Summer Transfer Window 2023

[OldNick]

1 minute ago, egg said:

I find it amusing that people are wound up by it and have bitten. Bless em. 

How do you get into this circle? I assume you have to know Turks, so basically its a group of his mates who then speculate wildly like they do down the pub. All due respect to Turks but can anyone tell me any info he has brought to the table that wasnt out there already?? I hope to be proved wrong.

I'm probably sore as he hasn't asked me to join

[miserableoldgit]

22 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Am I the pied piper of Saints web?

More like the Sheldon Cooper of the Saintsweb....

[OldNick]

Just found an image of the secret circle, which one is Turks? 

[CB Fry]

Some interesting stuff in the C-O-T messages this afternoon. And I'm not even a Platinum Tier member.

Cheers for the info 👍 

[iansums]

4 minutes ago, OldNick said:

How do you get into this circle? I assume you have to know Turks, so basically its a group of his mates who then speculate wildly like they do down the pub. All due respect to Turks but can anyone tell me any info he has brought to the table that wasnt out there already?? I hope to be proved wrong.

I'm probably sore as he hasn't asked me to join

I thought they were a group of ex-cons

[SaintsFan86]

16 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

We're looking at potentially Amo-Omeyaw (16), Bogarde (19), Charles (19), Edozie (20), Alcaraz (20), Livramento? (20), Mara (21), Sulemana? (21) and Bazunu (21) as players getting regular minutes for us next season. I'm just a little concerned we haven't learnt any lessons from last year.

Is it reasonable to expect these players to be consistent week in week out which is what will be necessary for a promotion push?

Armel Bella-Kotchap (21), Juan Larios (19) too.

[Dman]

1 hour ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Obafemi for a couple of million and Redmond on a free aren't going to set the prem on fire mate

They've also signed a young keeper from City, who's not yet played above league 1... what could possibly go wrong there...

[Turkish]

11 minutes ago, egg said:

I find it amusing that people are wound up by it and have bitten. Bless em. 

the first one to bite was someone who has me on ignore, how weird. 

[gecko]

I do love coming to this thread. seeing there's been 20+ updates since the last time, and thinking "excellent something interesting must've happened"

... then scrolling through 20 posts about circles.

[Turkish]

8 minutes ago, OldNick said:

How do you get into this circle? I assume you have to know Turks, so basically its a group of his mates who then speculate wildly like they do down the pub. All due respect to Turks but can anyone tell me any info he has brought to the table that wasnt out there already?? I hope to be proved wrong.

I'm probably sore as he hasn't asked me to join

Im that ITK that a few years back someone from the echo contacted me on facebook after something i posted on here and shared my information on there the next day.

#knownandtrust 

[SotonianWill]

2 hours ago, SambaMaverick said:

That Tella video is cringey shit and I really hope we tell Burnley to fuck right off

Something really off about that video and I don’t just mean the cringe, but the use of the free nelson mandela music, and the idea that Tella needs to be freed is really odd. 

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

I'm planning on starting a circle of lust where we discuss rumours with absolutely no substance but the players involved (both for the men's and women's team) are certified hotties. 

First up, we're planning to sign Scott Twine from Burnley, and make Armstrong's hair captain

[The Juice]

The emergence of a third estate on Saintsweb is suggestive of a violent and imminent revolution. 

The Bourgeoisie will be the first to be executed. 

Those of noble birth, hide. 

p.s. we need a striker 

[SotonianWill]

Just now, The Juice said:

The emergence of a third estate on Saintsweb is suggestive of a violent and imminent revolution. 

The Bourgeoisie will be the first to be executed. 

Those of noble birth, hide. 

p.s. we need a striker 

who are said bourgeois?

[egg]

9 minutes ago, Turkish said:

the first one to bite was someone who has me on ignore, how weird. 

Indeed... anyways Del, where was my DM?! 

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, SotonianWill said:

Something really off about that video and I don’t just mean the cringe, but the use of the free nelson mandela music, and the idea that Tella needs to be freed is really odd. 

It's probably just a Yank's idea of being 'funny' - which in itself should be offensive. 

[OldNick]

19 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Im that ITK that a few years back someone from the echo contacted me on facebook after something i posted on here and shared my information on there the next day.

#knownandtrust 

Didnt we once on Saintsforever make something up and see when it hit the media??

