Summer Transfer Window 2023

[Pamplemousse]

Apparently we're interested in someone called Myrto Uzini

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrto_Uzuni

Decent goal record it looks like tbh

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, The Curse of St Mary's said:

They played well against Ipswich yesterday. Sinclair Armstrong upfront is a threat. Strong as an ox and very quick. 

Heard he got injured and likely to be out of our game (thankfully) 

[Saint NL]

JWP assist after 7 mins

[Dirkdiggler]

41 minutes ago, Sideways Jim said:

What I would like to see by the end of the transfer window

Ins:

Flynn Downes

Cameron Archer

Zak Vyner

a RB on loan (maybe Holgate?)

McAtee or Bobb on loan

 

Outs:

Onuachu - sold

Lyanco - sold

Aribo - sold

Sulemana - loaned out

ABK - sold 

 

I’d add McCarthy to that list 

[Appy]

4 minutes ago, The Curse of St Mary's said:

They played well against Ipswich yesterday. Sinclair Armstrong upfront is a threat. Strong as an ox and very quick. 

Sign him up 

[Harry_SFC]

5 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Apparently we're interested in someone called Myrto Uzini

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrto_Uzuni

Decent goal record it looks like tbh

€25m release clause. Can't see us paying that for a 28 year old? 

[West end Saints]

1 hour ago, Harry_SFC said:

€25m release clause. Can't see us paying that for a 28 year old? 

Release clause is the amount they have to accept, they may accept less depending on their, and the player's views - eg how much he is needed, do they need money, how long left on contract. 

No nothing about this guy

[SambaMaverick]

Over to you Wilcox mate. You talk a good game but let's see you deliver

[Dirkdiggler]

If we sell Adams then the club need to show that our scouting is working and bring in a ready to go replacement.

[Block41 Saint]

Looks like the owners are recouping their losses over the last two transfer windows imo. 

[Appy]

Che just couldn’t resist those dugouts

[disconnect]

I think there might be quite a strong family connection with Everton for Che unfortunately… 

[FarehamSaintJames]

What Man City youth strikers are currently available and what odds can you give me on one of them being a Saints player by the end of the window?

[DT]

15m is good business for a striker who couldn’t score goals in the Premier, even from one yard out. Would have been decent in the Championship but always felt that Che thinks he’s a better player than Che actually is. Ah well. Move on. Big time to get some bodies in, or we will all be suspecting the owners’ intentions. Ps noted that Piroe not necessarily out of the question. A new contract just puts the price up. Prem clubs sniffing around. Guess the same with Grimes? Might it be a way of softening those blows? Repairing the Swansea rift?

[Harry_SFC]

19 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

Release clause is the amount they have to accept, they may accept less depending on their, and the player's views - eg how much he is needed, do they need money, how long left on contract. 

No nothing about this guy

According to the original article they won't accept less than the release clause because he's their best player. 

[Harry_SFC]

19 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

Release clause is the amount they have to accept, they may accept less depending on their, and the player's views - eg how much he is needed, do they need money, how long left on contract. 

No nothing about this guy

According to the original article they won't accept less than the release clause because he's their best player. 

[The Kraken]

4 minutes ago, Block41 Saint said:

Looks like the owners are recouping their losses over the last two transfer windows imo. 

As they rightly should, they spent a bloody fortune in the past two windows. We also must still have an enormous and unsustainable wage bill that won’t have been fully addressed by the reported wage drops incurred.

We do need to spend some money on new players, no doubt. But it’s been mooted several times that it’s likely to be practically it’s one in one out from here, and I reckon we won’t spend anywhere near as much on players in as those they’re replacing.

[hypochondriac]

2 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

As they rightly should, they spent a bloody fortune in the past two windows. We also must still have an enormous and unsustainable wage bill that won’t have been fully addressed by the reported wage drops incurred.

We do need to spend some money on new players, no doubt. But it’s been mooted several times that it’s likely to be practically it’s one in one out from here, and I reckon we won’t spend anywhere near as much on players in as those they’re replacing.

Well that's absolutely obvious. Even if we wanted to, we couldn't spend 100 million in this league. 

[The Kraken]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

Well that's absolutely obvious. Even if we wanted to, we couldn't spend 100 million in this league. 

I’m not talking about the money in already. I’m talking about further sales.

[hypochondriac]

Just now, The Kraken said:

I’m not talking about the money in already. I’m talking about further sales.

