Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[lambtiss]

4 minutes ago, austsaint said:

Not normally a fan of re-signing players, but Valery at RB next season would be fine with me.   How old is he now, 26, 27.   Showed a lot at times when a Saint as a young player.

He seemed to have the talent but lacked concentration and focus.

Edited Wednesday at 08:06 by lambtiss

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, lambtiss said:

He seemed to have the talent but lacked concentration and focus.

Could only really play RWB in a 5 too, suspect as a RB in a 4.

[lambtiss]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

Could only really play RWB in a 5 too, suspect as a RB in a 4.

Yes, seemed to get caught napping too often

[waylander]

58 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Could only really play RWB in a 5 too, suspect as a RB in a 4.

True when he was with us, appeared to have improved

[Tommy Mulgrew]

 

23 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

He's played right wing most of the season.

I was surprised by that.  He has started 14 games at LB, LWB, RB, RWB; 20 at RW and 3 at LW.  As a sub, he has replaced a midfielder 4 times and LB, LWB, LW and RB once each.  Admirable versatility.  I expect he’s glad he left us.  When I saw him play for us he looked slow and ponderous and out of place here but he must have developed pretty well to have started so many games and in so many positions, too, albeit in league 1 and the cup.

[Lighthouse]

11 hours ago, austsaint said:

Not normally a fan of re-signing players, but Valery at RB next season would be fine with me.   How old is he now, 26, 27.   Showed a lot at times when a Saint as a young player.

Another reasonable enough Championship player who looked out of his depth at PL level. We have dozens of those already, I’ve no idea why anyone would want to sign more. We have absolutely bucket loads of ‘squad players’, ‘options’ and ‘filler’, anyone we bring in needs to be of real quality, in order to a) get promoted and b) stay there.

[SWLondon Saint]

17 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Another reasonable enough Championship player who looked out of his depth at PL level. We have dozens of those already, I’ve no idea why anyone would want to sign more. We have absolutely bucket loads of ‘squad players’, ‘options’ and ‘filler’, anyone we bring in needs to be of real quality, in order to a) get promoted and b) stay there.

I don't think Valery would add anything to the squad either, but I would add that Liam Delap really didn't show anything at Hull last season that said how well he'd do in the Prem. You can't usually get guaranteed 'real quality' of prem ability in the Championship for obvious reasons so it's always gonna be a gamble of some kind...

[chivvy]

A few highly rated championship players went up to premier last season with very mixed results .

Summerville hardly a roaring success and was supposedly best player in division but we nulified him in play off final 

Armstrong no

Delap yes

Greaves ok

Clark meh

Smodzic meh

Can't think of many who tore it up and should stay there other than delap .

Rutter? 

Edited Thursday at 02:13 by chivvy

[Dman]

5 hours ago, chivvy said:

A few highly rated championship players went up to premier last season with very mixed results .

Summerville hardly a roaring success and was supposedly best player in division but we nulified him in play off final 

Armstrong no

Delap yes

Greaves ok

Clark meh

Smodzic meh

Can't think of many who tore it up and should stay there other than delap .

Rutter? 

Ipswich are going to comfortably win the championship next season. 

They have a brilliant squad for this level. 

[waylander]

40 minutes ago, Dman said:

Ipswich are going to comfortably win the championship next season. 

They have a brilliant squad for this level. 

Rather depends on how many of that squad get a move to stay in the PL

[Rebel]

1 hour ago, Dman said:

Ipswich are going to comfortably win the championship next season. 

They have a brilliant squad for this level. 

They will lose Liam Delap and Leif Davis to premier league teams I would think - plus they have quite a few players on loan like Encisco, Godfrey,  Cajuste and Phillips who will nearly all go as well.   Luongo and Tzunabe are out of contract as well and will probably leave.  Burgess is as well but I think he will stay.  The squad that's left look a bit weak in central midfield but I would think they will be contenders for promotion once they spend a bit of money on replacements.

Unfortunately with Ipswich, Leicester and us going down and Birmingham and Wrexham coming up to the championship and clubs like Sunderland, Coventry and Middlesbrough it will be a tough league next season.

