Rate our Transfer Window

[Heisenberg]

Appreciate the window hasn't "slammed shut" but given my confidence of the management im fairly confident it will be another cluster **** and disappointment.

 

If we do somehow deliver Promes id go with a cheeky 5/10.

 

Without you'd have to go 1/10 absolute disaster (again)

 

Tick tock Leslie

[Disco Stu]

Too early for this.

[LGTL]

0 at present.

[Batman]

Too early for this.

why. the window has been open for 30 days and shuts in 12 hours

[Disco Stu]

why. the window has been open for 30 days and shuts in 12 hours

 

So much can happen in the last 12 hours that my rating would go from 0 to potentially 10.

[Batman]

So much can happen in the last 12 hours that my rating would go from 0 to potentially 10.

direction of travel is that promes will not be joining

 

We only agreed a fee to sell VvD at Christmas ffs

[S-Clarke]

So much can happen in the last 12 hours that my rating would go from 0 to potentially 10.

 

As much as I admire your optimisim, I don't see a huge deal happening for us!

 

0.5-1 for me. Would go to a 5 if we signed Quincy, but we do still need a CB with power. We've basically sold our best CB for £75m and haven't replaced him.

[Give it to Ron]

We have already been told its quiet one = expect a few outgoings to ease the bill - u23's

[hypochondriac]

With promes it's a 7. We may get a lesser alternative and that would probably be 5 or 6 depending on who it is. Without promes or a replacement it's a 2...

[Batman]

still need an obvious CB.

 

Just a weird club now.

[Saints foreva]

0 at present.

 

This.

 

We were told by the club leaks to the press that selling VvD was to improve the squad. As it stands we are far weaker than we were before selling Van Dijk.

[trousers]

We won't know the impact of a 'quiet' window until March/April time. So I'll wait until then rather than making an arbitrary "glad to have been proven wrong in hindsight" or "told you so" guess now. Call me old fashioned.

Edited 31 January, 2018 by trousers

[iansums]

10/10

[Ashby Saint]

With a few hours to go, my assessment would be a 3/10. Positives were selling Van Dyk, keeping everyone else, and buying a striker that on paper fits the mould of a target man/finisher. Negatives were not having a Plan B for signing Promes and not replacing Van Dyk in the squad with a commanding CB.

[supersonic]

As we stand now, I’d say 2/10.

 

We’ve sold our best player, who despite not wanting to be here is world-class, and we haven’t replaced him. I still think Hoedt was the Fonte replacement.

 

We have managed to fill a gap with Carrillo but we’ve put all our eggs in the Promes basket and have been left short again.

 

Second January window in succession the board’s naïvety and ignorance has made our squad weaker.

 

Reed simply has to go.

[Heisenberg]

Remember when Everton won the last window with all those amazing signings to challenge for the top 4.

 

 

Who said that?

 

#nobody

[Saint-Reece]

0. Being stuck marooned in the Championship for a good few years will be thrilling.

[shurlock]

Who said that?

 

#nobody

 

Spot on pal. People were scratching their head at Everton’s transfer strategy of stocking up on AMs and neglecting a replacement for Lukaku

[derry]

Unless we bring in a quick goal scoring attacker it will be a disaster as all the teams around us have had no trouble strengthening.

[Baird of the land]

Personally i rate Stephens, always thought Hoedt was the Van Dijk replacement, so i'm pretty ok with no centre back additions.

up front. Hard to rate until we see Carrillo in action.

I've got a bad feeling he's going to be a highly expensive flop. So if he is & we don't address the pace issue at the top of the pitch a 0.

[Batman]

Personally i rate Stephens, always thought Hoedt was the Van Dijk replacement, so i'm pretty ok with no centre back additions.

up front. Hard to rate until we see Carrillo in action.

I've got a bad feeling he's going to be a highly expensive flop. So if he is & we don't address the pace issue at the top of the pitch a 0.

you watch Stephens (if he plays) get bullied in their air tonight

[angelman]

Most of you seem not to be buying into the "Southampton Way".

[S-Clarke]

Personally i rate Stephens, always thought Hoedt was the Van Dijk replacement, so i'm pretty ok with no centre back additions.

up front. Hard to rate until we see Carrillo in action.

I've got a bad feeling he's going to be a highly expensive flop. So if he is & we don't address the pace issue at the top of the pitch a 0.

 

He's a good ball playing CB, but needs strength and power alongside him. He is bullied by powerful strikers because he lacks the strength and phyisical attributes. No one is saying he's a bad player, but the problem is we have CB's all in the same mould.

[alpine_saint]

1/10. Carillo is our single transfer in, and hes a totally unknown quantity.

 

4/10 if Promes comes. Finally compensating for the awful Mane....er.....Redmond.

 

8/10 if a CB suddenly pops up.