Not sure I agree with that. Entirely conceivable we could spend 15 million on a replacement for Adams. Doubt we'd spend whatever we bring in for kwp on a rb but could see maybe 15 million on a cb. 

[Yorkshire Saint]

13 minutes ago, disconnect said:

I think there might be quite a strong family connection with Everton for Che unfortunately… 

Isn't Everton his middle name or something..

Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams

Edited 20 August, 2023 by Yorkshire Saint

[The Kraken]

Just now, Yorkshire Saint said:

Isn't Everton his middle name or something..

It is but he’s said it’s not a club connection, it’s his Dads name.

[CampionSaint]

1 hour ago, davefizzy14 said:

Seriously why though? Best not be true.

If they were that close to buying Adams he wouldn't have been playing yesterday and become an injury risk prior to a move.  Don't believe all you read 🙂

[Appy]

1 minute ago, CampionSaint said:

If they were that close to buying Adams he wouldn't have been playing yesterday and become an injury risk prior to a move.  Don't believe all you read 🙂

Or things have escalated in the over 24 hours since that game?

[Maggie May]

I thought Dyche would get Everton ticking this season but I’ve probably been proven wrong off the back of that. The Everton forum makes for grim reading and I don’t think he’ll have long left. 
 

It’s a tricky one for Che. He seems like a Dyche signing. If that’s the case, why risk not being in favour with whoever comes in next if the board pull the trigger? His stock will be far greater helping propel us up the league at the end of the season than it will if he fizzles out in a very poor Everton team. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

2 minutes ago, CampionSaint said:

If they were that close to buying Adams he wouldn't have been playing yesterday and become an injury risk prior to a move.  Don't believe all you read 🙂

Agreed. People coming up with a rumour on the back of Everton’s 4-0 defeat? 😂

[LegalEagle]

3 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

It is but he’s said it’s not a club connection, it’s his Dads name.

Like the great West Indian cricketer, Everton Weekes. I believe Che’s dad is from the Windies.

[The Kraken]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Not sure I agree with that. Entirely conceivable we could spend 15 million on a replacement for Adams. Doubt we'd spend whatever we bring in for kwp on a rb but could see maybe 15 million on a cb. 

We’ll see. At best, from this point onwards I think we’ll break even on transfers in and out, and imo that in itself would be a decent result.  And I don’t think we’ve yet explored the loan market as much as we could; Burnley last season had 4 players on loan who played 30+ games for them (Tella, Harwood Bellis, Matsson, Beyer) so it’s obviously a decent market to explore.

[SambaMaverick]

1 minute ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Agreed. People coming up with a rumour on the back of Everton’s 4-0 defeat? 😂

Christ

[stknowle]

4 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

I thought Dyche would get Everton ticking this season but I’ve probably been proven wrong off the back of that. The Everton forum makes for grim reading and I don’t think he’ll have long left. 
 

It’s a tricky one for Che. He seems like a Dyche signing. If that’s the case, why risk not being in favour with whoever comes in next if the board pull the trigger? His stock will be far greater helping propel us up the league at the end of the season than it will if he fizzles out in a very poor Everton team. 

 

[CampionSaint]

https://www.goodisonnews.com/2023/08/20/everton-interested-in-signing-mama-balde-after-che-adams-bid-is-rejected/

This is more consistent with what seems to be actually happening 🙂

 

 

Edited 20 August, 2023 by CampionSaint

[Dusic]

56 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Martin will be gutted. I'm sure he feared we would lose quite a few but like me I'm sure he thought we'd draw a line somewhere. 

No signs of the money being re-invested yet apart from a midfielder coming in on loan.

Rather than gutted he seemed pretty relaxed about it all after the game yesterday.

As he and Jason Wilcox have strongly hinted all summer, lots of players will leave. Adams will, KWP will, Sulemana will. Its hardly a suprise or shock to him.

As for no sign of replacements, Russell Martin clearly knows more about whats happening on that front than us, so whilst he is calm about it I don't see why any of us should worry.

[The Kraken]

7 minutes ago, CampionSaint said:

https://www.goodisonnews.com/2023/08/20/everton-interested-in-signing-mama-balde-after-che-adams-bid-is-rejected/

 

I like the line “Whether or not this move happens, or if it is just a story aiming to see Southampton drop their valuation of Adams is yet to be seen.”

Lads, ffs, just read the Liverpool Echo to see what happened with your city rivals consistently under-bidding for Lavia and maybe put 2 and 2 together?

