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14 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Hes 18 and we're just about to sign a high rated 20 year old keeper for £16m, i expect he doesn't see a pathway.

Except  that the 20 year old is unlikely to be with us in two/three years if he fulfills his potential, and Chelsea will probably have a conveyor belt of GK's in front of him there.

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4 hours ago, DT said:

Personally think we need an old (as in experienced) head at CB. The rest can run around...

Reasonable enough opinion - and we already have young guys in Salisu and (perhaps his replacement down the line) Simeu. However, unless someone departs, will we even sign a CB this summer? It's usually a one in one out type thing these days - and we have a slight full back issue with the Livramento injury. The Stephens contact from 2020 hampers us a bit. Newcastle seem to have moved on from Salisu back to Botman, and that then leaves Bednarek as the guy we could (hope to) sell and then replace.

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47 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Chris Richards FIFA 22 - Rating and Potential - Career Mode | FIFACM

Looks great!

prefer Omar Richards myself. Maybe we can get both, although not sure how we plan to handle full back with Small not yet stepping up an Livramento injured. Are we going to sign another. If we do, I think it needs to be a left back and we should have secured Omar Richards two years ago. 

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29 minutes ago, Badger said:

Disappointing to lose one of our prospects, especially that we make a big thing of providing a better pathway etc.

Very disappointing. Hope we have a sell on and a buy back, or is it just the big clubs that can dictate how these thing go and smaller clubs like us have to feed off scraps?

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15 minutes ago, Badger said:

Except  that the 20 year old is unlikely to be with us in two/three years if he fulfills his potential, and Chelsea will probably have a conveyor belt of GK's in front of him there.

so why is he going there then?

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12 minutes ago, Chez said:

prefer Omar Richards myself. Maybe we can get both, although not sure how we plan to handle full back with Small not yet stepping up an Livramento injured. Are we going to sign another. If we do, I think it needs to be a left back and we should have secured Omar Richards two years ago. 

right under our nose at Reading wasn't he? Also available on a free last year i think

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Dusic

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Interesting that so far there haven't been too many strong links with strikers, considering we absolutely need one.

Probably the Awoyini one the strongest.

After GK which is virtually sorted its the absolutely key position and we need to replace Broja with someone who will start every week, assuming we cannot get him back on loan again.

IMO its not over the top to say the success of whoever we do get will end up deciding our PL status.

Hope we have a good idea of the chance of getting Broja again and don't get strung along only for him to go elsewhere or stay at Chelsea. Personally think they would be mad not to use him in their squad this season.

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15 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Interesting that so far there haven't been too many strong links with strikers, considering we absolutely need one.

Probably the Awoyini one the strongest.

After GK which is virtually sorted its the absolutely key position and we need to replace Broja with someone who will start every week, assuming we cannot get him back on loan again.

IMO its not over the top to say the success of whoever we do get will end up deciding our PL status.

Hope we have a good idea of the chance of getting Broja again and don't get strung along only for him to go elsewhere or stay at Chelsea. Personally think they would be mad not to use him in their squad this season.

Want us to go get openda. Last year of his contract at brugge, has stated he doesn't want to go back after his loan at vitesse, breaking through on the international scene, young, hungry... Fits us like a glove... Make it happen semmens 🤗

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Bad Wolf

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According to reports in France, Southampton are being linked with a move to sign Timothy Weah, the son of former AC Milan star George Weah.
PSG and Brazil forward Neymar has previously said the 22-year-old has "everything to become one of the top players in Europe." 👀

Hmm...Something about this seems awfully familiar. 
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23 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:
According to reports in France, Southampton are being linked with a move to sign Timothy Weah, the son of former AC Milan star George Weah.
PSG and Brazil forward Neymar has previously said the 22-year-old has "everything to become one of the top players in Europe." 👀

Hmm...Something about this seems awfully familiar. 

After the cousin the son!

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2 hours ago, Turkish said:

right under our nose at Reading wasn't he? Also available on a free last year i think

he was, and we can't compete with Bayern Munich obviously, but we desperately needed cover at left back 2 years ago, so should have been all over him then, never mind last summer (when it was too late).  Maybe we were, maybe he was holding out for a free, who knows, but we spent how many millions on Perraud that we could have given him instead?

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20 minutes ago, The Cat said:

No chance of Ings coming back is my latest second hand possible ITK news.

