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.

[Obstacle1]

59 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.

Also if we dont rate the guy and haven't played him at all this season why are we so insistent he can't be sold to teams in the same league?

[Chez]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

 

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

[Badger]

58 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

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

Difference perhaps is that we’re happy to sell, rather than just a loan 

[Badger]

16 minutes ago, Chez said:

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

Just a thought - but they might prefer him going abroad so he can’t put in some stellar displays in our league, leading to inevitable questions as to why we didn’t make use of the player ?

Protecting the ego is all important on Planet Rasmus. 

[hypochondriac]

31 minutes ago, Obstacle1 said:

Also if we dont rate the guy and haven't played him at all this season why are we so insistent he can't be sold to teams in the same league?

It's just bloody weird. He's clearly good enough to at least be backup to Scienza and take the pressure off him to play every game. There must have been a big row or something.

[Maggie May]

What’s the deal with Edozie? Did he have a falling out with the club?

A decent return in the Championship during our last time out, proved to be a solid performer for Anderlecht in a league better than Bundesliga 2…it doesn’t make sense how he’s not been given a chance.

[BarryVenisonsHair]

3 hours ago, sambosa75 said:

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. 

Lascelles would be a good addition, as would Callum Wilson. 

[StrangelyBrown]

35 minutes ago, Chez said:

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

I wonder if there is something in his contract about extra payments if he plays X number of Championship/PL games which is why we haven't seen him and why the club refuse to sell/loan him to an English side?

[Matthew Le God]

41 minutes ago, Chez said:

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

Because we still have a very outside chance of the playoffs. So don't want to strengthen a potential rival.

[OldNick]

such a shame re Edozie as he has talent and wasting his life/career away seems a nonsense. If he is not on the play more games and we have to pay extra to City, we should gve hom a go and if he does well his value would shoot up

[austsaint]

29 minutes ago, Chez said:

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

In a 4 year run of weird SR decisions, Edozie not playing  a minute, despite availability is towards the top scale of dumb ass SR thinking.  I could understand it if he was a journeyman on big wages like Aribo, or a smart arse troublemaker disrupting the dressing room; but he’s a just turned 23 yo who has  previously played well in the Championship.    If the Club don’t rate him, why are they only willing to offload to an overseas Club despite other Championship interest.  Why has he not been tried or put in the shop window?     At this stage I don’t see Manager Eckert, or coach Eckert having much credibility in assessing the worth of a player.  It remains an odd situation, seemingly about to play out as the window closes.

[Chez]

49 minutes ago, Badger said:

Just a thought - but they might prefer him going abroad so he can’t put in some stellar displays in our league, leading to inevitable questions as to why we didn’t make use of the player ?

Protecting the ego is all important on Planet Rasmus. 

no chance. he plays well, we maybe get a fee for him in the summer from someone. thats what matters. it's about money. millwall will be offering to pay buttons and we will want a signifcant part of his wages paid.

[Sheaf Saint]

22 minutes ago, austsaint said:

In a 4 year run of weird SR decisions, Edozie not playing  a minute, despite availability is towards the top scale of dumb ass SR thinking.  I could understand it if he was a journeyman on big wages like Aribo, or a smart arse troublemaker disrupting the dressing room; but he’s a just turned 23 yo who has  previously played well in the Championship.    If the Club don’t rate him, why are they only willing to offload to an overseas Club despite other Championship interest.  Why has he not been tried or put in the shop window?     At this stage I don’t see Manager Eckert, or coach Eckert having much credibility in assessing the worth of a player.  It remains an odd situation, seemingly about to play out as the window closes.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the decision to not play him has been taken without any input from Tonda whatsoever. He's just an SR puppet carrying out instructions like a good little boy.

[Chez]

43 minutes ago, austsaint said:

In a 4 year run of weird SR decisions, Edozie not playing  a minute, despite availability is towards the top scale of dumb ass SR thinking.  I could understand it if he was a journeyman on big wages like Aribo, or a smart arse troublemaker disrupting the dressing room; but he’s a just turned 23 yo who has  previously played well in the Championship.    If the Club don’t rate him, why are they only willing to offload to an overseas Club despite other Championship interest.  Why has he not been tried or put in the shop window?

It's bizarre. I assume Mike McGrath is getting his info from Edozie's agent Derek Thompson, but it doesn't add up.

My guess is Millwall and Derby haven't offered enough money and we had a better offer from abroad, probably Turkey, but Edozie didn't fancy it - which then amounts to "saints turn down championship sides as they want him to go abroad" story.

If that's it, then who the fuck knows.  

Edited 56 minutes ago by Chez

[Turkish]

4 hours ago, sambosa75 said:

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. 

Lascelles would new very astute bit of business but with no resale value it won’t happen. The jokers running us don’t seem to realise you need players to do job today not in 3 years time 

Edited 52 minutes ago by Turkish

[coalman]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

Lascelles would new very astute bit of business but with no resale value it won’t happen. The jokers running us don’t seem to realise you need players to do job today not in 3 years time 

Except the players they buy are either gone in a year or stinking up the place forever.

[badgerx16]

54 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Because we still have a very outside chance of the playoffs. So don't want to strengthen a potential rival.

What does it matter if he isn't rated here ? He is just sucking money out of the club for no return.

Edited 49 minutes ago by badgerx16

[Turkish]

22 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the decision to not play him has been taken without any input from Tonda whatsoever. He's just an SR puppet carrying out instructions like a good little boy.

I suspect this is exactly what’s going on. Why though is weird. I’ve always thought he was a bit of a show pony but not to even to have him on the bench as option is weird 

[Turkish]

Just now, coalman said:

Except the players they buy are either gone in a year or stinking up the place forever.

Well yes there is that 😂

[Turkish]

54 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Because we still have a very outside chance of the playoffs. So don't want to strengthen a potential rival.

We sold Edwards to QPR, loaned Baz to Stoke and already have players on loan at Millwall and Derby so that is nonsense. 
 

[coalman]

55 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Because we still have a very outside chance of the playoffs. So don't want to strengthen a potential rival.

It would make a nice change for Sport Republic to strengthen a team - just a shame it can't be us.

[trousers]

56 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Because we still have a very outside chance of the playoffs. So don't want to strengthen a potential rival.

If we've got a player that's good enough to strengthen a rival, then surely it would be better to play him ourselves...?