Summer Transfer Window 2026

[newyork]

On 18/08/2026 at 21:14, goodymatt said:

 

after missing that sitter I wouldnt think many would be interested

[James]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Agreed. Just interesting to hear someone like Blackmore saying it. From memory he was a lot more relaxed last summer and seems to be a fair bit more worried this year. 

The league has two teams in it this year that are quite a bit stronger than last year. We do seem underpowered compared to West Ham, for example. Bowen, Castellanos and now Piroe is a serious strike force for the Championship so clearly they aren’t hanging around. 
 

Mubama has a lot of promise and has looked great in pre season but huge gamble to have him as the Stewart replacement.
 

I wonder whether we can’t really spend much this year, especially given we are trying to keep the team together until at least January. It does make spending £9-10m on Dobbin a bit perplexing. Looks a decent player but not someone we needed, certainly not ahead of a CM to replace Charles who it was clear was going. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Why do people think Blackmore has anymore insights than the rest of us? 

I find him always a little negative and it's crazy to write off Dobbin after one game.

[hypochondriac]

13 minutes ago, Chez said:

We bought Sugawara for £6m. He then showed he wasn't up to it and was farmed out on loan. I can't imagine we were asking Werder Bremen to pay the full £6m we had forked out and yet they still decided against it. We did bloody well to get players out the door last summer (god knows how much of their wages we were paying), but if we somehow now get £6m after all of that I'd be amazed. 

Apparently did well on loan last season and 3 Bundesliga clubs interested. May fetch us a decent amount.

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Why do people think Blackmore has anymore insights than the rest of us? 

I find him always a little negative and it's crazy to write off Dobbin after one game.

Because he speaks to people at the club all the time and clearly has conversations off the record? I've rarely heard him be overly negative to be honest. In fact, he got a fair amount of criticism last year during our poor form for giving Will Still an easy ride. No one has written Dobbin off after one game other than maybe cretins on twitter. Don't be ridiculous.

[EBS1980]

Jordan James gone to Wolves - good one for them.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Because he speaks to people at the club all the time and clearly has conversations off the record? I've rarely heard him be overly negative to be honest. In fact, he got a fair amount of criticism last year during our poor form for giving Will Still an easy ride. No one has written Dobbin off after one game other than maybe cretins on twitter. Don't be ridiculous.

Does he though? From the comments on here it's the impression I get.

You say no one has written off Dobbin. But plenty on the Dobbin thread questioning what was the point of buying him. Don't think I'm being ridiculous, more of a case it's been one game and he was played on the left instead of in the middle.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

5 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

Jordan James gone to Wolves - good one for them.

Damn, that's a good signing. Loan with option. Decent.

Edited 1 hour ago by JohnnyShearer2.0

[James]

4 minutes ago, EBS1980 said:

Jordan James gone to Wolves - good one for them.

Jealous of that, good signing and would have been a great one for us. Wolves and WHU are loaded this season. 

[Badger]

1 minute ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Damn, that's a good signing.

Were we even interested and in the running ? 

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Does he though? From the comments on here it's the impression I get.

You say no one has written off Dobbin. But plenty on the Dobbin thread questioning what was the point of buying him. Don't think I'm being ridiculous, more of a case it's been one game and he was played on the left instead of in the middle.

They are questioning if it was wise to spend 9 million pounds on an Azaz alternative where in the opinion of some people that money would be better spent elsewhere. That's not writing him off after one game and your characterisation of it as that is disingenuous at best. Yes clearly Adam Blackmore knows more about what is going on than the average fan. He talks to people at the club and or ally multiple times a week.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Just now, Badger said:

Were we even interested and in the running ? 

Don't know, just saying it's decent to get him in at this level on loan with the option to buy.

[James]

3 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Does he though? From the comments on here it's the impression I get.

You say no one has written off Dobbin. But plenty on the Dobbin thread questioning what was the point of buying him. Don't think I'm being ridiculous, more of a case it's been one game and he was played on the left instead of in the middle.

Isn’t the point about Dobbin slightly different though? Writing him off as not a good player for us is insane, it’s been one league game and he’s scored in pre season.

I think it is fair to ask whether the £9-10m we spent on him could have been used on a player in a more necessary position. We have players we can move around the front 3, we are very short in CM and arguably up front if Larin were to get injured.

[Badger]

11 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Because he speaks to people at the club all the time and clearly has conversations off the record? I've rarely heard him be overly negative to be honest. In fact, he got a fair amount of criticism last year during our poor form for giving Will Still an easy ride. No one has written Dobbin off after one game other than maybe cretins on twitter. Don't be ridiculous.

Yet the club made it known to him they weren’t happy that he questioned the appointment or described it as a big gamble when announced. 
 