Edited 31 July, 2023 by OldNick

[Convict Colony]

1 hour ago, manji said:

Don’t go on Twitter they are whinging like fuck. It’s quite sad. They seem to have forgotten they are playing in the EPL soon.

Distinct lack of excitement. 

Bro is this your first experience with northerners ?

They could win the lottery and complain about having too much money now.

[skintsaint]

20 minutes ago, Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan said:

I'm planning on starting a circle of lust

Does this end with a game of soggy biscuit?

[The Juice]

22 minutes ago, SotonianWill said:

who are said bourgeois?

I mean, I guess at this point, it would be mods and/or admin. Although give it 3/4 years and we can expect the circle of trust to start executing each other as there is no blueprint following the decentralisation of power on Saintsweb. 

Further resonance with the French revolution is the fact that the inner circle are they only ones who want the revolution. The rest of us just want a striker.

[Monk]

Anyone got a screen shot of the tweet of the lad that met RM at HaBar and was full of praise of him? Highlighted that he expects JWP to be gone?

[CSA96]

1 minute ago, Monk said:

Anyone got a screen shot of the tweet of the lad that met RM at HaBar and was full of praise of him? Highlighted that he expects JWP to be gone?

 

[pimpin4rizeal]

2 hours ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

If you think about it, even if the deal is done, that is still cringeworthy and disrespectful. Expect that kind of thing from fans but not from owners of the clubs involved

If he’s really going though it ends up more embarrassing for us and they will be lapping it up 

[Turkish]

22 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Didnt we once on Saintsforever make something up and see when it hit the media??

It’s happened on several occasions my favourites are

Saints in negotiations to sign Gazika Mendieta -2003 when he was a bit of a star and at Lazio

£125 season tickets to celebrate our 125th anniversary 

Gulys 15 minute contract clause 

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It’s happened on several occasions my favourites are

Saints in negotiations to sign Gazika Mendieta -2003 when he was a bit of a star and at Lazio

£125 season tickets to celebrate our 125th anniversary 

Gulys 15 minute contract clause 

Didnt we get Jan Koller in the local media?

[Miltonaggro]

8 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It’s happened on several occasions my favourites are

Saints in negotiations to sign Gazika Mendieta -2003 when he was a bit of a star and at Lazio

£125 season tickets to celebrate our 125th anniversary 

Gulys 15 minute contract clause 

Media careers have been built on the basis of bollocks posted on here. Mediocre media careers I grant you, but there you go. 

[Miltonaggro]

1 hour ago, Daft Kerplunk said:

Saints can easily take this cringe and out cringe it with ‘our’ Secret Southampton’ video mini-series and the ‘Stop the count’ merch. 

 

 

The resurrection of the 'Ralph train' would sort the status quo right out!

[FarehamSaintJames]

14 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Didnt we get Jan Koller in the local media?

Are we giving this a go again?

Who shall we pick this time?

Chances are Talksport and Alex Crooks will pick it up! 🤣

[Colinjb]

3 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Are we giving this a go again?

Who shall we pick this time?

Chances are Talksport and Alex Crooks will pick it up! 🤣

It's got to be a striker from a lower PL side. Mateta from Palace or similar.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

58 minutes ago, SotonianWill said:

Something really off about that video and I don’t just mean the cringe, but the use of the free nelson mandela music, and the idea that Tella needs to be freed is really odd. 

Making any sort of connection between Tella and Nelson Mandela is bizarre in itself. Making assertions about having to "free" a person of colour is also bizarre.

Lots of connotations not thought through. 

[Saint86]

2 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Making any sort of connection between Tella and Nelson Mandela is bizarre in itself. Making assertions about having to "free" a person of colour is also bizarre.

Lots of connotations not thought through. 

Isn't Burnley one of the most racists places in the UK though? Wouldn't surprise me at all that they think that video is in someway clever or complimentary about tella 😅

Edited 31 July, 2023 by Saint86

[SaintsFan86]

2 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Making any sort of connection between Tella and Nelson Mandela is bizarre in itself. Making assertions about having to "free" a person of colour is also bizarre.

Lots of connotations not thought through. 

Makes a absolute mockery of what Mandela had to go through. Disgusting video really.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, Ivan Katalinic's 'tache said:

In which circle would I need to be to purify water by talking positively to it?

Less circle of trust than a saucer of trust.

