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On 17/11/2024 at 16:33, FarehamSaintJames said:

Quite simply why would an eighteen year old kid from Brazil want to come over to a cold miserable country, poor relegation threatened team in a second language in order to force his way it Real Madrid’s team?

You don't know about the father of Brazilian football do you? 

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Tommy Mulgrew

Tommy Mulgrew

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Ibrahim Maza: 18 year-old at Hertha Berlin, apparently, not merely Endrick.

https://www.footballfancast.com/southampton-plotting-january-loan-move-for-real-madrid-endrick/
 

Attacking midfielder.  Looks promising.  Seems we are planning ahead for MF’s replacement already.  But …  In true Saints’ style likely to cost less than his predecessor.  In that way lies SR’s profits ever increasing and Saints’ ever downward league position trajectory (as if it needed any help).  🙁

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Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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Seem to be looking to invest in lots of young, high upside players. That's strange, if we wanted to stay up surely we'd be looking for players who are good to go now and can help us this season. It's as if it's part of a wider strategy...

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

Seem to be looking to invest in lots of young, high upside players. That's strange, if we wanted to stay up surely we'd be looking for players who are good to go now and can help us this season. It's as if it's part of a wider strategy...

Yep, it’s called pissing your money up against the wall.  

Why can’t we just be a normal fucking football club instead of this clever bollocks bullshit.

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Dman

Dman

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9 hours ago, Tommy Mulgrew said:

Ibrahim Maza: 18 year-old at Hertha Berlin, apparently, not merely Endrick.

https://www.footballfancast.com/southampton-plotting-january-loan-move-for-real-madrid-endrick/
 

Attacking midfielder.  Looks promising.  Seems we are planning ahead for MF’s replacement already.  But …  In true Saints’ style likely to cost less than his predecessor.  In that way lies SR’s profits ever increasing and Saints’ ever downward league position trajectory (as if it needed any help).  🙁

absolutely nothing wrong with that, btw. Its the model brighton have followed and its worked a treat for them. 

Get your replacement through the door a year or 2 before and give them time to bed in and adjust. 

1 thing you can't critise SR of is spending money. They've spent relatively big money each window. The problem, is that the money they've spend hasn't been wise. 

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Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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9 minutes ago, Dman said:

absolutely nothing wrong with that, btw. Its the model brighton have followed and its worked a treat for them. 

Get your replacement through the door a year or 2 before and give them time to bed in and adjust. 

1 thing you can't critise SR of is spending money. They've spent relatively big money each window. The problem, is that the money they've spend hasn't been wise. 

What they probably won't be doing is chasing the dragon of staying in the Premier League and spending on players like in Jan 2023. Strategy allows relegation by the look of things.

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Dman

Dman

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38 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

What they probably won't be doing is chasing the dragon of staying in the Premier League and spending on players like in Jan 2023. Strategy allows relegation by the look of things.

So you've gone from "theres no money" to "they probably wont spend" after a couple of links in the papers. Almost like you're talking our of your arse. 

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Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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20 minutes ago, Dman said:

 

So you've gone from "theres no money" to "they probably wont spend" after a couple of links in the papers. Almost like you're talking our of your arse. 

Literally never said there was no money - SR have consistently shown they are happy to spend money. What I said we don't have the headroom in PSR to give us a good chance of staying up. As I said previously, I think we needed to spend nearly £200m to revamp the squad ready for the Prem.

What I didn't say was that we couldn't spend £5-10m (or £1-2m real term for PSR purposes) on low wage, high upside players for next year's attempt at getting re-promoted. In fact I expressly said it and that is the likely transfers we'd see. Quite funny that after I said it we started looking at young players. What a coincidence. Again.

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trousers

trousers

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1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

Literally never said there was no money - SR have consistently shown they are happy to spend money. What I said we don't have the headroom in PSR to give us a good chance of staying up. As I said previously, I think we needed to spend nearly £200m to revamp the squad ready for the Prem.

What I didn't say was that we couldn't spend £5-10m (or £1-2m real term for PSR purposes) on low wage, high upside players for next year's attempt at getting re-promoted. In fact I expressly said it and that is the likely transfers we'd see. Quite funny that after I said it we started looking at young players. What a coincidence. Again.

Any chance you could remind us at least 3 times a day how on-the-ball you are with this PSR malarkey? I tend to lose track if its only mentioned every now and then. Much obliged....

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Turkish

Turkish

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18 hours ago, notnowcato said:

Registered an interest in Endrick.... could someone call my nurse please, I think the meds need reducing.

maybe Endrick believes in the philosophy, have you considered that for one second?

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Turkish

Turkish

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11 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Seem to be looking to invest in lots of young, high upside players. That's strange, if we wanted to stay up surely we'd be looking for players who are good to go now and can help us this season. It's as if it's part of a wider strategy...

after the success of the 2022/23 transfer window where we nailed it by signing a whole host of bright young things this seems to be a great way to approach things. If we can sell just one of them for 5x profit thats the player trading success we need.

Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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1 hour ago, trousers said:

Any chance you could remind us at least 3 times a day how on-the-ball you are with this PSR malarkey? I tend to lose track if its only mentioned every now and then. Much obliged....

Muttleys Medals - YouTube

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Happy to! I think the issue is more that some posters forget about it...

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Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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50 minutes ago, Turkish said:

after the success of the 2022/23 transfer window where we nailed it by signing a whole host of bright young things this seems to be a great way to approach things. If we can sell just one of them for 5x profit thats the player trading success we need.

