Matthew Le God

I doubt it. I think the club would know that wouldn’t happen. Shifting the players you really dont want normally comes at the end of the window as buying clubs work through their options and/or hope for a bargain price.

SaintsExtra isn't making it up, he does not make things up he just collects stories and circulates them. He is reporting what journalists like David Ornstein of The Athletic have said.

Not literally

The alert scared me so much I knocked over my disposable barbecue into a box of fireworks, and it burned down my shed. Is that what they wanted?

X has a large number of reliable sources on it (plus lots of unreliable ones). SaintsExtra isn't writing or making up the stories; he is reporting what others have said. A story being on X or circulated by SaintsExtra doesn't make it bullshit. Look at each on its own merits! He generally uses established media outlets and journalists rather than complete randoms on X.

This is a transfer news thread and that was transfer news. We didn't know it before the press conference.

We do the same at academy level to clubs below us in the football 'food chain'.

Eckert confirmed in the press conference there is a January recall clause for Nick Oyekunle in his loan to Leyton Orient.

Saints mentioned as expressing an interest in him in this article... https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers/wolves-working-on-deal-for-new-midfielder-8919822

We'd probably need to shift on transfer/loans all of Downs, Brereton Díaz and Archer for another striker to come in.

To Bournemouth?

He also didn't rule out another striker

How many games have they seen him play?

Why is that clear? Signing players like Jander and Scienza shows the current recruitment team is capable of spotting good players (even if they have mistakes like Downs).

That would give us a lot more money than Coventry used to get up

Point being... they did it without parachute payments

Because teams without parachute payments never get promoted?

"Juan Larios will leave Southampton this summer. The possibility that the promising 22-year-old left-back leaves without a transfer fee is accelerating some of the operations of the teams interested in signing him. His future could be resolved in the coming days."

Not if the rumour is made up! The rumour is for less than Saints paid for him. What is the incentive for Saints to agree to that? Hard to take such a rumour seriously and that journalist has a track record of bullshit!