January Transfer Window

[Saint Scott]

15 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Mainly exits - Aribo and Edozie are on the way 

How many transfer windows has that been said?

[Wade Garrett]

Really fucking exciting time to be a Saints fan.

I remember when we signed players like Ings, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Steve Davis.

Now we cream our pants over getting a loan right-back returning, a geriatric midfielder and a reserve keeper.  Hardly cream our pants but you get my drift.

Thanks a lot Sports Republic.  You’ve really turned a silk purse into a sows ear you complete fucking muppets.

[ally_uk]

Can see it now we sell Armstrong to Boro and sign Ballard.....

And loan some powder puff German youth player noone has heard of.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

Sports Republic all over 

[Turkish]

9 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Really fucking exciting time to be a Saints fan.

I remember when we signed players like Ings, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Steve Davis.

Now we cream our pants over getting a loan right-back returning, a geriatric midfielder and a reserve keeper.  Hardly cream our pants but you get my drift.

Thanks a lot Sports Republic.  You’ve really turned a silk purse into a sows ear you complete fucking muppets.

The great thing about our approach is that we are slowly building under the radar, not chasing big names, not spending big money. It's building an empire behind a wall. Soon the Empire will be more powerful than anyone would ever imagine, all driven by a data backed approach. All those that didn't believe will be silenced, all the naysayers who criticised will be served large helpings of humble pie. We are coming to the end of the break it phase, now we are in the rebuild phase, the rebuild will soon be complete. Building a dynasty requires patience, it takes years measured in decades. The break it phase is a small dot on a long term timeframe. SR will carry us kicking and screaming to heights we could never believe in the end we will thank them.

[Turkish]

25 minutes ago, OldNick said:

I think thats unfair, they obviously have to tread carefully or they will not have the access to the club they need. Its a customer client relationship, would be mad for them to sour their relationship. As fans we dont care if we say something that is not paletable to the club/owners but their jobs to a degree are on the line. 

Maybe but the fact they're speaking out now openly being critical is evidence of how bad things must be

[BarberSaint]

14 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

JWP made it to Burnley,  wonder if Parker can get him going forward 🙂

So:

 

He's happy to accept another relegation on his CV for a bit of cash and a chance to play. Although I suspect W Ham just want to reduce their outlay on his wages that they're paying with no likely return.

Maybe he thinks he'll outlast the manager when they go down. When W Ham do, they'll look to sell him cause his wages are too high so the merry-go-round will start again.

Will look to move in the summer in the hope that W Ham will have amortised his value enough to sell him on the cheap.

Will look for another bumper pay-packet.

Is likely to end up a free agent who someone will take and their fans will end up saying 'He's good' until they realise he isn't six games in.

Presume he'll live in a hotel for a few months, or limited rented accommodation.

[Saint Scott]

Wolves about to sell Strand-Larsen to Palace for £50m.

Bottom of the league and 1 league goal to his name this season, madness! Still, I wonder if this renews their interest in signing Arma?

 

[SuperSAINT]

 

[UpweySaint]

He’s been linked to Ipswich in the Guardian rumour mill but another name to throw into the mix - Sam Surridge. He’s had a bit of a nomadic career but scored lots of goals in the MLS and at 27 is probably close to his peak. Possibly a late bloomer? He’s a fairly tall lad too so may fit the profile we are looking at. 

[Saint NL]

We'll end up buying Sammy Smzodics with the Armstrong money, just you wait

[Saint NL]

42 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

Wolves about to sell Strand-Larsen to Palace for £50m.

Bottom of the league and 1 league goal to his name this season, madness! Still, I wonder if this renews their interest in signing Arma?

 

At least Saints waited until the summer before flogging the valuables. Imagine if they tried selling Fernandes or Dibling in January 😂

[tdmickey3]

10 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

At least Saints waited until the summer before flogging the valuables. Imagine if they tried selling Fernandes or Dibling in January 😂

Ssshhhh They might try and sell Leo

[Football Special]

51 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

RECALL DAMION DOWNS , 

His time has come 

[Saint Scott]

 

[LuckyNumber7]

1 hour ago, Saint Scott said:

Wolves about to sell Strand-Larsen to Palace for £50m.

Bottom of the league and 1 league goal to his name this season, madness! Still, I wonder if this renews their interest in signing Arma?

 

Absolute madness, he looks bang average at best every time I see him.

Just goes to show how difficult it is to get a decent striker these days.

