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Toadhall Saint

Toadhall Saint

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51 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

This is where Oriol Romeu was so good first time around. Not quick whatsoever but superb positional awareness and very comfortable on the half-turn. 

Read the game well.

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Danbert

Danbert

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2 minutes ago, Saint_lambden said:

Trying to sign Aster Vranckx - midfielder - from Wolfsburg. 

Would be a strange one, he's hardly played any football for three years

CSA96

CSA96

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3 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

A signing from the German 2nd division is ambitious? 😅

Wolfsburg only went down this summer and Vranx was out on loan in Serie A when it happened, so I assume he's one they can't afford to keep / sees himself at a higher level

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disconnect

disconnect

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11 minutes ago, Danbert said:

Would be a strange one, he's hardly played any football for three years

15 and 16 games in the past couple of seasons (in Serie A and the Bundesliga) so not sure whether that's because he's got Ross Stewart levels of fitness or just not fancied. Was very highly rated at one point and has 9 caps for Belgium so hopefully pretty good!!

DT

DT

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15 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

I had an inkling we'd be in for him. Squad filler, no more than that. 

You think? I reckon he could do a job for us. Nice bloke too.

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Saint NL

Saint NL

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1 minute ago, VectisSaint said:

TF for that, last thing we need is a Louza. We've had enough of them recently.

Let's just skip them and sign this fella

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jrobsbigshorts

jrobsbigshorts

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I've been so bored of all the " would you take JWP back " chat on here this summer cos I thought it was completely hypothetical, he'll never fucking come back I said !!!

I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again 

I'd love to see him back in a saints shirt ,for me a useful addition and if Jander stays we'll be just about ok but could still do with another box to box player ideally 

DT

DT

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18 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

Would give the whole club a massive boost if we can get Bazunu gone for good. A bag of crisps should cover the cost.

That's basically his wrists (like crisps) (on a good day).

Be great to get rid of Stephens too, as a freebie.

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Chez

Chez

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41 minutes ago, DT said:

You think? I reckon he could do a job for us. Nice bloke too.

At his best, he's a good player. As he's out of contract we can sign him after window closes too. I'm surprised he wasn't invited to attend preseason training, but maybe that wouldn't work. The medical will be interesting.

Is he a left or right sided player? I forget. I'm a little unsure what the pecking order is for left and right wing (and central position) and if we need three for each position. 

Left: Scienza, Dobbin, Edozie
Right: Fellows, Matsuki, Edozie
Centre: Azaz, Scienza, Dobin, Matsuki

Suhari

Suhari

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36 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

RIP Aster Vranckx linksxxx.

13:52 27/8/26 to 14:30 27/8/26.

#WeWillForget

The Skacel Antithesis.

Chez

Chez

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40 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

 

We appear to have blinked first.

Why are we paying them money? Is it so they can give it to him to cover the difference in wages this year? They are desperate to offload him.

Charlie Wayman

Charlie Wayman

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If our aim is to build a side that can stay in and compete in the PL should we win promotion, then the last thing we need is to waste our very limited resources on bringing back a 32 yo Ward Prowse for largely sentimental reasons.

He has no future value to the club, will be over the hill soon if not already and lacks the athleticism that will be essential in midfield to compete at the higher level and even at thios level. It's all very well pointing to his considerable experience in the PL and free kick record but more recently he has failed to cut the mustard at WHU, Notts F or Burnley. Why do people on here expect anything to be different if he re-joined Saints? It won't.

We don't need a geriatric passenger who happens to take free kicks well, we have one of those already. Worse still he will be blocking the progress of youngsters like Akachukwu and our youngsters is where our future must lie.

Signing JWP will be a munumental folly that we must not commit or will come to regret.

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Baird of the land

Baird of the land

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9 minutes ago, Chez said:

We appear to have blinked first.

Why are we paying them money? Is it so they can give it to him to cover the difference in wages this year? They are desperate to offload him.

Maybe Spors has bet money on West Ham getting promoted

AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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11 minutes ago, Chez said:

We appear to have blinked first.

Why are we paying them money? Is it so they can give it to him to cover the difference in wages this year? They are desperate to offload him.

Nuno clearly is not having him.

Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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6 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

If our aim is to build a side that can stay in and compete in the PL should we win promotion, then the last thing we need is to waste our very limited resources on bringing back a 32 yo Ward Prowse for largely sentimental reasons.

He has no future value to the club, will be over the hill soon if not already and lacks the athleticism that will be essential in midfield to compete at the higher level and even at thios level. It's all very well pointing to his considerable experience in the PL and free kick record but more recently he has failed to cut the mustard at WHU, Notts F or Burnley. Why do people on here expect anything to be different if he re-joined Saints? It won't.

We don't need a geriatric passenger who happens to take free kicks well, we have one of those already. Worse still he will be blocking the progress of youngsters like Akachukwu and our youngsters is where our future must lie.

Signing JWP will be a munumental folly that we must not commit or will come to regret.

I hear what you're saying but we need to get promoted first, then next Summer, with a few more pennies in our pocket, we could go again in our recruitment.

 

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VectisSaint

VectisSaint

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14 minutes ago, Chez said:

We appear to have blinked first.

Why are we paying them money? Is it so they can give it to him to cover the difference in wages this year? They are desperate to offload him.

Wouldn't they still owe us an instalment for his transfer 3 years ago? If so presumably this includes that being written off as well, mad if the case.

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goodymatt

goodymatt

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15 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

If our aim is to build a side that can stay in and compete in the PL should we win promotion, then the last thing we need is to waste our very limited resources on bringing back a 32 yo Ward Prowse for largely sentimental reasons.

He has no future value to the club, will be over the hill soon if not already and lacks the athleticism that will be essential in midfield to compete at the higher level and even at thios level. It's all very well pointing to his considerable experience in the PL and free kick record but more recently he has failed to cut the mustard at WHU, Notts F or Burnley. Why do people on here expect anything to be different if he re-joined Saints? It won't.

We don't need a geriatric passenger who happens to take free kicks well, we have one of those already. Worse still he will be blocking the progress of youngsters like Akachukwu and our youngsters is where our future must lie.

Signing JWP will be a munumental folly that we must not commit or will come to regret.

Under Moyes at WHU he did well, his time at Forest and WHU under Nuno has been a disaster, he just hasn’t wanted to use him. Thats how he ends up having to go on loan to Burnley. It’s hard to tell how good he actually is right now as Nuno has blocked a lot of his playing time due to personal reasons, rather than playing ones. That works both ways, he may have dropped off a cliff but running more than anyone on the pitch vs City suggests that’s unlikely.

He doesn’t owe us any sell on value, we got £30m for him, pure profit as an academy player and he’s being signed now for a nominal fee (less than £1m). The wages are going to be near the top of our squad, Azaz is on the same as he is reportedly on at WHU. He won’t be earning any more than the other key players.

Our young players can learn from him, we’ve seen in the season so far they are not ready to step in and be starters, so we’ve gone and got a proven PL player that should be more than capable at this level. I think he will do well for us this season. I’d have preferred to sign a Jordan James or similar but JWP is not a disaster signing as you imply.

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