[S-Clarke]

1/10. Carillo is our single transfer in, and hes a totally unknown quantity.

 

4/10 if Promes comes. Finally compensating for the awful Mane....er.....Redmond.

 

8/10 if a CB suddenly pops up.

 

Imagine if we sign Promes, a CB, a GK and we win tonight. 10/10?

[ALWAYS_SFC]

100/10

[Baird of the land]

He's a good ball playing CB, but needs strength and power alongside him. He is bullied by powerful strikers because he lacks the strength and phyisical attributes. No one is saying he's a bad player, but the problem is we have CB's all in the same mould.

 

I would say Hoedt is very different in mould and i'm much happier with Stephens/Hoedt pairing than Stephens/Yoshida one.

[Saint_Ash]

Currently 2/10

 

If Promes comes 7/10

 

If another player of quality on top 9/10

[richardc]

10/10

 

We were n't asking you Les now get back and sign someone

[Saint Garrett]

Right now 1/10.

 

 

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[James]

1-2/10 at best at the moment. Utterly pathetic.

[danjosaint]

Big fat 0

[Lighthouse]

2/10 Mostly because of the CB situation. A decent replacement for Virgil and it would have been 7. Promes or another attacking player of similar quality also needed for the full house.

[ashnats]

Given we’re still in the window, and assuming we get a couple in, and get rid of a couple, 9/10

[Norm]

At present, 3/10

 

signing at good CB, 6/10

 

signing a good forward/Winger, 8/10

[BotleySaint]

Is it February already?

[Matthew Le God]

Appreciate the window hasn't "slammed shut" but given my confidence of the management im fairly confident it will be another cluster **** and disappointment.

 

If we do somehow deliver Promes id go with a cheeky 5/10.

 

Without you'd have to go 1/10 absolute disaster (again)

 

Tick tock Leslie

 

I'm still waiting Heisenberg...

 

 

27 days and counting! 7 days since you claimed the payment went in!

 

Did you photoshop this image and spell Matthew incorrectly?

 

Mods should be doing the honours soon buddy. Welcome to team Heisenberg.

[Heisenberg]

I'm still waiting Heisenberg...

 

 

27 days and counting! 7 days since you claimed the payment went in!

 

Did you photoshop this image and spell Matthew incorrectly?

 

Save your posts and appeal on here. Seems SWF are into taking people's money.....

 

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?58807-Paid-full-membership-subs-totally-ignored#.WnHTZnOnzqA

[Pilchards]

Just seen a long black vehicle going into staplewood.

The driver was all suited and booted and had a couple of passengers who looked very smartly dressed.

[Heisenberg]

Just seen a long black vehicle going into staplewood.

The driver was all suited and booted and had a couple of passengers who looked very smartly dressed.

 

Probably just Leslie back from nandos

[trousers]

Just seen a long black vehicle going into staplewood.

The driver was all suited and booted and had a couple of passengers who looked very smartly dressed.

If only this was happening in the days where everyone had a camera on their phone which enabled them to take quick snapshots for posting on internet football forums...

[angelman]

Long black vehicle.....first thing that came to mind was a hearse + undertakers!!

[John Boy Saint]

Long black vehicle.....first thing that came to mind was a hearse + undertakers!!

........... I thought Chinese Triad hit men.

[Supersubpuckett]

The saying about breweries and heavy drinking springs to mind.......again

 

Just need to wait for the statement about how we've concluded our business for this window.

[doggface]

1/10

[Batman]

1/10

 

les.reed is no better than Rupert Lowe.

Lowe at least left us with a new ground

[Heisenberg]

[Unbelievable Jeff]

Honestly I'd be very disappointed at this moment in time, but then it may turn out that all we needed was a **** striker, so it may change by the end of the season.

 

The only positive I can see out of this window was the 28/1 I got on Saints going down at the beginning of the season.

[Shance]

This has been the worst window since promotion. We knew VVD was going and we haven’t replaced him. We knew we needed a right sided attacker and we have failed to sign one. We are ****ed.

[Dusic]

2/10 - pathetic.

 

Sold our best player, hinted through favoured Journalists at various targets and got nowhere near any of them.

 

Delusional leadership.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/28/southampton-keen-daniel-sturridge-ready-make-audacious-move/

 

"After selling Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool for £75 million on Wednesday, Southampton want to reinvest quickly and add quality to their squad, with the attacking positions and centre-back their two priorities.

 

A list of targets are being considered or actively worked upon and, with manager Mauricio Pellegrino desperate to add pace, power and goals to his team, one of the most intriguing names is Liverpool’s Sturridge."

 

End result: Sturridge went to a relegation rival and we didn'!t really address the other bits.

 

If we get relegated, the club deserve it. Shambolic management in various forms over the last 2 years.