Yup, seems to be that tactic doesn't it?

Turkish

Turkish

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15 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Yup, seems to be that tactic doesn't it?

Player trading company ain’t we. Results on the pitch don’t matter nor should they, we ain’t going to win the league so having a philosophy, trading players and winning the stats trophies are wins for us 

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Miltonaggro

Miltonaggro

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7 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Literally never said there was no money - SR have consistently shown they are happy to spend money. What I said we don't have the headroom in PSR to give us a good chance of staying up. As I said previously, I think we needed to spend nearly £200m to revamp the squad ready for the Prem.

What I didn't say was that we couldn't spend £5-10m (or £1-2m real term for PSR purposes) on low wage, high upside players for next year's attempt at getting re-promoted. In fact I expressly said it and that is the likely transfers we'd see. Quite funny that after I said it we started looking at young players. What a coincidence. Again.

The do seem happy to spend money, just wish they'd find the £12m apparently needed to send Rusty & the Relegators packing.  Maybe Kraft, Ankersen, and Hoover could contribute their performance bonuses.

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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What are peoples thoughts on Christoph Baumgartner and Michael Gregoritsch?

I've never seen them at club level, only international and they don't seem too bad. CTDAJFU?

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Saint86

Saint86

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13 minutes ago, Master Bates said:

No idea.

Saints are interested in Endrick.  Media outlets yesterday saying a loan deal was ready but obviously....

 

 

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Allow me to state my immense surprise at this rumour turning out to be complete horseshit.

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Turkish

Turkish

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52 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

No wonder we couldn't compete with Ipswich 

 

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We need to find a striker that's a errrrrrr, Craig David fan. 

Coldplay? We could get the drummer to call someone. Just imagine the sort of dull, middle class has been we can get using that tactic 

benjii

benjii

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16 hours ago, Saint NL said:

No wonder we couldn't compete with Ipswich 

 

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We need to find a striker that's a errrrrrr, Craig David fan. 

Craig David is immensely more talented than Ed Fucking Sheeran!

StrangelyBrown

StrangelyBrown

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On 21/11/2024 at 16:55, Master Bates said:

No idea.

Saints are interested in Endrick.  Media outlets yesterday saying a loan deal was ready but obviously....

 

 

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I'm not sure Endrick's stats on needlessly passing the ball backwards in the final third are going to be good enough for us.

Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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1 hour ago, StrangelyBrown said:

I'm not sure Endrick's stats on needlessly passing the ball backwards in the final third are going to be good enough for us.

Pace

Finishing

Striker

As much use to RussBall as Holgate. 🙂

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Baz Fl

Baz Fl

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3 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

More chance of signing Baldrick.

He’s currently in charge of recruitment, so not sure he would have time.

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Forester

Forester

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In order for this window to have any meaning beyond reducing the squad size down, we need in my opinion to be in double figures of points.

Last season it was possible to have stayed up with just 30 points, and so at the halfway mark, which is eight more games, we need to be not too far short of half that total.

Unrealistic in my view that we will pick up 11 more points, which is what is needed to even reach this low milestone, by halfway, but it’s crucial we are a win or so away.  Realistically I see our only path to this being to win the Wet Spam and Palace games, and perhaps a draw in one or two other matches.  If we could do this and be on 12 points there is enough of a sniff to encourage a player to sign.  Otherwise it’s a suicide pact.

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gio1saints

gio1saints

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On 21/11/2024 at 07:54, Farmer Saint said:

What they probably won't be doing is chasing the dragon of staying in the Premier League and spending on players like in Jan 2023. Strategy allows relegation by the look of things.

That does look the approach SR are following. It’s unpopular with fans - but pencilling in a high probability of relegation this season and budgeting spending accordingly is simply good housekeeping.  It’s what id do with my own money. 

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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37 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Scored less goals in Belgium than Onuachu and we don't give him a chance, ffs.

Why would you get annoyed about a made up story from a random Twitter account?

Turkish

Turkish

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26 minutes ago, Baz Fl said:

Just watched Ipswich play and Delap is so much better the BBD, our record on transfers is criminal. 

He was very good today. 6 goals in 12 games this season too is a good return. Only 3 less than our entire team 

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Saint86

Saint86

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On 24/11/2024 at 18:58, Turkish said:

He was very good today. 6 goals in 12 games this season too is a good return. Only 3 less than our entire team 

Can't be. The all knowing footballing experts on here wrote him off months ago and ridiculed those of us who said he had what it takes to score at this level. He is an excellent signing for Ipswich - a quality striker for years to come or a tidy transfer profit. Either way, he would certainly have been a good buy for Saints, doubly so given the amount of money we've wasted on strikers.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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Just now, Saint86 said:

Can't be. The all knowing footballing experts on here wrote him off months ago and ridiculed those of us who said he had what it takes to score at this level. He is an excellent signing for Ipswich - a quality striker for years to come or a tidy transfer profit. Either way, he would certainly have been a good buy for Saints, doubly so given the amount of money we've wasted on strikers.

TBF we did try to sign him and he turned us down. 

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Saint86

Saint86

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23 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

TBF we did try to sign him and he turned us down. 

Yeah i'm not debating that - by all accounts we've been after him for a few windows. Yet another example of what happens when trying to save a couple of million likely ends up costing us tens of millions upon relegation. Arguably more so given there are also numerous cases where we then gone out and spent circa £10-20M on backup signings that aren't good enough as well.

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