Does anyone know of a young, highly rated Swedish striker who plays for a big club? Would be a similar kind of situation as the Broja loan.

Elanga at Man u ? If they are considered a big club haha

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20 minutes ago, The Cat said:

No chance of Ings coming back is my latest second hand possible ITK news.

Does anyone know of a young, highly rated Swedish striker who plays for a big club? Would be a similar kind of situation as the Broja loan.

Can't think of anyone else other than Elanga. 

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2 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Isn't he locked up in some sort of mega bucks contract now at sociedad and he'd be off to the big boys I would of thought

This was mentioned as more of a loan thing and they certainly aren't loaning him out. Although he scored less goals than Adams last season so I'm not sure we need him anyway 😂

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Just now, Convict Colony said:

Isn't he locked up in some sort of mega bucks contract now at sociedad and he'd be off to the big boys I would of thought

But before he goes, he wants to relive part of the career of his idol... Kevin Keegan, and joins us. "I didn't start the rumour, but I'll keep it runnin', while the window is turnin' " as a more football interested Billy Joel could have sung. 🙂

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31 minutes ago, The Cat said:

No chance of Ings coming back is my latest second hand possible ITK news.

Does anyone know of a young, highly rated Swedish striker who plays for a big club? Would be a similar kind of situation as the Broja loan.

Viktor Gyökeres? Plays for Coventry and scored 17. Our annual championship striker ffs. 

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6 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Maybe cheap loan to develop him and reduce squad size as I expect quite a few to come in up there.

You'd have thought Williams would have benefitted for exactly the reason you say. But they thought they were Chelsea's player farm instead. I can imagine them needing every penny they can get their mittens on, to bring in the quality of players they'd need.

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1 hour ago, Dusic said:

Interesting that so far there haven't been too many strong links with strikers, considering we absolutely need one.

You're right.

Here's who I've got us listed as being linked with:

- Taiwo Awoniyi
- Vitinha
- Liam Delap
- Sasa Kalajdzic
- Junior Adamu
- Ben Brereton Diaz
- Stephy Mavididi

We've been linked with even less centre-backs, which is quite surprising, too.

 

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Wonder if we're looking at someone like Benjamin Sesko? Currently at RB Salzburg, very similar striker to Broja if you watch the videos, and has a bit of Haaland about him as well.

Salzburg obviously scout very well, so he's got something about him - he's going to be a star imo. I think this is when we need to try and get players like this - before their move to Dortmund/RB Leipzig. Lots of big clubs sniffing, but he's only 18/19 and isn't going to get regular games at those clubs yet. 

Not sure how much Salzburg would want, but I like him.

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stknowle

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8 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

We currently have a space for a striker, Bednarek or Stephens would probably need to leave to make room for a centre back.

Bednarek and Stephens leave plenty of space for a striker tbf.

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The Kraken

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8 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

We currently have a space for a striker, Bednarek or Stephens would probably need to leave to make room for a centre back.

Stephens won’t be leaving IMO, he’s on a new (ish) contract. If we were going to ditch him we had an easy chance to do it, and didn’t.

I think Bednarek may be off this summer though. 
 

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51 minutes ago, The Cat said:

No chance of Ings coming back is my latest second hand possible ITK news.

Does anyone know of a young, highly rated Swedish striker who plays for a big club? Would be a similar kind of situation as the Broja loan.

Nikolaj Duus Moller from Arsenal?

 

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13 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Wonder if we're looking at someone like Benjamin Sesko? Currently at RB Salzburg, very similar striker to Broja if you watch the videos, and has a bit of Haaland about him as well.

Salzburg obviously scout very well, so he's got something about him - he's going to be a star imo. I think this is when we need to try and get players like this - before their move to Dortmund/RB Leipzig. Lots of big clubs sniffing, but he's only 18/19 and isn't going to get regular games at those clubs yet. 

Not sure how much Salzburg would want, but I like him.

#Saintsy, S-Clarke.  I like this idea.  Any idea what they'd want for him?

Kind of feel like we'd need to go big on a striker if they are to fill Broja / Ings boots*

[*Various MLG notes such as:  Shoe size & "Yes, I understand that just because they are expensive doesn't make them better etc"].