Leicester look like they could be in trouble due to their finances so maybe they will implode and count themselves out.  They will probably have to cash in on players like Hermansen,  Ndidi, Soumare, Faes and El Khannouss,  Plus Oedoaurd and Buonaatte are on loan and Vardy is out of contract.

We really need a good summer transfer window and a good manager if we are to be in the running next season though. 

 

 

[OldNick]

8 minutes ago, Rebel said:

They will lose Liam Delap and Leif Davis to premier league teams I would think - plus they have quite a few players on loan like Encisco, Godfrey,  Cajuste and Phillips who will nearly all go as well.   Luongo and Tzunabe are out of contract as well and will probably leave.  Burgess is as well but I think he will stay.  The squad that's left look a bit weak in central midfield but I would think they will be contenders for promotion once they spend a bit of money on replacements.

Unfortunately with Ipswich, Leicester and us going down and Birmingham and Wrexham coming up to the championship and clubs like Sunderland, Coventry and Middlesbrough it will be a tough league next season.

Leicester look like they could be in trouble due to their finances so maybe they will implode and count themselves out.  They will probably have to cash in on players like Hermansen,  Ndidi, Soumare, Faes and El Khannouss,  Plus Oedoaurd and Buonaatte are on loan and Vardy is out of contract.

We really need a good summer transfer window and a good manager if we are to be in the running next season though. 

 

 

Yep if Leicester can hold on to Ndid who was the best midflieder in the league last season. What has happened to that winger who came on and destroyed us last season and at St Marys? He was quick and could finish?

[disconnect]

4 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Yep if Leicester can hold on to Ndid who was the best midflieder in the league last season. What has happened to that winger who came on and destroyed us last season and at St Marys? He was quick and could finish?

I think that was Fatawu, who was on loan from Sporting and they signed him permanently in the summer. He picked up a bad injury earlier in the season and has been out for quite a while now. 

[OldNick]

8 minutes ago, disconnect said:

I think that was Fatawu, who was on loan from Sporting and they signed him permanently in the summer. He picked up a bad injury earlier in the season and has been out for quite a while now. 

I think thats him, he was incredible and a big threat if he returns. 

[disconnect]

31 minutes ago, Rebel said:

They will lose Liam Delap and Leif Davis to premier league teams I would think - plus they have quite a few players on loan like Encisco, Godfrey,  Cajuste and Phillips who will nearly all go as well.   Luongo and Tzunabe are out of contract as well and will probably leave.  Burgess is as well but I think he will stay.  The squad that's left look a bit weak in central midfield but I would think they will be contenders for promotion once they spend a bit of money on replacements.

Unfortunately with Ipswich, Leicester and us going down and Birmingham and Wrexham coming up to the championship and clubs like Sunderland, Coventry and Middlesbrough it will be a tough league next season.

Leicester look like they could be in trouble due to their finances so maybe they will implode and count themselves out.  They will probably have to cash in on players like Hermansen,  Ndidi, Soumare, Faes and El Khannouss,  Plus Oedoaurd and Buonaatte are on loan and Vardy is out of contract.

We really need a good summer transfer window and a good manager if we are to be in the running next season though. 

 

 

Would Ipswich not be in a bit of trouble with finances? Spent net ~£130million this year and were in League One the season before last so potentially need to sell a bit more than just Delap and Davis? That said, seeing as barely anything ever happens, they will probably spend another net £50million and be fine! 

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, Dman said:

Ipswich are going to comfortably win the championship next season. 

They have a brilliant squad for this level. 

They'll lose a few but like us got quite a few who are good in the championship but not good enough for the Premier league. If their managers stays though i'd expect them to be there or there abouts

[Saint86]

2 hours ago, Dman said:

Ipswich are going to comfortably win the championship next season. 

They have a brilliant squad for this level. 

Depends if they lose McKenna to a prem side, which could happen. They're bankrolled to the hilt by their ownership group unfortunatley, right on PSR loss limits last season and the owners paid all that off to keep them debt free. Its a very good job for McKenna.

