Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 1 - 10 June, 16 June - 1 September

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Puck said:
Which players were proud and excited to play for us after relegation? Even Le Tissier only says he hopes he'd have given us a year if we'd been relegated when he was here.
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He’d have been a Spurs player if it wasn’t for his wife. <whistle>

(watch the latest early doors show)
 
So I assume we still have Edozie, Diaz, Smallbone and Aribo going out the door. Not sure if any others at this stage.

I wonder if one of the central defenders is not also due to go.

And then whether there is space in the squad for any more incomings. Or if there will be no more incomings unless there are more outgoings

For example - if the PSV interest in Archer materialises we would probably be short at central striker. But the club might not think so as they’d say we have 3 in Armstrong, Stewart and Downs
 
Gregm1988 said:
So I assume we still have Edozie, Diaz, Smallbone and Aribo going out the door. Not sure if any others at this stage.

I wonder if one of the central defenders is not also due to go.

And then whether there is space in the squad for any more incomings. Or if there will be no more incomings unless there are more outgoings

For example - if the PSV interest in Archer materialises we would probably be short at central striker. But the club might not think so as they’d say we have 3 in Armstrong, Stewart and Downs
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Really hope they don’t let him go unless they are 100% replacing him. I’m not sure Arma can be depended upon for the foreseeable unless his back problem is not as bad as it seems.
 
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Gregm1988 said:
So I assume we still have Edozie, Diaz, Smallbone and Aribo going out the door. Not sure if any others at this stage.

I wonder if one of the central defenders is not also due to go.

And then whether there is space in the squad for any more incomings. Or if there will be no more incomings unless there are more outgoings

For example - if the PSV interest in Archer materialises we would probably be short at central striker. But the club might not think so as they’d say we have 3 in Armstrong, Stewart and Downs
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You could possibly look at another midfielder if Smallbone and Aribo both leave but I think we may be okay having Charles, Downes and Jander competing to start with Sesay as an option and Edwards (or Stephens?) able to fill in if absolutely necessary. EDIT: I forgot Matsuki. He can play there too or possibly further forward.

Striker is the tough one for me. I wouldn't want to rely on Stewart staying fit all season, Downs doesn't look the finished article yet and if the plan is to get the ball wide and put in crosses I'm not sure that will suit Archer (or Armstrong, even though Still keeps picking him up there) so if there's interest I might be tempted to let Archer leave and bring in another target man type to start, with Armstrong moving out wide. Having said that, I couldn't name a signing I'd want and Archer offers something different to the others, especially if teams decide to play a high defensive line against us. So yeah, tough one.
 
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tomw24 said:
So we've turned Dibling and Fernandes into Azaz, Fellows, Jander and Scienza. I deem that acceptable. <cool>
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Seems like we were waiting to see what happened with Dibling and Fernandes before going for others, makes sense.

Hopefully they are good, very easy to get sucked into hype with new signings when reality says not all of them work out
 
tomw24 said:
So we've turned Dibling and Fernandes into Azaz, Fellows, Jander and Scienza. I deem that acceptable. <cool>
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The good thing is the players left after last year who haven't already jumped ship, or been pushed off the plank are going to really up their game!
 
People talk of this need for a squad of 25 as being the right number to work with ... If the four touted today arrive then we're left with 31 (see below). I'd expect those in red to move on in some form and leave us with 26 - at least 2 in every position plus the extra GK and 3 additional.

GK - Bazunu, McCarthy, Long
RB - Roerslev, Bree
LB - Manning, Welington, Taylor
CB - Stephens, Harwood-Bellis, Edwards, Wood, Quarshie
CM - Downes, Charles, Jander, Smallbone, Matsuki, Azaz, Aribo, Sesay
LW - Robinson, Scienza, Brereton Diaz, Edozie
RW - Armstrong, Fraser, Fellows
ST - Stewart, Archer, Downs

If the above happens - I call that a successful window (at least on paper!)
 
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tomw24 said:
So we've turned Dibling and Fernandes into Azaz, Fellows, Jander and Scienza. I deem that acceptable. <cool>
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Have to hand it to the club, they've handled the comms side of today very well. If there are medicals happening today I wonder if they held back on leaking some of that news so they could bury the bad news of the Fernandes departure under a pile of incoming players.
 
Paddy Podped said:
MELTDOWN TIME!!!






Or time to remember we’re not a big club.


The whole 50m thing is just negotiating. If we’re happy at 40m we don’t tell West Ham that, or they only go half way to 40 instead of half way to 50 to get a deal.


Fernandes is a good player BUT could you really say in the 3 games so far in the Champ he’s stood out above everyone else and was clearly too good for the league?




And finally, however good he is, he doesn’t actually fit Will Still’s system very well. (Similar issue to Bruno Fernandes at Man Utd).




The news is brilliant news for anyone wanting ammunition to bash SR with but I think with a step back it actually makes lots of sense (providing we re invest well)
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I’ve been out all day since the MF news.
I’ve seen the various new Saint X! threads.
Catch me up, is the reversal mood still MELTDOWN? The words pathetic and caved were being used a lot this morning.


Or are we now all proSR and back on board the we’re-going-to-win-the-league train?
 
Every window i come here to read "have we signed anyone yet!" Is this a record for the most Saint (insert name) on the top page?
 
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