Damion Downs - Official: Loaned to Hamburg

[Badger]

8 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

https://www.getfootballnewsgermany.com/2026/werder-bremen-in-talks-to-sign-southamptons-damion-downs/

In talks with Werder Bremen over a loan move, apparently. 

This bit in the article y9u posted caught my eye.

 

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Bremen’s interest in Downs comes with Keke Topp (21) yet to score in 390 league minutes this season, while Victor Boniface, on loan from Bayer Leverkusen, is also yet to find the net.

Can clearly see why they see Downes as the answer. 

Glad their recruitment of strikers has been as good as ours, perhaps their Head of Scouting will be brought to Saints in the summer.

[Osvaldorama]

 

Hopefully this is true. 
 

What a horrific signing. 

[whiteleySaint30]

Can't beleive so many fans were taken in by the club PR bullshit about someone they'd never heard of when he signed. Simeone needs holding to account for this disaster - no injuries, no adjustment required - just simply way off it. Pathetic......

[IOWSaintDaz]

Just wish he'd piss off really, utterly useless, hope a few more go too, there's too many medicore players at Saints currently

[Sheaf Saint]

9 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

 

Hopefully this is true. 
 

What a horrific signing. 

How the holy fuck could we actually make a €2m profit on him? That's just nuts!

[Miltonaggro]

9 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

 

Hopefully this is true. 
 

What a horrific signing. 

Great signing for Hamburger, with extra relish! 

[Turkish]

Just now, Miltonaggro said:

Great signing for Hamburger, with extra relish! 

Finally got revenge for 1984!

[Zorba]

3 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Great signing for Hamburger, with extra relish! 

Lettuce enjoy this moment and mayo never be seen in a Saints shirt again!

[AlexLaw76]

“Option to buy”

😂🙈

[Roboze]

Unfortunately, Its an "Option" to buy......... he might well come back! 

[SuperSAINT]

43 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

“Option to buy”

😂🙈

I don’t think they go anywhere near that level of 💰. MLG can tell me if they do

[St. Ciervo]

Watch out, Hamburg motorists.

[skintsaint]

Official...loaned to Hamburg.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/downs-joins-hamburger-sv-on-loan

[sockeye]

2 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Official...loaned to Hamburg.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/downs-joins-hamburger-sv-on-loan

The worst signing under SR?

[Sheaf Saint]

6 minutes ago, sockeye said:

The worst signing under SR?

Worst signing under any owners ever I should think. Even Carillo managed to look vaguely like an actual footballer at times.

[Patrick Bateman]

7 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Worst signing under any owners ever I should think. Even Carillo managed to look vaguely like an actual footballer at times.

Agreed, I severely doubt we'll hear about him ever again now. 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 minute ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Agreed, I severely doubt we'll hear about him ever again now. 

Except for when Hamburg don't exercise the option to buy in the summer and we have to find some other sucker to take him off our wage bill for next season.

[bpsaint]

Hope he does well enough that they sign him permanently. Probably top 5, maybe top 3 worst ever forward I’ve seen play for us.

[Football Special]

19 minutes ago, sockeye said:

The worst signing under SR?

Feel sorry for all the fans who got his name on the back of their shirts before the season started 🙁

[Football Special]

At least @Turkish can stop predicting him to score in match build up threads now 

[trousers]

2 minutes ago, Football Special said:

At least @Turkish can stop predicting him to score in match build up threads now 

Why? Still as much chance of him scoring for us now as then...

[Sheaf Saint]

1 minute ago, Football Special said:

At least @Turkish can stop predicting him to score in match build up threads now 

To be fair, the fact that he's gone to Hamburg hasn't in any way affected the likelihood of him scoring in our next match.

[Monk]

12 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Agreed, I severely doubt we'll hear about him ever again now. 

Either that or how he ended up scoring 15 for Hamburg.

[Challenger]

15 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Except for when Hamburg don't exercise the option to buy in the summer and we have to find some other sucker to take him off our wage bill for next season.