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Would be

52 minutes ago, DT said:

15m is good business for a striker who couldn’t score goals in the Premier, even from one yard out. Would have been decent in the Championship but always felt that Che thinks he’s a better player than Che actually is. Ah well. Move on. Big time to get some bodies in, or we will all be suspecting the owners’ intentions. Ps noted that Piroe not necessarily out of the question. A new contract just puts the price up. Prem clubs sniffing around. Guess the same with Grimes? Might it be a way of softening those blows? Repairing the Swansea rift?

Che would be a better finisher if he had more confidence, not less

[Block41 Saint]

52 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

As they rightly should, they spent a bloody fortune in the past two windows. We also must still have an enormous and unsustainable wage bill that won’t have been fully addressed by the reported wage drops incurred.

We do need to spend some money on new players, no doubt. But it’s been mooted several times that it’s likely to be practically it’s one in one out from here, and I reckon we won’t spend anywhere near as much on players in as those they’re replacing.

Maybe they should have spent the money on better players to keep us up. 

[The Kraken]

1 minute ago, Block41 Saint said:

Maybe they should have spent the money on better players to keep us up. 

Of course they should have. It doesn’t mean they’re just going to write the money off as a bad decision though. 

[DT]

7 minutes ago, Ex Lion Tamer said:

Would be

Che would be a better finisher if he had more confidence, not less

I think he’d be a better finisher if he had more talent

[Harry_SFC]

 

[The Kraken]

Would be a big blow to lose him. Especially if we lose Sulemana as well. Need to replace both of them with some absolute quality.

[ally_uk]

Just as we expected all of the talent is being sold off.... 

Could see Sulemana, Adams, Tella and Kotchap and Alacarez all going in a short space of time.

And we hope to fill the gaps with some unproven Man City kids / scraping the barrel with dross...

Seems like we haven't learnt anything if we don't reach play offs we will look like absolute tits......

Edited 20 August, 2023 by ally_uk
Spell

[miserableoldgit]

7 minutes ago, ally_uk said:

Just as we expected all of the talent is being sold off.... 

Could see Sulemana, Adams, Tella and Kotchap and Alacarez all going in a short space of time.

And we hope to fill the gaps with some unproven Man City kids / scraping the barrel with dross...

Seems like we haven't learnt anything if we don't reach play offs we will look like absolute tits......

Yep....100% sure that this is what will happen....🙄🙄

[Sfcphilc]

I'll reserve judgement until after the window closes. 

There's been noises that we'll likely lose Adams, Tella, KWP, ABK and Sulemana for a few weeks now, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise. If players don't want to be here, I'm all for them leaving once we get the best possible price. 

Let's see what happens over the next couple of weeks and we can have a proper meltdown on 2nd September if the club drop the ball. 

[Lighthouse]

7 minutes ago, ally_uk said:

Just as we expected all of the talent is being sold off.... 

Could see Sulemana, Adams, Tella and Kotchap and Alacarez all going in a short space of time.

And we hope to fill the gaps with some unproven Man City kids / scraping the barrel with dross...

Seems like we haven't learnt anything if we don't reach play offs we will look like absolute tits......

Weren’t our best players from this season (so far) and last season both Man City kids?

[Patches O Houlihan]

In fairness Tella was an Arsenal kid 😉

[ecuk268]

Alcaraz has said that he wants to stay and Sulemana is away having specialist treatment so won't be at all fit until after the window closes.

Edited 20 August, 2023 by ecuk268

[Dusic]

https://www.kicker.de/tella-entscheidet-sich-fuer-leverkusen-abloesepoker-laeuft-964320/artikel#twfeed

Leverkusen, in the Europa League, would be a good move for Tella, can see why he would be very keen on that.

[Patches O Houlihan]

I think the club are missing a trick - Imagine offering branded versions of these, perhaps with matching pyjamas. Surely they'd be plenty of takers based on some of the posts this week

 

[Baird of the land]

15 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Weren’t our best players from this season (so far) and last season both Man City kids?

the counter argument would be that 1 in 3 last season is hard a great success rate for buys.

[miserableoldgit]

1 minute ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

I think the club are missing a trick - Imagine offering branded versions of these, perhaps with matching pyjamas. Surely they'd be plenty of takers based on some of the posts this week

 

 

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 minute ago, Baird of the land said:

the counter argument would be that 1 in 3 last season is hard a great success rate for buys.

But when you sell every third one for £55 million then surely that pays for the other two average ones...