Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Appy]

Very keen for us to get another right back, don’t rate Sugawara or Bree at all. 

[Chez]

27 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.

I found 1993 online, which is the edition that I first played. Still as addictive as ever.

[Chez]

2 minutes ago, Appy said:

Very keen for us to get another right back, don’t rate Sugawara or Bree at all. 

The fact almost every suggested team in the Ipswich thread has Sugawara playing despite him being shite in the first game says everything about our options. If we could find a gem at that position it could change everything in defence and attack.

[BARCELONASAINT]

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

[Obstacle1]

34 minutes ago, verlaine1979 said:

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. 

I know. But it's the words that are tokenized and embedded, not individual letters

[suewhistle]

4 hours ago, Toussaint said:

Susan!!!

Gawd, you sound like my late mother.

I do apologise though, it just jumped out at me. The joke, that is. I'm off to the allotment now to do some more digging in the cool..

 

[Farmer Saint]

6 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

That's odd, because it was my understanding that those deals were not wanted as it screwed us in the Prem last year.

[Matthew Le God]

4 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

That's odd, because it was my understanding that those deals were not wanted as it screwed us in the Prem last year.

It doesn't screw us IF the player is good enough for the Premier League. Big if on that!

[The Kraken]

Option to buy rather than obligation to buy.

[Turkish]

16 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

My sources tell me you are correct 

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

It doesn't screw us IF the player is good enough for the Premier League. Big if on that!

Well, THB and Downes screwed our investments last Summer as we had to spend near on £40m to go backwards.

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, Farmer Saint said:

Well, THB and Downes screwed our investments last Summer as we had to spend near on £40m to go backwards.

That doesn't mean other loans to buy will. Judge them on their own merits, not that of others.

[trousers]

55 minutes ago, verlaine1979 said:

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. 

Can't decide if it's Dusty Bin or the Mini Metro... 

Edited yesterday at 18:32 by trousers

[Farmer Saint]

Just now, Matthew Le God said:

That doesn't mean other loans to buy will. Judge them on their own merits, not that of others.

No, the point is it is money that we won't want to spend next year as we need every penny of PSR to try to be even mildly competitive.

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, Farmer Saint said:

Well, THB and Downes screwed our investments last Summer as we had to spend near on £40m to go backwards.

True, but if we keep both and go up because of them, and put better players around them, it may well be a better long term sound investment. THB in particular will be a top flight player for years to come IMO (although probably not top 6 material, he'll knock around mid-table/lower table clubs at least - which we can only hope might be us).

[Farmer Saint]

1 minute ago, SNSUN said:

True, but if we keep both and go up because of them, and put better players around them, it may well be a better long term sound investment. THB in particular will be a top flight player for years to come IMO (although probably not top 6 material, he'll knock around mid-table/lower table clubs at least - which we can only hope might be us).

I don't think he's a top flight player now TBF.

[Suhari]

28 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Gawd, you sound like my late mother.

I do apologise though, it just jumped out at me. The joke, that is. I'm off to the allotment now to do some more digging in the cool..

 

Crikey.

[SuperSAINT]

 

[SNSUN]

2 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Lovely. El Khannous next please.

And yes they're probably looking at us potentially selling Dibling and MF but I think we're stronger without our key players than they are with theirs.

[Nolan]

16 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

That doesn't mean other loans to buy will. Judge them on their own merits, not that of others.

Exactly.

 

loans that work: Romulo was a loan to buy for Goztepe, it was so successful they bought him properly early, and they've now made a fortune.

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

4 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

So does that mean he won't be playing against us on Sunday?

Starting to think that it would be good if Tyler Dibling doesn't sign for anyone else because he'll then have the opportunity to show us his real potential...because we need a winger.

[Mr Brightside]

1 hour 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.

Not responding to your comment, just wanted to say, Interpol - what a band. 

[SWLondon Saint]

14 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

The other good thing about this is it makes the West Ham offer for Fernandes look as daft as it truly is. £37.5m for someone who had less impact going forward than Fernandes and had a decent striker to supply and a team that was far less shite and who didn't have to adapt to moving overseas and didn't have 3 different shit managers.

[SuperSAINT]

16 minutes ago, Nolan said:

Exactly.

 

loans that work: Romulo was a loan to buy for Goztepe, it was so successful they bought him properly early, and they've now made a fortune.

Amazing profit on him.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Chez said:

I found 1993 online, which is the edition that I first played. Still as addictive as ever.

Did you need MS DOS? If there is a version not needing that it would be fab to play it again.

[Tauro]

8 hours ago, trousers said:

I'm yet to be convinced by Archer.... on paper, he's a good player at this level, but he just seems to be anonymous in games a lot of the time.... not sure if that's purely down to lack of service or if he's not "putting himself about" enough...? A player like Ings, for example, if he wasn't getting any service would say "f*** that" and go hunting for the ball himself, whereas Archer seems content to wait for things to happen rather than make things happen. Just an observation although, admittedly, I've not studied him avidly (so every chance I'm talking nonsense, for a change....)

Did you ever watch Rasiak?

