Transfer Rumours The Summer Transfer Rumour Thread 2016

Me thinks you probably don't understand how things work if you expect Les to be doing his business out in the open.

There's only.a week and a bit to go. We'll know soon.

 

I have been amazed the Russians haven't developed their swimmers to grow more arms.

they'd actually deny anything was amiss...

 

I actually thought that was a pop up advert then and was trying to get rid of it

 

They say those adverts are tailor made for the computer user

 

Again this is best discussed over a pint.

 

Get to the Old Farmhouse before a game then.

 

You are a gift that just goes on giving.

 

Whilst we can agree that there is a week or so before the transfer window closes I think it is safe to say that that sfc have gambled on incomings over outgoings.
I desperately want to be proved wrong but the lack of ambition despite the new sky money will in my opinion be the club's downfall. That said I expect saints to remain in the epl but we will struggle if the board continues with this frugal approach.
Football has changed from when I became a fan as a kid and it makes me a bit sad but if the club want to prosper they need t to keep up with the current madness.
A part of me wishes we could still be in the lower leagues, they where good times.

 

People keep saying that about staying in the lower leagues....to stay there, you have to be crap in the lower leagues.

 

Oh if it only it was that easy, I will sometime this season, working weekends dosent help.

 

But it was fun and we won a lot of matches without the burden of premier league expectations. Maybe it's nostalgia but I think football should be like that again

 

We've won a lot of games over the last three seasons in one of the most challenging leagues in the world!
Just imagine how the Sunderland fans feel, now theres a club who would enjoy the lower levels for a while.

 

Signing 7 First Team players to long term contract extensions, whilst bringing in two highly rated young players for £10+ million each, with more players to come, does sound like a lack of ambition to be fair...

 

West Brom are now close to a loan deal for Rodriguez:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Surprised by this one, personally.

 

The Championship season holds my fondest memories as a Saints fan. We were so good and I loved the squad back then. Every win was a bonus and we blew the league away despite vying for favoritism to be relegated before the season began. Ahhh

 

I loved the Championship as well because we were top dog....however, that means that you get promoted. And we haven't exactly had a dreadful time since then. To remain in the Championship, a team has to make sure they don't finish at the top and if, by some misfortune, they make the play offs, they must take care to lose. Doesn't sound like fun to me. Every season in the Premier League has been enjoyable....it's the transfer windows that are diabolical.

 

Have I wandered into the Daily Echo comments section?

Vin

 

I find the mentality of some fans very, very strange.

I lay the blame entirely at the feet of the creators of Football Manager who allow you to manage a team for a season in a few hours or a couple of days, if you really fancy it. You can sign a player at will almost with just a couple of clicks of a mouse. I really don't get what out board are playing at, I mean if you go back to the halcyon days of Championship Manager (the pre-cursor to Football Manager by the same creators) I won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League with Crewe Alexander. I was helped by the signing of a precocious young Swedish talent by the name of Zlatan... This was in 2002 by the way, so I was clearly ahead of my time too.

What I don't understand is why we don't start every pre-season with a friendly against the local non-league side during the first week of July, then a league two or one side, gradually building up before playing two decent Eurooean teams and finishing pre-season with a confidence building hammering of a lower league Scottish team - always worked for me. This of course was always with a completed squad as I had all my signings completed by 30th June with all offers going on in a frantic couple of hours one afternoon around mid-June.

Come on Les, pull your finger out, it's easy.

 

Sounds like most premier league seasons that!