Transfer Rumours Summer 2021 Transfer Rumours

We weren't offering youngsters from clubs higher up the food chain, the prospect of first team football last season. It's a newly adopted and improvised tactic, which happens to be shrewd and prudent. It's something Burnley and Newcastle could well offer in the coming seasons. If sucessful the concept will be advertised - to players and clubs.

So I'm glad we're ahead of the game on this.

 

Rumours floating about that Stuart Armstrong wants away, that would explain his absence from the team especially being replaced by the completely ineffective Theo
Strange if true

 

*Waits for Magic to write something about Sheff Utd*....

 

He’s off to Sheff Wednesday

 

Who is Theo Strange?

 

He was injured

 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport...ews/kerr-smith-transfer-race-crystal-24821260

We get linked to young Scottish players (usually from Dundee) every year. Wonder if this one will stick

 

We need to try and minimise the number of under 18s that have to play for the B team. As that seems to have been one of the issues over recent years - playing players above their age level and have both teams getting hammered regularly

 

The Stu rumour is leaving behind shortbread crumbs and traces of a viscous orange serum. Some sort of caledonian concoction is afoot.

The Scottish Sun have obviously consulted the obscure annals Scots Sporting Law, which forbades any English concern of being "armed" with more than one scot, transferred from the same celtic clan; specifically in the position of an attacking midfieldman. If Ryan Christie arrives, Stu wil have to be driven to York - on a Sunday - to await repariation/hand over.

 

If we even are in for Christie wouldn’t we need to move someone on? Ely ? Perhaps going to other way? Perhaps a way of getting them to agree to let him leave early

but by all accounts we aren’t actually interested

 

Basically says that Mignolet is negotiating an exit towards Southampton, a reinforcement that would cost €15 million??

 

Can’t see us spending that sort of money on a 33 year old, even if he is a keeper

 

This has already been shown on saintsweb to come from a fake Twitter account that generates random rumours such as Smalling to Molde for €89m

 

Agree. Think it’s a Twitter wind up account, but you never know?

 

I wouldn’t have an issue with a 33yr old keeper, signing young keepers hasn’t exactly worked out for us. Although this is obviously rubbish.

 

Please everyone stop posting duplicate threads. I know why you can’t see the original ones but having duplicate threads isn’t something we can live with.

 

It's something that midtable teams should have been doing for years. And it's also good for English football. People will moan about PlAyEr PoWeR when kids are moving on in their teens, but there's an easy antidote to having teams poach your kids with promises of playing time: give them playing time! Dutch teams find playing time for their kids. German teams find playing time for their kids. French and Portuguese teams find playing time for their kids. Italian teams...let's not emulate Italian teams.

Creating an incentive for clubs to integrate young players into their first-team squads will only benefit the Premier League long-term, by reducing the amount of time that players with the talent to hold down PL minutes spend either languishing in the U23s, or on loan to clubs that don't have any profound reason to develop them. Use 'em or lose 'em, fellas.

 

Also, there has been a lot of talk about 'ambition', and whether ambition merely equals spending money. It doesn't; that's certainly one way to ascend, but in practical terms ambition as a non-elite club in the PL means a willingness to take certain sorts of risks in order to aim at something other than making up the numbers. It means having an actual coherent plan, rather than being reactive.

We had that once. We lost our way for a pretty long time, but now we seem to have a plan again. And make no mistake, spending something like a third of our rather limited transfer budget on teenage defenders when we were the worst team in the PL for the second half of last season is risky, but it's still a hell of a lot more positive than trying to see how long we can remain on the lower-table treadmill before eventually falling off.

(But a bit of money wouldn't hurt the plan, either)

 

I think we can officially describe this as a very good window for Saints.