[hypochondriac]

9 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Did you need MS DOS? If there is a version not needing that it would be fab to play it again.

It will work on dosbox surely? 

[hypochondriac]

30 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

Lovely. El Khannous next please.

And yes they're probably looking at us potentially selling Dibling and MF but I think we're stronger without our key players than they are with theirs.

Listened to a good Ipswich podcast and they are quite worried about their squad depth. They aren't a shoe in to win the league. 

[Saint Scott]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

Alfie Gilchrist?

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

It will work on dosbox surely? 

Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl. 

[Badger]

3 hours ago, OldNick said:

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

 

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

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

 

You may not remember but earlier in the year (1978) Chelsea had played Orient at Brisbane Road ( in the FA Cup I think) and the wall had collapsed after a surge in the crowd. This made the news as it was considered deliberate vandalism at the time.

I was near the front as the surge happened after the final whistle, and there was a feeling coming down the terrace from the back that “that fucking wall has got to go ..,”. Eventually it did and at that point it was quite a relief.

Saints fans had a bit of ‘mischief’ and adventure about them in those days. 
 

 

[beatlesaint]

50 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Just signed McAtee from Man City as well !!

[Badger]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

Any of idea of from where ? (Country etc, given location of  your contact)

[Badger]

3 hours ago, Saint Mikey said:

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.

Looks the part in the video doesn’t he ?

I don’t understand why his club might consider releasing him for €3.5m though having not long paid this for him. 

[BARCELONASAINT]

9 minutes ago, Badger said:

Any of idea of from where ? (Country etc, given location of  your contact)

unfortunately not. The source is in the club and yes they would know about any transfer dealings going on. Said person thought that once the player in question is announced that i would be excited about it! For very obvious reasons no more questions were asked.

[Badger]

4 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

unfortunately not. The source is in the club and yes they would know about any transfer dealings going on. Said person thought that once the player in question is announced that i would be excited about it! For very obvious reasons no more questions were asked.

Thanks. Sounds promising. 
 

[Saintsarmy]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

i do believe from what i have been told we have a new RB coming in on loan with an option to buy

Noticed you said the same last Sunday, assume we’ve been working on the deal all week and now is close to completion? Glad we are looking in this position 

[Turkish]

This is a great deal for Forest. 

[CB Fry]

44 minutes ago, Tauro said:

Did you ever watch Rasiak?

Did nothing of any use apart from bang score 18 odd goals a season no problem thank you very much.

Hoping Downs or indeed Archer can be as "ineffectual" as that.

[chivvy]

Right backs are tricky to recruit.

Wing backs can't seem to defend well. Good in a five 

Full backs don't offer much attacking. Solid in a four

Betrand had about the right balance. Could defend and ok getting forward.

This bloke looks bit of a tree good defensively but won't go past anyone and doesn't look to have a cross .. but haven't seen enough of him.

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 20:36 by chivvy

[qwertyell]

1 hour ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

So does that mean he won't be playing against us on Sunday?

He was on strike at Ipswich anyway.

Yeah, he's one of those.

[Chez]

1 hour ago, beatlesaint said:

Just signed McAtee from Man City as well !!

Hate how Man City get a massive sell on clause as well as £30m for a totally unproven PL player. Forrest (and similarily us in the past) take all the risk, and City none. The big clubs have it sewn up. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Hutchinson leaving Ipswich is good news for us.

Leicester still have a fairly strong squad with creative players. 

One or two additions for us and we’re in a strong position.

[Chez]

5 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

another player with the physical attributes we have badly lacked in recent years. Tall, strong and fast. Not sure how good he is technically but some of his passing looks OK. Hard to gauge quality when you are looking at the Belgium league IMO.

Is the guy (no 91) he keeps setting up early on one of the strikers we are were linked to/mentioned on here or a I confusing him with someone else?

[Chez]

2 hours ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

That sorts out Ipswich's finances. I wonder how much they will have to spend on a replacement or have they done that already?

[davefizzy14]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

unfortunately not. The source is in the club and yes they would know about any transfer dealings going on. Said person thought that once the player in question is announced that i would be excited about it! For very obvious reasons no more questions were asked.

Thanks for the update, sounds exciting! 

[revolution saint]

2 minutes ago, Chez said:

another player with the physical attributes we have badly lacked in recent years. Tall, strong and fast. Not sure how good he is technically but some of his passing looks OK. Hard to gauge quality when you are looking at the Belgium league IMO.

Is the guy (no 91) he keeps setting up early on one of the strikers we are were linked to/mentioned on here or a I confusing him with someone else?

Yeah, striker was linked to us and a few other champ clubs this summer.

[Badger]

2 minutes ago, Chez said:

Is the guy (no 91) he keeps setting up early on one of the strikers we are were linked to/mentioned on here or a I confusing him with someone else?

I think that’s Bertaccini whose name appeared on the thread at some stage. 

[Chez]

12 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Leicester still have a fairly strong squad with creative players. 

I didn't see much of them last season. Did they actually replace Dewsbury-Hall?

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, Chez said:

I didn't see much of them last season. Did they actually replace Dewsbury-Hall?

El-Khannous replaced him.