revolution saint

So this thread is LAST player to be excited about? Or simply an excuse to list the best player you were excited about? I'm not sure I'd carry on supporting Saints if the last signing I was genuinely excited about was decades ago. Anyway, BBD for me at the moment and I'm hoping the next one, whoever it is, is even better. I particularly like the foreign links to players I've never heard of and never seen play. In the absence of prior knowledge you can build them up into unknown gems that will set the world on fire. Course it hardly ever works out like that but it's a harmless pleasure.

That was my first thought too. Could be coincidence but since Charles got linked with a loan move we seem to have been linked with a few DMs - Skipp, Sheaf and mandela Keita.

I've watched the first Sunderland season, the Wrexham one and the Burnley one. Burnley was by far the worst one - seemed to concentrate on the owners far too much and almost felt like a vanity project for them. That was my impression anyway.

Dunno, it's not a situation that has occurred before.

Has anyone mentioned we turned down the chance to get Drogba as he was deemed too similar to Beattie? TBH most of the nearly transfers were probably pretty tenuous and unless we got to the stage where we made a bid then they're pretty irrelevant and you could replace Saints with any other similar placed club at the time.

It’ll be interesting to see how valuations change over the window. Leeds have bid 7m for Jonathan Rowe which won’t be accepted but indicates there might be a correction in prices this summer. No one has come close to Sunderland’s 25M valuation of Jack Clarke either.

Chelsea Flower Show?

I saw a video last night where Marc Guiu was saying that he didn't know if he would go immediately out on loan so I'm pretty sure he could be loaned out if that's what they wanted to do. Edit: here's a link about it: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-marc-guiu-loan-transfer-33395303

Would you put it above a striker, a goalkeeper, a box to box midfielder capable of scoring goals? I don't think anyone would mind getting another option for defensive midfield but it's not as high on the list of priorities as you would seem to put it. Ideal world we loan out Charles and get someone like Skipp in.

As long as it leaves us some cash to spend on players for Goztepe then I'd be happy with that.

Yeah, would be good if we could. So far the only indications about loans have been right wingers who would be squad options rather than first team starters.

Not so sure, we've been linked with loan moves for Rak-Sakyi and the Brighton lad. I know they're unlikely now but I think that could give an indication of what we're looking for in the loan market and it ain't exactly stealing a march on the rest of the league.

Who knows? To be honest I don't really look at the figures of supposed bids - they're probably way off and the things are complicated by so many clauses, percentage up front etc etc. I doubt actual specific details get leaked anyway so about the only thing I take away is that we probably have made a bid. You'd like to think that things wouldn't progress to an actual bid unless the purchasing club figured they could get in the same ballpark.

27M is their starting position and they'll come down from that (can't see anyone else meeting that valuation). My guess is he'll probably go for around 22 - 24M which is probably about right for the current market and it's not much more than we paid for Sulemana. Whether he's worth that, or more importantly worth spending the bulk of our money on (if that ends up being the case) is another question.

Loan Charles to Celtic, get Skipp in on loan.

Carvalho played in an advanced midfield role for Fulham and Hull fairly often (not sure about Liverpool as I haven't seen him play for them). They're not the same type of player but can play in the same position.

Don't know anything about him but good stats in the Jupiler Pro Europe Play Offs - 7 goals in 10 games and two assists.

What on earth is a shadow striker? Sounds like something we should be shipping to Ukraine.

I didn't watch the game so it's hard for me to comment but there's a world of difference between pre-season friendlies and competitive games. Personally I wouldn't make any kind of judgement, good or bad, on the basis of a pre-season friendly.

Slightly adjacent to us but seems like Galatasary have had a 20M+ bid accepted for Gabriel Sara who some have thought could be a decent fallback if Matt O'Riley doesn't happen. Just goes to show how expensive even non-premier league players can be. My YouTube algorithm still chucks up a load of Leeds videos and they seem to be quite excited by the idea they could get Rak-Sakyi. As an antidote to this lull in the transfer window I'd recommend looking at Leeds videos of the play off final both previews and post match - they're quite funny with the benefit of hindsight.

Suspect she'll get tired of all the playing around at the back soon enough.

I thought the scouts had an age limit?

Ah, you're changing the goalposts now. First it was he didn't have that forward pass and now it's a combination of doesn't do it enough/told to play that way. Tell you what, you make up your mind which it is and I'll get back to you.

What, like the pass Smallbone made for Armstrong to score in the play off final? Front facing killer pass like that?

Yeah, don’t blame the club for signing him and can see why they did. He even looked decent in his first few games but for whatever reason it’s not happened and can’t see it ever working out now.