Summer Transfer Window 2026

[Nolan]

4 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

I really haven't bothered to look into it that closely. 

If you're not even going to look to see if it's accurate, probably best not to post a random X post in the first place then 🤷🏼

[ally_uk]

1 hour ago, gio1saints said:

I do not recognise any of those names. Have you just made them up? 
what about ; 

1. Paul Naiswell

2. Ade bkumbu

3. Sean Rodrick 

4. Lazarus condo. 
 

5. giocanni scarachi

6. Mohammed halifa 

7 Josh groblonk

All great choices!

No they are Real players....

Salech plays for Cardiff,

Toljaj striker for Plymouth

Lankshear plays for spuds on load at Oxford last season

Wakey wakey 🤣

 

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, Nolan said:

If you're not even going to look to see if it's accurate, probably best not to post a random X post in the first place then 🤷🏼

I posted about it and said if it was accurate you sausage. It's a football forum.

[Saint NL]

 

Wrong thread, don't care.

Puncheon being in charge of football operations means that the toilets are up to scratch? 

 

[lambtiss]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

 

Wrong thread, don't care.

Puncheon being in charge of football operations means that the toilets are up to scratch? 

 

He wouldn't use them would he?

[lambtiss]

9 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

 

Wrong thread, don't care.

Puncheon being in charge of football operations means that the toilets are up to scratch? 

 

That sounds like one nutjob of a club

[Charlie Wayman]

10 hours ago, austsaint said:

As someone noted recently..."Once you have a machine think and write for you, you're cooked as a species".

AI bots do not think, they review all the available information about a topic and summarises it in the form requested. It does only what any one of us could do if we had access to the same information but a billion times faster.

[Doctoroncall]

11 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

AI bots do not think, they review all the available information about a topic and summarises it in the form requested. It does only what any one of us could do if we had access to the same information but a billion times faster.

There is a whole world of AI which have agentic capabilities and AGI features beyond bots which use LLM to answer questions.  The march to ASI is onward and SkyNet is around the corner, if we have enough energy. Doomed we are!

Anyway, any transfer news?

[sadoldgit]

21 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Liam Delap under Eckhert guidance would be a dream signing for Saints or indeed any Championship side. He has all the attributes for a CF role and is easily as good as Larin if not better. Best we could expect is a loan to buy, but I don’t think he wants to be playing anywhere other than the Prem…certainly not with Saints.

Considering that several EPL clubs are supposed to be interested in him (Everton, Newcastle, Fulham) along with some Serie A clubs I’m not sure why we are discussing the likelihood of him coming here on loan anyway. 

The idea that Eckert can turn every cow’s ear into a silk purse needs to be put to bed too. Fellows had a disappointing season. Robinson went backwards after a promising start and if DD stays I doubt very much if Ekhert will turn him around.

[hypochondriac]

56 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Considering that several EPL clubs are supposed to be interested in him (Everton, Newcastle, Fulham) along with some Serie A clubs I’m not sure why we are discussing the likelihood of him coming here on loan anyway. 

The idea that Eckert can turn every cow’s ear into a silk purse needs to be put to bed too. Fellows had a disappointing season. Robinson went backwards after a promising start and if DD stays I doubt very much if Ekhert will turn him around.

Because Adam Blackmore mentioned it and this is a saints forum to discuss various scenarios about the club.

[Saint Fan CaM]

2 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Considering that several EPL clubs are supposed to be interested in him (Everton, Newcastle, Fulham) along with some Serie A clubs I’m not sure why we are discussing the likelihood of him coming here on loan anyway. 

The idea that Eckert can turn every cow’s ear into a silk purse needs to be put to bed too. Fellows had a disappointing season. Robinson went backwards after a promising start and if DD stays I doubt very much if Ekhert will turn him around.

And yet Fellows had a part to play in our 21 game unbeaten run. How were the same players performing prior to Eckhert influence?

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

And yet Fellows had a part to play in our 21 game unbeaten run. How were the same players performing prior to Eckhert influence?

Did Robinson even play under Tonda?

