January Transfer Window

[Hawkswood]

1 minute ago, coalman said:

He can't play as a lone CF and isn't going to get on the end of the crosses that Fellows and Scienza put in. His performances as captain have not been inspirational and he's easily bullied off the ball by defenders. Throw in his comments about not trying to the previous manager and I'm not sure it's such a bad thing.

When did he say the thing about not trying ? I missed that

[coalman]

Just now, Hawkswood said:

When did he say the thing about not trying ? I missed that

Shortly after Eckert took over.

[lambtiss]

36 minutes ago, Göztepe said:

It's high time to get rid of him. We need a striker over 1.85m tall who can also play as a lone striker.

With our track record of signing strikers that would be a disasterous move.

We have needed a tall striker alongside Armstrong not instead of. 

[Midfield_General]

9 minutes ago, coalman said:

He can't play as a lone CF and isn't going to get on the end of the crosses that Fellows and Scienza put in. His performances as captain have not been inspirational and he's easily bullied off the ball by defenders. Throw in his comments about not trying to the previous manager and I'm not sure it's such a bad thing.

Who’s playing no. 9 if he goes? 

[Challenger]

2 hours ago, HarvSFC said:

The same January we signed Onuachu and Sulemana, Bournemouth signed Outtara and Semenyo. We paid £40m for our pair. Bournemouth paid £30m for theirs. We got £24m back from their sales. Bournemouth got £104m back.

Good players do move in January, we just can't identify them.

Nobody at the club with any footballing nous capable of identifying them.

[Chez]

4 hours ago, UpweySaint said:

Joel Piroe? Previously linked, proven at the level, not getting games and rumoured to be on the way out. I’ve not seen loads of him but he has a bit more height and physicality compared to Arma and Archer while still being able to play a bit.

he doesn't really lead the line like a number 9. He knows where the net is, but he isn't quick or good in the air or terribly physical. 

[Lighthouse]

59 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Not for much longer if the latest report is true.

He can want to leave to his heart's content but he's under contract here and I can't imagine we're entertaining the idea of selling him until the summer. Selling him now would be madness and as much as people love to pretend SR are actually mad, they aren't.

[Osvaldorama]

3 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I wouldn’t blame him.

He isn’t the problem.

The problems run a lot deeper than him. Given that he has been the most creative and scored our goals this season you can’t slag him off in that regard.

I wouldn’t want to be at the club if I was a player.

I know he’s the champ top scorer. I know we won’t replace his goals because our scouts are idiots… 

but I still would not give a single shit if he goes. 

 

Im so bored of watching him mince about missing easy chances, never winning a header, rarely competing.

At least if he goes the club would be forced to do something different.

(Even if different ends up being even worse…) That’s how bored I am of everything about this team 
 

Edited 18 hours ago by Osvaldorama

[Chez]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I wouldn’t blame him.

He isn’t the problem.

The problems run a lot deeper than him. Given that he has been the most creative and scored our goals this season you can’t slag him off in that regard.

I wouldn’t want to be at the club if I was a player.

...not to mention the club were more than happy to farm him out on loan That must have seriously damaged the relationship between club and player. very surprised he didnt depart in the summer, but  guess we didnt get the right offer.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

4 minutes ago, Chez said:

...not to mention the club were more than happy to farm him out on loan That must have seriously damaged the relationship between club and player. very surprised he didnt depart in the summer, but  guess we didnt get the right offer.

not forgetting that he was shite for WBA while he was on loan

[SambaMaverick]

I would sell AA and anyone else who wants to leave this month and in the summer. We aren't going up this season and won't be next season if we don't change from top to bottom.

[OneMrsWallace]

Boring transfer window, so here's my take for a bit of fun...

Spors and Rasmus Teams (Ironic) call...

RA: Hey Sporsy, it's Rasmus.

JS: What do you want now?

RA: Just a quick chat about the January transfer window. I can't be long, I'm about to deliver a Ted Talk.

JS: I may regret asking this, but what's the topic?

