To use the house analogy from yesterday, if you look at a house for 500k and think, this is me, put in a low ball offer to try it on, don't be surprised if someone else who really wants it hears you have gone low ball and just offers the asking price to save messing around.
Can't for thr life of me believe in all honesty why we'd sign Ross Stewart, Out injured until mid/late September.
Because he's a proven goal scorer at this level? 10 goals in 13 games before he got injured last season.
Me too - This is the deal we should be pursuing. - But again he could be a player I suppose same as Stewart who know we want them but are waiting.
Per transfermarkt Stewart can play across the front line and Piroe can be central or off the right. Would it be dreaming to get both if we are offloading other strikers and wide players For example given they both have one year left on their contracts I’d expect us to be able to get both for the fee we get for either Sulemana or Tella. And that isn’t factoring in potentially selling both, Taul Paul and Che. But maybe that is veering too much into Football Manager style thinking. And relies on the players actually moving
I`ve just spoken to someone who spoke with Ross Stewart recently - he let slip after a few beers that he thought he`d end up at Saints. Martin tried to sign him previously at Swansea and MK apparently.
Yeah I would be okay with signing both but that would definitely mean we would have to shift Onuachu and Adams first in my personal opinion.
It goes back to my above point on whether he is our only striker signing. If he is then i agree. But I don’t think he should be given the fee shouldn’t be that high. He is valued under €3m on transfermarkt. The most I’ve seen people go over is triple when the club really doesn’t want to sell. But one year on the contract brings that down as well It really should be possible to get him and Piroe. And play them both in the same system as well (on paper at least).
The most disappointing thing seems to be that the links with Piroe are all for Leeds and Leicester I guess we should just hope he is one of those players who is prepared to wait for us to move players on. Although other than the manager I can’t see why he would if a definite offer comes from one of the others
Are people just putting 2+2 together re Martin and Piroe? Have we actually been linked to him anywhere reliable that I haven’t seen? Only things I’ve seen is that Leicester are going to get him Don’t know much about Stewart but he seems the one we are targeting.
Loaning out one of our best players?, hmm makes sense... https://insidefutbol.com/2023/07/25/french-club-keen-on-signing-southampton-man-on-loan/612483/
I assumed this was going to be Sulemana which may have made some degree of sense. If no one was going to make sure we didn’t make a loss on him we would loan him, hope for promotion and have him back if we went up. And then we’d get the wages off the books But doesn’t make sense for KWP