[SaintsFan86]

Rumour that Derby have offered 2Million for BBD

[Oh no Mick Mills]

 https://www.threads.com/@transferfeedcom/post/DaFnQeKDOaF/media

[suewhistle]

7 minutes ago, SaintsFan86 said:

Rumour that Derby have offered 2Million for BBD

Make it 1 million and you've got yourself a deal..

[SaintsFan86]

2 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Make it 1 million and you've got yourself a deal..

I was hoping for pack of squashies. 

[Saint NL]

Hayden Hackney £25m ➡️ Everton

[Saint Mikey]

26 minutes ago, SaintsFan86 said:

Rumour that Derby have offered 2Million for BBD

Think that we'd want £3.5m minimum. Otherwise it could be an accountancy loss. Although we would have recouped two loan fees as well.

[AlexLaw76]

13 minutes ago, Saint Mikey said:

Think that we'd want £3.5m minimum. Otherwise it could be an accountancy loss. Although we would have recouped two loan fees as well.

How much did he cost and what was his co tractor length?

Edited 1 hour ago by AlexLaw76

[skintsaint]

25 minutes ago, Saint Mikey said:

Think that we'd want £3.5m minimum. Otherwise it could be an accountancy loss. Although we would have recouped two loan fees as well.

Don't forget to add goal bonuses paid out to him while banging them in for us.

[sadoldgit]

1 hour ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

And yet Fellows had a part to play in our 21 game unbeaten run. How were the same players performing prior to Eckhert influence?

So did Archer. I think Fellows was disappointing last season. If you think he wasn’t, fair enough but his finishing was dreadful and he has shown that he can score previously.*

Eckhert has shown that he can coach but he is not the Messiah. Buying players in the hope that your coaching team can turn them into something else is not a wise strategy (unless you have bottomless resources) as we have seen to our cost before. We had a good squad that was underperforming. Eckhert got us playing as a team, which Still failed miserably at, but not every player improved under him and his coaching team, which is my point. To point out the obvious, you can’t just assume that because he has got the best out of some, it will work for all.

If that is the case and he can turn any player around, let’s save some money and bring back Downs and BBD.
 

*9 goals for WBA

Edited 1 hour ago by sadoldgit

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, suewhistle said:

Make it 1 million and you've got yourself a deal..

 

1 hour ago, SaintsFan86 said:

Rumour that Derby have offered 2Million for BBD

That's a bit more than I was prepared to pay to be honest.

[Saint Mikey]

34 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

How much did he cost and what was his co tractor length?

Wiki says £7m on a 4-year deal. So, £3.5m left on amortisation. Plus, we have to consider his wages. If he doesn’t hand in a transfer request (highly unlikely) we’ll also have to pay up his contract.

Deadwood can be expensive to get rid of…

[Tommy Mulgrew]

38 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

what was his co tractor length?

Not as long as Aribo’s.

[UpweySaint]

1 hour ago, SaintsFan86 said:

Rumour that Derby have offered 2Million for BBD

This feels low but if Tonda doesn’t see a role for him there is probably a deal to be done to get him off the books. 

[CSA96]

Paul Joyce has confirmed in the Telegraph that Middlesbrough and Everton have reached an agreement for Hayden Hackney

• £16.5m guaranteed initial fee
• £5m based on Everton appearances
• £3m possible in event of England caps + UCL qualification with Everton

[skintsaint]

2 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Paul Joyce has confirmed in the Telegraph that Middlesbrough and Everton have reached an agreement for Hayden Hackney

• £16.5m guaranteed initial fee
• £5m based on Everton appearances
• £3m possible in event of England caps + UCL qualification with Everton

so a max of £21.5m.

[Gloucester Saint]

40 minutes ago, UpweySaint said:

This feels low but if Tonda doesn’t see a role for him there is probably a deal to be done to get him off the books. 

Player has moved to that area, if he’s willing to compromise a bit on bonuses/wages then it may be Saints can on the fee 

 

[Greenridge]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Eckhert has shown that he can coach but he is not the Messiah.
 

maybe not, but as we know, he's a very naughty boy.