Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Suhari]

Hoping there's another out-of-the-blue signing or two soon.

Really need to freshen up the squad.

Seems to be zero new rumours.

[benjii]

5 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Hoping there's another out-of-the-blue signing or two soon.

Really need to freshen up the squad.

Seems to be zero new rumours.

Don't you worry, we'll have a couple of promising youngsters from the Latvian third tier before you can say, "SportsRepublicIsShite".

[Gloucester Saint]

8 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

And the only other signing so far has got Rasmus' fingerprints all over it and Spors probably had little to do with it.

Very likely looking at the player’s career journey.

Which begs the question - what IS Spors doing? I wondered with that picture of them last season whether Rasmus might play politics and push Johannes out of direct communication with Dragan, very slippery customer. 

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Hoping there's another out-of-the-blue signing or two soon.

Really need to freshen up the squad.

Seems to be zero new rumours.

Needs to be far more than one or two. Must be a pipeline really.

[Convict Colony]

We need an attacking midfielder wizard, a fast right winger and I'd get another CM to replace Downes.

[CB Fry]

43 minutes ago, woodsaint1 said:

Derby County actually. And hes already injured

Derby's transfer strategy is clueless. The #saintsway is to make sure they're injured before we sign them.

[Convict Colony]

3 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Very likely looking at the player’s career journey.

Which begs the question - what IS Spors doing? I wondered with that picture of them last season whether Rasmus might play politics and push Johannes out of direct communication with Dragan, very slippery customer. 

Rasmus with his measly 5% has cost Dragan 100m easy over the last few years. Dragan officially had enough last Xmas and now he's in charge.

He brought in a professional football director not a director from temu.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Convict Colony said:

Rasmus with his measly 5% has cost Dragan 100m easy over the last few years. Dragan officially had enough last Xmas and now he's in charge.

He brought in a professional football director not a director from temu.

In which case he needs to be video calling Spors early tomorrow to say ‘what is the progress in the new additions in the positions Will has asked for? Are they going to land before the close of the window?’

The reality is high fives about the Dibling sale and Fernandes one to come. Don’t think they are remotely interested on the SR board about performances or squad cohesion.

[UpweySaint]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Yep, one week to save his job. Promised much and delivered fuck all.

5-6 starters needed through both the spine and out wide.

Tick tock. He’s had plenty of time. Aribo and Edozie need to be given cut offs to get their moves done as Sam could’ve helped us today when Stoke went down to 10. This limbo position is not helping anyone.

One week to save his job? Do you seriously stand by that? He’s made two signings and they’ve barely got settled. Surely the sensible time to review is at the end of the season?

[ErwinK1961]

Like I’ve said before, Charles, Downes, Fernandes are all the same. Bits and pieces midfielders that aren’t great at shielding the defence/tackling or creating/arriving in the box. Offer next to nothing at either end of the pitch.

As well as an AM (how can an 18 yo be our only creative option FFS), we need a DM too. Downes can sit on the bench. When he wasn’t laying on the floor, he was blindly turning into the opposition.

[SuperSAINT]

27 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

We need an attacking midfielder wizard, a fast right winger and I'd get another CM to replace Downes.

Gandalf would do currently.

[S-Clarke]

We need more Mads style signings in the attacking areas, ready made players who can come in and make us better from the day dot. 

I don't want to see any more 'potential' signings at this stage. We need ready players who start for us tomorrow. They need to replace Fraser/Armstrong/Archer and such in the attack immediately. If they don't then we've failed.

[2Morrow]

Azaz

Fellows

Spertsyan / Guilavogui

Mat Ryan

Wishful thinking - Sargent

 

Ryan

Roerslov THB Stephens Manning

Charles Fernandes 

Fellows Spertsyan Azaz

Sargent 

 

[Wade Garrett]

Can we buy players that will improve the team.  Not £3m centre backs who get bombed out after a couple of games because they’re shite and a centre-forward who couldn’t score in a brothel.

Oh, and a new keeper as well as Baz is shit.

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, 2Morrow said:

Azaz

Fellows

Spertsyan / Guilavogui

Mat Ryan

Wishful thinking - Sargent

 

Ryan

Roerslov THB Stephens Manning

Charles Fernandes 

Fellows Spertsyan Azaz

Sargent 

 

Fellows is the sort I can see us going for, a real traditional winger who will keep the width and stretch the game. Right up Stills street.

Azaz will happen I imagine, he'd be the 10. Spertsyan isn't happening and probably never was if we're honest.

Guilavogui has gone quiet, but will probably happen. Doesn't set the pulses racing though, I think we need better than him given the current state of our options.

GK - isn't Ryan a free agent? If we were interested in him it would have been done by now. He probably wants first team football, but we're only signing a backup GK.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

Here is a radical idea... how about see what happens in the rest of window before judging it?

