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LocationRemot3

LocationRemot3

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8 minutes ago, Badger said:

Probably going against today’s tide of thought here but I thought Dan Neil would have been a good addition and business (especially if we sell Charles for upwards of £25m).  
 

From what I’d read and his promotion experience   I can’t join the “well he wasn’t good enough …” , “we didn’t really want him…”  pile on. 
 

That’s not to say we can’t do better, although it will cost more. The Mulligan of Hibs rumour might now resurface, although we don’t seem to have been active recruiting in Scotland for years. Or perhaps Spors/Tonda will know a Bundesliga 2 gem to come in. 

You could argue he's got a similar profile to Joe Rothwell who I remember contributed nothing apart from a wonder goal whilst he was here. We have better midfielders already than Neil. Downes, Jander and Charles (the latter likely going) would all start ahead of him. 

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revolution saint

revolution saint

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2 minutes ago, Badger said:

Another MF mentioned on the thread is the 6’4” Norwegian Dahl. Young, and built like a proverbial brick shithouse, which seems a good start for a DM.  
 

 

It's only YouTube and I don't think he's playing at a particularly high level but thought the lad looked pretty good in the videos I saw.  

SuperSAINT

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10 minutes ago, Badger said:

Another MF mentioned on the thread is the 6’4” Norwegian Dahl. Young, and built like a proverbial brick shithouse, which seems a good start for a DM.  
 

 

Where did the link for this one come from? 

Badger

Badger

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Just now, SuperSAINT said:

Where did the link for this one come from? 

Further up the thread in last couple of days. Probably not a reliable source though. 

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ally_uk

ally_uk

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15 minutes ago, Badger said:

If we’re spending serious Charles/Fernandes dosh on it then someone mentioned the Millwall strikers (Ivanovic ? and Coburn) on here previously, worth considering.
 

Of the four you mention Tolaj apparently has something about him, Futkeu seems to match some of our tickboxes ( Bundesliga 2, affordable etc).Lankshear - did he really show anything at Oxford last year ? 

Lankshear scored 12 on loan for Oxford, could be worth a punt if we can get him on loan.

Noel Futkeu 6.0, 22 years old, 18 goals in Bundesliga 2. 

Salech 6.5  24 years old,  15 goals 

Andrea Adorante 26 years old,  6 foot, good at holding ball up. 17 goals, Venezia.

Kaliman and Hornby are two other options in the Bundesliga 2 who have the classic target man attributes and scored >10 goals last season. 

We got to be looking at a few of these....

Fukeku or Salech for me would be superb signings for a Ross Stewart replacement 

 

 

 

Badger

Badger

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7 minutes ago, ally_uk said:

Lankshear scored 12 on loan for Oxford, could be worth a punt if we can get him on loan.

Noel Futkeu 6.0, 22 years old, 18 goals in Bundesliga 2. 

Salech 6.5  24 years old,  15 goals 

Andrea Adorante 26 years old,  6 foot, good at holding ball up. 17 goals, Venezia.

Kaliman and Hornby are two other options in the Bundesliga 2 who have the classic target man attributes and scored >10 goals last season. 

We got to be looking at a few of these....

Fukeku or Salech for me would be superb signings for a Ross Stewart replacement 

 

 

 

Thanks. Interesting as 12 goals for a struggling Oxford last season isn’t a bad return. My only first hand memory of him is slicing a good chance wide at St Mary’s (but then look at Kane the other night).

Trouble with Lankshear is that he’ll probably be a last minute loan after De Zerbi has sorted his squad.

Hornby has signed for Wolfsburg this summer. He’s good for ‘derailing’ transfer threads though. 

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Saint86

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2 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Dom Ballard was sold for a reason.

He was deemed not good enough. Frankly if we want to be pushing for the Premier League we need proven experience and someone that has the potential to do it.

DB with his injury record and one season in League One doesn’t warrant that.

He was sold by Spors/Still prior to Eckert taking the reigns, to be replaced by Downs and considered a worse prospect than Archer for the team. Both terrible calls. We won't always play 1 big man up top, and equally there are numerous times where Eckert changed it up to go 2 Strikers or to introduce pace. Dom Ballard should still be on the books, he's a very promising and young home grown player who was top scorer in the league below whilst playing for an awful (and nearly relegated) side. He'd be very cheap and competent depth for the first team squad, would almost certainly be a money spinner for SR, and to be frank, should never have been let go in the first place compared to the money spent (wages/transfer/agent fees) for Downs and Archer. 

