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 22 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 21 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 14 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

[BotleySaint]

51 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

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

That is what I think also. The club realises promotion is beyond us now. So it's about consolidating and keeping their options open to either sell, or go again next year without some of the bloat.

We aren't consistent enough to get promoted.

Edited 11 hours ago by BotleySaint

[tdmickey3]

What a window that was ......

 

[E_H_Saints]

Half glass empty feel about the club is the reason players want to leave.  Fans have the same mentality.  Last year we couldn't buy a win this year people thought we would storm the league.  Mental....

I think the window is about as good as you are going to get for a club that is middle of the table,  5 players on the team who actually mean it when they kiss the badge. Others have one eye on getting out in the summer.  

We always said that the team needed a revamp which needs to start somewhere.  Changes that need to happen to ensure big changes happen later which has happened.  If this loan striker doesn't work out than they will need to put their hands in their wallets if they are going to show ambition to buy a new striker.  They also got rid of more players off the wage bill.  

No buys were ever going to secure a play off spot however a new keeper was about as good as you could get as ATM most goals are coming from other players not arma.  

[DT]

Worth noting that journalists who first cited the possibility of Adam Armstrong leaving were greeted with posters 'calling bullshit' on it before it, again, being true. Nixon, I think it was, who posted first.

Proof that those who have journalism as their full time job are sometimes better than blokes with a keyboard in their bedrooms or who post with seeming authority of an inside track.

Armstrong clearly didn't want to be here and his attitude wasn't great so I think selling was the only option, especially given his contract status. Would have been nice to have replaced him with more quality, but let's see before we pass judgment on that donkey we have brought in.

😉

[wild-saint]

8 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.

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.

Agree with this post. Too play 4 at the back with 2 wingers we absolutely need a Physical striker with some height / aerial ability. Larin and his record looks unremarkable but how many unremarkable target men are there in the championship that have done a job for teams to reach the playoffs. He may not get the goals but his physical presence suits us more than archer and armstrong's game. Clearly we will want Stewart to stay fit but we will need to be really careful with his minutes. 

Ill probably be proved wrong but im fairly confident that we create enough chances for a him to grab a few but its his physical presence that will be the real benefit.  

[spyinthesky]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

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 

I think he is currently 4th in line as a winger behind Scienza, Fellows and Robinson.
Having said that he was reasonably good when he was picked to play in the Prem.

[richardc]

1 hour 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 pre match warm up

[Saint86]

A summary of our business...

I guess ultimately we've done good work to thin the squad/wage bill, and have strengthened in the GK department (which truthfully is probably worth more than AA's goals Vs Stewart/cerin's for the rest of the season).

Presumably now we will see edozie reintegrated as an option on the wing (which is badly needed), and I guess we all hope that either Stewart can stay fit and firing for 19 more games this season, or that Cerin does...

[lumuah]

9 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.

 

No, 21 weren't penalties. It was 11 - I think 21 is every penalty for every club he has played for. Hi missed/had saved 3 pens.

Goal Breakdown by Competition

The following table reflects his total career statistics for Southampton across all formats:

 

Competition	Appearances	Total Goals	Penalty Goals
EFL Championship	78	35	8
Premier League	73	6	1
FA Cup	10	1	0
EFL Cup	13	1	2
Total	174	43	11

(Data current as of 3 February 2026) 

 

 

[Pilchards]

Okay I stand corrected but I did check on what I thought was an official source. (Meta AI)

How many penalties did Adam Armstrong score for Southampton

Adam Armstrong has scored 21 penalties out of 26 taken for

Southampton, with a penalty conversion rate of 80.77%.

[saintant]

10 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.

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.

I thought he looked decent in his highlights reel to be honest.

[saintant]

8 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

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.

Where did we go wrong then?

[austsaint]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

A summary of our business...

I guess ultimately we've done good work to thin the squad/wage bill, and have strengthened in the GK department (which truthfully is probably worth more than AA's goals Vs Stewart/cerin's for the rest of the season).

Presumably now we will see edozie reintegrated as an option on the wing (which is badly needed), and I guess we all hope that either Stewart can stay fit and firing for 19 more games this season, or that Cerin does...

Hope the Club takes up the option on Peretz.   He’s a keeper!

[saintant]

3 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I find it incredible Sam Edozie is still here.

It's nice work if you can get it 🙂

[saintant]

2 hours 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. 

Jumpers for goalposts at Staplewood today.

[Give it to Ron]

Well given our supposed lack of fitness Larin won’t be too far behind 🙂

[Saint Fan CaM]

33 minutes ago, saintant said:

Where did we go wrong then?

Simple. We didn’t spend enough money on enough EPL quality players. We thought a lucky play-off win was indicative of being ready for the Prem, which was of course stupidity of the highest order when you review our results in the previous Championship season. To cap it all, we had a smug twat of manager who thought he could get our sub-standard squad to pass the ball like an elite Man City.

[Saint Fan CaM]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

A summary of our business...

I guess ultimately we've done good work to thin the squad/wage bill, and have strengthened in the GK department (which truthfully is probably worth more than AA's goals Vs Stewart/cerin's for the rest of the season).

Presumably now we will see edozie reintegrated as an option on the wing (which is badly needed), and I guess we all hope that either Stewart can stay fit and firing for 19 more games this season, or that Cerin does...

I think Cyle Larin is a loan with option to buy also, although I don’t think the fee was disclosed?

[Turkish]

3 hours 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. 

with the window now closed it's inevitable that a season ending injury is just around the corner, could be as early as saturday however with it'll probably happen after in a few weeks after he's scored a couple of goals just to give us a bit of hope which will then be quickly extingushed. 

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, saintant said:

Where did we go wrong then?

Russell Martin

[Obstacle1]

2 hours ago, Pilchards said:

Okay I stand corrected but I did check on what I thought was an official source. (Meta AI)

How many penalties did Adam Armstrong score for Southampton

Adam Armstrong has scored 21 penalties out of 26 taken for

Southampton, with a penalty conversion rate of 80.77%.

Thought id try out this AI thing as well:

How many penalties did Saintsweb forum user Pilchards score for Southampton

Pilchards has scored 87 penalties out of 87 taken for

Southampton, with a penalty conversion rate of 100%

[Pilchards]

10 minutes ago, Obstacle1 said:

Thought id try out this AI thing as well:

How many penalties did Saintsweb forum user Pilchards score for Southampton

Pilchards has scored 87 penalties out of 87 taken for

Southampton, with a penalty conversion rate of 100%

Thought it was 89!

Yeah it must be bollocks.