[The Juice]

I'm planning on the group who will crash the economy and start up new pork markets in East Asia; the circle of Truss

[Miltonaggro]

17 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Making any sort of connection between Tella and Nelson Mandela is bizarre in itself. Making assertions about having to "free" a person of colour is also bizarre.

Lots of connotations not thought through. 

Pace, their idiot Chairman is on Twitter.  This is how the Burnley media Department goes about things, and Pace retweets it

https://twitter.com/BurnleyOfficial/status/1681574610507104257?s=20

[Toadhall Saint]

1 hour ago, gecko said:

I do love coming to this thread. seeing there's been 20+ updates since the last time, and thinking "excellent something interesting must've happened"

... then scrolling through 20 posts about circles.

[goodymatt]

 

[Wade Garrett]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

We're looking at potentially Amo-Omeyaw (16), Bogarde (19), Charles (19), Edozie (20), Alcaraz (20), Livramento? (20), Mara (21), Sulemana? (21) and Bazunu (21) as players getting regular minutes for us next season. I'm just a little concerned we haven't learnt any lessons from last year.

Is it reasonable to expect these players to be consistent week in week out which is what will be necessary for a promotion push?

One could think that they just want to buy players and sell them for a profit.  If they can do that effectively from The Championship then so be it.

Personally, I’m not sure that’s true.  Happy to wait and see what this window brings.

[SaintsFan86]

 

 

[dsr-burnley]

32 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Making any sort of connection between Tella and Nelson Mandela is bizarre in itself. Making assertions about having to "free" a person of colour is also bizarre.

Lots of connotations not thought through. 

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda.

What relevance is it that Tella is black?  If you prick him, does he not bleed?  Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character?  If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended.

In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer.  His skin colour is irrelevant.  I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes.  Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different.  They are not different, they are human beings.

[Smirking_Saint]

5 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

One could think that they just want to buy players and sell them for a profit.  If they can do that effectively from The Championship then so be it.

Personally, I’m not sure that’s true.  Happy to wait and see what this window brings.

Well… yes and no I suppose… the strategy is they present less risk, for instance Edozie/Larios/Baz’ values probably don’t depreciate as much as those we spent on Onuachu, Aribo etc

Im not sure how much I hang my hat on ‘sign experience’ although it is significantly easier in the Champ.. because historically our ‘ready to go’ signings have been absolutely terrible

But after all that is said, I do think we need to bring in one or two heads with leadership abilities to help galvanise us

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, dsr-burnley said:

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda.

What relevance is it that Tella is black?  If you prick him, does he not bleed?  Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character?  If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended.

In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer.  His skin colour is irrelevant.  I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes.  Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different.  They are not different, they are human beings.

What relevance does Tella have to Nelson Mandela?

[Smirking_Saint]

3 minutes ago, SaintsFan86 said:

 

 

[hypochondriac]

12 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

 

If true then Burnley are absolutely pathetic. I'd be tempted to turn them down even if they paid the money. 

[Miltonaggro]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

What relevance does Tella have to Nelson Mandela?

Or Burnley at the moment?

[Barsiem]

9 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda.

What relevance is it that Tella is black?  If you prick him, does he not bleed?  Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character?  If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended.

In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer.  His skin colour is irrelevant.  I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes.  Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different.  They are not different, they are human beings.

You're right, we forgot racism doesn't exist in the good old USA.  And maybe have a look at your own forums where people have come to the same conclusion as the above before trying to take the high and mighty approach.  Feel free to stay there whilst you're at it.

Edited 31 July, 2023 by Barsiem

[coalman]

3 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda.

What relevance is it that Tella is black?  If you prick him, does he not bleed?  Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character?  If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended.

In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer.  His skin colour is irrelevant.  I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes.  Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different.  They are not different, they are human beings.

Fucking hell, that's moving. I can barely type through the tears. We should just send Burnley Tella on a free.

[goodymatt]

2 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

If true then Burnley are absolutely pathetic. I'd be tempted to turn them down even if they paid the money. 

I would have been before all this free Tella bollocks, we shouldn’t be entertaining offers for a player than can be so crucial to our promotion push. 

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, coalman said:

Fucking hell, that's moving. I can barely type through the tears. We should just send Burnley Tella on a free.

Bowel moving...

[Miltonaggro]

10 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda.

What relevance is it that Tella is black?  If you prick him, does he not bleed?  Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character?  If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended.

In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer.  His skin colour is irrelevant.  I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes.  Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different.  They are not different, they are human beings.

Martin Luther King Dong.