Daniel Peretz - Official: Signs 4 Year Contract

[Midfield_General]

3 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

I personally think that this is the most earth shattering, history altering transfer since Helen went from Sparta to Troy. 

From Sparta Prague to Troy Deeney. That poor woman

[manji]

4 hours ago, egg said:

Yep, agreed. He's a bloke who doesn't do failure and is giving this the full beans. I approve. 

I’ve said before. He took on Putin backed President Vucic ( Vucic accused Dragon of plotting against him ) and won. 
Dragan was majority shareholder on Comms giant United Group there was boardroom shenanigans by Vucic supporters and he lost his majority holding. Dragan wants that back. 
he’s a busy man. Yet still he’s prepared to throw his weight behind Saints. Seriously think about it. Boro have got washed up Labour Party Gibson. 
 

and still there are divs with an anti- SR agenda.

[manji]

4 hours ago, LaptopSaint said:

In an us-against-the-world season a mouthy Israeli goalkeeper was a must. Insane signing. 

Good call I wonder if he did his year in the IDF 

[Lighthouse]

1 minute ago, manji said:

I’ve said before. He took on Putin backed President Vucic ( Vucic accused Dragon of plotting against him ) and won. 
Dragan was majority shareholder on Comms giant United Group there was boardroom shenanigans by Vucic supporters and he lost his majority holding. Dragan wants that back. 
he’s a busy man. Yet still he’s prepared to throw his weight behind Saints. Seriously think about it. Boro have got washed up Labour Party Gibson. 
 

and still there are divs with an anti- SR agenda.

SR signed Ben Brereton Diaz, Juan Larios and Nathan Wood to play PL football. I’m not sure you need an ‘agenda’ to criticise them.

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, manji said:

I’ve said before. He took on Putin backed President Vucic ( Vucic accused Dragon of plotting against him ) and won. 
Dragan was majority shareholder on Comms giant United Group there was boardroom shenanigans by Vucic supporters and he lost his majority holding. Dragan wants that back. 
he’s a busy man. Yet still he’s prepared to throw his weight behind Saints. Seriously think about it. Boro have got washed up Labour Party Gibson. 
 

and still there are divs with an anti- SR agenda.

Having an "anti-SR agenda" and liking Dragan aren't mutually exclusive stances... 

Edited 1 hour ago by trousers

[Dark Munster]

3 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

SR signed Ben Brereton Diaz, Juan Larios and Nathan Wood to play PL football. I’m not sure you need an ‘agenda’ to criticise them.

And don’t forget Baz earlier. I’m sure you agree he was the worst of the lot. 

[S-Clarke]

Well, this escalated quickly. How did we pull that one off? I didn't think we had a chance if we didn't get promoted, but I get a feeling that the way we didn't get promotion has given all the players a bit of a siege mentality - hence the unfinished business. 

We're almost certainly going to give it a good crack next season by the looks of it. This addition is huge.

We went into the PL under Martin with Bazunu and McCarthy as our goalies, but we'll enter pre-season with Ramsdale and Pertez in the Championship - crazy.

[LordHester]

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

We went into the PL under Martin with Bazunu and McCarthy as our goalies, but we'll enter pre-season with Ramsdale and Pertez in the Championship - crazy.

Going to predict that Peretz’ signing means that Ramsdale’s departure is pretty much a done deal.

[S-Clarke]

Just now, LordHester said:

Going to predict that Peretz’ signing means that Ramsdale’s departure is pretty much a done deal.

Oh yeah for sure, but just in terms of the squad we had upon PL promotion and what we'll have in the Champ - even though temporary - is a crazy jump in quality. No idea how we thought we'd compete under Martin.

[Eire Saint]

If THB goes Peretz should be given the armband. His attitude is top notch, a leader on the pitch. 

[sfc4prem]

47 minutes ago, manji said:

There’s a lot of good things happening it’s just that you don’t know about it

Thought you were off on a Dragan funded jaunt to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast?

