Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[coalman]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Didn't we have someone like this who took everyone through the Gakpo situation? That ended the same way.

I still see this ending in the same way. We've never managed to get our 'big outfield targets' over the line in our SR windows, Gakpo, Ramos, Silva who went to France, O'Riley last summer. All good having the ambition, but we really need a big signing over the line at some point. They've spent a lot, but it's been on kids in the main - not a proven gamechanger.

It could be a Gakpo or it could be another Quincy Promes. If he and has agent have been screwing us around then I hope people will excuse me for hoping for the latter.

[AllyD]

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

[saintant]

1 minute ago, AllyD said:

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

That's a very quiet week for a London train station.

[egg]

1 minute ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I’m more convinced Dibling and Fernandes will both be staying. I get the impression that the club would be more inclined to let TD leave but no club is forking out £50M on a player who hasn’t done anything of note so far in their career.

Dibling was never going for anything like £50m after the second half of last season, and with a short contract. Personally, I'd have taken Everton's best offer once it was clear that they were the only serious buyers, and assuming the lad wanted out. 

If the choice was to keep Dibling with a contract running down, or sell him for the best price possible and get a few players that would have improved us and allowed Still to play his preferred formation, the decision should have been simple imo. 

[SW5 SAINT]

3 minutes ago, AllyD said:

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

 

3 minutes ago, AllyD said:

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

Two players going home from Ipswich by train via London….

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

 

Two players going home from Ipswich by train via London….

Which two? 

[Ted Bates Statue]

6 minutes ago, AllyD said:

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

I know this won't be the important bit to most, but I need to know which station Spors said this at.

"London" is not sufficiently specific, as far as I'm concerned

[sockeye]

Spertsyan seems to be going as expected

I understand our position in the world nowadays, but it gets extremely frustrating being let down every summer.

[AlexLaw76]

If we don’t get this Armenian. Does that mean we will be subject to this abject 3/5 at the back system?

odd that all of a sudden there is no possible other way of playing 

[saintant]

Think we could also go 433;

Baz

New RB Stephens Wood Manning

Fernandes Downes Charles

Dibbling New CF Robinson

[egg]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

If we don’t get this Armenian. Does that mean we will be subject to this abject 3/5 at the back system?

odd that all of a sudden there is no possible other way of playing 

I don't see how he would have solved the problem.

To play 433 (or 4231 in MLG speak) we need a decent RB, another midfielder, and wide men who can do wide men stuff. A CF who can hold the ball up would help too.

So nope, I don't think this lad would have made any difference. 

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

I don't see how he would have solved the problem.

To play 433 (or 4231 in MLG speak) we need a decent RB, another midfielder, and wide men who can do wide men stuff. A CF who can hold the ball up would help too.

So nope, I don't think this lad would have made any difference. 

Fraser and Robinson can do wide man stuff. At least until more players come in.

there are other ways to play than hoof the ball to Armstrong 

 

Edited Sunday at 16:04 by AlexLaw76

[egg]

12 minutes ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

I know this won't be the important bit to most, but I need to know which station Spors said this at.

"London" is not sufficiently specific, as far as I'm concerned

I vote Aldwych. 

About as credible as any other guess. 

[obelisk]

14 minutes ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

I know this won't be the important bit to most, but I need to know which station Spors said this at.

"London" is not sufficiently specific, as far as I'm concerned

Mornington Crescent?

[SaintLondon]

27 minutes ago, AllyD said:

Two arrivals this week says Spors at London train station!

A pen and a drawing board? 

[ally_uk]

We still have Edoize..... Can play him on the wing. 

[BARCELONASAINT]

56 minutes ago, Coastal said:

Especially when our clueless board price them all out of a move.

Just whats going on at this club?

Why do Everton fans find a need to join another clubs fans forum and post such utter shit. You really are clueless at this like the majority of your lot!

[HarvSFC]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Didn't we have someone like this who took everyone through the Gakpo situation? That ended the same way.

I still see this ending in the same way. We've never managed to get our 'big outfield targets' over the line in our SR windows, Gakpo, Ramos, Silva who went to France, O'Riley last summer. All good having the ambition, but we really need a big signing over the line at some point. They've spent a lot, but it's been on kids in the main - not a proven gamechanger.

