I can assure they were far better than the ones you mention

[SaintLondon]

I wonder whether we should still be in the market for Armenian flags

[Matthew Le God]

7 minutes ago, John B said:

Having followed the Saints since 1960 I know what a decent CF is

In 1966 for instance we got promoted with Martin Chivers in Ted McDougall and Phil Boyer in helped us back into Div 1 1978 and of course Rickie Lambert in 2011 

You may not have been around in those days but I can assure they were far better than the ones you mention

We don't need a 1960s or 1970s style striker. We have multiple strikers with good goalscoring records in the English and German 2nd tiers in the 2020s.

Edited August 14 by Matthew Le God

[Colinjb]

6 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

We don't need a 1960s or 1970s style striker. We have multiple strikers with good goalscoring records in the English and German 2nd tiers in the 2020s.

Are you seriously saying you prefer any of our current lot over an on form Martin Chivers?

Get your head out of the spreadsheets you lunatic.

[ally_uk]

For me alot still needs doing.

Aribo - Sell 

Edoize  - Sell 

Smallbone - Sell 

ABK - Leave somewhere 

Diaz - Isn't a footballer 

Tyler Dibling - best deal move on

Sugwara -  Sell and upgrade 

Archer -  I don't rate 

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Keep Armstrong but don't play him as a lone striker!

Keep Fernandes build team around him.

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Incoming: 

Gk: who can challenge Bazunu

RB: Someone who actually can defend. 

Creative mid: spertsyan

Two Wingers: use loan market if we have to.

Anything else is a bonus 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Doctoroncall]

37 minutes ago, OldNick said:

The private jet that was waiting at Southampton airport ready to fly to Liverpool for TB seems to have an engine problem as it never seemed to go lol

TB?

why not spell out the name or is this the new puzzle game while we wait for the incoming and outgoing players to move. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

24 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

Are you seriously saying you prefer any of our current lot over an on form Martin Chivers?

Get your head out of the spreadsheets you lunatic.

There is that section Lawrie Mcmenemy's diary of a season where he looks to the future, willing to trade in all his forwards for players with the physical centre forward presence of Adam Armstrong, the clinical poaching from 6 inches of Downs or the inspirational work rate of a BBD. 🙂

[Holmes_and_Watson]

4 minutes ago, Doctoroncall said:

TB?

why not spell out the name or is this the new puzzle game while we wait for the incoming and outgoing players to move. 

TB's flight was quarantined, possibly impacting the flight plans of TD. 🙂

[iansums]

43 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

We don't need a 1960s or 1970s style striker. We have multiple strikers with good goalscoring records in the English and German 2nd tiers in the 2020s.

Come on mate, just let him have his opinion, you don't do yourself any favours sometimes.

[Willo of Whiteley]

If we’re going after Scottish players suddenly then can we go for Lennon Miller of  Motherwell? 

[revolution saint]

Just now, Willo of Whiteley said:

If we’re going after Scottish players suddenly then can we go for Lennon Miller of  Motherwell? 

You mean Lennon Miller of Udinese?

[Willo of Whiteley]

9 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

You mean Lennon Miller of Udinese?

Legit didn’t realise he’d gone abroad. So many Scots have gone to Italy in recent years.

I suppose that rules that one out then! 😂

[suewhistle]

27 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

the clinical poaching from 6 inches of Downs

I'd have imagined it would be bigger, but then I'm no expert on these things. 

[Toussaint]

6 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

I'd have imagined it would be bigger, but then I'm no expert on these things. 

Susan!!!

[Midfield_General]

1 hour ago, Colinjb said:

Are you seriously saying you prefer any of our current lot over an on form Martin Chivers?

Get your head out of the spreadsheets you lunatic.

What were his stats like on Football Manager 1962? 

[InvictaSaint]

1 hour ago, SaintLondon said:

I wonder whether we should still be in the market for Armenian flags

Because he’s not coming….? 

[Midfield_General]

45 minutes ago, Doctoroncall said:

TB?

why not spell out the name or is this the new puzzle game while we wait for the incoming and outgoing players to move. 

