Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Hopper]

Updates report both Taylor and Bree being loan deals despite being their last years. Sizable loan fees?

Edited 8 hours ago by Hopper

[Charlie Wayman]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Outs - Dibling, Fernandes, BBD, Ramsdale, Taylor, Bree, Taylor, Lumley, Sulemana, Onachu, probably Aribo next week, Lallana retiring, Lesley, Gronbaek, Sugawara, KWP, Larios, ABK, SAA, Bednarek. Possibly Edozie tbc, possibly Smallbone.

Ins - Long, Jander, Mads, Jelert, Fellows, Scienza, Quarshie, Downs, Azaz

Pretty much a bus full getting off our bus 🥺

Hope we have eleven players left to field a full team against Portsmouth. Trouble is when the two teams march out in two weeks time we won't know which team is which as we won't be able to recognise any of them.

Edited 7 hours ago by Charlie Wayman

[Patches O Houlihan]

Just now, Charlie Wayman said:

Hope we have eleven players left to field a full team against Portsmouth. Trouble is when the two teams march out in two weeks time we won't know which team is which as we won't be able to recognise any of them.

We'll be in red & white stripes HTH

[Miltonaggro]

47 minutes ago, BarryVenisonsHair said:

Just seen Carsten Jancker buying a kettle in John Lewis 

Bet it was a Bosch!

[Miltonaggro]

1 hour ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Sounds like we need a 1980s style warrior at the back. 

Preferably called Keith or Derek. He must have a moustache and like steak n chips with lager

Not one of those gaylords we currently have. A REAL MAN. 

100% this. Pre-match meal of Heinz tomato soup, steak and chips and spotted dick with custard. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Can someone summarise what I’ve missed so far, please

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Willo of Whiteley said:

Can someone summarise what I’ve missed so far, please

Bree off to Charlton, Taylor might be off to WBA, QOR want Edwards and we are signing Scienza or who ever he is

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Willo of Whiteley said:

Can someone summarise what I’ve missed so far, please

Leo signing - £8m ish

Charlie and Bree out on loan deals to finish their time with us.

Rumours still circulating around Edwards, but unlikely to happen.

That will be it I think. Edozie is just silent which is odd.

[Midfield_General]

16 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Boo. Hopes raised the dashed moments later.

From first rumour to discredited in five posts. Is that a new record? 

[Nolan]

Why do people still fail to check twitter accounts to see if they are kosher?

 

Ones like this, are WUMs

Edited 7 hours ago by Nolan

[trousers]

2 hours ago, LGTL said:

League 1 GK, play off defence, Championship winning midfield and a mid table Championship strike force. Hopefully it’s enough. 

 

2 hours ago, LordHester said:

That's the spirit!

Party pooping, maybe, but it's not a completely unreasonable assessment to be fair....

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Outs - Dibling, Fernandes, BBD, Ramsdale, Taylor, Bree, Taylor, Lumley, Sulemana, Onachu, probably Aribo next week, Lallana retiring, Lesley, Gronbaek, Sugawara, KWP, Larios, ABK, SAA, Bednarek. Possibly Edozie tbc, possibly Smallbone.

Ins - Long, Jander, Mads, Jelert, Fellows, Scienza, Quarshie, Downs, Azaz

ASSET STRIPPING FIRE SALE 

[Baz Fl]

Spors has done a great job in the last few signings with two good wingers and a solid #10, my worry is who will finish the extra chances they create? Our 9’s have not shown that any of them are up to scoring the amount of goals needed to gain promotion. Between them they’re missing more sitter than actually scoring. 

[hypochondriac]

A striker on loan would make a lot of sense. I know it isn't happening but it's too important a position to risk imo.

[Midfield_General]

22 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Very low number of followers ✅

Staged photo in a suit with a phone to his ear ✅

Claims to break the latest news in his profile description ✅

Sports/football related user name ✅

 

Seems a decent source

Imagine being a fully grown man, and getting up and putting on a suit especially to take that photo of yourself to pretend to people on social media that you're a football journalist 

It's like people who put on a suit and put Abide With Me on Spotify when they get to the FA Cup final on Football Manager

Edited 7 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Saint Matty 76]

12 minutes ago, Hopper said:

Updates report both Taylor and Bree being loan deals despite being their last years. Sizable loan fees?

Basically permanents in the form of their loan fee for us, with the two clubs just not wanting to take them on for multiple years.

Bree, Taylor and ABK won't ever be back here. Ramsdale, Sugawara and Brereton-Diaz the three loanees who likely will be.