Just goes to show the tightrope he’s walking, and damned if he does say something, and damned if he doesn’t.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

4 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

They are questioning if it was wise to spend 9 million pounds on an Azaz alternative where in the opinion of some people that money would be better spent elsewhere. That's not writing him off after one game and your characterisation of it as that is disingenuous at best. Yes clearly Adam Blackmore knows more about what is going on than the average fan. He talks to people at the club and or ally multiple times a week.

Disagree, it's a mixed bag of opinions. I'm not being disingenuous some are questioning the signing already which is their opinion. 

Is Blackmore anymore in the know than House? Who knows? Personally feel that Blackmore just sees the negative in Saints more than others.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

6 minutes ago, James said:

Isn’t the point about Dobbin slightly different though? Writing him off as not a good player for us is insane, it’s been one league game and he’s scored in pre season.

I think it is fair to ask whether the £9-10m we spent on him could have been used on a player in a more necessary position. We have players we can move around the front 3, we are very short in CM and arguably up front if Larin were to get injured.

Don't disagree.

[Harry_SFC]

The Feyenoord CB we've been linked with has supposedly joined Burnley pending a medical, according to the Dutch press.

Another to cross off the list.

Edited 1 hour ago by Harry_SFC

[Chez]

7 minutes ago, James said:

I think it is fair to ask whether the £9-10m we spent on him could have been used on a player in a more necessary position. We have players we can move around the front 3, we are very short in CM and arguably up front if Larin were to get injured.

We only had one player that could play in the AM position. That position was one of need before the window opened.

So was striker, and we have signed two.

CM wasn't an issue until Charles departed. CB wasn't and probably still isnt seen as a position that needs a new signing unless one departs. 

[James]

1 minute ago, Chez said:

We only had one player that could play in the AM position. That position was one of need before the window opened.

So was striker, and we have signed two.

CM wasn't an issue until Charles departed. CB wasn't and probably still isnt seen as a position that needs a new signing unless one departs. 

We didn’t just have one player who can play AM. Matsuki can and has played there for a start. 
 

We’ve stood still in terms of numbers in the striker position with Mubama a very inexperienced (albeit high potential) replacement for Stewart.

We’ve known Charles was going all summer so plenty of time to have a replacement signed up.

Agree on CB, bad game from Stephens but he will be OK.

Any other season I’d be pretty relaxed but we need to win 2 games to even break into positive points, we need a fast start and could yet lose our manager to a ban. We are in a league with two extremely strong teams and really need to go back up this season to avoid, IMHO, a Stoke or Swansea style extended stay in this league. 

[hypochondriac]

22 minutes ago, James said:

Isn’t the point about Dobbin slightly different though? Writing him off as not a good player for us is insane, it’s been one league game and he’s scored in pre season.

I think it is fair to ask whether the £9-10m we spent on him could have been used on a player in a more necessary position. We have players we can move around the front 3, we are very short in CM and arguably up front if Larin were to get injured.

Yes that's the point. It's not just about an individual player, it's about the strength of the squad and the starting 11 as a whole.

[LaptopSaint]

1 hour ago, SNSUN said:

Probably rightly so, we have West Ham coming in all guns blazing, Wolves will be up there again and Burnley will still threaten. On top of that Boro have gone about their transfer business very well and the other usual suspects are stronger. We don't have a bad team but we have only really signed Dobbin and Mubaba to last season's squad and lost Shea and Stewart. We're almost standing still by other team's standards. I still expect a flurry of activity late on in the window though, there's only so long we can go with 3 CMs anyway for a start. 

‘Almost standing still’ after being the best team in the league for the second half of last season isn’t the worst place to be. We could easily have had a fucking fire sale after the spygate fiasco. Yet here we are with Peretz and Larin signed up and plenty of time to bring in others. Let it play out. 

[hypochondriac]

17 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Disagree, it's a mixed bag of opinions. I'm not being disingenuous some are questioning the signing already which is their opinion. 

Is Blackmore anymore in the know than House? Who knows? Personally feel that Blackmore just sees the negative in Saints more than others.

Questioning a signing isn't writing someone off after one game. It's probable that Alfie and Adam know a similar amount (particularly given that they occasionally share lifts to and from games.) I don't agree that he is negative usually, it's why for me his latest opinion pieces are a bit more concerning than usual.

[hypochondriac]

17 minutes ago, Chez said:

We only had one player that could play in the AM position. That position was one of need before the window opened.

So was striker, and we have signed two.

CM wasn't an issue until Charles departed. CB wasn't and probably still isnt seen as a position that needs a new signing unless one departs. 

Signing an AM is a smart idea. It's the spending 9 million on him that I question if we are as broke as some are suggesting.

[hypochondriac]

Sounds like the promising cb is going to Burnley. Shame but really he was only coming here if THB was imminently on his way out. Expect THB will go at any rate but hopefully we have someone else promising lined up (not a youngster please).

[Chez]

9 minutes ago, James said:

We didn’t just have one player who can play AM. Matsuki can and has played there for a start. 
 

