Saint86

Its a complete joke that we let him go, one of the worst decisions i've seen from the club towards academy players recently - and I am fully aware we can't keep all of them, but we seem to not try with the potential superstars (Gomes, Miles, JJ, Dibling etc), and then let someone like Ballard (still a very talented and promising young lad that actually wanted to stay and should have had his chance) slip away as well... Who exactly are we intending to keep ffs. And it also sets a poor precendent for the next ones coming through - no need for loyalty lads - first big offer and you'll be off, saints are just here to get you in the window. Personally, it should be utterly unacceptable at saints to disrespect the academy the way SR have done in recent years, signing shit after shit to clog the first team and letting all these nippers go, when in seasons gone by they'd have been bedded into the team. It might be looking temporarily better now under Eckert and Spors... but even now we're losing gems from the younger age groups and still have a bloated squad blocking opportunities for players like Romeo. Needs to be a hard change in stance that every matchday squad includes a certain number of academy players.

Do we know how much we're getting for him at least? Really hope its towards £30M total (i.e., with add ons).

Fucks sake, sometimes is genuinely painful being a saints fan.

Well said MLG.

I would say this summer has gone pretty much as expected given his quotes tbh. That will change if the signings are poor though.

Circa £1M-1.25M (assuming 20-25% of profit)... Which would be paid in installments and subject to any sell on clauses. So we'd pocket nearly all of it at least, although i doubt we'll be free to reinvest more than 75%.

JWP also isn't carrying any baggage related to injuires. He's remained largely very fit and untroubled - so you would think he can go on for a fair while. If ever we were going to bring a player back to end his career at saints, JWP would seem the best option.

Isn't it just fiddling the sale so that they pay less sell on for Marmoush?

As much as a tie up with Valve / Steam could be good for the commercials - i sadly doubt there is anything other than coincidence in it for Saints.

As would Fernandes, KWP, Bednarek, and even AA in January. I actually think freshening up the squad isn't a bad thing in general - sides need that to change things up to move forward (or it gets too stale and comfortable). I wonder if Brentford fans were panicking every day of the transfer window whilst they player trading their way to consistent playoff finishes and building a new stadium in the 2nd tier? 🙄. We have an owner who is publicly committed to the club this summer, and a DoF who has credit in the bank... And at the start of the summer pretty much everyone would have acknowledged at least 2 bigger names being sold and replaced - So far we've only lost Charles and the signs suggest he will be replaced... The window hasn't slammed shut just yet!

Spors isn't Rasmus... But equally, significant harm has already been done.

Why do people care what other fans think of our fans? I thought we'd already acknowledged that everyone is going to abuse us as cheats this season and so we had moved swiftly on to circling the wagons and adopting a siege mentality 😅😆

Had forgotten what our fans can be like tbh. 1 defeat and we seem to be going straight back to digging out certain players and hyper focusing any negative facet of their games, social media posts on turning St Mary's toxic if we lose to stoke, and calls for the manger to be sacked. Utterly mental - think some people are forgetting just how bad the atmosphere was at St Mary's for multiple seasons - put spy gate to one side, and we've had a fantastic 2026 - all the fans need to stick behind the team and make sure we don't let go of the atmosphere last season created... We surely didn't stick with tonda just to throw everything in the bin after a poor 45min in the opening game 🤦‍♂️

Personally think it's a bit like moving house at the moment. We did get some good business done early, but now we need to sell players to get further additions (and the club have been open about the desire to shift a lot of players), and we are stuck waiting in the general malaise where other clubs need to make their moves to unjam the chain - still think we'll get 1-2 more players. It's easy to attach negativity to this, and fret about the impact of the -4points or potential Tonda sanction, but end of the day, players come here for a good pay cheque, to develop, and to have a shot at the premier league or get themselves a bigger move in a few years... Saints tick all those boxes comfortably for this division... And if we weren't attractive we wouldn't have signed Peretz (best keeper in the league), Larin, or dobbin. I recall as well that last summer had a similar feeling before we cleared house and then got in the quartet at the end of the window.