I still think ABK/Bednarek will go - to a PL team on loan now perhaps? Otherwise, as good as it is to have an embarrassment of riches, it's a bit mad/unsustainable having players on Bednarek etc money not even making the bench!!
This can only mean Sulemana is staying for my money. Him and Fraser with Edozie and SAA off the bench is absolutely electric in this league tbh. I get that one more would have been ideal.
Yeah if he stays and is committed those are decent wide options. The way things are right now, this squad is better than last seasons by a mile lol
Unfortunate that it seems the players that we currently have that don’t want to be here are holding up fresh recruitment. However, if Martin can get Che, ABK and Sulemana to play, while keeping backups happy, then we have a ludicrously overpowered squad with no excuses for not tearing a giant ****ing hole in this division. I think it does present problems for our better academy players and we may see that come back in the future but we absolutely have the squad necessary for promotion. Been a weird window. Really weird.
Saints need to just announce Stewart and then turn all the phones off and disconnect from the internet for the next five hours.
Yeah, one of the upshots of having a squad of 45 players last year who were all not quite good enough for the PL is that we can sell 20 of them and still have 25 players who are quite good enough for the Championship. Much rather Sulemana than Roberts. Watching Championship CBs trying to chase him down is going to be a form of entertainment unto itself.
Great to have such incredible depth at CB but I do feel that our resources would be better spent elsewhere. Still, if ABK is reintegrated and we do go straight back up, we might actually be able to develop him properly and get the best out of him in the prem.
Well done to Saints for standing firm on Kamaldeen, ABK and Alcaraz. Clearly those were the ones Ankersen was referencing at the start of the summer in terms of young talented players who we would try to dig our heels in to keep.
Yeah I really didn’t expect Sulemana to stay. So IF he does, then that’s the Tella replacement right there in my eyes.
Feels like there a few players who may look a bit unhappy for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully good sense and RM will then get them to the point where they accept they need to make a positive contribution if they want to leave in Jan.