Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[S-Clarke]

3 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

- I don’t think Baz is great and definately don’t rate McCarthy but both should be enough to get us promoted (not bad enough to cost us IMHO)

 

Just to challenge this a little bit, I'd say that he is bad enough to stop us being decent at this level. What people seem to be ignoring is that last time out we had players like Stu, Adams, KWP, Joe Aribo etc who dug us out of holes which he often put us in (and Martin's tactics tbf).

Take the 4 high level players for this level out of the side, continue with Bazunu, and throw in a prospect up front and Ryan Fraser as a wing back and it will all look very different come next May.

[egg]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

3rd choice goalkeeper should surely be the aspiration for all young kids. You get to be a footballer, get to train, decent money and medals but don’t have to do any actual work. 

I'm not sure there's an easier job in professional sport. Perhaps 3rd pick kicker in American Football. Keep fit, travel a bit, play plenty of cards, "work" til you're about 45, never get injured, retire as fresh as a daisy. If I wasn't a dwarf, I'd have been all over that. 

[lambtiss]

1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

Now we have the Dibling cash, who is volunteering to track the outbound flights from Krasnador airport?

I'm sure the Krasnador Chairman has that covered

[Chez]

3 minutes ago, saintant said:

Bazunu ruptured his achilles on 19 Apr 2024, Stoke signed Johansson from Rotherham on 18 May 2024. Just saying.

Saints signed Aaron Ramsdale August 30th 2024. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

17 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Sounds like another guy who is ''good for the lads in the dressing room'', ala Stephens.

How about we sign some actual decent first team players, who instantly command respect and thus set standards that way, rather than being good at 'bantz'.

But that's exactly what you need for a 3rd choice keeper. He's coming here with no illusions that he's going to be playing. I think the club are waiting to next season when we can release McCarthy to reasses the keeper situation. Figure they think Baz will be just fine for this season.

[Smirking_Saint]

6 minutes ago, saintant said:

Bazunu ruptured his achilles on 19 Apr 2024, Stoke signed Johansson from Rotherham on 18 May 2024. Just saying.

My point really is, how the fuck did he end up at stoke

[Matthew Le God]

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

[SfcPhil]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

For around Juan and a half million.

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

I wonder if we have actually played PSR a little bit with this one, and sold him to them for a silly fee? (like we saw with Forest selling their backup GK to Newcastle for £30m).

You'd hope so, otherwise it's all rather pointless.

[egg]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

Was it one of them shady £40m transfer fees? 

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Just to challenge this a little bit, I'd say that he is bad enough to stop us being decent at this level. What people seem to be ignoring is that last time out we had players like Stu, Adams, KWP, Joe Aribo etc who dug us out of holes which he often put us in (and Martin's tactics tbf).

Take the 4 high level players for this level out of the side, continue with Bazunu, and throw in a prospect up front and Ryan Fraser as a wing back and it will all look very different come next May.

We got 12 premier league points with Ramsdale 

We got 25 with Baz 

Baz>Ramsdale 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints have sold Juan Santos to Göztepe. Quick profit for PSR. 

 

 

In a nutshell, why our fans can’t stand SR. Priorities are all wrong. Get the core club and first team right, then you can celebrate the marginal gains. 

[egg]

1 minute ago, SfcPhil said:

For around Juan and a half million.

That'll come on juandy. 

[Smirking_Saint]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Just to challenge this a little bit, I'd say that he is bad enough to stop us being decent at this level. What people seem to be ignoring is that last time out we had players like Stu, Adams, KWP, Joe Aribo etc who dug us out of holes which he often put us in (and Martin's tactics tbf).

Take the 4 high level players for this level out of the side, continue with Bazunu, and throw in a prospect up front and Ryan Fraser as a wing back and it will all look very different come next May.

Currently we have Fernandes, a better Charles and Jay Robinson.. Im in the ‘we have a better squad’ camp Im afraid

But yeah Bazunu isn’t that bad

Any keeper in Martins teams will look dogshit

Ramsdale had let in 22 by Christmas and Butlands let in 11 already

[lambtiss]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c07py7jg3gjo

[Convict Colony]

9 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Now we have the Dibling cash, who is volunteering to track the outbound flights from Krasnador airport?

sorry ukrianan secret service has already hired me, am currently sat in a hedge watching will do what I can for saintsweb

Edited 8 hours ago by Convict Colony

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

In a nutshell, why our fans can’t stand SR. Priorities are all wrong. Get the core club and first team right, then you can celebrate the marginal gains. 

