January Transfer Window

[OneMrsWallace]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Yeah but my point is he won't be coming on for 20 minutes as backup to Stewart. On the many games that Stewart won't play because he can't play whole games or if/when he is injured again we will be relying on him to play substantial amounts of games.

And add in the fact that Larin hasn't had much game time, so will take a while to get to match fitness/used to the team and the demands of this league, I can't see much immediate impact. SR haven't got on top of the CF position from day one. Very concerning. 

[Saint_clark]

12 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

ok i did it 

 

Highlights from 5+ years ago when he was in his prime and before a run of injuries aren't going to convince me on this guy. 

And to return to a broken record from the summer, if this is where we are ending up we'd have been much better off keeping Onuachu.

 

Edit; I can feel the laughing emojis coming already, so to pre-empt them;

Onuachu is 2nd top scorer in the Turkish league this season, 14 in 24 in all competitions. He has more goals than Mauro Icardi, Marco Ascencio, Victor Osimhen, Leroy Sane and, interestingly, double what Tammy Abraham has who Villa have just deemed good enough to bring back to the Premier League. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Saint_clark

[Football Special]

7 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Larin on a loan makes sense.

Should be good enough for the Championship and if it doesn't work out then cheerio.

Personally I think it's a good signing.

Don't start all this "good enough for the championship " stuff again, I heard enough of that back in the summer 

[Willo of Whiteley]

2 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Don't start all this "good enough for the championship " stuff again, I heard enough of that back in the summer 

Baz is good enough for the Championship 😢😂

 

[Chez]

20 minutes ago, Dr. Kucho said:

The highlights of Betis vs Feyenoord where Larin started for Feyenoord. 

nice finish from Tengstedt, who may have been an option for us too.

[AlexLaw76]

Look

Larin is 'fine' for the championship

[hypochondriac]

11 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Larin on a loan makes sense.

Should be good enough for the Championship and if it doesn't work out then cheerio.

Personally I think it's a good signing.

Based on what?

[Give it to Ron]

So I know nothing of this guy and on paper well… but why are so many interested?

🚨 Cyle Larin is set to join Southampton, pending a medical — teams in Spain, Italy, France, Greece, & MLS wanted him, but Saints are promising ‘major’ playing time #saintsfc @TSNScianitti

[Pamplemousse]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Based on what?

Gut feeling. He's only really played at higher level clubs, he's struggling now but sometimes a step down is a good thing for him to find his confidence again.

Which he will want to do when he has a home World Cup coming up.

[CB Fry]

12 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Larin on a loan makes sense.

Should be good enough for the Championship and if it doesn't work out then cheerio.

Personally I think it's a good signing.

Based on 30 seconds of study he looks fucking shit from all angles.

30 year old who hasn't done anything anywhere.

Bravo Spors 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 

[AlexLaw76]

this implies it is a bit of a coup.

 

[Maggie May]

The last striker we signed from Feyenoord turned out to be pretty good.

[CB Fry]

2 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

He's only really played at higher level clubs

Being shit for Feyenoord does not translate to being good for us. Steve McClaren won the Eredivisie.

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Gut feeling. He's only really played at higher level clubs, he's struggling now but sometimes a step down is a good thing for him to find his confidence again.

Which he will want to do when he has a home World Cup coming up.

OK that's fine. Just as long as we can agree that anyone could have had the same gut feeling based on very little when we signed Carillo and even Onuachu.

[hypochondriac]

12 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

this implies it is a bit of a coup.

 

Maybe for him. We will be bare bones up top once Stewart gets crocked so will play any old shit there no matter how he plays.

Edited 3 hours ago by hypochondriac

[DT]

Wow. Is this a wind up?

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

2 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

The last striker we signed from Feyenoord turned out to be pretty good.

He could probably still dajfu

[Chez]

18 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

ok i did it 

 

Very different looking player to when at Mallorca. Its all forward runs into the box rather than holding the ball up with back to goal. 

likes a back post tap in. looks alright in those clips running on to the ball. Confidence looked high and first time finishes quite a few without thinking. Looks a bit leaner than he does now perhaps. Not super quick, but not slow either.  

Wonder who he scored his international goals against.

[CB Fry]

3 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

The last striker we signed from Feyenoord turned out to be pretty good.

55 goals in 66 games for Feyenoord Graziano Pelle you mean.

What's this prick done?

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

55 goals in 66 games for Feyenoord Graziano Pelle you mean.

What's this prick done?

