Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Suhari]

14 minutes ago, Danbert said:

https://eflanalysis.com/news/southampton-sent-financial-warning-amid-tyler-dibling-exit-talks-with-sales-necessary-verdict/

 

"In 2023-24, which is the last full financial year for which the data has been published, Southampton’s wage bill was £80m.

“That was a Championship season, albeit one they were in receipt of parachute payments, which meant their overall revenue was £85m.

“They also had nearly £40m of other expenses, plus amortisation costs of £51m. So at the operating level, they were losing a lot of money. They swung back to a profit because of the huge profit on player sales they made."

“2025-26 is a mirror image of that season, i.e. their first back in the Championship after relegation.

“Now, we don’t have the accounts for 2024-25, so we don’t know what the wage bill is, but we can safely assume that costs are going to massively outstrip revenue once again.

“Yes, they have parachute payments, but they will still be generating an operating loss, so sales are necessary both in terms of PSR and to fund the club’s day-to-day operations.

“That’s the simple answer. You can’t have a Premier League wage bill and a Premier League squad in the Championship when your revenue, even with parachute payments, has been cut in half overnight.”

 

 

We just need to add an extra bit of income. Perhaps charging those who attend St Mary's a few ££ when they leave? Or a 100% surcharge if you are buying a ticket for someone else? Maybe fee for anyone who doesn't join in with OWTS?

 

 

 

 

 

I did the same economics course as Rayner BTW.

[Wsaint]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

People need to move on from Spertsyan now

 

[Turkish]

25 minutes ago, Suhari said:

 

We just need to add an extra bit of income. Perhaps charging those who attend St Mary's a few ££ when they leave? Or a 100% surcharge if you are buying a ticket for someone else? Maybe fee for anyone who doesn't join in with OWTS?

 

 

 

 

 

I did the same economics course as Rayner BTW.

I think we should expand the stadium, let kids in for a fiver and give more tickets to the away fans. We’d also make a fortune on hot dog sales. 
 

 

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Year ended 30.6.24 - loss £66.6m

Year ended 30.6.23 - loss £49.2m

We will have lost money since then. 

Where's the surplus that means we don't have to sell? 

It depends if you're talking pure finances or PSR. PSR we don't need to. Pure finances we may do, but that's up to Dragan.

[sockeye]

47 minutes ago, Suhari said:

 

We just need to add an extra bit of income. Perhaps charging those who attend St Mary's a few ££ when they leave? Or a 100% surcharge if you are buying a ticket for someone else? Maybe fee for anyone who doesn't join in with OWTS?

 

 

 

 

 

I did the same economics course as Rayner BTW.

Add an import tax for chants from other clubs, this will make a decent chunk from some St. Marys regulars…

[Convict Colony]

Krasnador playing away at 13:00 UK time tomorrow, should be a stream around somewhere.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

51 minutes ago, Suhari said:

 

We just need to add an extra bit of income. Perhaps charging those who attend St Mary's a few ££ when they leave? Or a 100% surcharge if you are buying a ticket for someone else? Maybe fee for anyone who doesn't join in with OWTS?

 

 

 

 

 

I did the same economics course as Rayner BTW.

 

24 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I think we should expand the stadium, let kids in for a fiver and give more tickets to the away fans. We’d also make a fortune on hot dog sales. 
 

 

Or think away from football. A world renowned, unique attraction bringing in loads of people. The Monkey Chicken Pettg Zoo remains the answer to any financial issues. The difficulty will be reminding everyone there's a football club to support, such will be it's success.

[Patches O Houlihan]

17 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Or think away from football. A world renowned, unique attraction bringing in loads of people. The Monkey Chicken Pettg Zoo remains the answer to any financial issues. The difficulty will be reminding everyone there's a football club to support, such will be it's success.

[Turkish]

37 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

 

Or think away from football. A world renowned, unique attraction bringing in loads of people. The Monkey Chicken Pettg Zoo remains the answer to any financial issues. The difficulty will be reminding everyone there's a football club to support, such will be its success.