Can add Liam Delap and Fabio Carvalho to the list of failed targets last summer. Their alternatives were considerably worse... Joel Piroe from the summer before, we got Ross Stewart on deadline day as the alternative... Moussa Dembele and Vitinha from the January we signed Sulemana and Onuachu and of course the Gakpo and Ramos saga, and we didn't go for an alternative in that case.

Since their time here SR have struggled to get the "wow, he's good and improves the team immediately" transfers over the line. Only one I can of is Ramsdale, and he was a panic buy on deadline day, who we offered an uncharacteristically high contract by SR standards.

All the players that have turned down contract renewals here too. Adams, S. Armstrong, KWP, Dibling. Some we may have been happy to see the back of, if we had properly replaced them, but again it's similar to the transfer situation. Stephens, A. Armstrong and McCarthy will happily sign new deals here, because they aren't getting better offers elsewhere. Just like all the average crap we sign. But, those that do get others offers prefer moves elsewhere, even when we became a Premier League club again. Similar story with the academy, the youngsters are getting offered more elsewhere and leaving, when you could potentially have a £30m+ player in there like we've seen with Dibling, so they pay for themselves. 

I had never heard of this Spertsyan guy, but apparently he's good and clearly he's been the main target, as we haven't signed the attacking midfielder alongside the centre-back and striker that was mentioned earlier this summer. But, from the outside it's like SR aren't paying the going rate in football these days. Promoted clubs, Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, etc are dwarfing our record signing and it isn't like we haven't made any big sales ourselves in the last few years. They sell a player for £50m and replace with a £30m+ player. We sell Lavia for £56m and replace with Downes/Charles at £10-15m each. And those two aren't even our worse performers.

[johnnyboy]

MLG Notes , unfortunately I couldn’t see how to copy this post from twitter , but just to get this bit of information out there I screenshot it , hope this is ok MLG and not something you will chastise me for , not holding my breath on that one 🙏

[ErwinK1961]

2 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

MLG Notes , unfortunately I couldn’t see how to copy this post from twitter , but just to get this bit of information out there I screenshot it , hope this is ok MLG and not something you will chastise me for , not holding my breath on that one 🙏

Time to move on.

Edited Sunday at 16:42 by ErwinK1961

[saintant]

Just now, ErwinK1961 said:

Move on

Agree - we're being played here.

[Saint Scott]

2 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Didn't we have someone like this who took everyone through the Gakpo situation? That ended the same way.

This guy, his profile picture still haunts me

[Wsaint]

1 minute ago, Saint Scott said:

This guy, his profile picture still haunts me

 

[ErwinK1961]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

Agree - we're being played here.

Totally.

Does seem odd why would we increase our bid though, if those others are interested then he’s never going to choose us.

[AlexLaw76]

Who are the 2 or 3 wingers, good enough to start, that we are linked with/signing?

[Lighthouse]

Every used car I've ever bought, looked at or test driven had, "two more people coming to look at it this afternoon." I'm not saying we're definitely getting Spertsyan but these stories are hardly unexpected.

[goodymatt]

 

[goodymatt]

 

[Saint NL]

I'm bored of this Spertsyan saga, but feel we have another 2 weeks of it to go.

[goodymatt]

Just now, Saint NL said:

I'm bored of this Spertsyan saga, but feel we have another 2 weeks of it to go.

Armenie Football suggesting our new offer is expected to be accepted but it does feel all these leaks are to bring the other interested parties to the table. Exciting if we get him but we know how this normally plays out for us.

[Harry_SFC]

3 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Armenie Football suggesting our new offer is expected to be accepted but it does feel all these leaks are to bring the other interested parties to the table. Exciting if we get him but we know how this normally plays out for us.

Clearly if Lens are still interested and match our new offer he will go there. Guess it depends on who wants him the most. 

[trousers]

I'm going to channel my inner Alpine Saint and call it two weeks early: Sport Republic have screwed up yet another transfer window, haven't they...?

#runlikeabedandbreakfast

 

[benjii]

38 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

This guy, his profile picture still haunts me

That's Iain Dowie.

