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Had a very interesting chat with an un-named member of Saints staff (no not who you're thinking). Below is a list of players, Saints either moved for or was knocked back by the player or club. when in LG1 & Champ Some we already knew, some we didnt.

 

Rhys Williams

Dale Stephens

Scott Arfield

Gary Hooper

Dedryck Boyata

Albert Adomah

Stephen Gleeson

Sam Baldock

Sam Sodje

 

Might be of interest to some.

 

Also, we are pushing to sign AOC younger brother Christian from the Skates and also Fulham some 16 year old in their ranks called Emerson Hyndman.

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Had a very interesting chat with an un-named member of Saints staff (no not who you're thinking). Below is a list of players, Saints either moved for or was knocked [/i]back by the player or club or we pulled out. These names refer to Champ & LG1, some we already knew, some we didnt.

 

Rhys Williams

Dale Stephens

Scott Arfield

Gary Hooper

Dedryck Boyata

Albert Adomah

Stephen Gleeson

Sam Baldock

Sam Sodje

 

Might be of interest to some.

 

Also, we are pushing to sign AOC younger brother Christian from the Skates and also Fulham have some 16 year old in their ranks called Emerson Hyndman who looks bloody good

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Had a very interesting chat with an un-named member of Saints staff (no not who you're thinking). Below is a list of players, Saints either moved for or was knocked [/i]back by the player or club or we pulled out. These names refer to Champ & LG1, some we already knew, some we didnt.

 

Rhys Williams

Dale Stephens

Scott Arfield

Gary Hooper

Dedryck Boyata

Albert Adomah

Stephen Gleeson

Sam Baldock

Sam Sodje

 

Might be of interest to some.

 

Also, we are pushing to sign AOC younger brother Christian from the Skates and also Fulham have some 16 year old in their ranks called Emerson Hyndman who looks bloody good

Thank goodness we never got sam sodje as he is terrible

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We wanted Adomah very strongly when he was at Barnet, we had 2 bids knocked back. We wouldn't pay the asking price, and Bristol City did. He was going to be the Antonio replacement, but we actually already had one in Chamberlain, so it all worked out in the end.

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Dale Stephens played for us in L1 did he not?

 

He did, on loan for a few months, played 5 times when Schneiderlin got injured and we had players walking a yellow card tightrope. I was looking it up the other day and was surprised to find that he played 90 minutes at Plymouth when we all but confirmed promotion and also played at home to Walsall in the last 2 matches of our L1 promotion season, as I thought he'd barely got a game.

 

I do remember Adkins picking Gobern ahead of him at Brighton and thought that was curtains for him, but turned out to be curtains for both of them. :)

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Also, Baldock and Gleeson were in the MK Dons side along with Puncheon (he was on loan there from Plymouth when we signed him) at the time and all played against us in the JPT or L1 season. Was Adomah at Bristol City, think he was one of the players we couldn't cope with when we lost to them twice in the same season? If Rhys Williams is the guy at Boro, I think he was just breaking through when we were going through the Championship so quite surprised at that one.

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If Rhys Williams is the guy at Boro, I think he was just breaking through when we were going through the Championship so quite surprised at that one.

I think he was the one that we made a bid for, or came very close to, and promptly suffered a hideous injury (broken leg maybe?)

 

I think it was the same transfer window that for some reason it became commonly accepted that Curtis Davies and Scott Dann were the second coming of Bruce and Pallister and if we didn't sign them we might as well just forfeit every game.

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Rhys Williams played for Boro in the Prem didn't he? My mate always raved about him but said he could never say fit.

 

I remember Nixon saying on Twitter that we were close to signing a CB last year, but it fell through because he broke his leg on the 30th August or something. We then signed Yoshi in a bit of a panic.

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Talking of players we were linked with, Jack Butland currently playing for Barnsley v Sheff Wed, hardly the answer to our goalkeeping problems she was billed as. Antonio, who we were assured by some was a future premier league star and absolutely brilliant playing for Wednesday and been awful.

 

Dale Jennings has just replaced the ineffective Jacob mellis too

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Talking of players we were linked with, Jack Butland currently playing for Barnsley v Sheff Wed, hardly the answer to our goalkeeping problems she was billed as. Antonio, who we were assured by some was a future premier league star and absolutely brilliant playing for Wednesday and been awful.

 

Dale Jennings has just replaced the ineffective Jacob mellis too

 

We should spend six million on Butland now now now he'll definitely be worth five times that in three years time. Definitely.

 

Oh sorry, we're not linked with him now? Oh. Okay. He's sh it.

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