Edited Thursday at 09:35 by Saint86

[Turkish]

25 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Depends if they lose McKenna to a prem side, which could happen. They're bankrolled to the hilt by their ownership group unfortunatley, right on PSR loss limits last season and the owners paid all that off to keep them debt free. Its a very good job for McKenna.

How is that possible? Thought the whole point of PSR was so that couldn't happen.

[Saint86]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

How is that possible? Thought the whole point of PSR was so that couldn't happen.

The owners have provided cash injections to fully underwrite the losses, so as a business they're basically debt free, and they're within the loss PSR rules.

The following is for the 23/24 reporting period - so not this season, although i would imagine they're fine after a year in the prem.

https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/49240/town-accounts-show-�39.3m-loss-and-turnover-increase-by-71-per-cent

Town's accounts for the year to June 2024 show a total loss of £39.3 million and turnover increasing by 71 per cent to £37.3 million.

The loss, an increase of 116 per cent on the previous year (£18.17 million), was wholly expected in the season in which the Blues, newly risen from League One, climbed into the Premier League at the first attempt with £16.3 million of those losses promotion costs. Without those promotion costs, bonuses etc, the increase in losses is reduced to 26 per cent.

The entire loss was covered by cash injections by the owners of £39.2 million with the club having no external debt, aside from the £391,000 in loan notes issued in the years following the club’s spell in administration just over 20 years ago.

The 71 per cent increase in turnover to £37.3 million - £21.8 million the previous year - was led by league, retail, commercial and ticket incomes.


As was the case last year, Town have published their Profitability and Sustainability (P&S) position - Financial Fair Play limitations - with eligible losses £34.9 million over three years and the threshold £39 million, giving Town headroom of more than 10 per cent.

 

EFL per season losses are £13m per season (giving the £39m limit). After a year in the premier league, they can replace one of the £13M per season loss limits with a £35M (premier league) loss per season. So their allowable losses at the end of this current season's reporting period will be £61M. I also doubt whether they'll have made much of a loss this season with a largely EFL squad and premier league monies. So with owners that are seemingly prepared to underwrite losses, i would imagine they can spend a shit load of cash by championship standards with minimal concerns over balancing the books.

Conversely, saints made a profit of £5M last season due significantly to transfer sales - and within that paid down our debts by a significant amount (think it was like £20M or something). I assume we'll have done the same again this season re the debts. But like it or not, Ipswich are gonna be spendy spendy for the championship i suspect next season (subject to the owners continuing to back them), and unless Dragan wants to back saints, i doubt we'll match them.

Edited Thursday at 12:55 by Saint86

[Turkish]

Thanks for the above

Given you’d think it looks likely that two of the three that came down last year are going straight back up with Leeds and Luton if indeed they survive will be in the second year of their parachute payments you’d think the three relegated sides would be in a much better position then the rest of the division with regard to spending 

i don’t really know what Leicester situation is but they’d still be able to attract some decent loans and a decent manager to give them a shot of promotion so in theory all 3 should be strong this year 
 

that said given SRs track record I’ve little confidence in them to spend it properly so who knows what will happen. Hopefully sensible signings and appointments rather than spunking it on injured strikers and ones for the future like our last relegation 

[Midfield_General]

4 hours ago, OldNick said:

I think thats him, he was incredible and a big threat if he returns. 

To be fair, Russ made Fatawu look like a world beater by bringing on his old buddy Fraser at left back for him to absolutely destroy. 

Fraser got skinned all ends up by him for their first goal, then straight after that stood off him and let him get a shot away which hit the bar. For good measure he then gave away a penalty, from which they equalised, and got sent off. 

A masterful substitution which turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat. 

Although in that match the penalty not given by that wanker Taylor for the blatant foul against Onuachu remains the most outrageous decision we've had against us this season. 

[OldNick]

25 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

To be fair, Russ made Fatawu look like a world beater by bringing on his old buddy Fraser at left back for him to absolutely destroy. 

Fraser got skinned all ends up by him for their first goal, then straight after that stood off him and let him get a shot away which hit the bar. For good measure he then gave away a penalty, from which they equalised, and got sent off. 

