Summer Transfer Window 2025/26

[Wade Garrett]

2 hours ago, kjurwi said:

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

Great shout.

[Monk]

11 hours ago, kjurwi said:

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

Ditto. 

[tdmickey3]

17 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

17 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Great shout.

Yep, but probably end up with Victor (meldrew) from Kettering

Edited Saturday at 16:38 by tdmickey3

[SteveGc]

http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-midfielder-makes-it-clear-he-has-transfer-aim-wants-return-to-old-club/
 

Fernandes apparently wants return to Sporting 

[daldridge7]

1 hour ago, SteveGc said:

http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-midfielder-makes-it-clear-he-has-transfer-aim-wants-return-to-old-club/
 

Fernandes apparently wants return to Sporting 

Yeah he does but isn’t this out of context, doesn’t he mean at some point he would like to play for Sporting again, not just that he wants to be sold straight back. I definitely think he will leave, but there’s no point him closing off his options when there will probably at least be interest from bigger teams. 

[Appy]

On 26/04/2025 at 08:59, Monk said:

Ditto. 

Same but we’ll probably plod on with the three stooges. Bazunu, McCarthy and Lumley. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Appy

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, SteveGc said:

http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-midfielder-makes-it-clear-he-has-transfer-aim-wants-return-to-old-club/
 

Fernandes apparently wants return to Sporting 

I'd be surprised if that was his next move. He may just want to return at some point in the future, perhaps towards end of career.

I doubt Sporting Lisbon could afford either his transfer fee or wages for next season.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

19 minutes ago, daldridge7 said:

Yeah he does but isn’t this out of context, doesn’t he mean at some point he would like to play for Sporting again, not just that he wants to be sold straight back. I definitely think he will leave, but there’s no point him closing off his options when there will probably at least be interest from bigger teams. 

Yup. The quote noticeably avoids any timescales.

Making his desire clear about his future, Fernandes said: “I want to return to Sporting.”

Could be where he wants to end his career, for all that makes clear.

[Miltonaggro]

26 minutes ago, Appy said:

Same but we’ll probably plod on when the three stooges. Bazunu, McCarthy and Lumley. 

Perhaps Spors’ first test of competence at season end. If he can’t see it already we are in real trouble. Without ramsdale we’d have made that Derby side look like Real Madrid this season. Ramsdale will be off early so need a new number one in for pre-season. 

[West end Saints]

I think the league will be marginally weaker than  when we got promoted.

Our main 11, on appearance times, was 

Bazunu

 

KWP

Bednarek 

THB

Manning

 

Smallbone

Downes

Stu Armstrong

 

Ryan F

Che

Adam A

Manager Martin

Surely with players who stay, half decent manager, a few good youngsters coming through and a couple of signings we will be stronger?

I feel Shea Charles could be central for us.

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

13 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

I think the league will be marginally weaker than  when we got promoted.

Our main 11, on appearance times, was 

Bazunu

 

KWP

Bednarek 

THB

Manning

 

Smallbone

Downes

Stu Armstrong

 

Ryan F

Che

Adam A

Manager Martin

Surely with players who stay, half decent manager, a few good youngsters coming through and a couple of signings we will be stronger?

I feel Shea Charles could be central for us.

 

Yeah, I feel this too - mainly because he’s a central defensive midfielder perhaps? 😉

[woodsaint1]

While I accept that we dont need to make wholesale changes this summer....we do need wholesale changes by summer 2026 if we want to be a competitive PL team again (if we get promoted). We could be forced into doing a large chunk of that this summer.

If you take our regular starting team we're definitely losing KWP and Big Les. We're also very likely losing Ramsdale, Dibling and Fernandes. Wouldnt be surprised if one or two others tried to force a move also.

Yes we're going to need to rely on some of those players who've let us down this season (and even 22/23) but we need to keep that number to a bare minimum and they need to be squad fillers only. If we're starting next season with Bazunu, Bednarek, Stephens, Bree, Manning, Sulemana, AA or Onuachu as regular starters - then our recruitment hasnt been good enough and we're making the same mistakes again.

We likely need 6/7 new starters imo