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skintsaint

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3 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Spurs now spending £100m on Tonali.

They are throwing some serious money around

Yet Villa who made Europe again this season have to sell to buy I think 😅

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bugenhagen

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34 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Yet Villa who made Europe again this season have to sell to buy I think 😅

Just shows how poorly, or perfectly, designed these rules are 

Badger

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12 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

https://fixvx.com/jburttelegraph/status/2072337397489016955?s=46

Glasner to Forest

Weird move. Thought he'd go to a big club, not a sideways move 

I’d say Forest have more potential than Palace so don’t see it as a sideways move (I’ll avoid the ‘bigger’ club debate so not to awaken MLG). But the Forst owner is probably more volatile to work for so good luck with that! 

Like you I thought he’d go somewhere else but a lot of the ‘bigger’ and more prestigious jobs he was linked to ( Chelsea, Man Utd, AC Milan) have gone elsewhere. 

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Fabrice29

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17 hours ago, Saint86 said:

He was sold by Spors/Still prior to Eckert taking the reigns, to be replaced by Downs and considered a worse prospect than Archer for the team. Both terrible calls. We won't always play 1 big man up top, and equally there are numerous times where Eckert changed it up to go 2 Strikers or to introduce pace. Dom Ballard should still be on the books, he's a very promising and young home grown player who was top scorer in the league below whilst playing for an awful (and nearly relegated) side. He'd be very cheap and competent depth for the first team squad, would almost certainly be a money spinner for SR, and to be frank, should never have been let go in the first place compared to the money spent (wages/transfer/agent fees) for Downs and Archer. 

I think you have wildly mis judged the context of his situation when we sold him. Saints had to judge if a lad who was still growing, a little behind his development because of his injuries and had underwhelmed in the lower league loans he had, was able to justify the playing time he needed to progress ahead of a player who had scored goals in the PL and a lad who had scored some goals in the German 2nd division and had broken into the USA set up (albeit due to rotation and injuries). All well and good you judging them on hindsight and all well and good you just not realising that his top scorer season in the lower league doesn't happen without the move and doesn't immediately translate into being able to push us to promotion either but it's not the reality Saints or Ballard faced last summer.

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UpweySaint

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Just spotted Armel Bella Kotchap has moved this summer, £7mil fee. No idea if we had a sell on, if we did I don’t expect we’ll see much even if we did given the relatively low fee.

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Turkish

Turkish

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7 minutes ago, UpweySaint said:

Just spotted Armel Bella Kotchap has moved this summer, £7mil fee. No idea if we had a sell on, if we did I don’t expect we’ll see much even if we did given the relatively low fee.

has he? I can only see him still listed as a Verona player who he joined from us permanently in the January window

Gloucester Saint

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9 minutes ago, UpweySaint said:

Here you go https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2026/jun/08/mens-transfer-window-summer-2026-all-deals-from-europes-top-five-leagues

 

scroll down to 30th June, he’s gone to Venezia

Kept a sell on if Alfie was correct. Don’t know what %. £8.5m. 10% would be £850k, 15% £1.275m, 20% £1.7m. Tidy little profit for Verona and covers a good chunk of Larin’s fee.
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25817125.southampton-reportedly-agree-sell-bella-kotchap-serie-side/

https://www.facebook.com/transfermarkt.global/posts/️-venezia-reinforce-at-the-back-with-armel-bella-kotchap-who-joins-from-hellas-v/1482288047274316/

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CSA96

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Daily Mail: Leeds submit new offer of £23m guaranteed + add-ons for Shea Charles, getting them closer to Southampton's £30m valuation

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Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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6 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Daily Mail: Leeds submit new offer of £23m guaranteed + add-ons for Shea Charles, getting them closer to Southampton's £30m valuation

I thought we’d rejected £25m? Given his age he’s got to be worth at least that. I would think £25m + a decent sell-on fee would seal the deal.

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