RA: 'Football injuries. The way forward.' We're going to sack all our physios and doctors and use holistic healing methods. Crystals, seaweed enemas, chanting with bells. Our players will return at super fast speed and I will be hailed a football genius again.

JS: Again?

RA: Brentford. That was all me. Anyway, just wanted to say you must be exhausted after signing that GK, so take the rest of the month off. We don't need anyone else now that Shea Charles is receiving seaweed enemas.

JS: Is Dragan ok with this?

RA: Absolutely. I explained it all to him by performing a thirty second mime dance on TikTok. It's going to revolutionise communication.

JS: (Sighs) Anything else?

RA: Yes, I'm changing our captain. It's Gavin Bazunu.

JS: He's going to captain the team from Stoke?

RA: The opposition will never expect that. Especially when we play Stoke. 

JS: What about AA? 

RA: He's got a new role handing out Saints shirts to prize winners, especially women who have never been to a match before. He's great at that. 

JS: He's just messaged me to say he wants to leave in January.

RA: Oh, cool. I'm thinking we play without strikers anyway 6-5-0.

JS: That's 12 players.

RA: I know. Genius. Guess you've got one more job to do then. Let me know how much we get for him. 

JS: I'll email you.

RA: I'd prefer a thirty second mime dance on Tik Tok.

JS: (Ends call). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SW5 SAINT]

22 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

I would sell AA and anyone else who wants to leave this month and in the summer. We aren't going up this season and won't be next season if we don't change from top to bottom.

The current form is relegation form. We need to focus on staying up this season, that means retaining Armstrong……

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, SW5 SAINT said:

The current form is relegation form. We need to focus on staying up this season, that means retaining Armstrong……

It is, but I'd still sell him for the right price. If someone wants to get mental and jizz £15m on him this month - let them have at it. We've got loan spots open, get them filled and we should have enough to stay up. He's not popular but I think Archer could score enough goals to keep us up if he plays regularly, and that would plump him up for a summer sale also.

[lambtiss]

35 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

I would sell AA and anyone else who wants to leave this month and in the summer. We aren't going up this season and won't be next season if we don't change from top to bottom.

That's a sure way to ensure relegation to League 1

[UpweySaint]

49 minutes ago, Chez said:

he doesn't really lead the line like a number 9. He knows where the net is, but he isn't quick or good in the air or terribly physical. 

Okay fair enough. Useful but perhaps not what we need.

[SW5 SAINT]

1 hour ago, coalman said:

We have bought Scandinavian attacking players after scoring 2 against Man City before.... Elyounnousi did that in the Champions League as well

I’d forgotten about that(or blanked it out)…..😕…..surely we couldn’t have lightning strike again in the same place…..

[SWLondon Saint]

Literally all the other clubs in the Champ are busy strengthening, loaning out, and we're busy doing....f*** all? SR decided since their last January window was shit they'd go for the same again by doing sweet FA? Just depressing....

[saintant]

2 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

You can always pick and choose shite. Everybody creaming themselves over Brighton & Bournemouth. Fucking hell, we had years picking up decent talent, then replacing it with decent talent, and did better with it than either of those teams (or Brentford for that matter). 

Don't think anyone is creaming themselves over Brighton and Bournemouth and yes, we had a spell when we did sensible business in the transfer market. Unfortunately those times are long gone and we are light years behind the two south coast Prem clubs and now in free fall.

[Nieldy]

14 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Literally all the other clubs in the Champ are busy strengthening, loaning out, and we're busy doing....f*** all? SR decided since their last January window was shit they'd go for the same again by doing sweet FA? Just depressing....

Got rid of Bazuna, what more do you want😅

[vectraman]

2 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

With all our Danish connections we should be all over Kasper Hogh who has just scored two goals against Man City. Apparently Norwich have been linked….!

 

Sounds spot on - 1 goal in previous 16 games….

[saintant]

2 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

With all our Danish connections we should be all over Kasper Hogh who has just scored two goals against Man City. Apparently Norwich have been linked….!

