jamesd6 Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Just scrolling through news outlets and the like, seems it's gone a bit quiet. Can't tell if that's a good or bad thing anymore. Sent from my F8331 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simo Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 A whole 9 days left , Still calm and confident ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 A whole 9 days left , Still calm and confident ! If Promes falls through, we are going to have a right scramble on our hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza82 Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 If Promes falls through, we are going to have a right scramble on our hands.Lucas moura from psg on stand by [emoji6] Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danjosaint Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Late bid for Sisto then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 It's going to be a deadline day mosh pit. I can see it now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Any CB links or are we not doing that? I think Stephens is learning, Yoshi can be ok, but ultimately we could do with more. Hoedt looks very good, but you'd rather it wasn't all down to him in his first season in this league. We need another centre half, someone with a bit of physicality, Yoshida, Stephens and Hoedt get bullied too easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simo Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 We don't need any signings anyway, Shane Long was wheeled out to tell us so remember (then got Ill and left us with 1 senior striker)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 We need another centre half, someone with a bit of physicality, Yoshida, Stephens and Hoedt get bullied too easily. This. Ideally also dominant in the air. I like Stephens and Yoshida, but neither are great in the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 This. Ideally also dominant in the air. I like Stephens and Yoshida, but neither are great in the air. Yes err just a minor defect in CB's ? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALK DMC Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 This. Ideally also dominant in the air. I like Stephens and Yoshida, but neither are great in the air. Even though Hoedt is tall, I'm not convinced that he is great in the air either. I think he has potential but needs a dominant strong partner who can head the ball. All in all, we have three centre halfs and none of them are good headers of the ball. We have a very unbalanced team throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimatt Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Both Stephens and Hoedt would do well to learn from someone experienced beside them, as opposed to learning from each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally_uk Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Issa diop get it done or Julien at Toulouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint86 Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 So still no actual news? And the club just leaking outlandish targets through our PR lapdogs. If we have no concrete incomings by this weekend I will be getting seriously worried about this board. Either back the manager, or sack him and back the new one. This indecision is probably the worst thing we can be doing! Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsaint Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 Kenedy going on loan to Newcastle. Very good young winger who could have done a job for us. Lets hope we're not banking on a deal for Promes the way we did with Walcott. Can see it not happening and leaving us with nobody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 So still no actual news? And the club just leaking outlandish targets through our PR lapdogs. If we have no concrete incomings by this weekend I will be getting seriously worried about this board. Either back the manager, or sack him and back the new one. This indecision is probably the worst thing we can be doing! Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk On what evidence have you jumped to the conclusion they are being indecisive? For all you know, they know exactly what they want to do. Of course it would be great to have targets in on 1st January; but selling clubs, players and agents often want to wait to see what other interest can be generated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 On what evidence have you jumped to the conclusion they are being indecisive? For all you know, they know exactly what they want to do. Of course it would be great to have targets in on 1st January; but selling clubs, players and agents often want to wait to see what other interest can be generated. Something Southampton F.C haven't quite learnt yet when it comes to flogging our players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 22 January, 2018 Share Posted 22 January, 2018 On what evidence have you jumped to the conclusion they are being indecisive? For all you know, they know exactly what they want to do. Of course it would be great to have targets in on 1st January; but selling clubs, players and agents often want to wait to see what other interest can be generated. Deals can get done quick, you just have to throw money at it. If you try and penny pinch the negotiations are bound to drag on longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fan CaM Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Wonder what odds you’d get for Saints not signing a new player in this window? Pretty poor I would imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 23 days into a transfer window that has only seen departures.. come on Les, pull that cheque book out already. How long have we got to wait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Deals can get done quick, you just have to throw money at it. If you try and penny pinch the negotiations are bound to drag on longer. Penny pinching. AKA 'The Southampton Way' it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Still no news. Its all BS to silence the disgruntled masses. Going down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Still no news. Its all BS to silence the disgruntled masses. Going down.You seriously went to bed last night thinking "if we haven't signed anyone by 5am tomorrow morning, nothing's happening tomorrow either?" Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Carrillo is on Monaco's injured list. Whether he's actually injured or not I just couldn't say. Hamstring injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 You seriously went to bed last night thinking "if we haven't signed anyone by 5am tomorrow morning, nothing's happening tomorrow either?" Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk Keep grasping them there straws, fella... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 (edited) On what evidence have you jumped to the conclusion they are being indecisive? For all you know, they know exactly what they want to do. Of course it would be great to have targets in on 1st January; but selling clubs, players and agents often want to wait to see what other interest can be generated. You’re not following the forum rules. Dithering & being indecisive is actually not doing what you want them to do . Therefore being decisive by sticking by the manager, is actually being indecisive or dithering. Deciding what a players value is, what he’s worth & sticking decisively to that valuation and not overpaying, is again, indecisive. As is putting an offer into a player you want but the player or club rejecting it, that’s indecisive. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Edited 23 January, 2018 by Lord Duckhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Perrin Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 You seriously went to bed last night thinking "if we haven't signed anyone by 5am tomorrow morning, nothing's happening tomorrow either?" Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk It's not often I jump to Alpine's defence because I generally think he's a misguided twonk. However, as he's on Central European time, he's an hour ahead so there's less time to sign players in the day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 It's not often I jump to Alpine's defence because I generally think he's a misguided twonk. However, as he's on Central European time, he's an hour ahead so there's less time to sign players in the day.... I also have to get 4 kids up for school-start (0730)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 And we’re in the top 20richest clubs in the world. https://t.co/97fAOMHevE Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints foreva Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Pretty surprised we're yet to sign anyone considering how quickly we sold VvD. I think we'll get one in on deadline day and then the club's favoured journalists will give us the "it's a difficult window to deal in" articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Have we done that thing again where we try to sign players above our station and get turned down after lengthy negotiations? Fair enough if we do manage to get someone decent over the line but this has shades of last January at the moment. I really really hope we have some backup options and we don't leave it too late... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 2016-17 revenue in £m (v 2015-16 revenue) 1) Manchester United 581.2 (515.3) 2) Real Madrid 579.7 (463. 3) Barcelona 557.1 (463. 4) Bayern Munich 505.1 (442.7) 5) Manchester City 453.5 (392.6) 6) Arsenal 419 (350.4) 7) PSG 417.8 (389.6) Chelsea 367.8 (334.6) 9) Liverpool 364.5 (302) 10) Juventus 348.6 (253.5) 11) Tottenham 305.6 (209.2) 12) Borussia Dortmund 285.8 (212.3) 13) Atlético Madrid 234.2 (171)~ 14) Leicester City 233 (128.7) 15) Internazionale 225.2 (134) 16) Schalke 197.8 (167.9) 17) West Ham 183.3 (143. 18) Southampton 182.3 (124.3) 19) Napoli 172.5 (107. 20) Everton 171.2 (121.5) Yet still no signings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Kind of meaningless looking at revenue on its own, however we haven’t particularly spent that much either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Pete Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Kenedy going on loan to Newcastle. Very good young winger who could have done a job for us. Lets hope we're not banking on a deal for Promes the way we did with Walcott. Can see it not happening and leaving us with nobody I would go as far as saying that it’s extremely unlikely we will sign Promes, so we have to hope the club have lined up some other good options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I expect us to announce the signing of James McCarthy any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchards Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Love the comments ‘We will only buy players that will improve our squad.’ I reckon about 2 million professional footballers around the world could fit that description. Poor Lesley is struggling to get any transfers over the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 ....and Hoedt is wheeled out to distract from the absence of signings.... Gotta love SFC PR spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliemiller Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Well a week away from the transfer window slamming shut .......begining to think a great PR job is being done on us all , the hope of a prime signing like Promes being drip feed to the press etc !!!! Please please Les go and get viable signings for us .....moussa dembele has been declared by celtic as available fro 20m , Slimani is available and would solve the big man issue . Stop shooting for impossible signings just to placate and feed the masses lip service , seen it before TBH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I expect us to announce the signing of James McCarthy any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Useful Idiot Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I think the problem is that no one who is half decent is interested in joining us. We look like prime relegation fodder at the moment and about as attractive as a lump of dog poo to any footballer with ambition. Only realistic options are possibly