What aspects of the previous windows that our owners have overseen give you confidence that they'll get it right the 6th time of asking (or however many it's been)...?

 

(Yes, I know you'll cite Spors as being the different factor this time around, which is fair enough, but guess which geniuses employed him....)

Edited 5 hours ago by trousers

[SaintlyAnd]

I got told this evening by a friend in Germany (who works in football) we’re trying hard for Scienza but he’s waiting as he wants Bundesliga or Premier League team. 

[Convict Colony]

21 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

Gandalf would do currently.

How much does sauron want for him ?

[S-Clarke]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

What aspects of the previous windows that our owners have overseen give you confidence that they'll get it right the 6th time of asking (or however many it's been)...?

 

(Yes, I know you'll cite Spors as being the different factor this time around, which is fair enough, but guess which geniuses employed him....)

I think this window has more of a critical feel to it at this stage. If we get the next week wrong, we'll be marooned at this level for many years IMO. Feels a drastic thing to say, but we're so far off at this stage from being a competitive outfit at the top end. 

If we wait until Jan we'll be too far off it, then we'll be stuck here for another season and have the cycle of yet another squad change over. 

[sfc4prem]

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

I think this window has more of a critical feel to it at this stage. If we get the next week wrong, we'll be marooned at this level for many years IMO. Feels a drastic thing to say, but we're so far off at this stage from being a competitive outfit at the top end. 

If we wait until Jan we'll be too far off it, then we'll be stuck here for another season and have the cycle of yet another squad change over. 

Didn't you say during the dying weeks of last season that you feared our 12-point embarrassment of a season in and of itself would see us take years to get back to the Premier League?

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, sfc4prem said:

Didn't you say during the dying weeks of last season that you feared our 12-point embarrassment of a season in and of itself would see us take years to get back to the Premier League?

I did, still don't think you can underestimate how damaging that season can be. It may even restrict players we can go for as they may not be interested, who knows. That sort of season can have massive repercussions that can last for years, we we'll see how this season goes.

We needed a mega reset in the summer and I don't think we've reset enough, as we're still persisting with Bazunu, Stephens, Armstrong who we know have failed before.

[Osvaldorama]

Worst part for me is that both last season & this season we have been bailed out by youth players appearing from nowhere.

Dibling & now Robinson have spared Sport Republic’s blushes..

So even though we had the shittest forward line in PL history, that’s proving to be not even championship level… the only minor positives are a fluke.

 

[Gloucester Saint]

34 minutes ago, UpweySaint said:

One week to save his job? Do you seriously stand by that? He’s made two signings and they’ve barely got settled. Surely the sensible time to review is at the end of the season?

Yes, 100%. We needed new signings who were better than what was already there in a very large squad and they haven’t been. The right back is much more the type of signing needed, eg ready to come in. The two cheap projects from Germany are not what was required. You can tell Still is getting frustrated too.

Edited 5 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[HarvSFC]

I'm probably repeating what's already been said, but I'm just hoping that we haven't closed off on getting another striker in. We've got Downs in as a project, but we can't put all the pressure on him to fire us to promotion, he needs to learn and grow in the position, as he's far from the finished article at the moment. Stewart's crocked and I'm not actually sure he's that good. In fairness we haven't seen enough of him, but all he's got at this level is a very good, but little run in a Sunderland team. Again, not one you can rely on for promotion because of his availability. Archer's shown glimpses of good finishing, but so had Mara. Not consistent enough for a promotion chasing team in his current state. And lastly Armstrong, his best work here has come from out wide, rather than in the central position, where he's always looked like a struggling and lost figure at this level, as he did two years ago.

I think one would need to go, and we're probably not going to get any sales for the latter three, but I wouldn't be against loaning out Stewart, or Armstrong to a team outside of this division. Maybe Rangers on loan could be a possibility. Either would be closer to home and they're Martin men. Then we could either explore the loan or permanent option for the best available replacement with the Dibling money.

I just don't think our current options are good enough for where we want to be, despite their record at this level, it just isn't happening for them here now for whatever reason. We're carrying them in the team, rather than them bringing quality to the side.

Either way, this is a massive week for those at the club and SR have to give us something to get behind after the disaster of last season. So far this summer hasn't been the most convincing, but it never has been under this ownership and they still have time to get it right. But, the next thing they need to learn for next summer is not to leave their transfers so late every year, as it massively disrupts the start of the season. I know a lot of deals do happen in the last few weeks of the window, but other clubs still manage to bring in more than two young players who haven't actually improved the first eleven (Without counting Roerslev as he must have only had one training session before today) three games into the season. Roerslev's one in the right direction and hopefully players ready for the here and now is where we go this week. They had many months to prepare for this summer and you'd have hoped outgoings, which seems to be the current excuse were being negotiated before the window opened.