He scored about 8 goals in Spain, about the same time Romeu was brilliant in the premier league

Edited 3 hours ago by AlexLaw76

[DT]

With Lallana's history in moisturisers I bet he's made up that we are signing C.Larins.

Thank me later.

[Farmer Saint]

21 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Highlights from 5+ years ago when he was in his prime and before a run of injuries aren't going to convince me on this guy. 

And to return to a broken record from the summer, if this is where we are ending up we'd have been much better off keeping Onuachu.

 

Edit; I can feel the laughing emojis coming already, so to pre-empt them;

Onuachu is 2nd top scorer in the Turkish league this season, 14 in 24 in all competitions. He has more goals than Mauro Icardi, Marco Ascencio, Victor Osimhen, Leroy Sane and, interestingly, double what Tammy Abraham has who Villa have just deemed good enough to bring back to the Premier League. 

Onuachu said he wouldn't play in the Championship, hence why he went out on loan both seasons.

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, Chez said:

Very different looking player to when at Mallorca. Its all forward runs into the box rather than holding the ball up with back to goal. 

likes a back post tap in. looks alright in those clips running on to the ball. Confidence looked high and first time finishes quite a few without thinking. Looks a bit leaner than he does now perhaps. Not super quick, but not slow either.  

Wonder who he scored his international goals against.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but...

 

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, Owen The Saints said:

We can't afford to go up this season with the quality we've got. There are plenty of players that don't want to be here / are useless. namely McCarthy, Manning, Downes, Stephens, Aribo, Armstrong, Archer and Edozie. So let them go.

Sport Republic have had plenty of time to start resolving this, changing GK and bringing back Bree is a good sign but not good enough.

Why not? If we did go up... we'd sign new players in the summer.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

7 minutes ago, Chez said:

Very different looking player to when at Mallorca. Its all forward runs into the box rather than holding the ball up with back to goal. 

likes a back post tap in. looks alright in those clips running on to the ball. Confidence looked high and first time finishes quite a few without thinking. Looks a bit leaner than he does now perhaps. Not super quick, but not slow either.  

Wonder who he scored his international goals against.

All goals are against 4th rate teams like Haiti and Bermuda or worse

[Chez]

12 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

So I know nothing of this guy and on paper well… but why are so many interested?

🚨 Cyle Larin is set to join Southampton, pending a medical — teams in Spain, Italy, France, Greece, & MLS wanted him, but Saints are promising ‘major’ playing time #saintsfc @TSNScianitti

cos he's amazing? his agent said so.

[Chez]

Just now, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

All goals are against 4th rate teams like Haiti and Bermuda or worse

I wonder if the 30 international goals stat grabbed the eye of our video analysts/scouts.

[CB Fry]

20 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Gut feeling

Basically you'd say the same delusional happy clapper bollocks regardless of who we sign.

[bangkoksaint]

Canadian international? Judging by this fella I’d prefer we bring Paul Peschisolido out of retirement.

[Saint Matty 76]

He's had some good spells in his career to be fair. 8 in 19 in La Liga a few years back. I remember him being a bit of a wonderkid playing with Kaka in America ages ago. It was never going to be anything too impressive in our current position.

Good luck to him. Will be happy to see something different.

[Saint86]

1 hour ago, Chez said:

 We only play one up front. There are only 16 games to go. Stewart is currently fit. it might be enough. would you prefer we kept archer?

No Chez, there are 19 games left.

[stknowle]

42 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Larin on a loan makes sense.

Should be good enough for the Championship and if it doesn't work out then cheerio.

Personally I think it's a good signing.

Hmmmm.

[tdmickey3]

24 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why not? If we did go up... we'd sign new players in the summer.

Sign players like our last time in the PL …..can’t wait 

Edited 3 hours ago by tdmickey3

[Chez]

1 minute ago, Saint86 said:

No Chez, there are 19 games left.

Of course. My mistake. Larin better offer something then.

He played 74 minutes in the UEFA cup game and has been coming off the bench for  ten or 15 minutes in the January games, so you'd hope he is fit enough, but we'll see.

[Willo of Whiteley]

35 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

this implies it is a bit of a coup.

 

So is Tonda being told he must pick him? 👀😂

[Chez]

31 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

55 goals in 66 games for Feyenoord Graziano Pelle you mean.

What's this prick done?

forget Pelle, the Cyle Larin equivalent in 2012 would be someone like Elvis Manu. 