We’ve stood still in terms of numbers in the striker position with Mubama a very inexperienced (albeit high potential) replacement for Stewart.

We’ve known Charles was going all summer so plenty of time to have a replacement signed up.

Agree on CB, bad game from Stephens but he will be OK.

Any other season I’d be pretty relaxed but we need to win 2 games to even break into positive points, we need a fast start and could yet lose our manager to a ban. We are in a league with two extremely strong teams and really need to go back up this season to avoid, IMHO, a Stoke or Swansea style extended stay in this league. 

I don't think Matsuki can play there. I think we needed an AM. I'm glad we added strength there. I dont know if Dobbin is the right guy. Hope so.

 

[James]

5 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Sounds like the promising cb is going to Burnley. Shame but really he was only coming here if THB was imminently on his way out. Expect THB will go at any rate but hopefully we have someone else promising lined up (not a youngster please).

I am reasonably confident THB is going to stay. 

[hypochondriac]

Ffs. Fix the site.

Edited 59 minutes ago by hypochondriac

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, James said:

I am reasonably confident THB is going to stay. 

Based on? Would be big if he did.

[hypochondriac]

23 minutes ago, James said:

We didn’t just have one player who can play AM. Matsuki can and has played there for a start. 
 

We’ve stood still in terms of numbers in the striker position with Mubama a very inexperienced (albeit high potential) replacement for Stewart.

We’ve known Charles was going all summer so plenty of time to have a replacement signed up.

Agree on CB, bad game from Stephens but he will be OK.

Any other season I’d be pretty relaxed but we need to win 2 games to even break into positive points, we need a fast start and could yet lose our manager to a ban. We are in a league with two extremely strong teams and really need to go back up this season to avoid, IMHO, a Stoke or Swansea style extended stay in this league. 

Isn't it likely with the Charles replacement that we are waiting for the best option possible and that takes time?

[James]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

Based on? Would be big if he did.

No inside information, I just can’t see a team that is going to spend £30m on him (if that’s indeed what we are asking). I can’t see us selling him to West Ham, even if they did put up the cash. That would be a pretty bad look amongst fans given Solak’s comments after the Spygate debacle about having a team gunning for autos.

[hypochondriac]

Just now, James said:

No inside information, I just can’t see a team that is going to spend £30m on him (if that’s indeed what we are asking). I can’t see us selling him to West Ham, even if they did put up the cash. That would be a pretty bad look amongst fans given Solak’s comments after the Spygate debacle about having a team gunning for autos.

I could easily see him at Palace or Fulham or Burnley or Brighton. A mid table prem team like that. I'd be amazed if we sold him to West ham given the signals that would send out.

[James]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

I could easily see him at Palace or Fulham or Burnley or Brighton. A mid table prem team like that. I'd be amazed if we sold him to West ham given the signals that would send out.

Think you can scratch Burnley off that list. Brighton have already spent big on a CB this summer so think they are unlikely. Palace would be a good fit team wise but they have barely spent any cash this summer, doubt they suddenly drop £30m on a CB from the Championship. Fulham I guess possible. 

[Saint86]

Sounds like Anel won't be happening then, seems Burnley have got in ahead of us.

[HarvSFC]

A few red flags regarding Ahmedhodzic, while he was undoubtedly good for Sheffield United in the Championship, he was very poor in the Premier League when they got 16 points (https://www.s24su.com/forum/threads/anel-ahmedhodzic.92929/page-9). I know THB was hardly class in the Premier League, but he's a bit younger and you can lay some blame on the managers we had and the tactics. So, if we did replace THB with him, got promoted, we'd probably still need two centre-backs to be secure in the Premier League next summer.

Also, hardly been a success in Holland, in a considerably easier league. Feyenoord are pretty much giving him away after one year. I know they did the same with Larin, but different positions and does lightning strike twice?

Not too disappointed to not bring him in. Just need to keep hold of THB.

[EBS1980]

10 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Sounds like Anel won't be happening then, seems Burnley have got in ahead of us.

I wonder if we were only sounding him out as a THB replacement and never as an addition?

i also think the slowness to trim the squad and bring in cash (outside of Charles) is now holding us back. Charles fee maybe covered the shortfall bit then other sales to be our spending money and with Ramsdale, Suga, Downs, BBD, Sam etc all still here then we are in a position of having to wait to sell now before buying.

[manji]

1 hour ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Why do people think Blackmore has anymore insights than the rest of us? 

I find him always a little negative and it's crazy to write off Dobbin after one game.

He’s gone into clickbait mode. Attempting to be controversial. Loved it when Tonda took this piss after A.B. opened the news conference.

[hypochondriac]

44 minutes ago, James said:

Think you can scratch Burnley off that list. Brighton have already spent big on a CB this summer so think they are unlikely. Palace would be a good fit team wise but they have barely spent any cash this summer, doubt they suddenly drop £30m on a CB from the Championship. Fulham I guess possible. 

Meant Brentford.