A great big Saints related theme park on the land next to st Mary’s. 
 

we could have rides based on Saints themes, the Martin ride, the ride is really boring, goes sideways and backwards and if you  ask for your money back the guy In charge says you whilst he was proud of you for trying but you werent good enough to use the ride properly. The roll coaster will be mainly going downhill, the dwarf throwing with people dressed up as Cortese let you throw them against the wall and the ghost train where Branfoot, Jones, carillo And so on jump out at you on the way round 

Edited August 23 by Turkish

[Willo of Whiteley]

13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

A great big Saints related theme park on the land next to st Mary’s. 
 

we could have rides based on Saints themes, the Martin ride, the ride is really boring, goes sideways and backwards and if you  ask for your money back the guy In charge says you whilst he was proud of you for trying but you werent good enough to use the ride properly. The roll coaster will be mainly going downhill, the dwarf throwing with people dressed up as Cortese let you throw them against the wall and the ghost train where Branfoot, Jones, carillo And so on jump out at you on the way round 

Absolutely love this idea 🤣

[Saint86]

1 hour ago, Danbert said:

https://eflanalysis.com/news/southampton-sent-financial-warning-amid-tyler-dibling-exit-talks-with-sales-necessary-verdict/

 

"In 2023-24, which is the last full financial year for which the data has been published, Southampton’s wage bill was £80m.

“That was a Championship season, albeit one they were in receipt of parachute payments, which meant their overall revenue was £85m.

“They also had nearly £40m of other expenses, plus amortisation costs of £51m. So at the operating level, they were losing a lot of money. They swung back to a profit because of the huge profit on player sales they made."

“2025-26 is a mirror image of that season, i.e. their first back in the Championship after relegation.

“Now, we don’t have the accounts for 2024-25, so we don’t know what the wage bill is, but we can safely assume that costs are going to massively outstrip revenue once again.

“Yes, they have parachute payments, but they will still be generating an operating loss, so sales are necessary both in terms of PSR and to fund the club’s day-to-day operations.

“That’s the simple answer. You can’t have a Premier League wage bill and a Premier League squad in the Championship when your revenue, even with parachute payments, has been cut in half overnight.”

 

Having looked into this enough earlier in the summer. That article isn't worth the paper it's printed on. 

[Gloucester Saint]

28 minutes ago, Turkish said:

A great big Saints related theme park on the land next to st Mary’s. 
 

we could have rides based on Saints themes, the Martin ride, the ride is really boring, goes sideways and backwards and if you  ask for your money back the guy In charge says you whilst he was proud of you for trying but you werent good enough to use the ride properly. The roll coaster will be mainly going downhill, the dwarf throwing with people dressed up as Cortese let you throw them against the wall and the ghost train where Branfoot, Jones, carillo And so on jump out at you on the way round 

Dungeons and Dragan’s 

[Southner]

59 minutes ago, Turkish said:

A great big Saints related theme park on the land next to st Mary’s. 
 

we could have rides based on Saints themes, the Martin ride, the ride is really boring, goes sideways and backwards and if you  ask for your money back the guy In charge says you whilst he was proud of you for trying but you werent good enough to use the ride properly. The roll coaster will be mainly going downhill, the dwarf throwing with people dressed up as Cortese let you throw them against the wall and the ghost train where Branfoot, Jones, carillo And so on jump out at you on the way round 

'Cloud Nein'

A high level, dream-like ride that suddenly plummets and crashes back to earth with zero benefits. 

[sockeye]

If we do not drop the 5 at the back and   bring in a competent front line we will be in for a very long season.

[trousers]

Despite @Matthew Le God reassuring us otherwise, none of our strikers are good enough for a club with automatic promotion ambitions. Discuss...

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Despite @Matthew Le God reassuring us otherwise, none of our strikers are good enough for a club with automatic promotion ambitions. Discuss...