A masterful substitution which turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat. 

Although in that match the penalty not given by that wanker Taylor for the blatant foul against Onuachu remains the most outrageous decision we've had against us this season. 

He also tore us a new one at their place, scored a hat trick I think you will find

[woodsaint1]

Our recruitment this summer needs to be players who could make the step up into the PL. Obviously difficult to identify and sign such players when you're in the Championship, but we absolutely do not need Ryan Fraser or Charlie Taylor type signings.

A couple of very good Championship players in mind -

Hamer (Coventry) AM

Cirkin (Sunderland) LB

Sainz (Norwich) LW

 

[CSA96]

18 minutes ago, woodsaint1 said:

Our recruitment this summer needs to be players who could make the step up into the PL. Obviously difficult to identify and sign such players when you're in the Championship, but we absolutely do not need Ryan Fraser or Charlie Taylor type signings.

A couple of very good Championship players in mind -

Hamer (Coventry) AM

Cirkin (Sunderland) LB

Sainz (Norwich) LW

 

Hamer plays for Sheffield United and could end up in the Premier League. Agree on Sainz, he has impressed when I've seen him

[Turkish]

Vardy leaving Leicester! 

[Convict Colony]

45 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Vardy leaving Leicester! 

Would be more impressed if he was leaving his missus.

[BarberSaint]

9 hours ago, Rebel said:

They will lose Liam Delap and Leif Davis to premier league teams I would think - plus they have quite a few players on loan like Encisco, Godfrey,  Cajuste and Phillips who will nearly all go as well.   Luongo and Tzunabe are out of contract as well and will probably leave.  Burgess is as well but I think he will stay.  The squad that's left look a bit weak in central midfield but I would think they will be contenders for promotion once they spend a bit of money on replacements.

Unfortunately with Ipswich, Leicester and us going down and Birmingham and Wrexham coming up to the championship and clubs like Sunderland, Coventry and Middlesbrough it will be a tough league next season.

Leicester look like they could be in trouble due to their finances so maybe they will implode and count themselves out.  They will probably have to cash in on players like Hermansen,  Ndidi, Soumare, Faes and El Khannouss,  Plus Oedoaurd and Buonaatte are on loan and Vardy is out of contract.

We really need a good summer transfer window and a good manager if we are to be in the running next season though. 

 

 

 

 

Davis is crap. Only the likes of Sheff Utd would sign him.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

Vardy leaving Leicester! 

Little check to top of thread to see if it's the hcdajfu one...

Whew... 🙂

[StrangelyBrown]

Not sure why everyone thinks Ipswich are suddenly a brilliant team? Delap aside they really aren't that special by championship standards.

They got up through consistency and confidence. The confidence won't be the same next season.

[notnowcato]

Can't see us bringing more than 1 or 2 in.  Our squad is already a proven Championship contender.  Assuming Lesley returns to Chelsea I'd like to see a dominating CM in his place, other than that no position really needs filling at this point.

[spyinthesky]

Lesley has been no more than average for us across the season.
I believe he cost Chelsea around 22-25m euros and dont think any club would be looking to pay that sort of money for him.
Cant see him getting anywhere near the Chelsea first team so another loan here perchance?

[sockeye]

Norwich's Sargent has consistently hit around 15 a season for the last three years, I'd like us to take a punt on him. Assuming Ramsdale leaves, we'll need a new keeper as well. I wonder if there are any backup Premier League keepers that wouldn't mind dropping down. Millwall's keeper could be worth a shot, but he's just gotten injured. Apart from that, we should nick Colby Bishop from the Skates, because it would be funny.

[notnowcato]

11 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

Lesley has been no more than average for us across the season.
I believe he cost Chelsea around 22-25m euros and dont think any club would be looking to pay that sort of money for him.
Cant see him getting anywhere near the Chelsea first team so another loan here perchance?

Another loan for Lesley will more than likely be the case, not a chance he drops to the Championship though.  I think he's developed quite well this season, looked lost for the first 3 months or so but seems to have found his game more in recent months.

