Summer Transfer Window 2026

[Badger]

Update on the Ratkov situation:

https://onefootball.com/en/news/lotito-to-want-ratkov-to-start-as-gattuso-pushes-back-43313334
 

In short - manager doesn’t want him. Owner wants to keep faith in the player.

Hope we’re not hanging on for this one. We love a summer soap opera at Saints don’t we ? Last year Spertsynation Street, now this. 

[Miltonaggro]

6 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Would go completely against Solak's words though.

But at least we would then know that a few million profit on a 24 year old England international is enough to make him 'fall out of bed'...

[ChrisPY]

21 minutes ago, Badger said:

Update on the Ratkov situation:

https://onefootball.com/en/news/lotito-to-want-ratkov-to-start-as-gattuso-pushes-back-43313334
 

In short - manager doesn’t want him. Owner wants to keep faith in the player.

Hope we’re not hanging on for this one. We love a summer soap opera at Saints don’t we ? Last year Spertsynation Street, now this. 

Laziome and Away?

[Hamilton Saint]

6 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

There's no guarantee that if I throw an apple in the air in my kitchen that it will fall to the ground but given that that has happened every other time you'd be a bit of a fool if you said you weren't sure that it would happen the next time.

You've been reading David Hume, haven't you. The Scottish philosopher called this kind of thinking "inductive reasoning"--as opposed to its opposite, "deductive reasoning". I knew my Philosophy degree would come in handy some day!

[hypochondriac]

8 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

You've been reading David Hume, haven't you. The Scottish philosopher called this kind of thinking "inductive reasoning"--as opposed to its opposite, "deductive reasoning". I knew my Philosophy degree would come in handy some day!

Quite — but Hume doesn’t mean we should treat every possible outcome as equally likely. There’s a difference between “not certain” and “no reasonable basis for prediction”.

The best mention of Hume is in the philosopher song.

[goodymatt]

 

[Lard]

I’ll be honest I’ve just reached 60, I can’t be arsed with this anymore 
lost my dad in January both of us sitting in the Itchen together. Christ we loved it at the Dell. 
watching Arsenal right now,a club like ours is not going to compete even if we were promoted. 
we can’t even compete in this league by the looks of it. 
oh fuck off….im that age and you fucking nippers are all doom and gloom. 
we are Southampton. …grow a pair you fucking twats. 
ok we will lose THB…its a blow. 
but fuck me. 
It’s not the end of the world. 

[goodymatt]

THB replacement?

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

THB replacement?

Left footed not right footed so seems unlikely to me but you never know.

[Willo of Whiteley]

6 minutes ago, Lard said:

I’ll be honest I’ve just reached 60, I can’t be arsed with this anymore 
lost my dad in January both of us sitting in the Itchen together. Christ we loved it at the Dell. 
watching Arsenal right now,a club like ours is not going to compete even if we were promoted. 
we can’t even compete in this league by the looks of it. 
oh fuck off….im that age and you fucking nippers are all doom and gloom. 
we are Southampton. …grow a pair you fucking twats. 
ok we will lose THB…its a blow. 
but fuck me. 
It’s not the end of the world. 

Hit the nail on the head there.

I’ve said before too there is more to life than some overpaid halfwits kicking a ball about.

Great post 👏🏻

[Saint_lambden]

17 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

Ah, there's the bi-monthly story to the German media from his agent. 

[Toadhall Saint]

27 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

And they can all fook off! Maybe BM could afford him. 

[StrangelyBrown]

If you have good players other teams will want them.

What's our choice? Try and strongarm a player into staying (with what I'm not sure??) or cash in for a decent amount and rebuild? 

THB is good, but he isn't that good. Jander is very good, but he isn't so good we couldn't replace him with another good player.

Whether we're in the championship or the premier League we'll always have the same problem - we're just not big enough or good enough to keep our very best players.

It is what it is and hopefully spors has a trick up his sleeve.

[MarkSFC]

For all the annoyance we always face with losing players and bids and rumours for your players, we do the same. This is football. 

Players will always move and continue to move up until the window shuts, we just have to pray the net business is positive at that moment. 

[woodsaint1]

We'll know tomorrow how close any THB deal is. Could see him not starting.

Seen that Rangers were in talks to sell their striker Chermiti and then he played and did his ACL. Out for the season 😬

[Toussaint]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Hit the nail on the head there.

I’ve said before too there is more to life than some overpaid halfwits kicking a ball about.

Great post 👏🏻

And yet you post constantly 

[Tommy Mulgrew]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Left footed not right footed so seems unlikely to me but you never know.

Or … Long-term replacement for Gentleman Jack.  The sort of forward planning we can all support.  Perhaps.  At 6’5”, he is a commanding presence; I hope he is more mobile than Vestergaard - should not be too much to ask for.
 

 

 

[revolution saint]

31 minutes ago, StrangelyBrown said:

If you have good players other teams will want them.

What's our choice? Try and strongarm a player into staying (with what I'm not sure??) or cash in for a decent amount and rebuild? 

THB is good, but he isn't that good. Jander is very good, but he isn't so good we couldn't replace him with another good player.

Whether we're in the championship or the premier League we'll always have the same problem - we're just not big enough or good enough to keep our very best players.

It is what it is and hopefully spors has a trick up his sleeve.

Largely agree, it’s a pain in the arse but not unexpected. Trick is to only lose those players where the deal makes sense for both the club and the player. The length of both Charles and THB contracts means we’ll maximise profit and hopefully reinvest it. Jander and Scienza will need fuck off bids. Can’t lose all your best players in one window as that destroys any continuity