Give them some service and they will be.  Which is why Will Still said today they want a number 10 and at least one wide player.

Edited August 23 by Matthew Le God

[tdmickey3]

Tick Tock Spors

Midtable is on unless we have some decent recruitment 

Edited August 23 by tdmickey3

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Give them some service and they will be

Missed several sitters FFS

[Harry_SFC]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

Despite @Matthew Le God reassuring us otherwise, none of our strikers are good enough for a club with automatic promotion ambitions. Discuss...

We've still got a lot of the donkeys who were absolutely shite last season. We need at least 3-4 players to come into this side and improve us. 

[EBS1980]

we must get a couple of creative players into this starting XI now. 
 

our only way currently is crossing into the box and hoping it falls to someone.

3 goals scored by defenders so far vs 1 from a forward says a lot.

[Saint NL]

Can we loan out Downs? And Archer? Fuck it, Stewart as well.

All of them are useless. 

[Turkish]

Massive week ahead we have lead for about 2 minutes this season. Need some creativity urgently 

[trousers]

Is Ings still a free agent? If so, just get him in FFS

(If only for his knee slides for the upcoming game Vs Portsmouth Community FC)

Edited August 23 by trousers

[EBS1980]

7 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Massive week ahead we have lead for about 2 minutes this season. Need some creativity urgently 

Totally. Azaz scored today too, need to get that deal and another done this week. 

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, EBS1980 said:

Totally. Azaz scored today too, need to get that deal and another done this week. 

No use getting Azaz if we are going to play 6 defensive players 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, EBS1980 said:

Totally. Azaz scored today too, need to get that deal and another done this week. 

We aren't getting him or the Coventry fella. Why would they leave their current clubs to come to this shower of shit.

[Monk]

I’d take Bamford or Ings over everything we have at the moment. 

[AlexLaw76]

We need championship star quality bright in to have a slither of a chance of going up

[Dman]

2 wingers (actually half decent ones, not some cheap noddy from the french leauge), a genunie number 10 and another CM should fernandes leave is a minimum for me. 

Fellows, Azaz and another.

Unrealistic, but a number 9 would be nice. It wont happen but what we currently have aren't good enough. 

And sorry Baz, you've done nothing wrong, but get that fucking stoke keeper. Easily the best keeper in this leauge. 

[James]

On the basis that Downs and Quarshie were our “must have” signings I am not going to hold my breath for anything decent this next week. We needed  much more active transfer window than we’ve had. If we’ve wasted the whole window trying to get the Armenian dude in a carbon copy of Gakpo then it’s proof that Sports Republic aren’t learning. The current team is not going to make the playoffs at this rate, depressing all round. 

[Smirking_Saint]

9 minutes ago, Monk said:

I’d take Bamford or Ings over everything we have at the moment. 

Ings has done fuck all for about 4 years

Why do we keep banging on about him

[santolijador]

If Spors has any balls, we ship 1/2 of Archer, Arma or Stewart and go and get another striker in, alongside a couple of wingers and a 10. 

Minimal chance of it happening alas. 

[Dman]

1 minute ago, Smirking_Saint said:

Ings has done fuck all for about 4 years

Why do we keep banging on about him

Its pretty obvious really. He's a local lad without a club - its an obvious link. 

I get the impression Monk was saying "i'd take those because we're that bad" rather than suggesting they're the answer. Which I'd probably agree with. 

[James]

Just now, santolijador said:

If Spors has any balls, we ship 1/2 of Archer, Arma or Stewart and go and get another striker in, alongside a couple of wingers and a 10. 

Minimal chance of it happening alas. 

Spors has been a huge disappointment. Talks a good game but zero so far in terms of improvement. 

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

3 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

Ings has done fuck all for about 4 years

Why do we keep banging on about him

Because our current strikers are complete pish I would think

[qwertyell]

Heading into the final week of another stellar transfer window needing two starting wingers, a starting 10, and probably a starting 6. And our striking options will still be garbage.