This benefits Saints. How is it a bad thing? Signed on a free transfer and sold at a profit to our sister club.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, lambtiss said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c07py7jg3gjo

Lol, fans are unreal. Oh Tyler......

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Convict Colony said:

sorry ukrianan secret service has already hired me, am currently sat in a hedge watching 

Pilchards, haven’t heard from you in ages!

[Turkish]

I found George Longs YouTube highlights anyway, looks okay 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Bazunu is fine for this league. Not great by any means, but fine, and I’m certainly more comfortable with him in goal than McCarthy.

If he has got a good ten outfield players in front of him I’m not concerned, but some on here like making a mountain out of a molehill.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

This benefits Saints. How is it a bad thing? Signed on a free transfer and sold at a profit to our sister club.

It just doesn’t excite any of us and the small profit will only be squandered on more squad filler. We get excited by goals, skill, good saves, quick passing on the pitch. When the club is re-established in the top flight and all of Rasmus’s bloopers move off the books ask me again if I think it’s important or positive. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Matthew Le God]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

It just doesn’t excite any of us and the small profit will only be squandered on more squad filler. We get excited by goals, skill, good saves, quick passing on the pitch. When the club is re-established in the top flight and all of Rasmus’s bloopers move off the books ask me again if I think it’s important or positive. 

Money going to Saints transfer pot is not a bad thing. 

[S-Clarke]

5 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I found George Longs YouTube highlights anyway, looks okay 

 

Now I know what we use to sign players. It all makes sense now.

[trousers]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Money going to Saints transfer pot is not necessarily a bad thing. 

Tweaked it for you

[SambaMaverick]

We'll benefit from this multi club model, any day now I'm sure

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Money going to Saints transfer pot is not a bad thing. 

When it’s £10-15m sell ons maybe, but the odd million only materially matters if you’re a small community owned like Exeter City who rely on that and built a new stand from Watkins, Grimes, Amapdu etc. 

We’ve leaked like a colander under SR under every purchase bar Lavia and probably Fernandes when he leaves this week so hence struggling to feel much enthusiasm.

Edited 8 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Harry_SFC]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

When it’s £10-15m sell ons maybe, but the odd million only matters if you’re a small community owned like Exeter City who rely in that and built a new stand from Watkins, Grimes, Amapdu etc. 

Plus it's just another million for SR to spunk down the drain

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, SambaMaverick said:

We'll benefit from this multi club model, any day now I'm sure

How is Göztepe giving us money for a player we signed for £0, not to our benefit? They have also given us a loan fee for him for last season.

We've also had other benefits from the multi club setup.

[Matthew Le God]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

When it’s £10-15m sell ons maybe, but the odd million only matters if you’re a small community owned like Exeter City who rely in that and built a new stand from Watkins, Grimes, Amapdu etc. 

Whatever the price was, it benefits us for a player we signed for free. I doubt it was just £1m.

[Convict Colony]

after gozteppe sold the other dude to lepzeig for a lot of cash I'm sure a few more million was added onto Juan to move more money into our pot.

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Matthew Le God said:

Whatever the price was, it benefits us for a player we signed for free. I doubt it was just £1m.

Fine, it enthuses you, it doesn’t excite me, let’s agree to disagree.

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

How is Göztepe giving us money for a player we signed for £0, not to our benefit? They have also given us a loan fee for him for last season.

We've also had other benefits from the multi club setup.

Doubt our total outlay on him is much lower than what we got in after wages, agent fees, solidarity payments, training payments as he was under 24 etc etc

And even then, it's such a small profit as to be completely insignificant.

Just feels like a pointless exercise for us to be involved with, I'd rather there was complete focus on us

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

Fine, it enthuses you, it doesn’t excite me, let’s agree to disagree.

I'm yet to see a reason why it is negative.

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, SambaMaverick said:

Doubt our total outlay on him is much lower than what we got in after wages, agent fees, solidarity payments, training payments as he was under 24 etc etc

And even then, it's such a small profit as to be completely insignificant.

Just feels like a pointless exercise for us to be involved with, I'd rather there was complete focus on us

Goztepe have paid his wages since we signed him and also gave us a loan fee and now transfer fee. How is it removing focus on Saints?

[hypochondriac]

Sports republic doing a great job. We are making so much cash 

[Turkish]

6 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

How is Göztepe giving us money for a player we signed for £0, not to our benefit? They have also given us a loan fee for him for last season.

We've also had other benefits from the multi club setup.

Such as?

[LGTL]

Don’t forget the parachute payments too, that almost gets forgotten about these days!