[skintsaint]

11 minutes ago, sockeye said:

Norwich's Sargent has consistently hit around 15 a season for the last three years, I'd like us to take a punt on him.

We got enough championship strikers who struggle in the PL on our books.

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

We got enough championship strikers who struggle in the PL on our books.

Are you expecting us to sign premier league players on the championship? Our problem last year was not who we recruited, it was that when we went up we didn't bin three quarters of the team. 

[Matthew Le God]

5 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

We got enough championship strikers who struggle in the PL on our books.

 

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Are you expecting us to sign premier league players on the championship? 

As we've already got them, why not use the ones we already have next season? Then get rid of them in summer 2026. 

 

 

[skintsaint]

4 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Are you expecting us to sign premier league players on the championship? Our problem last year was not who we recruited, it was that when we went up we didn't bin three quarters of the team. 

Fair point. If we do sign a striker, I expect them to be better than what we have, I don't think Sargent is that striker.

[hypochondriac]

24 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Fair point. If we do sign a striker, I expect them to be better than what we have, I don't think Sargent is that striker.

OK well that's a different conversation. I'm not sure I agree with you though, he's at least comparable to Adams who we haven't replaced. I'd get as many top championship players as we can afford and then if we get promotion get ruthless and bin the majority or at least relegate then to squad players. We probably need a couple of strikers next year and I'd be happy for Sargent to be one of them.

[waylander]

1 hour ago, StrangelyBrown said:

Not sure why everyone thinks Ipswich are suddenly a brilliant team? Delap aside they really aren't that special by championship standards.

They got up through consistency and confidence. The confidence won't be the same next season.

We even beat them

[Lighthouse]

13 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

OK well that's a different conversation. I'm not sure I agree with you though, he's at least comparable to Adams who we haven't replaced. I'd get as many top championship players as we can afford and then if we get promotion get ruthless and bin the majority or at least relegate then to squad players. We probably need a couple of strikers next year and I'd be happy for Sargent to be one of them.

He’s averaged 15 goals a season in the Championship over the last three years. In a similar period of time Armstrong has averaged 22. Aside to that, Archer has managed 18 goals in two half seasons on loan. BBD hasn’t had a great loan at the Blades but before that scored 22 and 14 in two full Championship seasons at Blackburn.

Is there a particular reason you want Sargent, when on the face of it he’s weaker than three of our current options in the most important aspect of being a forward?

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

He’s averaged 15 goals a season in the Championship over the last three years. In a similar period of time Armstrong has averaged 22. Aside to that, Archer has managed 18 goals in two half seasons on loan. BBD hasn’t had a great loan at the Blades but before that scored 22 and 14 in two full Championship seasons at Blackburn.

Is there a particular reason you want Sargent, when on the face of it he’s weaker than three of our current options in the most important aspect of being a forward?

I didn't say that I wanted Sargent, simply that I'd be happy if we did decide to go for him. I think he's a decent striker who has some attributes such as strength and power that we lack in our squad and I'd say we definitely need a bit of a refresh in the squad to give us a winning mentality. I'd probably get rid of Onuachu and the crock from Sunderland and he can be their replacement. Then we can keep Armstrong and possibly Archer and have a stronger squad overall. 

[ErwinK1961]

3 hours ago, notnowcato said:

Can't see us bringing more than 1 or 2 in.  Our squad is already a proven Championship contender.  Assuming Lesley returns to Chelsea I'd like to see a dominating CM in his place, other than that no position really needs filling at this point.

There’s not much that is guaranteed in the summer window for us, but signing more than 1 or 2 players is definitely one of them.

[hypochondriac]

12 hours ago, notnowcato said:

Can't see us bringing more than 1 or 2 in.  Our squad is already a proven Championship contender.  Assuming Lesley returns to Chelsea I'd like to see a dominating CM in his place, other than that no position really needs filling at this point.

I'd bet you a substantial amount that we will sign a lot of players. 

[Gloucester Saint]

11 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I'd bet you a substantial amount that we will sign a lot of players. 