[hypochondriac]

39 minutes ago, manji said:

I’ve said before. He took on Putin backed President Vucic ( Vucic accused Dragon of plotting against him ) and won. 
Dragan was majority shareholder on Comms giant United Group there was boardroom shenanigans by Vucic supporters and he lost his majority holding. Dragan wants that back. 
he’s a busy man. Yet still he’s prepared to throw his weight behind Saints. Seriously think about it. Boro have got washed up Labour Party Gibson. 
 

and still there are divs with an anti- SR agenda.

I think you can differentiate between Solak and Sports Republic. Yes he appointed them but he's not entirely to blame if they fucked up. To a large extent he provides the finance and backing and trusts others not to fuck it up on his behalf.

[Saint86]

6 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

Given the way the BBC have been reporting on us pretty much daily, I expected this to be headline news on their website...

Think the boro contingent of the press are busy raging at Hackney leaving for circa £10M, Ayling and Fry both likely to go on free transfers (or minimal fee) as well. Its gone under the radar, but looks like Gibbo has allowed a variety of key players to run their contracts down 😄

[Sheaf Saint]

7 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I think you can differentiate between Solak and Sports Republic. Yes he appointed them but he's not entirely to blame if they fucked up. To a large extent he provides the finance and backing and trusts others not to fuck it up on his behalf.

Quite right. The overwhelming majority of the (wholly justified) criticism of SR has been around the multiple disastrous decisions they've made on the footballing side of things with player recruitment and managerial appointments.

I don't think anyone doubts Dragan's willingness to back the club financially, and I'm sure he is as exasperated as the rest of us with some of the failures we've had to endure. But he also shoulders the ultimate responsibility as Chairman, so he's not above any criticism.

[hypochondriac]

12 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Quite right. The overwhelming majority of the (wholly justified) criticism of SR has been around the multiple disastrous decisions they've made on the footballing side of things with player recruitment and managerial appointments.

I don't think anyone doubts Dragan's willingness to back the club financially, and I'm sure he is as exasperated as the rest of us with some of the failures we've had to endure. But he also shoulders the ultimate responsibility as Chairman, so he's not above any criticism.

I agree. I think after this month if we are successful he will start to get a lot more praise though.

[Saint86]

38 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I think you can differentiate between Solak and Sports Republic. Yes he appointed them but he's not entirely to blame if they fucked up. To a large extent he provides the finance and backing and trusts others not to fuck it up on his behalf.

I think this coming season has the potential to be the making of Solak as owner of saints. He started off with a bunch of idiots in charge and it went badly. He's got more involved and cleared them all out / installed Spors whilst taking a step back still. Spors to me clearly knows his stuff and has been slowly righting the ship, if we can pick up from the momentum of last season now - with the same squad - you'd back us to be very very good by the end of the season. Let alone if he can whip out some more deals like Jander, Scienza, Azaz etc. And on top of that, i think whats happened recently will mean that Solak is going to be right there now, keeping his eye on things, and having learnt the lessons from the previous seasons... Bodes well imho. I can respect that Solak is being even handed in not punishing/sacking anyone for whats happened - its a very fair and forgiving approach he's taken - but it doesn't change the fact that Parsons oversight of the whole thing initially was an absolute car crash. Hopefully Dragan will be on top of things more now, and will make sure the whole operations and coaching/analysts teams are a damn site more organised and professional.

 

Edited 25 minutes ago by Saint86

[West Dean FC Legend]

To be fair it's not just Saints, or us fans, just think about modern football, really good, impressive, goalies who have a 'presence' are a great commodity. 

I know Peretz is not some sort of 'football god' but think about other team's goalies who come to mind when it comes to 'his performance can win you games' in any of the divisions.

Forget about former goalies or others on the books, think of a goalie at any club, especially our rival clubs, that we could play against that will win them the game just because of the way he plays. 

It is a lot rarer and more valuable than you might think.

In my opinion.

[BarberSaint]

Fuck YES!