January Transfer Window

[Osvaldorama]

 

24 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

He looks over the fucking moon!

 

Hahaha

He doesn’t want to be here. 

Welcome to Football purgatory. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Osvaldorama

[Willo of Whiteley]

People saying they’re glad Adam Armstrong has gone will be the same people in a few weeks time saying we should’ve kept him 😂

Sport Republic have somehow found a way of making us worse this window.

[Give it to Ron]

1 minute ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

People saying they’re glad Adam Armstrong has gone will be the same people in a few weeks time saying we should’ve kept him 😂

Sport Republic have somehow found a way of making us worse this window.

Except between the sticks

[musesaint]

4 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

He looks over the fucking moon!

He’s probably been reading the posts on here 🤣

[BotleySaint]

So we've sold our top scorer and replaced him with an unknown. Another gamble. Classic SR trying to be smarter than everyone else.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

27 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

He looks over the fucking moon!

His ability to clone himself, will be very handy at corners.

Jury is out, based on opinion, on whether even 5 will score from open play. 🙂

[benali-shorts]

What’s the end result in our net spend? 
AA, Edwards, AB-K: must be around £14m  plus wages of AA, Aribo, Bazunu, Downs - must be combined >£100k/week x 1/2 a years - another couple of million. 
Peretz and Larin - maybe £40k/week so £1m for 1/2 year. 
We’ll have made c£15m. 

Runaway champions again. Cov and Boro fans will be green with envy. 
 

[saintant]

43 minutes ago, musesaint said:

He’s probably been reading the posts on here 🤣

Up to him to ram the words down our throats then. Let's see what he's made of. 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, James said:

Selling your top scorer mid season and replacing him with a striker yet to find the net this season. Can’t make it up.

Well he’s got to score sooner or later so the perfect time to sign him when you think about it 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

People saying they’re glad Adam Armstrong has gone will be the same people in a few weeks time saying we should’ve kept him 😂

Sport Republic have somehow found a way of making us worse this window.

Well they’ve done that every window since they’ve been here so why stop now?

[Gloucester Saint]

Some suggestions here for goal celebrations 

 

[pimpin4rizeal]

1 hour ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

I, for one, am really pleased to see AA out the door. All this top scoring nonsense. His misses at Blackburn and Portsmouth arguably lost us six points and with those points we'd be knocking on the door of the play off places. And in the Sheff Utd & Stoke games we looked better without him. 

Let's see what Larin does. Won't be any worse than AA.

Crazy post mate, he might not be super clinical but his game gets goals in this division, Che Adam’s used to miss absolute sitters and people still rate him for some reason 

to say larin can be no worse then AA is total madness you really think he’s gonna be a 20 goal a season striker . I’m thinking more like a cross between Damion downs and stern John 

Edited 9 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal

[LaptopSaint]

Looks like a clusterfuck. Let’s see how it works out.
 

Cyle Larin Larin

He drives a McLaren 

He’s Canadian

He hates the Pompey scum 

 

etc etc 

[SaintBobby]

We are not exactly building to be competitive in the Prem next year are we?

[bugenhagen]

5 minutes ago, SaintBobby said:

We are not exactly building to be competitive in the Prem next year are we?

Wow. If that was the expectation... that's rough. I don't think selling Arma makes much difference in that regard anyways.

Didn't expect much this window, was happy with the goalkeeper change and disappointed with the striker swap, but never had any high hopes.

[Pilchards]

When you think about Armstrongs scoring record then it’s 174 appearance with a return of 43 goals. 21 of those were penalties.

With him in the team you have to play a different system because of his size.

Now look how the team have been in the last few games (ignore Pompey as that was horrific) The target man is the one who brings the rest of the midfield into the game. it’s those midfielders who are the ones we are backing to get the goals.
Fellows, Sceinza, Azaz, Jander and Ross himself.

Ross we know can’t play the full 90 so this new striker is a like for like to allow us to carry on playing the same way.

I think it’s a gamble but so was our new keeper and bloody hell hasn’t he proved many of us wrong after we saw his highlight reel from his previous clubs.

[Saint Fan CaM]

2 hours ago, SaintBobby said:

We are not exactly building to be competitive in the Prem next year are we?