 

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I think this window has more of a critical feel to it at this stage. If we get the next week wrong, we'll be marooned at this level for many years IMO. Feels a drastic thing to say, but we're so far off at this stage from being a competitive outfit at the top end. 

If we wait until Jan we'll be too far off it, then we'll be stuck here for another season and have the cycle of yet another squad change over. 

I increasingly wonder whether it all needs burning down and the best result is relegation to league 1 rather than championship mediocrity. Worked last time. Also seems to have worked for Ipswich, cov and Sunderland. Just can’t see a way out of this continual shit show

[hypochondriac]

I know it's early but I really struggle to understand why we have bought Quarshie and Downs. Neither of them have improved the team and are simply players with potential for the future. Most assumed that Quarshie at least would be a fringe player at best while he learnt the ropes. I thought we were going to use some financial muscle to bring some of the best players in, this division to our team. We finished bottom last year and have so far brought in two average squad players. Our lack of transfer activity cost us today and it's lost us points so I'm pretty annoyed about it to be honest. Spors has been bloody underwhelming so far he better get some amazing signings in the next week, particularly because Fernandes is likely off. 

[Midfield_General]

So who still thinks Armstrong, Archer and BBD are good enough striking options to get us promotion, because they've scored goals at this level before?

@Matthew Le God - still sticking by that? 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

We played the loan market quite well during the last Championship season. Think we need to do so again this season. 

[Convict Colony]

8 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Worst part for me is that both last season & this season we have been bailed out by youth players appearing from nowhere.

Dibling & now Robinson have spared Sport Republic’s blushes..

So even though we had the shittest forward line in PL history, that’s proving to be not even championship level… the only minor positives are a fluke.

 

This is a very good point, had thought about that before but we got lucky.

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Midfield_General said:

So who still thinks Armstrong, Archer and BBD are good enough striking options to get us promotion, because they've scored goals at this level before?

@Matthew Le God - still sticking by that? 

I think we can entirely discount BBD at this stage.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

I know it's early but I really struggle to understand why we have bought Quarshie and Downs. Neither of them have improved the team and are simply players with potential for the future. Most assumed that Quarshie at least would be a fringe player at best while he learnt the ropes. I thought we were going to use some financial muscle to bring some of the best players in, this division to our team. We finished bottom last year and have so far brought in two average squad players. Our lack of transfer activity cost us today and it's lost us points so I'm pretty annoyed about it to be honest. Spors has been bloody underwhelming so far he better get some amazing signings in the next week, particularly because Fernandes is likely off. 

100% this. If next week doesn’t go really well with 4-5 starting players coming in and we lose at home to Pompey, that’s it for SR and probably Still as well. Pity there’s the cup game in the way really. 

[S-Clarke]

2 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

We played the loan market quite well during the last Championship season. Think we need to do so again this season. 

I wasn't too sure why Solak came out and said we wouldn't use it this time out, but we clearly will as that's where the best value is. (certainly in terms of proven quality).

Still came today and said he's 100% open to loans, so I'm sure that's what we'll see.

Edited 5 hours ago by S-Clarke

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Just now, S-Clarke said:

I wasn't too sure why Solak came out and said we wouldn't use it this time out, but we clearly will as that's where the best value is. (certainly in terms of proven quality).

Still came out to say and said he's 100% open to loans, so I'm sure that's what we'll see.

I think it's pretty stupid of clubs especially at this level not to take advantage of the loan market. As you say, the players will be there to pick up.

[Convict Colony]

Dont worry trying to move the Spertysan deal along, am currently outside Holiday Inn in Samara in Russia, took a while to get here.

Have a saints shirt on and in russian a massive sign thats says "Saints Love Spertsyan, Krasnador President has a tiny penis"

[LGTL]

10 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I know it's early but I really struggle to understand why we have bought Quarshie and Downs. Neither of them have improved the team and are simply players with potential for the future. Most assumed that Quarshie at least would be a fringe player at best while he learnt the ropes. I thought we were going to use some financial muscle to bring some of the best players in, this division to our team. We finished bottom last year and have so far brought in two average squad players. Our lack of transfer activity cost us today and it's lost us points so I'm pretty annoyed about it to be honest. Spors has been bloody underwhelming so far he better get some amazing signings in the next week, particularly because Fernandes is likely off. 

This has probably fucked me off more than anything else. We finished on 12 points last season, the squad needed a complete overhaul from top to bottom. And what do we get? Two nonsense signings who absolutely do not improve us. It’s absolutely baffling, but with these utter jokers I don’t know why I’m surprised. 