Good job, everyone. 

[Dman]

I fully appreciate his is probably half way out the door, but why on earth aren't we giving Edozie a game until he's gone. 

He's not great, but hes one of the 2 genuine wingers we have in the side. At least he tries to beat a man. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Murphy from them fuckers down the road would be a decent signing. Would never happen though. Even Bishop is a better striker than anything we currently have. 

[James]

6 minutes ago, qwertyell said:

Heading into the final week of another stellar transfer window needing two starting wingers, a starting 10, and probably a starting 6. And our striking options will still be garbage.

Good job, everyone. 

The window so far has been garbage, no argument about that. Left it all too late as usual. 

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, James said:

The window so far has been garbage, no argument about that. Left it all too late as usual. 

And Spors has had 6 months build up to this

[aintforever]

It is another complete fuck up by the club, why they have to drag it out until the last minute I do not know.

[Dman]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

And Spors has had 6 months build up to this

He's spent it all trying to convince a player to join us without actually checking if the club would sell... 

[Harry_SFC]

Anyone else think Fernandes may push for a move this week? Thought his body language was very poor today and he looked way off it. 

[Patches O Houlihan]

8 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Anyone else think Fernandes may push for a move this week? Thought his body language was very poor today and he looked way off it. 

I think you're reading too much into it. He was trying to take responsibility in the middle and drive the team forward at the end, just made a few errors because he is a bit off top form right now.

[ally_uk]

I'd be tempted to fuck off the majority of our strike force and start again. 

Stewart, Diaz, Archer can all go.

Downs it's early days but he looks Shite....... 

If we keep Armstrong don't play him as a lone striker. 

Get someone like Mitrovic in that would liven these sacks of shit up.... 

[saint michael]

3 hours ago, Turkish said:

A great big Saints related theme park on the land next to st Mary’s. 
 

we could have rides based on Saints themes, the Martin ride, the ride is really boring, goes sideways and backwards and if you  ask for your money back the guy In charge says you whilst he was proud of you for trying but you werent good enough to use the ride properly. The roll coaster will be mainly going downhill, the dwarf throwing with people dressed up as Cortese let you throw them against the wall and the ghost train where Branfoot, Jones, carillo And so on jump out at you on the way round 

We’ve got the clowns we could go full circus

[Monk]

28 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

Ings has done fuck all for about 4 years

Why do we keep banging on about him

I think you’re missing my point…

 

Our forwards are wank at the moment, so I would take slightly less shite than what we have at the moment. 

[CB Fry]

24 minutes ago, James said:

The window so far has been garbage, no argument about that. Left it all too late as usual. 

It's difficult to disagree. The two players that Spors was taking a victory lap about signing nice and early have so far proved to be wasted effort and money and neither would have been coveted by any of our rivals. In fact someone else (Ipswich?) actually signed the striker ahead of Downs in the USA pecking order.

I'm not writing either off, sure both could be great eventually but those are signings that could have waited until August 31st.

Spors has not unearthed anything of note for us. Signing a good winger from Middlesbrough or a handy attacker from Cov or WBA would be great but is not evidence of wonder scouting either. They are signings that any Championship club with coin can make happen.

Big week for Spors, this.

Edited August 23 by CB Fry

[Pamplemousse]

3 games into the season and our best and only winger available is Ryan Fraser.

That cannot be our only creative option. How has that happened? 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Pamplemousse said:

3 games into the season and our best and only winger available is Ryan Fraser.

That cannot be our only creative option. How has that happened? 

Poor performance by the Director of Football. Needs a really stellar week or on his bike I think. Good start with Sulemana and Onachu but dreadful since. Downs - I’ve seen big lumps in National League South with a better first touch. To call him a donkey is an insult to the animals. Ali Dia had better technique than that.

£7m is beer money but still utterly wasted, and the £15-20m needed for a standout striker at this level is still needed, so dig deep Dragan. This week should hurt a great deal if the club is get back on track.