CSA96 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) Contract is until 2028. Edited August 16 by CSA96 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSA96 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 Russell Martin says everything was completed in time for him to be available for selection immediately 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint NL Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Welcome and good luck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Ash Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Excellent. Looking at his preseason he'll be ready to go straight in by the look of it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Feels like this one came out of nowhere and got done quick! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Welcome aboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansums Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Hat-trick tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 That's Mara almost definitely gone then too. Tis a good day. Strikers will likely be Archer, Stewart, BBD and AA then. I still suspect Onuachu will be off but with Stewart's fitness suspect I wouldn't be against keeping him. Unless the idea is still to bring another striker in but I doubt it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 2 minutes ago, iansums said: Hat-trick tomorrow. Wrong thread to be talking about opposition players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfc4prem Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Not mind blowing but he's young, hungry to improve and looks like he'll fit into the dressing room nicely. Definite resale value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Well that all happened quickly. This signing has made me quiver with excitement. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Well, I hope I'm wrong about him. Welcome aboard. Should be able to come up with a unique chant for someone called Archer surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPY Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 He’ll have made his England debut by the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarvSFC Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Looking like it's five million to upgrade Mara, happy days. Archer was part of the England Under-21s team that won it and captained by THB, so a link there. He scored the third goal in the 3-0 semi-final win over Israel. A front three, if we adapt our formations depending on the match of Brereton-Diaz - Archer - Armstrong is so dynamic with lots of movement and pace. I'm quite excited by it on paper. At times last season we were predictable to defend against and that's because we didn't have many runners/movement. Everyone was admiring their pass and stayed static and Adams for his strengths, really struggled with his movement, especially when in the box, wasn't really ever on his toes, or mobile enough. Of course, if it does go tits up this season, then these three have all proven that they can score for fun in the Championship. I'm looking forward to those over the top balls we've been playing a few times in pre-season and last season going to a more pacier front man now. His Sheffield United loan didn't go well, but maybe the style of Heckingbottom and Wilder didn't suit him. Carrick's tactics are much more similar to Martin's and he was a success at Middlesbrough and has shown he knows how to find the back of the net. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 minute ago, ChrisPY said: He’ll have made his England debut by the end of the season. I once predicted Jack Stephens to make an England squad, around the time he was keeping Martin Caceres out the team, so I'm going to keep my mouth shut on this one. Although I think THB isn't a million miles away from the England team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Can we just call him Jeff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfield_General Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Nice surprise out of what feels like nowhere. Welcome aboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie May Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Bullseye! Happy with that. Upgrade on Mara. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 shirt number 50. or whatever it is for a bulls eye in archery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 3 minutes ago, Maggie May said: Bullseye! Happy with that. Upgrade on Mara. Remains to be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Watched his interview. I wouldn't say he's much of a linguist or a stunning intellect but I don't suppose it matters if he performs and keeps us up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyNumber7 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Pretty underwhelmed if this is our main striker signing tbh, we've basically signed Sheffield Utd's attack from last season. Gives me Rhian Brewster vibes, scored a few in the Championship but struggled in the PL. Anyway really hope to be proved wrong and good luck to him. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 6 minutes ago, Saint_clark said: Remains to be seen. Could he be much worse than Mara? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 9 minutes ago, Saint_clark said: Remains to be seen. 18 Championship Goals and 4 Premier League Goals says he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Miltonaggro Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I think what Armstrong, BBD and Archer provide is a lot of fluidity and movement so hard for oppo to pick up and defend against. Combine that with our new Japanese fullback who can cross and pass at pace, plus hopefully wee man and things could be interesting. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 4 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said: I think what Armstrong, BBD and Archer provide is a lot of fluidity and movement so hard for oppo to pick up and defend against. Combine that with our new Japanese fullback who can cross and pass at pace, plus hopefully wee man and things could be interesting. How well can Archer or BBD get airborne to head a ball then? Think we’ve lacked height and strength up front, Hoping BBD may offer something to change it, not sure Archer does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sambosa75 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Don't know much about the lad but it was definitely an area that needed strengthening. Hopefully he's the right type of player for the team and exactly what we need. Any chance of a keeper please? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 44 minutes ago, SNSUN said: That's Mara almost definitely gone then too. Tis a good day. Strikers will likely be Archer, Stewart, BBD and AA then. I still suspect Onuachu will be off but with Stewart's fitness suspect I wouldn't be against keeping him. Unless the idea is still to bring another striker in but I doubt it. You could hardly call Archer a striker. He's only scored 4 goals in 39 Premier League games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barsiem Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Colinjb said: 18 Championship Goals and 4 Premier League Goals says he is. Whilst I hope you're right it's not a fair comparison. Mara has never been first choice for Saints, and according to the below website he actually was one of the best performing strikers in the championship based on minutes played last season, with 8 goal involvements in 616 minutes on the pitch. https://footystats.org/players/france/sekou-mara Again, not saying you're wrong, but judging number of goals scored by a first team starter against a bench warmer for number of goals scored is not particularly accurate imo. Edited August 16 by Barsiem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Just now, Nordic Saint said: You could hardly call Archer a striker. He's only scored 4 goals in 39 Premier League games. Season before last, Solanke only scored 6.