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, LGTL said:

This has probably fucked me off more than anything else. We finished on 12 points last season, the squad needed a complete overhaul from top to bottom. And what do we get? Two nonsense signings who absolutely do not improve us. It’s absolutely baffling, but with these utter jokers I don’t know why I’m surprised. 

I get not signing too many whilst we have so many players. That makes sense to me but the striker we got needed to be at least as good as Adams in this division. Signing Downs is just bizarre and it feels like the most critical signing for us this season to have a consistent striker in the championship is of utmost importance. 

[HarvSFC]

16 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

100% this. If next week doesn’t go really well with 4-5 starting players coming in and we lose at home to Pompey, that’s it for SR and probably Still as well. Pity there’s the cup game in the way really. 

A negative result against Portsmouth would definitely be the final straw for many with SR. Would be worse than anything that happened last season, and last season was pretty horrific.

We've had Bournemouth and Brighton leapfrog us on the south coast. Not great, but we can live with that. But, can't let that lot down the road lord over us after all these years. A big week for the decision makers at the club. Make or break, and with the Dibling money there isn't any excuses. Let's hope we finally strike gold.

[Harry_SFC]

Just now, HarvSFC said:

A negative result against Portsmouth would definitely be the final straw for many with SR. Would be worse than anything that happened last season, and last season was pretty horrific.

We've had Bournemouth and Brighton leapfrog us on the south coast. Not great, but we can live with that. But, can't let that lot down the road lord over us after all these years. A big week for the decision makers at the club. Make or break, and with the Dibling money there isn't any excuses. Let's hope we finally strike gold.

Imagine a poor end to the window and a draw or a loss next weekend to Watford.

I'd be absolutely dreading the Pompey game. 

[Matthew Le God]

23 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

So who still thinks Armstrong, Archer and BBD are good enough striking options to get us promotion, because they've scored goals at this level before?

@Matthew Le God - still sticking by that? 

You left out 2 strikers

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

You left out 2 strikers

how many goals, or even starts, will Stewart and Downs get combined?

[hypochondriac]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

how many goals, or even starts, will Stewart and Downs get combined?

@Lighthousealso thinks they are more than good enough for this division. Jo Tessem certainly doesn't think so and I agree quite frankly. 

[SNSUN]

Honestly In a 2 CBs system we look defensively ok. 

Baz, Mads, THB, CapnJ, Welington, Charles, Downes.

The 4 in front needs massive surgery

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

You left out 2 strikers

Downs - early days but his first touch is even worse than Carlton Palmer’s. Which I didn’t think was possible in the major top two divisions. 

Stewart - remind me of his fitness record again? And he’s only started THIRTEEN games at this level. 

 

[sockeye]

34 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I did, still don't think you can underestimate how damaging that season can be. It may even restrict players we can go for as they may not be interested, who knows. That sort of season can have massive repercussions that can last for years, we we'll see how this season goes.

This may come across as hysterical, but I think our reputation is seriously damaged. Players that would improve us do not want to come and use us as a bargaining chip for a better transfer. Our decent players don't want to extend, only dross do because they know we're their best pay day for the remaining years of their career. The academy feels more gutted than ever before with talent being poached well before it can bloom - Robinson being the only star we have had from it. (I discount Dibling as he could have easily chose to remain at Chelsea and it was unusual for him to return.) Managers do the same, Will Still is probably the first decently regarded manager since Hassenhuttl. Something will give eventually, and we will have to spend years kicking around the championship or worse whilst we change hands at executive level. I think that may begin soon.

[Willo of Whiteley]

1 hour ago, Suhari said:

Hoping there's another out-of-the-blue signing or two soon

Or eleven

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

how many goals, or even starts, will Stewart and Downs get combined?

My guess is sub-20 starts and 3 goals this season.

[Matthew Le God]

5 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

how many goals, or even starts, will Stewart and Downs get combined?

I'm not mystic Meg

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

I'm not mystic Meg

ball-park figures?

[Wade Garrett]

28 minutes ago, LGTL said:

This has probably fucked me off more than anything else. We finished on 12 points last season, the squad needed a complete overhaul from top to bottom. And what do we get? Two nonsense signings who absolutely do not improve us. It’s absolutely baffling, but with these utter jokers I don’t know why I’m surprised. 

Couldn’t have put it better myself.  Spors brief is obviously to buy low and hope they turn out ok.  It is fucking nonsense.  Had a fucking gutful of Dragan and SR.  Unfortunately we’re stuck with the incompetent wankers.

Edited 4 hours ago by Wade Garrett

[Midfield_General]

22 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

You left out 2 strikers

It’s got nothing to do with the other two. You specifically said that having those three strikers - Armstrong, Archer and BBD - was good enough to get us promoted because they’d all scored goals at this level before.

Are you sticking with that? It’s fine to admit you were wrong. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Midfield_General