[John B]

22 minutes ago, trousers said:

I'm going to channel my inner Alpine Saint and call it two weeks early: Sport Republic have screwed up yet another transfer window, haven't they...?

#runlikeabedandbreakfast

 

What do you mean by screw up i

If an identified player does not want to come to Southampton that is hardly the fault of SR surely

 

 

[Suhari]

26 minutes ago, trousers said:

I'm going to channel my inner Alpine Saint and call it two weeks early: Sport Republic have screwed up yet another transfer window, haven't they...?

#runlikeabedandbreakfast

 

Has Alpine ever commented on a SR transfer window? He's not been around for a while.

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, John B said:

What do you mean by screw up i

If an identified player does not want to come to Southampton that is hardly the fault of SR surely

 

 

Oops, I missed off the winking emoji...

#tongueincheek

[Doctoroncall]

51 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

Can we have another option to have our money back if he turns out like Skacel?

[Saint Neil]

Watching Krasnodar now to see what Spertsyan's xW (expected waves to the crowd) is.

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, Saint Neil said:

Watching Krasnodar now to see what Spertsyan's xW (expected waves to the crowd) is.

What channel? 

[Dusic]

He just waved to someone with a half and half Lens and Porto scarf. Its over.

[Saint Neil]

9 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

What channel? 

https://thedaddy.top/stream/stream-573.php

You'll need a really good ad blocker to watch it.

[Saint Matty 76]

Very quickly gone from hilariously optimistic posts of "both" to suddenly... neither?

 

[ErwinK1961]

5 minutes ago, Saint Matty 76 said:

Very quickly gone from hilariously optimistic posts of "both" to suddenly... neither?

 

Fine by me, don’t think we need another midfielder like him and certainly not at the prices quoted. 

We need a proper AM and a proper DM.

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, ErwinK1961 said:

Fine by me, don’t think we need another midfielder like him and certainly not at the prices quoted. 

We need a proper AM and a proper DM.

Will said he specifically wanted some new players with championship experience though. If not him then where are we getting that from? Fellows?

[hypochondriac]

20 minutes ago, Dusic said:

He just waved to someone with a half and half Lens and Porto scarf. Its over.

Someone started a 'hair like a wotsit' chant and the camera caught him smirking. He's anti-ginger, we've got no chance. 

[Give it to Ron]

2 minutes ago, ErwinK1961 said:

Fine by me, don’t think we need another midfielder like him and certainly not at the prices quoted. 

We need a proper AM and a proper DM.

Rudoni is a proper AM though look at his goals and chances created last season, it’s immaterial if he doesn’t want to come anyway

[ErwinK1961]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Will said he specifically wanted some new players with championship experience though. If not him then where are we getting that from? Fellows?

Fellows makes more sense to me. A position we are in desperate need and has a good record.

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, Saint Matty 76 said:

Very quickly gone from hilariously optimistic posts of "both" to suddenly... neither?

 

@tdmickey3  @trousers @S-Clarke

 

Rudoni a clairement indiqué qu'il souhaitait rester à Coventry City au moins pour cette saison. Southampton a manifesté son intérêt en le contactant plus tôt dans le mercato, mais Rudoni est très heureux à Coventry et il faudrait une offre spéciale pour qu'un transfert à St Mary's se concrétise. Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

Edited Sunday at 19:22 by Matthew Le God

[ErwinK1961]

2 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

Rudoni is a proper AM though look at his goals and chances created last season, it’s immaterial if he doesn’t want to come anyway

I had him as more of a box to box, Fernandes type. I’d say all our current centre mid options are all similar in that sense (Downes, Fernandes, Charles, Smallbone). I want a Tadic and a Romeu type for balance.

[Saint_clark]

9 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

@tdmickey3 @Saint_clark @trousers

 

Rudoni a clairement indiqué qu'il souhaitait rester à Coventry City au moins pour cette saison. Southampton a manifesté son intérêt en le contactant plus tôt dans le mercato, mais Rudoni est très heureux à Coventry et il faudrait une offre spéciale pour qu'un transfert à St Mary's se concrétise.

...what? Why would I need a french translation of that.