 

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Isak was the first name that came into my head, he'd be a dream signing, but no chance Sociedad loan him to us with him being their first choice striker. He's one of those currently in between our level and the top six with the potential of moving to the top.

On Salisu watch, he's on a training camp as per his Instagram. Usually when players that do this and want to leave their current club, they don't wear the attire of that club. He was wearing the Southampton training kit yesterday. Although, it's just Nike today, so don't read too much into it. 😂 I think Newcastle are firmly focussed on Botman now though, who, I'm always gutted we missed out on when he went to Lille from Ajax. Another one that shows the deals are out there if our scouting is any good and now we can be a bit more flexible with our money.

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7 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

#Saintsy, S-Clarke.  I like this idea.  Any idea what they'd want for him?

Kind of feel like we'd need to go big on a striker if they are to fill Broja / Ings boots*

[*Various MLG notes such as:  Shoe size & "Yes, I understand that just because they are expensive doesn't make them better etc"].

 

He'd certainly be a first choice striker for us, big powerful unit. Could learn his trade here for a few years and join a mega club for big bucks down the line. He'd be a statement signing given the clubs that are interested in him, physically powerful enough to make an impact straight away even if it's not goals.

If you think that Dortmund signed Haaland for £16m for Salzburg, Leicester signed Daka for £20-25m ish - I'd say he'd be somewhere in between that. It's obviously out of our remit if we're fixated on the under £15m transfers though, as that kind of closes the market for these players.

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Chez

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9 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

You're right.

Here's who I've got us listed as being linked with:

- Taiwo Awoniyi
- Vitinha
- Liam Delap
- Sasa Kalajdzic
- Junior Adamu
- Ben Brereton Diaz
- Stephy Mavididi

We've been linked with even less centre-backs, which is quite surprising, too.

 

I've only seen us linked with
Ronnie Edwards
Chris Richards
Levi Colwill
Phil Jones
Koni de Winter

but we perhaps need to offload someone to create space for another as we have Salisu, Bednarek, Stephens, Lyanco, Valery, Ramsay and Simeu
 

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22 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

Lad at Roma called Persson too potentially.

Joel Voelkerling Persson scored 12 goals in 26 starts for Roma U19s last season. He's a really big powerful lad, shoots with both feet, holds the ball up well and links the play. Not quick, like Broja. 

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17 minutes ago, Chez said:

I've only seen us linked with
Ronnie Edwards
Chris Richards
Levi Colwill
Phil Jones
Koni de Winter

but we perhaps need to offload someone to create space for another as we have Salisu, Bednarek, Stephens, Lyanco, Valery, Ramsay and Simeu
 

We could quite comfortably offload all of those apart from Salisu 

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2 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

We could quite comfortably offload all of those apart from Salisu 

of course, but who is gonna pay Stephens what we are paying him? Offloading unwanted Premier League players is almost impossible.

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7 minutes ago, Chez said:

of course, but who is gonna pay Stephens what we are paying him? Offloading unwanted Premier League players is almost impossible.

I would have thought he'd be ideal for a Championship team wanting to force a playoff push. Still got legs on him and has tons of experience now. Also he's not too bad from attacking set pieces and can play in a few positions. He just doesn't do any of that to PL standard.

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25 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

I would have thought he'd be ideal for a Championship team wanting to force a playoff push. Still got legs on him and has tons of experience now. Also he's not too bad from attacking set pieces and can play in a few positions. He just doesn't do any of that to PL standard.

Saints would possibly need to subsidise his wage for that to happen. They'd currently be too much for Championship clubs.

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Not sure if posted before. His Wikipedia page helpfully has the following: 

Erik Botheim (born 10 January 2000) is a Norwegian professional who as well as playing the flute he also plays as a striker.

Maybe he could start an Irish folk band with Shane Long?

 

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55 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

I would have thought he'd be ideal for a Championship team wanting to force a playoff push. Still got legs on him and has tons of experience now. Also he's not too bad from attacking set pieces and can play in a few positions. He just doesn't do any of that to PL standard.

Championship sides don't pay circa £50k a week wages though.

The Athletic suggested he signed a four year deal in 2020. He is here until 2024.  He is going nowhere. No championship sides are buying him or even taking him on a free. We are not paying him £20k a week or more to play for someone else. Not a chance. And he will have no desire to drop down a league until he has n choice, which will be in 2024.

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