Spors said as much quite openly as well. https://www.tribalfootball.com/article/soccer-premier-league-southampton-plan-major-sell-off-as-spors-makes-window-promise-to-fans-205e8789-8a27-4172-95db-901821403e3e

[Rebel]

13 hours ago, notnowcato said:

Can't see us bringing more than 1 or 2 in.  Our squad is already a proven Championship contender.  Assuming Lesley returns to Chelsea I'd like to see a dominating CM in his place, other than that no position really needs filling at this point.

I think we will be very busy this summer both buying and selling players.  For one thing our squad is too large at over 30 players so we need to reduce the size of it. But a lot of players - those who think they are too good for the Championship and those who don't want to take a cut in wages - will be off (Ramsdale, THB, Dibling, Fernandes, ABK, Suelmana, Sugawara, Archer, Aribo, Onuachu).  Plus we need to shift a lot of deadwood (Fraser, Stewart, Taylor, Larios, Bazunu, Lumley) and refresh/rebuild the team.

Plus Lallana, KWP and Gronbaek will probably all be gone as well. 

I wouldn't be surprised if Bednarek decides he needs to find  new club either and heads off to Italy or somewhere else in Europe.

Personally I don't think any of our strikers (Archer, Armstrong, Stewart, BBD, Onuachu) are good enough so I would get rid of the lot of them and bring in two or three with pace and power - so at least they will give us some presence up front and a physical threat.

 

 

[Midfield_General]

12 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Is there a particular reason you want Sargent, when on the face of it he’s weaker than three of our current options in the most important aspect of being a forward?

Because we haven't had a decent ginger since Svensson and we have a duty to get our numbers back up

[Suhari]

3 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Because we haven't had a decent ginger since Svensson and we have a duty to get our numbers back up

I'm willing to buy some new boots.

[Wade Garrett]

On 24/04/2025 at 09:35, Rebel said:

They will lose Liam Delap and Leif Davis to premier league teams I would think - plus they have quite a few players on loan like Encisco, Godfrey,  Cajuste and Phillips who will nearly all go as well.   Luongo and Tzunabe are out of contract as well and will probably leave.  Burgess is as well but I think he will stay.  The squad that's left look a bit weak in central midfield but I would think they will be contenders for promotion once they spend a bit of money on replacements.

Unfortunately with Ipswich, Leicester and us going down and Birmingham and Wrexham coming up to the championship and clubs like Sunderland, Coventry and Middlesbrough it will be a tough league next season.

Leicester look like they could be in trouble due to their finances so maybe they will implode and count themselves out.  They will probably have to cash in on players like Hermansen,  Ndidi, Soumare, Faes and El Khannouss,  Plus Oedoaurd and Buonaatte are on loan and Vardy is out of contract.

We really need a good summer transfer window and a good manager if we are to be in the running next season though. 

 

 

Leif Davis will be lucky to find a Premier League team.  He’s been shite this season.

[Wade Garrett]

9 hours ago, Rebel said:

I think we will be very busy this summer both buying and selling players.  For one thing our squad is too large at over 30 players so we need to reduce the size of it. But a lot of players - those who think they are too good for the Championship and those who don't want to take a cut in wages - will be off (Ramsdale, THB, Dibling, Fernandes, ABK, Suelmana, Sugawara, Archer, Aribo, Onuachu).  Plus we need to shift a lot of deadwood (Fraser, Stewart, Taylor, Larios, Bazunu, Lumley) and refresh/rebuild the team.

Plus Lallana, KWP and Gronbaek will probably all be gone as well. 

I wouldn't be surprised if Bednarek decides he needs to find  new club either and heads off to Italy or somewhere else in Europe.

Personally I don't think any of our strikers (Archer, Armstrong, Stewart, BBD, Onuachu) are good enough so I would get rid of the lot of them and bring in two or three with pace and power - so at least they will give us some presence up front and a physical threat.

 

 

Fucking hell, we won’t even be able to field a five-a-side team.

I couldn’t give a fuck whether a player is happy to take a pay cut or not.  If it’s in their contract then it’s up to the club.

Most of those wankers deserve a pay cut for the amount of effort they put in.

[kjurwi]

Would still want us to go for Victor Johansson at Stoke.