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 minute ago, Baz Fl said:

Spors has done a great job in the last few signings with two good wingers and a solid #10, my worry is who will finish the extra chances they create? Our 9’s have not shown that any of them are up to scoring the amount of goals needed to gain promotion. Between them they’re missing more sitter than actually scoring. 

If you were a striker playing for us and you saw the creative talent being signed wouldn't that lighten your mood a little - feel like there was less pressure on each chance you had because there would be another one along in a few minutes...

[gio1saints]

I notice Matt O’Reilly is off to Marseille on loan. I always had an idea he’d move this window. Shame we cannot afford him ( nor would he drop a league and muss CL football!) but great player and I guess we have Azaz in that kind of role now- though he can play false #9 ( like he did v us in preseason). Think there were some scoffing when I mentioned his name before but my hunch he was moving was correct. 

Edited 7 hours ago by gio1saints

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Imagine being a fully grown man, and getting up and putting on a suit especially to take that photo of yourself to pretend to people on social media that you're a football journalist 

It's like people who put on a suit when they get to the FA Cup final on Football Manager

What a sad bunch of tw*ts. I wear fish net stockings, a coconut bra and a cycling helmet, like a real man.

[suewhistle]

1 hour ago, BarryVenisonsHair said:

Just seen Carsten Jancker buying a kettle in John Lewis 

We have our spies everywhere!

[Chez]

4 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

A striker on loan would make a lot of sense. I know it isn't happening but it's too important a position to risk imo.

Who do you have in mind? They have to be unwanted by the current club, which is usually a bad start, plus it's tough getting senior pro's to drop down from the PL. So, that would mean coming from abroad...I'm struggling to think of perfect fit.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Miltonaggro said:

Whatever happens up to 7pm today lads our net spend crown looks unassailable!  

How come there's only 19 clubs listed on there?

[Greedyfly]

Just now, trousers said:

How come there's only 19 clubs listed on there?

Even SSN knows Pompey aren't a real club.

[gio1saints]

Just now, Chez said:

Who do you have in mind? They have to be unwanted by the current club, which is usually a bad start, plus it's tough getting senior pro's to drop down from the PL. So, that would mean coming from abroad...I'm struggling to think of perfect fit.

Plus there’s the problem of having five strikers potentially vying for just one place if we have Azaz and Fellows playing ( and Scienza?)

As it is it looks like Armstrong Stewart & Downs are on the bench - recruit another forward and that’s four strikers out of the nine subs. IF ( and I do not expect it- if these forwards misfire they will get rotated and we will get a better one in Jan) another one comes in surely someone must go out on loan or get sold - my guess would be the one in his final year ( RS) to at least get a fee out of it.

[Miltonaggro]

5 minutes ago, trousers said:

How come there's only 19 clubs listed on there?

The plot thickens.

[Midfield_General]

8 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

What a sad bunch of tw*ts. I wear fish net stockings, a coconut bra and a cycling helmet, like a real man.

Pics or it didn't happen

[Chez]

3 minutes ago, gio1saints said:

I notice Matt O’Reilly is off to Marseille on loan. I always had an idea he’d move this window. Shame we cannot afford him ( nor would he drop a league and muss CL football!) but great player and I guess we have Azaz in that kind of role now- though he can play false #9 ( like he did v us in preseason). Think there were some scoffing when I mentioned his name before but my hunch he was moving was correct. 

Whoever the scoffers were had good reason to scoff and have been proved right for scoffing.

Well done you though on suggesting a player who missed an entire season through injury and couldn't get a game on his return might be available for loan. 😉

[Dr Who?]

1 hour ago, Miltonaggro said:

Whatever happens up to 7pm today lads our net spend crown looks unassailable!  

Love the way Wrexham just spend spend spend, and just release, release, release. A real sustainable model of billionaires! When the bubble bursts on their computer game model, it going to burst big time! 

[suewhistle]

5 minutes ago, Greedyfly said:

Even SSN knows Pompey aren't a real club.

They couldn't work out which Pompey: there have been so many bankruptcies and reincarnations..

[Chez]

2 minutes ago, gio1saints said:

Plus there’s the problem of having five strikers potentially vying for just one place

Unless someone like AA departed? 

[sadoldgit]

8 minutes ago, Chez said:

Who do you have in mind? They have to be unwanted by the current club, which is usually a bad start, plus it's tough getting senior pro's to drop down from the PL. So, that would mean coming from abroad...I'm struggling to think of perfect fit.