Regarding Arma, I'm not his biggest fan but it's undeniable he scores goals in the Championship and that won't be easy to replace. But if we get a good offer approaching £15M I think it would be hard to turn down and it feels like both player and club could do with a fresh start, so I wouldn't be too upset.

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

 

An 18 year old centre back! To partner our other 18 year old centre back from our French cousins. Now we’re fixing things!

[OneMrsWallace]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

The great thing about our approach is that we are slowly building under the radar, not chasing big names, not spending big money. It's building an empire behind a wall. Soon the Empire will be more powerful than anyone would ever imagine, all driven by a data backed approach. All those that didn't believe will be silenced, all the naysayers who criticised will be served large helpings of humble pie. We are coming to the end of the break it phase, now we are in the rebuild phase, the rebuild will soon be complete. Building a dynasty requires patience, it takes years measured in decades. The break it phase is a small dot on a long term timeframe. SR will carry us kicking and screaming to heights we could never believe in the end we will thank them.

Indeed we will as tickets will be much cheaper in the Conference South. 

[coalman]

5 minutes ago, Turkish said:

An 18 year old centre back! To partner our other 18 year old centre back from our French cousins. Now we’re fixing things!

The data clearly shows that for a 37 second period before Christmas that he was good enough to dominate the final of the Champions League. These kind of bargain certainties don't come around very often.

[Chez]

 

 

2 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

So:

He's happy to accept another relegation on his CV for a bit of cash and a chance to play.

Not sure I follow. If he didn't go to Burnley on loan, he'd still be paid by West Ham. The money he earns will be exactly the same, only Burnley will be paying some of it. So he is going there to play football not for a bit of cash. Good luck to him.

[S-Clarke]

The rather scary thing here is that we needed a striker with Downs gone, that was somewhat non-negotiable. (but they were playing on the Stewart back fit angle again, as predicted).

But the rather worrying narrative is being put out in the media that we're 'desperately' looking for a striker in the wake of Armstrong's interest - hang on a second, they should have been 'desperately' looking for a striker since before January. But seemingly we need to lose two from our paper thin number 9 force in order to 'add'. 

Memories of the David McGoldrick striker log-jam days.

Edited 4 hours ago by S-Clarke

[Chez]

2 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Really fucking exciting time to be a Saints fan.

I remember when we signed players like Ings, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Steve Davis.

Now we cream our pants over getting a loan right-back returning, a geriatric midfielder and a reserve keeper.  Hardly cream our pants but you get my drift.

Thanks a lot Sports Republic.  You’ve really turned a silk purse into a sows ear you complete fucking muppets.

I also remember when we were in the same division and signed Fuller, Bart, Kosowski, Belmadi, Brenan, Wise, Powell, Hajto, Ostlund and Rasiak.

I'm trying to recall if I felt more deflated in January 2006 than I do now.
 

[Chez]

1 hour ago, Saint Scott said:

Wolves about to sell Strand-Larsen to Palace for £50m.

Bottom of the league and 1 league goal to his name this season, madness! Still, I wonder if this renews their interest in signing Arma?

 

The PL is not for the small spenders.

[S-Clarke]

3 minutes ago, Chez said:

I also remember when we were in the same division and signed Fuller, Bart, Kosowski, Belmadi, Brenan, Wise, Powell, Hajto, Ostlund and Rasiak.

I'm trying to recall if I felt more deflated in January 2006 than I do now.
 

I remember that January, to be fair I think the fanbase was somewhat lifted at that point. Burley was in, we were adding players (Rasiak at that point was a prolific player at this level). I think the general consensus in the Jan window of 2006 was of positivity for the following season, in the sense something was being built. In many respects it was, as we ended the season strongly and came out the following season as one of the Top 6 - but what was being built was on very fragile financial foundations, we basically gambled on that playoff season.

That 06/07 season (and the back end of the 05/06) wasn't terrible by any stretch, quite enjoyable in some aspects with the breakthrough of Bale added to it. Miles better feeling than we're at now.

Edited 3 hours ago by S-Clarke

[Chez]

4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I remember that January, to be fair I think the fanbase was somewhat lifted at that point. Burley was in, we were adding players (Rasiak at that point was a prolific player at this level). I think the general consensus in the Jan window of 2006 was of positivity for the following season, in the sense something was being built. In many respects it was, as we ended the season strongly and came out the following season as one of the Top 6 - but what was being built was on very fragile financial foundations, we basically gambled on that playoff season.