He can't be any good cos clearly Ankersen doesn't rate him.

[ally_uk]

Yes let's sell our top scorer and rely on a striker who spontaneously combusts when he touches grass, and another who only turns up against Birmingham.... 

That would be a stupid move and short sighted. 

Sensible option would be try and loan in Piroe, scores goals at this level. 

Either that or put in a cheeky one for Sargent or Selech 

Edited 19 hours ago by ally_uk

[Willo of Whiteley]

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level.

Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂

Ronaldo he isn’t, but he is still by far a stand out player in our squad.

Likewise as I mentioned on the last page, could you blame him for wanting to go?
He was messed around last season with Juric and the club, chucked out on loan when we’d have been better off keeping him.

Also ask yourself, if you were a player would you want to be around this bad smell of a club right now?

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

7 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

He's been playing like he doesn't want to be here. Just like a lot of them. 

Wasn't Arma one of the ones who walked straight down the tunnel at the end of the Hull or Boro game when Tonda had to haul most of the squad back who were doing the same, to go and clap the fans? Yet Arma continued down the tunnel. Shite attitude from the player, our captain (lol). Could the few 'home truths' after the Hull game have resulted in a bit of a bust up which has led to this story coming out?

[Harry_SFC]

6 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level.

Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂

Ronaldo he isn’t, but he is still by far a stand out player in our squad.

Likewise as I mentioned on the last page, could you blame him for wanting to go?
He was messed around last season with Juric and the club, chucked out on loan when we’d have been better off keeping him.

Also ask yourself, if you were a player would you want to be around this bad smell of a club right now?

I don't think you can say he was messed around last season. He was absolutely crap. 

[Stu Man Do]

23 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I don't think you can say he was messed around last season. He was absolutely crap. 

What is something like 6 goals in nearly 90 premier league games? 

[Badger]

7 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level.

Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂

 

Would be ludicrous to let AA leave in January. Caveat - depending on replacement lines up, but no one would trust these fuckers to sign a striker we could rely on. 
 

AA has flaws but better than anything else we’ve got. As you say, Archer, and an unfit Stewart for half a season. L1 here we come. 

[Wade Garrett]

7 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level.

Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂

Ronaldo he isn’t, but he is still by far a stand out player in our squad.

Likewise as I mentioned on the last page, could you blame him for wanting to go?
He was messed around last season with Juric and the club, chucked out on loan when we’d have been better off keeping him.

Also ask yourself, if you were a player would you want to be around this bad smell of a club right now?

From watching on Saturday he didn’t look like he wanted to be there.  Work-rate was shite, movement in the box non-existent and missed a pretty simple header (somehow he blamed Fellows who was 6 yards behind him for that).

Personally, I think he’s part of the c*nts cabal in the dressing room and would be happy to see him sold.

[coalman]

11 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Who’s playing no. 9 if he goes? 

We would still have the problem that none of our forwards bar maybe Stewart on the occasions when he is fit is capable of leading a line. It was what they were trying to do with Downs before we realised that Spors thinks he's still in Bundesliga 2.

We have the further problem that our "system" makes any lone striker even more isolated than normal because all our midfielders are back because our centre backs, Manning and Downes enjoy playing keep ball. Which particularly doesn't suit Armstrong's game. At heart he's an attacker that's going to pounce on loose balls and the odd through ball. His shoot on sight policy means he's always looking to score but only rarely is he the effective focal point in attack (and never in the Premier League).

[sadoldgit]

If it is true that Armstrong doesn’t want to be here, what is the point of keeping him when we are in need of unity in the dressing room? There has to be a decent or half decent striker somewhere on the planet who wants game time and would put in a shift.

[Convict Colony]

[swedish dave]

19 hours ago, DT said:

If only there was someone on this list who could definitely tell us for absolute sure whether JWP was leaving West Ham, just like he said he definitely wasn't leaving Saints that time...

A week before he did.

