Summer Transfer Window 2026

[beatlesaint]

17 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

I'd be surprised if he stayed. Bree has a new contract, Roerslev is fit again and was signed by the current recruitment team. We don't need 3 senior right backs and would be hard to keep all 3 happy.

He could play ahead of Bree as a right sided midfielder. Probably more direct than Fellows 😬

[jemanson]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

 

 

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to this, but ... What on earth is the blurry object in the photo on the left?

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, jemanson said:

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to this, but ... What on earth is the blurry object in the photo on the left?

Just his hand captured in motion in the first photo in the process of shaking hands in the second.

That’s all it looked like to me.

[jemanson]

4 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Just his hand captured in motion in the first photo in the process of shaking hands in the second.

That’s all it looked like to me.

Thanks. Off to get my eyes tested.

[Appy]

50 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

He could play ahead of Bree as a right sided midfielder. Probably more direct than Fellows 😬

Hope not, Fellows is good, Sugawara is woeful and not a winger. 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

1 hour ago, jemanson said:

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to this, but ... What on earth is the blurry object in the photo on the left?

Indeed…easy mistake to make, bit like this young lassie withe the Chuckle Bros 😎

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, jemanson said:

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to this, but ... What on earth is the blurry object in the photo on the left?

It's someone in the background's head. Depth of field has made it blurred.

[Cuddles]

1 hour ago, jemanson said:

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to this, but ... What on earth is the blurry object in the photo on the left?

It's an ice cream.

[benjii]

It's a good job the play offs have expanded with the likes of Blackburn making statement signings.

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

It's a good job the play offs have expanded with the likes of Blackburn making statement signings.

But are Blackburn making these signings? MLG says there's no link with Stewart (and he's often right) and I can't see anything on their website to say they are taking big names or Stewart or Scienza for that matter. In fact, Scienza has only said he's 'open to possibilities' = so he's possibly staying with us.

Ramsdale to Brighton? Just a guess given they're selling Rushworth.  

[BARCELONASAINT]

8 minutes ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

But are Blackburn making these signings? MLG says there's no link with Stewart (and he's often right) and I can't see anything on their website to say they are taking big names or Stewart or Scienza for that matter. In fact, Scienza has only said he's 'open to possibilities' = so he's possibly staying with us.

Ramsdale to Brighton? Just a guess given they're selling Rushworth.  

Ignored the childish banter, it's the school summer holidays. Blackburn have not signed Stewart and they are not hoovering up any other players Saints would want

 

[St Chalet]

Ross Stewart was reportedly on £20k per week with us. Appreciate he also cost us £9m to sign.

I'd imagine at his age he's looking for a 2-3 year deal.

[Matthew Le God]

 

[hypochondriac]

2 minutes ago, St Chalet said:

Ross Stewart was reportedly on £20k per week with us. Appreciate he also cost us £9m to sign.

I'd imagine at his age he's looking for a 2-3 year deal.

You'd have to be absolutely mental to give someone with his injury record a three year contract. Maybe that's why no one has signed him.

[Saint_lambden]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

You'd have to be absolutely mental to give someone with his injury record a three year contract. Maybe that's why no one has signed him.

It was the main sticking point why he didn’t sign the contract on the table. We only wanted a 1 year deal, him 2 with an option of a third. 

[Ex Lion Tamer]

12 minutes ago, Saint_lambden said:

It was the main sticking point why he didn’t sign the contract on the table. We only wanted a 1 year deal, him 2 with an option of a third. 

I don't think 2 years is unrealistic to be fair, depending on the salary

[MarkSFC]

I hope we move on from Stewart for good. He may well prove valuable elsewhere but he cant be relied upon and it seems cant give us 90 minutes regularly or even for one game. And I do not think he is PL standard really. 

I hope we go for a tall fast player more than capable for this league but with potential for when ee go up. No idea who but not Stewart.

[Chez]

8 hours ago, Suhari said:

I still think he could be an asset for us. When he first joined he was throwing in some delicious crosses for our midget-forward. Big Kyle would have thrived on them.

