Transfer Rumours The Summer “Have We Signed Anyone Yet?” Thread

Like I said before, Ralph is being backed big. It is the only reason he decided to join us after turning us down. We went back to him and asked him what he wanted.

If Saints don't back him like they said Ralph will walk

 

You're not supposed to talk about that

 

Getting cautiously excited by this summer.

 

This isn't a f*cking piece of evidence. This is a person. He's a transfer target of ours, and you're not going to bury him in the f*cking garden!

 

The article indicating his long term position will be a left sided centre back puts him very much on our wanted list

 

Adding another second rate finisher won’t really help will it, especially if we burn £30m in doing so

 

And there’s the rub.... it’s a big “if”.... I actually quite like him and when fit, he’s shown his skill. The trouble is, we can’t afford to carry a player who plays 1 in 4 and is the top scorer with 6 goals... not for £20 million....

 

He's still ahead of Long and Austin. That's where the space for new strikers will come from.

 

And Gallagher & Corillio
Assume Gabbi’s move is still on?
Sell five strikers to leave us with two (Ings and Obafemi) means we could bring in a couple. Rather have the Brummie and Hull lad than Mitrovic

 

Gabbi went permanently in January.

 

Sorry not heard that he turned us down first, please provide some detail

 

Snap. On both counts.

 

We buy another striker who is capable of scoring regularly and it takes a lot of pressure off Ings. We could rest him a lot more and in theory reduce his injuries.

 

Is this the first flicker of over expectation? Be careful, that cautious excitement might grow....

 

In our brilliant, fabulous, massively overachieving, wonderful season when we finished 6th, how many Premier League goals did our top scorer get?

 

That would be Mane and Pelle with 11 each.

 

Thanks Tom (I knew )

The very same total that was derided earlier in the thread. It is very rare to have a scorer of 20 ish goals in the premier league outside of the top 6. Not impossible but rare.

In fact we have one of those at our club now.

 

I thought I would back up your view. it also backs up my view that signing a 10 goal a season striker would take the pressure off Ings. Saints aren't going to sign 20 goal strikers unless we're extremely fortunate. So sign multiple 10 goal a season strikers. Ings would have scored 10 if he hadn't got injured so much, Redmond would have scored 10+ if Ralph had been in charge all season and I'd be stunned if we didn't sign a striker in the summer. If we can find another gem from our black box then we're in for an exciting 2019/20 season.

 

Indeed. 3 players getting to double figures is more than enough - that is what we had in our fantastic 6th place season - Mane, Pelle and Long.

Ings, Redmond and new signing could well replicate that. Good times ahead, providing Ralph is backed.

 

I think the biggest improvement is our midfield scoring goals, sharing out the distribution and having midfielders scoring regularly was something we had been lacking for ages.