Exactly, what mugs would honestly invest in this dud ?

[Greedyfly]

37 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Worst signing under any owners ever I should think. Even Carillo managed to look vaguely like an actual footballer at times.

Don't disagree with the sentiment but was Carillo worse?  He was fucking awful as well.  I appreciate this is like arguing over whether horse shit or dog shit is better!

[Lighthouse]

41 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Worst signing under any owners ever I should think. Even Carillo managed to look vaguely like an actual footballer at times.

We’ve spent way more on players who’ve been equally useless. £7m isn’t much of a transfer fee these days and we’ll probably get a reasonable chunk of it back eventually.

Carrillo, Sully, Osvaldo and Delgado were all more expensive and did f**k all. Let’s not even get started on the cheaper players who were worse.

[Turkish]

Sad day when a potentially awesome leader of the offensive line is driven out of the franchise. He could be been a phenomenal head shot converter and a star performer on the roster. We will never get to see it.

[RedArmy]

I’ll never forget that jog that he made. 

[Dan Johnson]

Look, he's been an absolutely terrible signing, there should rightly be some accountability taken by the transfer committee on this abject failure. 

However, equally, some comfort should be taken that the situation was reversed at the very first opportunity, that there's the potential to make money and not lose money and we're not persisting with a player who is obviously not suited to this league. 

I'd be more worried if we were either loaning him out and ringing the "Long term prospect" bell or playing the "He has the quality to adjust long term" card

[Paul Chuckle]

10 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We’ve spent way more on players who’ve been equally useless. £7m isn’t much of a transfer fee these days and we’ll probably get a reasonable chunk of it back eventually.

Carrillo, Sully, Osvaldo and Delgado were all more expensive and did f**k all. Let’s not even get started on the cheaper players who were worse.

Delgado wasn't more expensive. I think we paid about £3million for him.

[coalman]

2 minutes ago, Dan Johnson said:

Look, he's been an absolutely terrible signing, there should rightly be some accountability taken by the transfer committee on this abject failure. 

However, equally, some comfort should be taken that the situation was reversed at the very first opportunity, that there's the potential to make money and not lose money and we're not persisting with a player who is obviously not suited to this league. 

I'd be more worried if we were either loaning him out and ringing the "Long term prospect" bell or playing the "He has the quality to adjust long term" card

I think the option to buy is wishful thinking rather than rooted in any possible future. In the same way Juventus were going to pay us £40m for Alcaraz.

[RedArmy]

3 minutes ago, Paul Chuckle said:

Delgado wasn't more expensive. I think we paid about £3million for him.

Although we had to sign Chala too to keep him company for some reason. Think he was an extra million. 

[LeBizzier69]

20 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We’ve spent way more on players who’ve been equally useless. £7m isn’t much of a transfer fee these days and we’ll probably get a reasonable chunk of it back eventually.

Carrillo, Sully, Osvaldo and Delgado were all more expensive and did f**k all. Let’s not even get started on the cheaper players who were worse.

THAT Osvaldo goal was worth the transfer fee.....as i didn't have to pay it.

[Dan Johnson]

3 minutes ago, coalman said:

I think the option to buy is wishful thinking rather than rooted in any possible future. In the same way Juventus were going to pay us £40m for Alcaraz.

Yep, no Chickens have been counted. However, the fact we've even managed to get that 10m option in there is still a win given how abject he's been for us.

If the winds behind him, every fan in the crowd crosses their fingers, we do a little goal dance every Saturday, you never know, he may score a few goals and they end up signing him. 

[coalman]

Just now, Dan Johnson said:

Yep, no Chickens have been counted. However, the fact we've even managed to get that 10m option in there is still a win given how abject he's been for us.

If the winds behind him, every fan in the crowd crosses their fingers, we do a little goal dance every Saturday, you never know, he may score a few goals and they end up signing him. 

That would be lovely.

I can also see him scoring 2 goals in 20 and Saints deciding to build our front line around him.