Now admittedly he made some simply woeful defensive mistakes....and a fair few of them. We're a stronger, more settled and confident unit now though, so perhaps that can be cut out?

Guessing he would want to be first choice though, and presumably we want the $$.

 

He might be useful,  but he showed he ain't good enough for the PL. His touch was shit, his decision making poor, pass selection crap and he was error prone. We have Bree, who has shown he is decent at this level, so let's sell Sugawara while there is still interest in him and then try again to find someone that might cut it at PL level at some point.

[Chez]

double post

Edited Wednesday at 19:23 by Chez

[Pwoite]

So, with the majority of the pre season matches now behind us, what have we potentially learnt from team selection?

Clearly, it has confirmed that we have two keepers surplus to requirements, but we knew that already.

Charles hasn’t been played, so potentially his departure is close and we don’t want him injured. Edozie might be in a similar position, as he wasn’t seen today, but there again, neither was Fellows.

BBB and Archer, and possibly Downs and Quarshie, have been tested, I suspect, with a view to deciding whether we look to twist or stick on them. Could we sell and do better, at what net cost? Sugawara will be added to this group.

I suspect that every player has a price on his head, and if an offer matches it, we will sell. Of course, some of those prices will be high, whereas others will be giveaway rates. Looking at the team Will Still selected for our opening match last season, it looks stronger than what we have available, but we know how that turned out. From that eleven we jettisoned a former Championship top scorer, a former Scottish international, part of England’s U21 winning squad, a Republic of Ireland and a Japanese international by January, and went from strength to strength.

[VectisSaint]

17 minutes ago, Pwoite said:

So, with the majority of the pre season matches now behind us, what have we potentially learnt from team selection?

Clearly, it has confirmed that we have two keepers surplus to requirements, but we knew that already.

Charles hasn’t been played, so potentially his departure is close and we don’t want him injured. Edozie might be in a similar position, as he wasn’t seen today, but there again, neither was Fellows.

BBB and Archer, and possibly Downs and Quarshie, have been tested, I suspect, with a view to deciding whether we look to twist or stick on them. Could we sell and do better, at what net cost? Sugawara will be added to this group.

I suspect that every player has a price on his head, and if an offer matches it, we will sell. Of course, some of those prices will be high, whereas others will be giveaway rates. Looking at the team Will Still selected for our opening match last season, it looks stronger than what we have available, but we know how that turned out. From that eleven we jettisoned a former Championship top scorer, a former Scottish international, part of England’s U21 winning squad, a Republic of Ireland and a Japanese international by January, and went from strength to strength.

Charles played in Brauschweig (2nd half).

[EBS1980]

Goztepe seem to be doing well at buying forwards cheap and selling on for good profits 🙄

[West end Saints]

2 hours ago, Pwoite said:

Looking at the team Will Still selected for our opening match last season, it looks stronger than what we have available,

Bazunu v Peretz?

Edwards v THB?

Sugawara v Bree?

Fraser v Scienza?

Robinson v Azaz?

Armstrong v Larin?

Plus Fellows, Jander, Roerslav, Dobbin

We are much better off 

 

 

 

[Saint86]

18 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

Bazunu v Peretz?

Edwards v THB?

Sugawara v Bree?

Fraser v Scienza?

Robinson v Azaz?

Armstrong v Larin?

Plus Fellows, Jander, Roerslav, Dobbin

We are much better off 

 

 

 

The only question is, will it be Still vs Lallana.

[Pilchards]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

The only question is, will it be Still vs Lallana.

Plus the Championship is much stronger this year so yes it’s important we are stronger.

Its so important we hit this running from the off as that -4 start is certainly a burden if we do our usual slow start every season.

 

[Challenger]

5 hours ago, Pilchards said:

Plus the Championship is much stronger this year so yes it’s important we are stronger.

Its so important we hit this running from the off as that -4 start is certainly a burden if we do our usual slow start every season.

 

With the predicted departures and no real indication of arrivals, it's not looking ( at the moment ) that we are going to be stronger.