Saying all that, agent fees or something. 

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

Goztepe have paid his wages since we signed him and also gave us a loan fee and now transfer fee. How is it removing focus on Saints?

SR's "expertise", "brain power" and time is being spread across three clubs, rather than one.

Goztepe's relative success also gives them an easy way to pat themselves on the back, rather than do some serious soul searching as to what the fuck has gone wrong here.

[LGTL]

Just now, SambaMaverick said:

SR's "expertise", "brain power" and time is being spread across three clubs, rather than one.

Goztepe's relative success also gives them an easy way to pat themselves on the back, rather than do some serious soul searching as to what the fuck has gone wrong here.

I’d rather it was spread around 100 clubs to be honest. The less time those wankers worry about us, the better. 

[Gloucester Saint]

17 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

I'm yet to see a reason why it is negative.

Not what I said…

I’m trying to explain what makes me enthusiastic. I grew up watching Danny Wallace take the piss out of full backs, Williams’s composure, Mark Wright winning headers and serene on the ball, Shilton claiming it, MLT’s outrageous skill, Case’s thundering challenges, Moran’s darting runs and tidy finishes.

Later on, Lallana’s Cryuff turns, Rickie’s volleys, JWP’s free kicks, KWP’s surges forward.

When SR can re-connect me and the shadow of the club I supported and loved, then I might start to feel part of it like I did then travelling up and down the country to watch them, and I might see multi-club transactions as a positive. 

They’re not a negative, I just don’t care about them.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Willo of Whiteley]

11 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

We've also had other benefits from the multi club setup.

Name three?

And three that we’ve benefitted from so far?

Edited 8 hours ago by Willo of Whiteley
Typo

[bangkoksaint]

On 24/08/2025 at 14:08, Badger said:

Despite having since January to plan and prepare for it. 

A year more like

[S-Clarke]

Just now, bangkoksaint said:

A year more like

I think the 'since January' comments are referring to when Spors came in, believe he came in during Feb.

[saint michael]

14 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

I'm yet to see a reason why it is negative.

Because it gives Spors more money to waste (😂 probably should add this )

Edited 7 hours ago by saint michael

[bangkoksaint]

I don’t think the club reads the room at all well. On the evening we lose a generational talent, ‘one of our own’, they unveil a journeyman 3rd choice GK with an official unveiling video. If I was their director of comms I’d have done this in a low key way and probably the day after. 

[Football Special]

58 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

 

I’ll reply to both of these, and its the last ill say on the subject as it just doesn’t sink in…

We have Bazunu and McCarthy, both probably earning 50k a week, we also have Ramsdale technically still on the books and potentially returning, although unlikely its there

As such.. what is the point on signing a further keeper ? That may or may not then need to be replaced if and when we get promoted ? Because I know for a fact if we signed a champ keeper now for X a week on a 4 year deal, he’d get pelters when he fails in the prem

Its unrealistic, better off saving our money for if/when we go up, or next year when we know whats happening with Ramsdale and we don’t have McCarthy on the books

Bringing in a third keeper on loan only further validates this position imo, and allows us flexibility next year when the position is clearer

And yes, I think Bazunu is good enough that we can get promoted with him and Ive seen enough already to further think that, if Im wrong Ill be the first to admit it

Id rather this year we strengthen the front line effectively

Deluded. 

Answer is either a) don't let Ramsdale go on loan if we can't replace him with a decent loan in return or 

b) keep Ramsdale 

c) sell Ramsdale and replace him with a proper perm replacement 

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, Smirking_Saint said:

Im not convinced he was ever really signed as first choice, just had a good pre season, THB and JS are clearly our first choice CBs in what Id imagine ends up in Stills preferred 4 atb

We signed the majority of our perceived starters last season, as we all know. What we do need is balance out wide and creativity.

[Farmer Saint]

19 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Sports republic doing a great job. We are making so much cash 

We had a lot of players to move on, and as we all know, we signed a lot of our players for this season, last Summer.

[Gloucester Saint]

5 minutes ago, bangkoksaint said:

I don’t think the club reads the room at all well. On the evening we lose a generational talent, ‘one of our own’, they unveil a journeyman 3rd choice GK with an official unveiling video. If I was their director of comms I’d have done this in a low key way and probably the day after. 

They’re not interested in supporters or the city, it’s all high fives about the fee received for Dibling. If they can pick up a few fringe players from the German and French second divisions they can loan out to the other clubs/maybe turn a modest profit on one, happy days. If they can squeak into 6th and through the play-offs again, even better.