Sensational late bid incoming for Tony Blackburn

[Doctoroncall]

51 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

TB's flight was quarantined, possibly impacting the flight plans of TD. 🙂

As AI has been used a fair bit recently, Gemini gave these footballers with initials TB:

Thierry Henry, Thiago Silva and Toni Kroos

changed to soccer players and Terry Butcher’s name appears!

changed to current English soccer players and Tyrick Mitchell comes up.

I would have thought AI would not have trouble knowing initials were two elements to a name.

[EBS1980]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

a very odd transfer story.

Why because he hasn’t played for us? Just player trading and making profits isn’t it. We buy him, loan him to a sister club then sell for more money. That’s the set up working correctly.

Chelsea and city have been doing it for years. 

[EBS1980]

1 hour ago, revolution saint said:

You mean Lennon Miller of Udinese?

Wouldn’t be surprised to see him on loan to Watford this season. 

[OldNick]

1 hour ago, Doctoroncall said:

TB?

why not spell out the name or is this the new puzzle game while we wait for the incoming and outgoing players to move. 

SHould have been TD but thats what happens when you rush as other things going on

[OldNick]

2 hours ago, John B said:

Having followed the Saints since 1960 I know what a decent CF is

In 1966 for instance we got promoted with Martin Chivers in Ted McDougall and Phil Boyer in helped us back into Div 1 1978 and of course Rickie Lambert in 2011 

You may not have been around in those days but I can assure they were far better than the ones you mention

Funnily enough I was thinking about Tony Funnels contribution when we went up in 78. I also wondered what happened to him as he never quite made it.

[Chez]

4 hours ago, saintant said:

Tend to agree. He just seems to disappear and you forget he's playing half the time. The frustrating thing is that he has the tools to be a decent player but it rarely seems to happen when he is selected. I keep expecting him to suddenly burst into life and show what he can do but I'm starting to think it's time to move him on.

I don't know what Leeds offered, probably a lowish fee, but I thought that we'd seen enough at that point to know he wasn't PL player and should have let him go in January.

[ecuk268]

6 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Funnily enough I was thinking about Tony Funnels contribution when we went up in 78. I also wondered what happened to him as he never quite made it.

https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/tony-funnell/

[VectisSaint]

2 hours ago, John B said:

Having followed the Saints since 1960 I know what a decent CF is

In 1966 for instance we got promoted with Martin Chivers in Ted McDougall and Phil Boyer in helped us back into Div 1 1978 and of course Rickie Lambert in 2011 

You may not have been around in those days but I can assure they were far better than the ones you mention

and yet no mention of the greatest CF in the world. Big Ron trumps all of them combined.

[Saint NL]

West Ham offering well below market value? I, for one, am shocked 🙄

[Matthew Le God]

 

Edited August 14 by Matthew Le God

[Saint NL]

24 year old centre back that can also play right back.

Interesting

[OldNick]

21 minutes ago, ecuk268 said:

https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/tony-funnell/

Wonderful thank you. His goalscoring record was something in that promotion run. Being there at Orient was some night, old Fred Dineage having to go through a torrid time as he had to walk past the Saints fans to climb onto the gantry lol.

A wall collapsed at full time and luckily no major injuries ( my brother in the crush) as fans rushed to get on the pitch

[Wurzel]

23 minutes ago, VectisSaint said:

and yet no mention of the greatest CF in the world. Big Ron trumps all of them combined.

He does, but the post was specifically about CFs that helped us get promotion. Were we already in Div1 when he signed?

[Badger]

5 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Wonderful thank you. His goalscoring record was something in that promotion run. Being there at Orient was some night, old Fred Dineage having to go through a torrid time as he had to walk past the Saints fans to climb onto the gantry lol.

A wall collapsed at full time and luckily no major injuries ( my brother in the crush) as fans rushed to get on the pitch

A great and memorable night. 

 

[saintant]

25 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

This guy looks very good. Wonder if there is anything in this.

[Saint Mikey]

I like the look of that Louis Patris (obligatory YouTube highlights video caveat). He looks aggressive, pacey, decent passing and crossing. In the highlights mostly at RB, which is good as we clearly don't need another CB. 4 years on deal and rated as 3m euro on TransferMarkt.

I'm sure Sugawara also looked good on his highlights video though, so who knows.

Edited August 14 by Saint Mikey

[for_heaven's_Saint]

28 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

Certainly looks better than what we have at RB at the moment and like he’d suit Still’s systems. 