[hypochondriac]

10 minutes ago, Challenger said:

With the predicted departures and no real indication of arrivals, it's not looking ( at the moment ) that we are going to be stronger.

Eh? Are you suggesting we will sell first team starters without replacing them? Why would you think that?

[Suhari]

34 minutes ago, Challenger said:

With the predicted departures and no real indication of arrivals, it's not looking ( at the moment ) that we are going to be stronger.

They'd need to be a bunch of departures and some very shitty signings for us to pick a weaker starting 11 than first game last season.

[Marsdinho]

1 hour ago, Challenger said:

With the predicted departures and no real indication of arrivals, it's not looking ( at the moment ) that we are going to be stronger.

You know what will happen, a few will leave and we will replace them with some randoms no one has ever heard of. Some of those randoms will be a hit, 1-2 may be shite. Its what we do.

[Ekelund24]

16 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

Give it 20 years and he will be telling aspiring chefs to fuck off

[Lighthouse]

4 minutes ago, Marsdinho said:

You know what will happen, a few will leave and we will replace them with some randoms no one has ever heard of. Some of those randoms will be a hit, 1-2 may be shite. Its what we do.

It’s what every football club in the country does.

[Marsdinho]

12 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

It’s what every football club in the country does.

I would hazard a guess that most teams in the prem (especially the top 6) will be signing players that people have previously heard of. We will be shopping in a different market.

[Pilchards]

2 hours ago, Challenger said:

With the predicted departures and no real indication of arrivals, it's not looking ( at the moment ) that we are going to be stronger.

I can’t say any of our last 6 signings have made the squad weaker.

I personally think our transfer network has been shit hot since Downs and I can’t see it changing.

 

[Lighthouse]

36 minutes ago, Marsdinho said:

I would hazard a guess that most teams in the prem (especially the top 6) will be signing players that people have previously heard of. We will be shopping in a different market.

What are your thoughts on Alex Jimenez and Alvaro Rodriguez?

[Turkish]

Tall Paul to Fulham 😂😂

https://turkish-football.com/fulham-close-to-25m-deal-for-trabzonspor-striker-paul-onuachu/

[Saint86]

9 hours ago, Pilchards said:

Plus the Championship is much stronger this year so yes it’s important we are stronger.

Its so important we hit this running from the off as that -4 start is certainly a burden if we do our usual slow start every season.

 

I agree. We need to clear that and get in the running asap. I wonder if (after the mindset of last season's incredible run / chase) the players will pick up where they left off and be fully focussed on chasing down the teams above them - business as usual for them now?

[ally_uk]

Shift Archer, Diaz and possibly Downs.

Larin,

Salech and Ballard in 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by ally_uk

[Pilchards]

4 minutes ago, ally_uk said:

Shift Archer, Diaz and possibly Downs.

Larin,

Salech and Ballard in 

 

Not sure on shifting Downs personally.

i watched a 6 minutes YouTube clip where they are training in Germany.

He looks clinical and could be a surprise for some of us.

If Eckert wants him out then I will trust his judgement better than anyone else’s.

[revolution saint]

2 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

Not sure on shifting Downs personally.

i watched a 6 minutes YouTube clip where they are training in Germany.

He looks clinical and could be a surprise for some of us.

If Eckert wants him out then I will trust his judgement better than anyone else’s.

We certainly won't be selling Downs for anywhere near what we paid for him so another loan would be more likely anyway.  It's all well and good impressing in training and friendlies but that's a world away from real competitive games so at the moment I would say he's got an opportunity to prove he's worthy of a squad place.  Even that might be a stretch if we can't shift Archer or BBD.

Hopefully he comes good but he was so far out of his depth last season that it feels unlikely.

[BARCELONASAINT]

I have been told that we should only expect 2 major signings and they are both dependant on Stewart either resigning for us or not (currently our offer is the best on his table!) and Shea Charles moving, which is highly likely. So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker. Dobbin is definately NOT a Stewart replacement, he will be a RW and AZAZ relief replacement.

At this current time they are not expecting to lose any other major first team players.

[Marsdinho]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

What are your thoughts on Alex Jimenez and Alvaro Rodriguez?