[Turkish]

23 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We’ve spent way more on players who’ve been equally useless. £7m isn’t much of a transfer fee these days and we’ll probably get a reasonable chunk of it back eventually.

Carrillo, Sully, Osvaldo and Delgado were all more expensive and did f**k all. Let’s not even get started on the cheaper players who were worse.

Elyanoussi got to be up there. A truly awful player. Wasn't he meant to be the replacement for Tadic? Spent two seasons on loan and the only good thing i remember anyone saying about him was Ralph saying he was good against the ball.

[beatlesaint]

He looked like he won a competition with the Saints Foundatiuon to get on the pitch on matchday. 

Absolutely f'kin useless dollop.......and he probably voted for Trump as well !!

[Midfield_General]

38 minutes ago, Dan Johnson said:

Look, he's been an absolutely terrible signing, there should rightly be some accountability taken by the transfer committee on this abject failure. 

However, equally, some comfort should be taken that the situation was reversed at the very first opportunity, that there's the potential to make money and not lose money and we're not persisting with a player who is obviously not suited to this league. 

I'd be more worried if we were either loaning him out and ringing the "Long term prospect" bell or playing the "He has the quality to adjust long term" card

Yep, he’s shit and has been deservedly punted after 4 months, which shows we can be fairly ruthless.

Makes you wonder why Bazunu has been given 4 years and counting though, when he’s basically Downs in keeper form. Those nudes he’s got of Rasmus must be quite something. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Midfield_General

[tdmickey3]

7 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Yep, he’s shit and has been deservedly punted after 4 months, which shows we can be fairly ruthless.

Makes you wonder why Bazunu has been given 4 years and counting though, when he’s basically Downs in keeper form.

🤮

[tdmickey3]

Double post

Edited 21 hours ago by tdmickey3

[Toussaint]

16 hours ago, St. Ciervo said:

Watch out, Hamburg motorists.

They’re busy painting goal posts on their cars, guaranteeing them to not be hit by DD. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Toussaint

[Osvaldorama]

2 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Hope he does well enough that they sign him permanently. Probably top 5, maybe top 3 worst ever forward I’ve seen play for us.

Top 1 for me. 
 

Worst player I’ve ever seen for us. I wasn’t around for Ali Dia, but I can’t imagine him being worse. 

Edited 20 hours ago by Osvaldorama

[Lighthouse]

1 hour ago, Paul Chuckle said:

Delgado wasn't more expensive. I think we paid about £3million for him.

Yeah, in like 2001. He was about half a million off being our record signing back then, probably about £20-25m in today’s fees.

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

We’ve spent way more on players who’ve been equally useless. £7m isn’t much of a transfer fee these days and we’ll probably get a reasonable chunk of it back eventually.

Carrillo, Sully, Osvaldo and Delgado were all more expensive and did f**k all. Let’s not even get started on the cheaper players who were worse.

Delgado scored 2 goals, against Arsenal and Liverpool.

Edited 19 hours ago by badgerx16

[bugenhagen]

2 hours ago, Greedyfly said:

Don't disagree with the sentiment but was Carillo worse?  He was fucking awful as well.  I appreciate this is like arguing over whether horse shit or dog shit is better!

We do that quite a lot on here!

[RedArmy]

30 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Top 1 for me. 
 

Worst player I’ve ever seen for us. I wasn’t around for Ali Dia, but I can’t imagine him being worse. 

It’s a toss up between him and BBD for me. Both look like competition winners. 

[benjii]

Frees a space on the roster.

[USaintA]

Interesting to note that the head of Hamburg's scouting department is named Sefan "Stevie" Wunder.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Unfortunately Downs made a bad job of looking like a footballer, let alone a lone CF. I mean he managed to get dressed in a kit, but that’s the extent of his contribution. However, his lone deal is absolutely pointless if SR manage to either not sign a proper CF or sign another dud. I suggest you do not hold your breath!

[stfrancisofbenali]

They gave us Keegan, we give them Downs.