[trousers]

Yay! Another sub-£5m bargain bucket player... Wheel him in!

#calmdownitsonlyfootiebanter

[macca155]

6 hours ago, Colinjb said:

If it all ends up as bollocks that would hopefully imply one or both of Dibling and Fernandes would still be here.

That would be good, we can dream, sadly the bollocks I am envisaging is both going and no incomings.

[Monk]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

The 91 in that video looks handy.

(edit just signed for Anderlecht)

Edited August 14 by Monk

[DT]

3 hours ago, Doctoroncall said:

TB?

why not spell out the name or is this the new puzzle game while we wait for the incoming and outgoing players to move. 

We're signing Tony Blair. Plays just to the left of centre.

[sadoldgit]

1 hour ago, OldNick said:

Wonderful thank you. His goalscoring record was something in that promotion run. Being there at Orient was some night, old Fred Dineage having to go through a torrid time as he had to walk past the Saints fans to climb onto the gantry lol.

A wall collapsed at full time and luckily no major injuries ( my brother in the crush) as fans rushed to get on the pitch

I was wedged up against the wall just before it collapsed. Somehow I popped out of the crowd like a bar of soap and ended up standing by a WPC who tried to get me back into the crowd. I remember saying to her “I’m not back in there love” at the moment the wall collapsed. The whistle went and I walked across the pitch with the players wondering how I was going to get out. Oddly enough I guy I worked and played football with (Orient supporter) was on the opposite side of the pitch, saw me and shouted my name, so I climbed over the wall and left with him.

Can’t believe that no one was seriously injured in the crush when the wall went over. 

 

[Obstacle1]

2 hours ago, Doctoroncall said:

As AI has been used a fair bit recently, Gemini gave these footballers with initials TB:

Thierry Henry, Thiago Silva and Toni Kroos

changed to soccer players and Terry Butcher’s name appears!

changed to current English soccer players and Tyrick Mitchell comes up.

I would have thought AI would not have trouble knowing initials were two elements to a name.

MLG will explain further but these AI models are generally trained on a word level, rather than letter level, hence why they don't do very well on tasks that involve understanding different letters within words.

[hypochondriac]

So almost another week down and no signings despite Still saying he wanted some in this week. 17 days to go. Tick tock. 

[Turkish]

4 hours ago, OldNick said:

The private jet that was waiting at Southampton airport ready to fly to Liverpool for TD seems to have an engine problem as it never seemed to go lol

I believe one of the stumbling blocks is Everton are wanting to save on these costs as they’re waiting for a Saints fan to offer to drive him there themselves 

Edited August 14 by Turkish

[verlaine1979]

3 minutes ago, Obstacle1 said:

MLG will explain further but these AI models are generally trained on a word level, rather than letter level, hence why they don't do very well on tasks that involve understanding different letters within words.

They aren't trained on either exactly. The words that are fed into them are tokenized into statistical units with no semantic value and then reassembled based on probabilities and vector relationships. 

[Saint86]

3 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

What were his stats like on Football Manager 1962? 

I would actually quite enjoy a retro football manager game - with the league structures, finances, and wages etc. from back in the day - crucially before it became the rigged big business shitshow that it is now.

Edited August 14 by Saint86

[Hamilton Saint]

26 minutes ago, DT said:

We're signing Tony Blair. Plays just to the left of centre.

No, he feints to the left in pre-season campaigning, but then plays right-wing when the real matches begin.

[Polaroid Saint]

33 minutes ago, DT said:

We're signing Tony Blair. Plays just to the left of centre.

Well, was meant to be center-left but kept on playing to the right until he was pretty much a right-winger by the time he stepped up to the premiership.

[Matthew Le God]

3 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

What were his stats like on Football Manager 1962? 

 

19 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

I would actually quite enjoy a retro football manager game - with the league structures, finances, and wages etc. from back in the day - crucially before it became the rigged big business shitshow that it is now.

 

Such a game exists! You can manage teams from the Victorian age 1888 to Tony Blair's 1998.

 

 

[Suhari]

4 hours ago, suewhistle said:

I'd have imagined it would be bigger, but then I'm no expert on these things. 

So far he doesn't measure up well against Tall Paul.