Bagpuss departed in December, so I think most were happy when we signed a manager with a decent track record, but we lost 6 or 7 games (one draw, one win) in that December-January period, so I am not sure I felt great at the same time (end of January) in 2006. Sure Rasiak joined and a late rally prevented us from getting relegated, which was a possibility, but to see a rosey future when losing away to QPR with the likes Quarshie putting fuck all effort in would have taken some foresight.

[leesaint88]

3 minutes ago, Chez said:

Bagpuss departed in December, so I think most were happy when we signed a manager with a decent track record, but we lost 6 or 7 games (one draw, one win) in that December-January period, so I am not sure I felt great at the same time (end of January) in 2006. Sure Rasiak joined and a late rally prevented us from getting relegated, which was a possibility, but to see a rosey future when losing away to QPR with the likes Quarshie putting fuck all effort in would have taken some foresight.

Didn't we sign Madsen then too? Remember everyone getting a little excited after the clips of him scoring for fun in Denmark, then first game against Reading he really looked a pile of turd. 

[Starksj1995]

1 hour ago, tdmickey3 said:

Ssshhhh They might try and sell Leo

Pointless as he would not be able to play anyway 

[Chez]

53 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

 

Not sure who it was that posted on here: "one or two in, but you wont be excited by them", but this would fit that profile. Nothing wrong with adding young talent of course.

I think the club believes we have the first team players here to win games, they don't want to add more bodies now and the summer is the time to rework the squad.

[Chez]

2 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

Didn't we sign Madsen then too? Remember everyone getting a little excited after the clips of him scoring for fun in Denmark, then first game against Reading he really looked a pile of turd. 

You are right, Madsen came in on loan, along with fan favourite Jermaine Wright, Tejaro and Darren Potter. Chaplow also signed on loan in February??? and that certainly gave us a lift. 

[Sarnia Cherie]

42 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

The rather scary thing here is that we needed a striker with Downs gone, that was somewhat non-negotiable. (but they were playing on the Stewart back fit angle again, as predicted).

But the rather worrying narrative is being put out in the media that we're 'desperately' looking for a striker in the wake of Armstrong's interest - hang on a second, they should have been 'desperately' looking for a striker since before January. But seemingly we need to lose two from our paper thin number 9 force in order to 'add'. 

Memories of the David McGoldrick striker log-jam days.

I feel we have been desperately looking for a striker since Ings went.

[badgerx16]

"Eight figure offers" for Arma: £100,000.01.

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

I feel we have been desperately looking for a striker since Ings went.

And how many have we signed since then ? ( Genuine question as I cannot remember them all ).

Edited 3 hours ago by badgerx16

[Sarnia Cherie]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

And how many have we signed since then ?

Actual strikers or those very heavily disguised as one?

[badgerx16]

Just now, Sarnia Cherie said:

Actual strikers or those very heavily disguised as one?

I think you have to include Archer and Downs.

[saintant]

Nothing from CoT?

[leesaint88]

5 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

And how many have we signed since then ? ( Genuine question as I cannot remember them all ).

Armstrong - Aug 21

Broja - Aug 21 (Loan)

Mara - July 22

Tall Paul - Jan 23

Stewart - Sept 23

Diaz - July 24

Archer - Aug 24

Juan - Aug 24

Dipepa - Aug 24

Macleod - Aug 24 (Loan)

Udoh - Feb 25

Takaoka - March 25

Downs - July 25

That's it from what I can tell.

[tdmickey3]

28 minutes ago, Starksj1995 said:

Pointless as he would not be able to play anyway 

🙄

 

[Chez]

11 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

And how many have we signed since then ? ( Genuine question as I cannot remember them all ).

Armstrong
Broja (on loan)
Walcott (maybe more of a winger)
Mara
Onuachu
Stewart
Archer
Brereton-Diaz
Downs
 

[O_B]

3 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Really fucking exciting time to be a Saints fan.

I remember when we signed players like Ings, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Steve Davis.

Now we cream our pants over getting a loan right-back returning, a geriatric midfielder and a reserve keeper.  Hardly cream our pants but you get my drift.

Thanks a lot Sports Republic.  You’ve really turned a silk purse into a sows ear you complete fucking muppets.

TBF, I remember the last day of the '03 window when we were in the PL and the big news was us swooping to get Higgenbotham and Prutton just before the window (slammed) shut.

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, O_B said:

TBF, I remember the last day of the '03 window when we were in the PL and the big news was us swooping to get Higgenbotham and Prutton just before the window (slammed) shut.

Wasn't that the same window where we tried really hard for Andy Reid at the time? I remember it being close at one point, so it all feel a little underwhelming when we added Prutton instead.