I think you’re getting ahead of yourself, even if SR are rubbish. It’s not too hard to remember the clusterfuck of a season we had just LAST season. It truly was horrendous. It’s easier to re-build a squad going up into the Prem, but when we went down with a bloated squad of largely rubbish, there was a massive re-build to be done over what will end up being at least three windows. The huge test for SR will be improving the squad further in the summer without losing our best players, but for now we need to be content that slowly, Eckhert has a slimmed down squad that’s more suited to the way he wants to play to get results.

[SNSUN]

2 hours ago, Pilchards said:

When you think about Armstrongs scoring record then it’s 174 appearance with a return of 43 goals. 21 of those were penalties.

That is a pretty damning statistic really. 22 open play goals in 4 seasons. I think we think he's better than has been because of the lack of other decent striking options in that time and because of one Championship season where most of those goals came (including, to be fair, the all important one). And yet Adams, possibly seen in less favourable light than AA by some people, got 49 in his 5 seasons with us and with more Premier League goals there too (although to be fair, he had more Prem seasons to do it in). I think one of AA's issues was his insistence that he is a striker when he seems more effective playing from wider positions. I also think he would suit the old fashioned 442 paired up top with a bigger striker, a bit like the Beattie/Ormerod partnership.

A time will come again where we get a striker that can score goals. When? Who knows, hopefully in the summer with any luck, but I don't mind the sale of AA while the money was there, even if there are doubts over his replacement. I hope he does well at Wolves really but for the way we seem to want to play going forwards, I don't think he fits the system.

 

[Convict Colony]

I think Cyle wil score goals here, he just looks like the canadian darren bent already

Edited 2 hours ago by Convict Colony

[Lord Duckhunter]

Any half decent striker would have scored as many goals from open play, and would probably have scored more penalties. I doubt they’d have a stupid fucking nick name either. Decent money for a bang average player….

[gecko]

Pretty underwhelming on the face of it. But I suppose it's been a pragmatic window. Lots of dross shipped out permanently, must be useful on the wage front. Keeper issue looks "solved" as this one actually stops the ball from going in sometimes.

Armstrong I think we all see through rose tinted glasses. He's probably the best our truly awful strike force and gave us some really special goals, but really we all know the he also isn't good enough. Perhaps he's been one of the bad attitudes we've heard about, or this is for the wages too. 

Hard not to see us as weaker without him, but fingers crossed the new guy isn't as terrible as everyone expects...

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Another positive is that we can now give the Vice Captain position to someone else, as his performance in that role was absolutely horrific. 
 

I think I can guess who the majority want in this position now. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

I find it incredible Sam Edozie is still here.

[Football Special]

33 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I find it incredible Sam Edozie is still here.

There's got to be more to that story, he was decent for us in 2023/24 particularly before injury at Norwich, would be great to get him back to that but feels like either he's given up or the club have given up on him 

[Football Special]

49 minutes ago, gecko said:

Pretty underwhelming on the face of it. But I suppose it's been a pragmatic window. Lots of dross shipped out permanently, must be useful on the wage front. Keeper issue looks "solved" as this one actually stops the ball from going in sometimes.

Armstrong I think we all see through rose tinted glasses. He's probably the best our truly awful strike force and gave us some really special goals, but really we all know the he also isn't good enough. Perhaps he's been one of the bad attitudes we've heard about, or this is for the wages too. 

Hard not to see us as weaker without him, but fingers crossed the new guy isn't as terrible as everyone expects...

Has anyone got a summary of all championship ins and outs? Would be interesting to compare us to others. 

Ross Stewart and Cameran Archer still some of the most expensive forwards in this division 

[badgerx16]

8 hours ago, SaintBobby said:

We are not exactly building to be competitive in the Prem next year are we?

As we won't be there it is not a problem.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Which game do we think Stewart will get injured in, leaving us having to start Larin or change system to fit in Archer? I’m going Leicester away. 

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, for_heaven's_Saint said:

Which game do we think Stewart will get injured in, leaving us having to start Larin or change system to fit in Archer? I’m going Leicester away. 

Watford home