loan moves with future fees agreed if we stay up, but that's hardly attractive to the selling club unless the loan fees are huge. Its probable that we'll just have to make do with what we've got, unless we can spot someone from a weak league who can improve us. I thought that's what the black box was for? Not just picking big-club bench players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I still find it very frustrating that fans believe that hearing no news means that we're not actually doing anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I think the problem is that no one who is half decent is interested in joining us. We look like prime relegation fodder at the moment and about as attractive as a lump of dog poo to any footballer with ambition. Only realistic options are possibly loan moves with future fees agreed if we stay up, but that's hardly attractive to the selling club unless the loan fees are huge. Its probable that we'll just have to make do with what we've got, unless we can spot someone from a weak league who can improve us. I thought that's what the black box was for? Not just picking big-club bench players. You may be right. In which case, having a manger who knows what he is doing with the players at hand is essential. Oh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 (edited) I still find it very frustrating that fans believe that hearing no news means that we're not actually doing anything. Who said that ? The fact is that they are failing to convince anybody because the board have been utterly arrogant, negligent, complaicent, and have totally trashed the clubs so-hard-worked-for reputation of the last 5 years... Liebherrs decision to get out of Dodge Ctiy with her money and sell us to the first dilletante to pop up and manage to secure a line of credit has torn the heart out of the club.. Edited 23 January, 2018 by alpine_saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millbrook Saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Think the problem is more with agents, they get a sniff that we, or any other non top 6 club is interested, they then spend their time contacting other clubs saying their client is avaialable, look club 'A' is interested, can you better their offer? The agent tells the player to hold tight as other irons are in the fire. Club 'A' has to sit back waiting for no better offers to be made available to the player, hoping their plans aren't thwarted at the last minute. It's why most deals for the smaller clubs are done at the end of the window, may as well change it to a week so this ridiculous charade isn't replayed every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Think the problem is more with agents, they get a sniff that we, or any other non top 6 club is interested, they then spend their time contacting other clubs saying their client is avaialable, look club 'A' is interested, can you better their offer? The agent tells the player to hold tight as other irons are in the fire. Club 'A' has to sit back waiting for no better offers to be made available to the player, hoping their plans aren't thwarted at the last minute. It's why most deals for the smaller clubs are done at the end of the window, may as well change it to a week so this ridiculous charade isn't replayed every time. Or just do away with transfer windows completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100%Red&White Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Think the problem is more with agents, they get a sniff that we, or any other non top 6 club is interested, they then spend their time contacting other clubs saying their client is avaialable, look club 'A' is interested, can you better their offer? The agent tells the player to hold tight as other irons are in the fire. Club 'A' has to sit back waiting for no better offers to be made available to the player, hoping their plans aren't thwarted at the last minute. It's why most deals for the smaller clubs are done at the end of the window, may as well change it to a week so this ridiculous charade isn't replayed every time. This exactly how it works. Agents hold all the cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lickierambert Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 Think the problem is more with agents, they get a sniff that we, or any other non top 6 club is interested, they then spend their time contacting other clubs saying their client is avaialable, look club 'A' is interested, can you better their offer? The agent tells the player to hold tight as other irons are in the fire. Club 'A' has to sit back waiting for no better offers to be made available to the player, hoping their plans aren't thwarted at the last minute. It's why most deals for the smaller clubs are done at the end of the window, may as well change it to a week so this ridiculous charade isn't replayed every time. There's a great book waiting to be written on the rotten practice of agents. I wonder if/when the game, including players, decides to stand up to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansums Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 There's a great book waiting to be written on the rotten practice of agents. I wonder if/when the game, including players, decides to stand up to them Why would the players want to stand up to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faz Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 There's a great book waiting to be written on the rotten practice of agents. I wonder if/when the game, including players, decides to stand up to them Interesting listening to Billic last night saying how players/Agents basically hold all the cards except at clubs like Juve/ManU. And if one Agent has 5/6 players at your club, then they really do hove you by the short and curlies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 23 January, 2018 Share Posted 23 January, 2018 I still find it very frustrating that fans believe that hearing no news means that we're not actually doing anything. You need to prioritise your frustrations methinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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