But it wouldn’t be a proper transfer window without hypochondriac whinging about our lack of signing a striker every other post and breaking out the antidepressants!

[Convict Colony]

23 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Can someone summarise what I’ve missed so far, please

what we chatgpt 😄

[gio1saints]

2 minutes ago, Chez said:

Whoever the scoffers were had good reason to scoff and have been proved right for scoffing.

Well done you though on suggesting a player who missed an entire season through injury and couldn't get a game on his return might be available for loan. 😉

Who got injured 6 mins into his debut you mean and missed first two months but then played in 23 matches plus very well for Brighton against us the other day?  THAT Matt I’ Reilly? Hardly missed an entire season did he😂

[Baz Fl]

18 minutes ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

If you were a striker playing for us and you saw the creative talent being signed wouldn't that lighten your mood a little - feel like there was less pressure on each chance you had because there would be another one along in a few minutes...

I agree 100% that our chances and creativity will improve, it’s just up to date our 9’s haven’t shown the edge needed to capitalize on it. Fingers crossed 🙏

[trousers]

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

But it wouldn’t be a proper transfer window without hypochondriac whinging about our lack of signing a striker every other post and breaking out the antidepressants!

It wouldn't be a proper day on here without you launching a completely unprovoked attack on someone on here. Proper wierdo.

[Disco Stu]

I want to see Downs given a Championship start with Archer as his strike partner. I still think he'll come good.

[Turkish]

Just now, trousers said:

30 mins to get through passport control min, 45 minute rush hour taxi to Staplewood. This is going right to the wire. DEAL SHEET ME UP

[Hopper]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

I hope somone told him his plane was from Munich and not Stuttgart as suggested 😂

[hypochondriac]

16 minutes ago, Chez said:

Who do you have in mind? They have to be unwanted by the current club, which is usually a bad start, plus it's tough getting senior pro's to drop down from the PL. So, that would mean coming from abroad...I'm struggling to think of perfect fit.

We've had this conversation about 8 times during this window. I'll repeat what I said last time, it's not for me to suggest names that's what the club have a scouting department for. 

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 minute ago, Baz Fl said:

I agree 100% that our chances and creativity will improve, it’s just up to date our 9’s haven’t shown the edge needed to capitalize on it. Fingers crossed 🙏

If you were previously a high scoring forward but have been out of form due to injury or playing in a team which was terrible for the league you were in you'll be tense and low on confidence in the crucial moments. We've already seen this process once with Arma - wank in PL; Champ 23-24 2nd highest scorer and top for goal involvements. 

Archer & Nessie could potentially experience the same situation

[Hopper]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

30 mins to get through passport control min, 45 minute rush hour taxi to Staplewood. This is going right to the wire. DEAL SHEET ME UP

I flew back from Dusseldorf last week and had to go through passport control twice before even getting to my gate to come home. Took over an hour... Utter woke nonsense!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

T -5.5 hours until the window SLAM shut.

We're just getting the squad numbers down! Look at them all. Just as well we were operated extra dressing rooms a couple of seasons back. 🙂

[Saint NL]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

30 mins to get through passport control min, 45 minute rush hour taxi to Staplewood. This is going right to the wire. DEAL SHEET ME UP

It's impossible to go through an airport without stopping at Burger King. That'll add an extra 20 mins

[hypochondriac]

8 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

But it wouldn’t be a proper transfer window without hypochondriac whinging about our lack of signing a striker every other post and breaking out the antidepressants!

Please don't ever post about me again. 

[Greedyfly]

2 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

I want to see Downs given a Championship start with Archer as his strike partner. I still think he'll come good.

Last time I say this I promise but I think if you do this you start Stewart with Archer/AA instead and bring Downs on.

[Chez]

3 minutes ago, gio1saints said:

Who got injured 6 mins into his debut you mean and missed first two months but then played in 23 matches plus very well for Brighton against us the other day?  THAT Matt I’ Reilly? Hardly missed an entire season did he😂

Yes that's the one. my post was about as accurate as your prediction that he might be an option for us on loan.

[Miltonaggro]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

That's Jancker returning his kettle to John Lewis.  No quibble returns policy.

[Patches O Houlihan]

7 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

I want to see Downs given a Championship start with Archer as his strike partner. I still think he'll come good.

Are you really going to bench Azaz for Downs?

Edited 7 hours ago by Patches O Houlihan

[Hopper]

Just now, Miltonaggro said:

That's Jancker returning his kettle to John Lewis.  No quibble returns policy.

Never knowingly undersold. 🤝