Transfer Rumours The 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

Not sure I like the idea of giving you a "semi-agree"

 

I didn't consider Tadic to be a success; after the first few games he was very average - I need to stress that I rate him and, sans injury, I hope he'll be excellent, but last season he was carrying an injury that made him a failure in my eyes. I'm hoping he won't turn into a Gaston and be always about to show his astounding form.
Elia and Duricic were definite no-nos.
Funnily enough, Taider impressed me more than any player I've seen in a Saints shirt in the preseason game he managed. Not a mistake and some sublime passing. However, he appears to have been a twot when it came to personality.

So, over all signings last year, I'd rate 6 successes, 4 failures. Even rating Tadic as neutral it's 6:3. So we do miss. It's bound to happen but it's controllable if the rest are as good as we regularly seem to manage.

And, yes, it's hypothetical until it's on the OS.

Vin

 

snap!

 

I have faith in the black box. It's just been proven time and again from past windows that this is traditionally not the best time to get value for money from signings and teams don't want to lose good attacking players. As you said, it's not happended yet so fingers crossed nothing comes of it (or we've been working to bring in Payet and Markovic behind the scenes!)

 

Crisatunity?

 

Well that made me laugh before I leave work

Forgot about Elia & Djuricic and funny you say that about Taider because I remember watching the Leverkusen game and thinking "wow we've got a player here!" then a few days later he was off

The point I'm making is we had an unusually high success rate last summer when it comes to transfers, can we always hit those percentages?

 

Great signing for them.

 

We would be absolutely crazy to sell our key player at this point IMO.

 

Well it doesn't sound like everyone is totally chilled

 

I'm chilled, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see this happen if United are *really* determined to get him. I hope they're just testing the water and we tell them to bugger off.

 

Fair enough, but I don't know when is a good time to get value for money really.

Let's hope it doesn't happen, but if it does let's take the shirts off all of their backs

 

I can tell you're chilled.

 

It's also nice to see Saints as one of the lead stories on Sky for a change ...

 

I may go break my other thumb.

 

Saints 33/1 to be relegated, think I may stick £50 on that

 

Why would you do that? Are you very flush at the moment!?

 

Why would you even do it if you are flush? Should just give it to a homeless person.

 

Not really logical include loan deals into our success in transfers as they are relativity risk free. If they don't work out we don't purchase them, so it is completely different to actual players bought or sold. Elia and djuricic didn't work out, but have not affected the club aside from a year of wages.

 

Forget bring flush, why would someone want to bet against their own team.