Don't really have any, good luck to them with their careers I guess. 

[hypochondriac]

6 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I have been told that we should only expect 2 major signings and they are both dependant on Stewart either resigning for us or not (currently our offer is the best on his table!) and Shea Charles moving, which is highly likely. So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker. Dobbin is definately NOT a Stewart replacement, he will be a RW and AZAZ relief replacement.

At this current time they are not expecting to lose any other major first team players.

No idea what your source is but that would be absolutely incredible. Wonder if archer will go.

[Chez]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Tall Paul to Fulham 😂😂

https://turkish-football.com/fulham-close-to-25m-deal-for-trabzonspor-striker-paul-onuachu/

They must have some sort of April Fools Day in July in Turkey.

[Chez]

33 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker.

Not sure there have been too many central midfielders discussed on here other than Dan Neil. Any ideas?

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, Pilchards said:

Not sure on shifting Downs personally.

i watched a 6 minutes YouTube clip where they are training in Germany.

He looks clinical and could be a surprise for some of us.

If Eckert wants him out then I will trust his judgement better than anyone else’s.

They aren't likely to show him looking shit in training in a video on Youtube. He may have had 100 shots on the Germany trip training sessions and they just put the 2 he scored in the video! 😉 

[Turkish]

46 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I have been told that we should only expect 2 major signings and they are both dependant on Stewart either resigning for us or not (currently our offer is the best on his table!) and Shea Charles moving, which is highly likely. So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker. Dobbin is definately NOT a Stewart replacement, he will be a RW and AZAZ relief replacement.

At this current time they are not expecting to lose any other major first team players.

interesting as most of us assumed we’d have 2-3 big name departures lost likely Charles, THB and one of Jander or Scienza. Scienzas comments didn’t exactly suggest he was desperate to stay or leave by my issue is with him that at 28 convincing him to give it one more season might be a tough ask then doing that with Jander. Still think a lower half premier league club might come in for THB later in the window 

[bpsaint]

49 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I have been told that we should only expect 2 major signings and they are both dependant on Stewart either resigning for us or not (currently our offer is the best on his table!) and Shea Charles moving, which is highly likely. So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker. Dobbin is definately NOT a Stewart replacement, he will be a RW and AZAZ relief replacement.

At this current time they are not expecting to lose any other major first team players.

I have to say, if that’s true then Stewart can get fucked and we should pull the offer. He rejected an extension, has had no pre season, and now he’s got our offer (which is his best one so far) and he’s still mulling it over incase something else comes up? No thanks, he’s made his bed let him lie in it.

[BARCELONASAINT]

1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

I have to say, if that’s true then Stewart can get fucked and we should pull the offer. He rejected an extension, has had no pre season, and now he’s got our offer (which is his best one so far) and he’s still mulling it over incase something else comes up? No thanks, he’s made his bed let him lie in it.

to be honest that was my exact same reaction

[BARCELONASAINT]

16 minutes ago, Chez said:

Not sure there have been too many central midfielders discussed on here other than Dan Neil. Any ideas?

unfortunately not, but i wouldn't expect such details to be given to be honest

[hypochondriac]

58 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I have been told that we should only expect 2 major signings and they are both dependant on Stewart either resigning for us or not (currently our offer is the best on his table!) and Shea Charles moving, which is highly likely. So a replacement midfielder and potentially a new striker. Dobbin is definately NOT a Stewart replacement, he will be a RW and AZAZ relief replacement.

At this current time they are not expecting to lose any other major first team players.

I know this is far from confirmation, but if what you say came to pass and we had 

Peretz 

Bree Stephens THB Manning 

Downes/bragg Jander/new cm 

Fellows Azaz/Dobbin Scienza 

Larin/Stewart 

With maybe the likes of Downs,  Archer, Roeslev, Quarahie, wood, Edozie in reserve I would probably put some money on us for automatic promotion even with a points deduction. Obviously just speculation at the moment but that would be a stronger team than last year even without Charles. I still think THB goes because Blackmore yesterday seemed quite sure.