 

 

the answer to that one will be known by Feb 1st, but I read rumours that JWP might re-join Moyes at Everton 

(who are having their best season in a long time). Prowsey's first season under Moyes at WHam was his best

but successive managers ditched him in favour of others, whilst WHam descended down into the drop zone.

Everton already have Dibling and Alcarez - can they be the next club to build an ex-Saints squad?..

Liverpool did OK with that formula. At this stage of his career, JWP  will want an iron-clad Prem. deal to see him

through to an eventual retirement, (which in his case might be quite some time in the future). 

[Willo of Whiteley]

He’ll probably go at the end of the season.

It would be foolish to let him go now. Wreckless in fact.

[tdmickey3]

5 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

He’ll probably go at the end of the season.

It would be foolish to let him go now. Wreckless in fact.

Its Sport Republic so it would be standard action for them but utterly bat shit crazy to a proper football club

[swedish dave]

12 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Who’s playing no. 9 if he goes? 

......that means we have to hope that Ross Stewart stays fit.

[Midfield_General]

27 minutes ago, swedish dave said:

......that means we have to hope that Ross Stewart stays fit.

Exactly, that’s my point. But he obviously won’t, so that would leave Archer as our only remaining number 9 to provide the attacking focal point for the rest of the season, with literally no other options. 

Not only would we be relying on him to be our main source of goals when he’s clearly not up to it, but we would never be able to drop him, rest him or even sub him off, without playing someone random out of position at centre forward.

Just Cameron Archer, for 95 minutes, every game, often three games a week. 

Surely even SR aren’t that dumb, so it’ll mean that Armstrong stays until the end of the season, but won’t want to be here and we’ll just get more of what we saw against Hull where he appeared to have finally just given up. 

[leesaint88]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

If it is true that Armstrong doesn’t want to be here, what is the point of keeping him when we are in need of unity in the dressing room? There has to be a decent or half decent striker somewhere on the planet who wants game time and would put in a shift.

If you read between the lines what Baz said to the Stoke press, there is no unity in the dressing room anyway...

[BARCELONASAINT]

2 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

If you read between the lines what Baz said to the Stoke press, there is no unity in the dressing room anyway...

I read that interview Baz gave and came to exactly the same conclusion. 

[Midfield_General]

6 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I read that interview Baz gave and came to exactly the same conclusion. 

Have you got a link please?

[BARCELONASAINT]

5 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Have you got a link please?

GOALKEEPER Gavin Bazunu explained his loan move to Stoke City was motivated by a desire for a “fresh start” away from Saints.

 

Bazunu, 23, has joined the Potters on loan for the remainder of the season, in a deal that contains an option to buy, reportedly worth £8million.

The Irish international kept a clean sheet on his debut against QPR, making two saves in a 0-0 draw against Stoke’s play-off hunting rivals.

That point has left Stoke seventh in the Championship, two points adrift of the play-offs and eight clear of Saints.

“A fresh start is what I was looking for, to be in a place where we are going to be fighting to get into the play-offs,” Bazunu explained in his first interview with Stoke.

“I spoke to Darren [Behcet, Stoke keeper coach] and the manager, and all the conversations we had were very positive about helping me improve as a player.

“All of those things are going to be put into place in training, and hopefully I can show them on match days.

“The lads couldn’t have been any more welcoming. It’s exciting to come and play and be in a squad that is fighting for something big this season.

“The Championship is a division all about momentum. When you win games, can you continue that form? The more games you win, the more you see yourself fly up the table.”

Bazunu, whose deal expires next summer, has made 19 appearances this campaign, conceding 28 goals and keeping three clean sheets.

He was offloaded by Saints soon after the arrival of Israeli international goalkeeper Daniel Peretz on loan from Bayern Munich.

Former Man City academy graduate Bazunu has played 97 times for Saints since a £12m move in July 2022, with limited success in a Saints shirt.

[coalman]

7 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

GOALKEEPER Gavin Bazunu explained his loan move to Stoke City was motivated by a desire for a “fresh start” away from Saints.