[SWLondon Saint]

2 hours ago, SuperSAINT said:

If this is true can't imagine we'd say no, 10 mill+ is a lot of money in the champ. Get a journeyman big and physical striker who can lead the line and push the defenders back and our AM options are decent with Leo, Azaz and Fellows then Matsuki and JRob off the bench.

[Badger]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Wasn't that the same window where we tried really hard for Andy Reid at the time? I remember it being close at one point, so it all feel a little underwhelming when we added Prutton instead.

No, not as I recall. Reid was during our relegation season, with Redknapp in charge. Lowe was negotiating the deal, agreed with his club (Forest) but the player rejected it.

Prutton was considered quite a good signing and promising player when he signed. Can’t fault the club for that signing even if he did become a bit of a loose cannon on the pitch. 

[Badger]

4 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

If this is true can't imagine we'd say no, 10 mill+ is a lot of money in the champ. Get a journeyman big and physical striker who can lead the line and push the defenders back and our AM options are decent with Leo, Azaz and Fellows then Matsuki and JRob off the bench.

It’s that bit that worries me with SR recruitment record. 
 

Just don’t leave us with Stewart and Archer ffs 

Edited 2 hours ago by Badger

[Chez]

8 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Wasn't that the same window where we tried really hard for Andy Reid at the time? I remember it being close at one point, so it all feel a little underwhelming when we added Prutton instead.

Reid was a Bagpuss target in January 2005. Forrest accepted our £3m bid, but he wanted to join Spurs. Prutton and Higginbottom was earlier, January 2003 I think. 

[Matthew Le God]

8 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Get a journeyman big and physical striker 

Why a journeyman?

[Wade Garrett]

25 minutes ago, O_B said:

TBF, I remember the last day of the '03 window when we were in the PL and the big news was us swooping to get Higgenbotham and Prutton just before the window (slammed) shut.

Can’t forgive Prutton for that open goal miss v WBA and the stupid sending off v Arsenal.

[disconnect]

Looks like Birmingham (2 points above us) are spending big this Jan obviously pushing for playoffs and promotion. Just signed the Alaves winger Vicente we were linked with in the summer for about £8mil, with some other decent signings, all from top flight clubs and pretty regular players from what I can see, including the top scorer in Sweden and another La Liga player. Obviously they're being bankrolled by their American owners, but aren't too bothered about net spend, whilst we're probably scratching about on the 2 out 1 in method and trying to find the next bargain... Lets see what happens over the next few days.

[AlexLaw76]

Reading online that…..

”Saints are desperate to sign a striker”

makes my cry a little inside. Look at the state of our striker additions when we have time to scout/set it up.

 

[Midfield_General]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

The rather scary thing here is that we needed a striker with Downs gone, that was somewhat non-negotiable. (but they were playing on the Stewart back fit angle again, as predicted).

But the rather worrying narrative is being put out in the media that we're 'desperately' looking for a striker in the wake of Armstrong's interest - hang on a second, they should have been 'desperately' looking for a striker since before January. 

Because "Squad building is an art, that only becomes clear at the end", remember? 

So we all just need to trust everything that Sport Republic do, because it's all part of their amazing plan, and they are definitely, definitely the smartest guys in the room like they think they are, and not just a bunch of clueless charlatans lurching from one catastrophic self-inflicted disaster to the next while being laughed at by the rest of the footballing world. 

[rallyboy]

If Armstrong goes we'll be laughing because we don't need to replace him.

People forget we have Cameron Archer, Walsall's answer to Ronaldo, ready to step straight in. 

And if he gets injured, Ross Stewart can lend him some of the dozens of crutches he must have cluttering up his fucking garage.

[Chez]

6 minutes ago, disconnect said:

Looks like Birmingham (2 points above us) are spending big this Jan obviously pushing for playoffs and promotion. Just signed the Alaves winger Vicente we were linked with in the summer for about £8mil, with some other decent signings, all from top flight clubs and pretty regular players from what I can see, including the top scorer in Sweden and another La Liga player. Obviously they're being bankrolled by their American owners, but aren't too bothered about net spend, whilst we're probably scratching about on the 2 out 1 in method and trying to find the next bargain... Lets see what happens over the next few days.

I know it's a situation of SR's own making, but our situation is a little different from the Blues as we have players like Aribo and Edozie sat around doing nothing and host of other players out on loan (some we may be paying a percentage of their wage) that will be back in May on the wage bill. Once we sort out those players (hopefully a few departing permanently), probably in the summer, there will be a bit more flexibility.