[Jack]

Maybe after the deadline day business last time we need to give Spors a bit of a break, Fellows, Jander, Scienza and Azaz were all astute signings. But yeah, this Canadian chump looks rubbish and probably not the answer to replace guaranteed championship goals in Armstrong. Let’s hope it’s a smoke screen or not the man target 

[pimpin4rizeal]

To the people saying how it’s so hard to sign a decent striker in January. Why don’t we play by these rules then and not sell our proven 20 goal a season striker ffs ?

even if AA isn’t that happy here, fuck that we are half way through the season make him wait until the summer, I also think the people who are starting to rate Stewart higher then AA are losing the plot- based on what? he’s barely scored about 5 his whole time with us we haven’t even seen enough of him to know how good he is yet ? Not to mention he could break down at any time 

if Armstrong and archer really do leave I’d also rather we sign a pacy striker then a big cf as we need someone to replace those two now  with azaz as playmaker having pacy players gives him more chance to break the lines..

it’s really Annoying that just as we have seemingly sorted out our defensive problems, got rid of bazunu and replaced well everything was looking good and even I was feeling positive .. now we have to go and completely fucking wreck the forward line when there is absolutely no need to do this 

Edited 2 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal

[saintant]

3 hours ago, Saint Scott said:

 

This bloke is hopeless 😞

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

Based on 30 seconds of study he looks fucking shit from all angles.

30 year old who hasn't done anything anywhere.

Bravo Spors 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 

A goal every other game if you so the math 

[woodsaint1]

51 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why not? If we did go up... we'd sign new players in the summer.

Exactly, Sunderland bought nearly a whole new team and they seem to be doing ok

[woodsaint1]

14 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

To the people saying how it’s so hard to sign a decent striker in January. Why don’t we play by these rules then and not sell our proven 20 goal a season striker ffs ?

even if AA isn’t that happy here, fuck that we are half way through the season make him wait until the summer, I also think the people who are starting to rate Stewart higher then AA are losing the plot- based on what? he’s barely scored about 5 his whole time with us we haven’t even seen enough of him to know how good he is yet ?

if Armstrong and archer really do leave I’d also rather we sign a pacy striker then a big cf as we need someone to replace those two now  with azaz as playmaker having pacy players gives him more chance to break the lines..

it’s really Annoying that just as we have seemingly sorted out our defensive problems, got rid of bazunu and replaced well everything was looking good and even I was feeling positive .. now we have to go and completely fucking wreck the forward line when there is absolutely no need to do this 

Because he's a big man don't you know. Apparently the solution to all our problems

[Disco Stu]

1 hour ago, Saint_clark said:

Highlights from 5+ years ago when he was in his prime and before a run of injuries aren't going to convince me on this guy. 

And to return to a broken record from the summer, if this is where we are ending up we'd have been much better off keeping Onuachu.

 

Edit; I can feel the laughing emojis coming already, so to pre-empt them;

Onuachu is 2nd top scorer in the Turkish league this season, 14 in 24 in all competitions. He has more goals than Mauro Icardi, Marco Ascencio, Victor Osimhen, Leroy Sane and, interestingly, double what Tammy Abraham has who Villa have just deemed good enough to bring back to the Premier League. 

Onuachu is levels above any of the forwards we have now. That includes Stewart.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

Not as down on Larin as others. Never getting a superstar in January, going to be players who aren’t getting much football.

seems the right physical profile and previously has history of scoring 7/8 goals a season, sounds a bit adamsesque. Hopefully he can chip in with some goals from the bench.

You will be when you see him play.

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

Don't forget the 3 play off games as well 

He can watch them on TV from Holland, doesn't have to join our squad when thay are doing so over here.

[DT]

We are an absolute embarrassment of a club, Ankersen doing his Poundshop Ted Talk Moneyball bollocks and getting on the phone to call tactics.

National League clubs are run better.

What a brilliant metaphor for where we are, this Canadian 'prospect'. Doesn't even fit the age model. So confused it's laughable.

'Get someone in who owns legs!' being the desperate call of Spors to his phone bunnies. 'But who we can call an international. Even if he's shit. Just get a body in!'

'Yes boss'.

 

[die Mannyschaft]

24 minutes ago, saintant said:

This bloke is hopeless 😞

Looks to have the ball control as someone to got rid of. Wht cant we get a player with a few seasons championship experience and at least 15-18 goal per season.

[Maggie May]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

55 goals in 66 games for Feyenoord Graziano Pelle you mean.

What's this prick done?

Yes, fair point. Just trying to find a positive.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

3 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Looks to have the ball control as someone to got rid of. Wht cant we get a player with a few seasons championship experience and at least 15-18 goal per season.

Adam Armstrong?

[AlexLaw76]

If you do the maths on this lad, he is about 1 goal a game...