“The lads couldn’t have been any more welcoming. It’s exciting to come and play and be in a squad that is fighting for something big this season.

“The Championship is a division all about momentum. When you win games, can you continue that form? The more games you win, the more you see yourself fly up the table.”

That's a pretty damning indictment of where Saints are at. We may be in a fight but it ain't for the big prize. And Baz starts with a clean sheet. As we all know Saints can't keep clean sheets because they are unlucky.

[obelisk]

In a nutshell then, Baz is calling Saints a basket case where there's no ambition and no desire to improve. He's right isn't he?

[coalman]

2 minutes ago, obelisk said:

In a nutshell then, Baz is calling Saints a basket case where there's no ambition and no desire to improve. He's right isn't he?

If Baz's career blossoms after leaving Southampton you have to think that there's something rotten in Denmark (or in our case something rotten from Denmark)

[beatlesaint]

4 minutes ago, obelisk said:

In a nutshell then, Baz is calling Saints a basket case where there's no ambition and no desire to improve. He's right isn't he?

yep

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

He’ll probably go at the end of the season.

It would be foolish to let him go now. Wreckless in fact.

We've a ready replacement in Archer, and young Ballard will then get minutes...oh... 🙂

[Midfield_General]

41 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

GOALKEEPER Gavin Bazunu explained his loan move to Stoke City was motivated by a desire for a “fresh start” away from Saints.

 

Bazunu, 23, has joined the Potters on loan for the remainder of the season, in a deal that contains an option to buy, reportedly worth £8million.

The Irish international kept a clean sheet on his debut against QPR, making two saves in a 0-0 draw against Stoke’s play-off hunting rivals.

That point has left Stoke seventh in the Championship, two points adrift of the play-offs and eight clear of Saints.

“A fresh start is what I was looking for, to be in a place where we are going to be fighting to get into the play-offs,” Bazunu explained in his first interview with Stoke.

“I spoke to Darren [Behcet, Stoke keeper coach] and the manager, and all the conversations we had were very positive about helping me improve as a player.

“All of those things are going to be put into place in training, and hopefully I can show them on match days.

“The lads couldn’t have been any more welcoming. It’s exciting to come and play and be in a squad that is fighting for something big this season.

“The Championship is a division all about momentum. When you win games, can you continue that form? The more games you win, the more you see yourself fly up the table.”

Bazunu, whose deal expires next summer, has made 19 appearances this campaign, conceding 28 goals and keeping three clean sheets.

He was offloaded by Saints soon after the arrival of Israeli international goalkeeper Daniel Peretz on loan from Bayern Munich.

Former Man City academy graduate Bazunu has played 97 times for Saints since a £12m move in July 2022, with limited success in a Saints shirt.

Cheers mate 👍

[SaintLondon]

To reiterate my post from a few days ago - it's all a bit miserable isn't it. Obviously there is PR guff in Bazunu's interview but quite clear to read between the lines - it's toxic here and he couldn't wait to get out. That said, he probably also wasn't enjoying getting pelters from the fans week in week out for being shit. (Btw I'm in agreement - he is shit). I'm not expecting some phoenix rising from the ashes career turnaround from Bazunu - he's average at best and always will be. 

[Totton Saint]

13 hours ago, SW5 SAINT said:

The current form is relegation form. We need to focus on staying up this season, that means retaining Armstrong……

It is no long ago he played on the wing.

[saintant]

10 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level.

Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂

Ronaldo he isn’t, but he is still by far a stand out player in our squad.

Likewise as I mentioned on the last page, could you blame him for wanting to go?
He was messed around last season with Juric and the club, chucked out on loan when we’d have been better off keeping him.

Also ask yourself, if you were a player would you want to be around this bad smell of a club right now?

Surely even SR wouldn't be bonkers enough to sell AA and not bring in a replacement. Sure, given their track record the replacement might be crap but they will sign someone if AA goes.