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 We are going to have a shit hot team in the championship for 2025/26 at least! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I think it's a good signing, still only 22 so plenty of time for him to improve, and if he gets even 10-15 goals he goes from £15million to £30million plus very quickly in value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 7 minutes ago, Nordic Saint said: You could hardly call Archer a striker. He's only scored 4 goals in 39 Premier League games. A poor record doesn't mean he isn't a striker! Unproven, sure, but he's a striker. Whether he's an upgrade on Mara remains to be seen, but here's hoping 🤞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintant Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 18 minutes ago, Badger said: How well can Archer or BBD get airborne to head a ball then? Think we’ve lacked height and strength up front, Hoping BBD may offer something to change it, not sure Archer does. BBD gets some headed goals and is not bad in the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 minute ago, egg said: A poor record doesn't mean he isn't a striker! Unproven, sure, but he's a striker. Whether he's an upgrade on Mara remains to be seen, but here's hoping 🤞 Only needs to show a little interest then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Real statement of intent signing both of the forwards who played in one of the worst premier league teams of all time last season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSA96 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 1 minute ago, Saint_Jonny said: Real statement of intent signing both of the forwards who played in one of the worst premier league teams of all time last season Wait until Liverpool find out that Adam Lallana got relegated to League 1 at the same age 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 44 minutes ago, hypochondriac said: Watched his interview. I wouldn't say he's much of a linguist or a stunning intellect but I don't suppose it matters if he performs and keeps us up. He has read your posts on here and come to the same conclusion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 3 minutes ago, benjii said: He has read your posts on here and come to the same conclusion. And that will have relevance to the football club the day I sign as a pro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 26 minutes ago, Nordic Saint said: You could hardly call Archer a striker. He's only scored 4 goals in 39 Premier League games. 25 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said: Season before last, Solanke only scored 6.... They need to bring back Top Trumps... football stats edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAlehouseBrawlers Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 One for the Northam Wall to go with return of the Lallana ghey wave ditty - they should all dress up in tights, green tunics and pointy hats in a Robin Hood stylee belting out “Cameron, Cameron Riding through with Ben* Cameron, Cameron With his band of men Feared by the bad Loved by Southampton Cameron, Cameron, Cameron” ** *cough…BBD **I’m not being serious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, Give it to Ron said: Could he be much worse than Mara? Of course he could, Mara is not despite what some on here say literally the worst player in the world which means there are millions of players worse than him. 58 minutes ago, Colinjb said: 18 Championship Goals and 4 Premier League Goals says he is. In 3176 championship minutes and 1909 Prem minutes respectively, compared to 621 championship minutes and 541 Prem minutes for Mara. In fact if you take Maras ratio and give him the same amount of minutes Archer had, he would have ended up with 20 championship goals and 3/4 Prem goals. Edited August 16 by Saint_clark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 minute ago, Saint_clark said: Of course he could, Mara is not despite what some on here say literally the worst player in the world which means there are millions of players worse than him. In 3176 championship minutes 1909 Prem minutes respectively, compared to 621 championship minutes and 541 Prem minutes for Mara. In fact if you take Maras ratio and give him the same amount of minutes Archer had, he would have ended up with 20 championship goals and 3/4 Prem goals. #Carilloalert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Just now, CB Fry said: #Carilloalert Just a long winded way of saying that just because Archer has more goals at a year older and literally thousands of minutes more game time, it doesn't mean he's actually any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefizzy14 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Welcome onboard Cameron Archer 😊 very happy with this signing. He can score goals and he's raring to go having had a strong pre season. In the squad for tomorrow, confirmed by RM 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M271 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Aston Villa forum for him has 266 pages and was started in 2019 when he came on for his Senior debut. They seem to generally like him and wish him good luck. Some comments: Being as objective as possible I think he'll never be prolific in the Premier League. Always liked Archer. I hope he goes on to have a wonderful career. He deserves it. One of the few of our ex-players whose career I will follow with interest. Hopefully he has a sense of permanence in his career now and can score loads of goals. I was never a big fan of the buyback deal, good luck to him in the future. £15m is a little more than I thought we'd get after the non-starter of last season. Hope he does well, he's just not suited to our system. If they play to his strengths he'll get a minimum of 10 goals Good luck, cya next season etc.. joking aside, good luck apart from when playing us! Finally looks like a permanent home for him, hopefully can kick on from there! I like Archer, but feel like he's going to be one of those Dwight Gayle types that has excellent seasons in the Championship and then can't quite make it translate to the Premier League. He has some great natural instincts but he doesn't really have the size, pace or strength at this level which you're never really going to get away with when the standard is so high. He wouldn't be a bad squad option by any means but it's just a move that makes sense given the circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 34 minutes ago, Saint_clark said: In 3176 championship minutes and 1909 Prem minutes respectively, compared to 621 championship minutes and 541 Prem minutes for Mara. In fact if you take Maras ratio and give him the same amount of minutes Archer had, he would have ended up with 20 championship goals and 3/4 Prem goals. Can counter that Mara had not shown enough to get into the team in the first place there and had come on to play against tiring players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Most exciting signing? This one’s made me quiver. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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