January Transfer Window

[hypochondriac]

Hope he's alluding to something.

[SuperSAINT]

I wouldn’t trust SR to choose somebody to buy the club considering their recent hires.

[Badger]

10 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Hope he's alluding to something.

Probably wishful thinking … 

[Football Special]

10 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Hope he's alluding to something.

I'm not sure we are ripe unless being offered for a bargain price 

[hypochondriac]

10 minutes ago, Badger said:

Probably wishful thinking … 

Hence the hope. 

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, Football Special said:

I'm not sure we are ripe unless being offered for a bargain price 

Agreed. You'd be better off picking us up for a song in a couple of years.

[LGTL]

Inevitable that he will go, if not now then in the summer. And we’ll replace him with someone marginally worse, and so the downward trajectory continues. Incredible to think we were a PL club just last season. We’ve become a struggling Championship non-entity in record time. 

[Junkyard Dog]

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

Nope, can't see him playing a higher level than this.

Remind me what leauge we are in.

[skintsaint]

20 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said:

Remind me what leauge we are in.

EFL Championship. HTH.

[Baird of the land]

Find this whole 8 figures stuff annoying. Either give some sort of figure or don’t bother at all.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Hope he's alluding to something.

Fortunately, SR's decision making history gives us plenty of comfort they will pick a worthy successor.

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, LGTL said:

Inevitable that he will go, if not now then in the summer. And we’ll replace him with someone marginally worse, and so the downward trajectory continues. Incredible to think we were a PL club just last season. We’ve become a struggling Championship non-entity in record time. 

Not quite record given Luton but I take your point.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Not quite record given Luton but I take your point.

Mind you, if they sell AA and THB without replacing them…and I wouldn’t put it past SR

[die Mannyschaft]

7 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Mind you, if they sell AA and THB without replacing them…and I wouldn’t put it past SR

SR over paid in our transfers in and now cant afford anything.

[Wade Garrett]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

Probably wishful thinking … 

Would explain how brave he’s got recently with his criticisms of the club.

He was a proper lickspittle previously.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, die Mannyschaft said:

SR over paid in our transfers in and now cant afford anything.

Ironic thing Manny is that Ankerson is trying to play Tony Bloom and Matthew Benham at their own games, Solak has similar net worth to those two but with Brighton/Hearts especially, Rasmus is getting pissed over completely and shown up as a fraud. Solak could afford it but rather than cut the Ankersons loose he has no backbone.

Go on Solak, do what do you promised, you aren’t doing us any good.

[sambosa75]

Sell THB for £30m and bring Lascelles in on a free from Newcastle who have said he can leave for nothing.  Been their club captain last 10 years.  Might provide the leadership we desperately need. 

[goodymatt]

I wonder what our valuation actually is. He’s not improved at all since we spent £20m on him (could argue he’s regressed?) but it is a January window.

[goodymatt]

 

[goodymatt]

 

[Give it to Ron]

£12m lol 😂 

[obelisk]

What makes Saints think that Derby and Millwall are Championship rivals? We're not even close to them - except in our dreams.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

21 minutes ago, obelisk said:

What makes Saints think that Derby and Millwall are Championship rivals? We're not even close to them - except in our dreams.

But we are happy enough to sell Armstrong to either Wrexham or Middlesbrough

[Give it to Ron]

31 minutes ago, obelisk said:

What makes Saints think that Derby and Millwall are Championship rivals? We're not even close to them - except in our dreams.

We got a plucky draw against both so not too far off being close 🙂

[Willo of Whiteley]

Saints won’t sell for less than £20M.

They’ll be looking to recoup the money paid for him.

It’ll be interesting to see if he’s in the squad today, somehow I doubt it. Equally he strikes me as one of those guys that wants to play.

Unless the money is stupid I don’t see Adam Armstrong or Taylor Harwood-Bellis leaving.

Joe Aribo can go.

Sam Edozie is an interesting one. The fact we’re content to see but won’t sell him to a league rival implies we don’t want him to go but he does. Maybe that’s answered why he’s not been in the squad all season. Maybe a disruptive influence? Maybe a bad apple?
Then again if I’d been loaned out after helping the club gain promotion and then replaced with Ben Brereton-Diaz I’d be pretty fucked off too.

[Give it to Ron]

10 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

But we are happy enough to sell Armstrong to either Wrexham or Middlesbrough

Well it’s more money for Armstrong he has a higher ceiling than Edozie for SR to fund their wine and steak dinners

[Gloucester Saint]

Bizarre situation with Edozie - I have some sympathy on paper with the player.

Aribo was allegedly on £60-70k a week in the Prem, so cut that by 40% and it’s still far more than he’s worth. Disgraceful that he’s that unfit and he clearly wants to go on a free to Saudi. I’d have ripped up his contract long before now. 

THB - West Ham are taking the piss and know SR won’t accept less than they paid. AA - if he’s sold I can live with it but goodness knows what junk SR would bring in as a replacement. 

[coalman]

5 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Bizarre situation with Edozie - I have some sympathy on paper with the player.

Aribo was allegedly on £60-70k a week in the Prem, so cut that by 40% and it’s still far more than he’s worth. Disgraceful that he’s that unfit and he clearly wants to go on a free to Saudi. I’d have ripped up his contract long before now. 

THB - West Ham are taking the piss and know SR won’t accept less than they paid. AA - if he’s sold I can live with it but goodness knows what junk SR would bring in as a replacement. 

Edozie had just come good when he got whacked. Then Martin brought in Brooks and he never got a look in. Then we brought in BBD and he was shipped out on loan as we put together one of the worst teams in Premier League history. If I was the player I'd be out of the door the first chance I got.

Cannot understand why Aribo got any minutes at all this year.

Selling THB to West Ham is likely to be selling a player to a rival Championship team next season. Well, assuming we don't get Ramussed back into League One this year.