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Transfer Rumours Summer 2022 Transfer Window

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by StJabbo1, Mar 27, 2022.

  1. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Because they spunked their cash on someone made of glass.
     
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  2. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    'He's gone surprisingly cheap, we should have been in for him at that price' ;)
     
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  3. saintrichie123

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  4. Schad

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    Nice has Barkley, Nicolas Pepe, Aaron Ramsey, Kasper Schmeichel...and Mario Lemina. A real Island of Misfit Toys thing going on there currently.
     
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  5. Gregm1988

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    I see them appearing on a list of "Fun FM23 starts".

    They have big money behind them and are in a very appealing location (that is more of a real world thing than a game one)
     
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  6. Schad

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    Having a bunch of old dudes that I can't immediately sell is basically my FM Bad Place.
     
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  7. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

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    Don't forget Schneiderlin! What a player he was for us
     
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  8. Schad

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    Totally forgot that he was still there. Nice really has a fetish for former PL players on the downslope of their careers.
     
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  9. tomw24

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    Yeah, teams could put up with his attitude when he was good. Now he's ****, no. Certainly don't want that lunatic anywhere near Saints.
     
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  10. Gregm1988

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    Lunatic is fine for a goalkeeper. Not for anywhere else where they can get in more trouble and get themselves sent off. Especially for smaller clubs where you don’t get as much grace from the referees
     
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  11. Osvaldorama

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    i dunno, Osvaldo was fun. Watching your own players stick the nut on each other makes for some spicy forum discussions at least <laugh>
     
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  12. tomw24

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    But now we've got a young squad. Costa should be the last player we should be signing. The more experienced squad members need to be players that the likes of Edozie, Lavia etc look up to.
    Osvaldo was fun while it lasted but at least he was in his prime unlike Costa now. The last thing we want is to stop becoming an attractive club for these young talents.
     
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  13. Osvaldorama

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    Yeah that’s fair enough
     
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  14. SaintsFan86

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    After listening to the new TSP, Jacob said that Redmond is heading to Turkey in a couple of days and Theo is happy to stay at the club.
     
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  15. Saintjoey

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    The Lavia thing is just hilarious. Such a damning inditement of Chelsea’s total lack of cohesion and strategy.
     
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  16. Saintmagic

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    A potential issue with selling him next summer before the buy back clause kicks in is it might **** us longer term with getting players with buy backs if teams feel we will sell after one year.

    You’d hope that if Lavia continues to impress and improve and Chelsea bid like £60m for him in the summer that City would understand us having to accept, but they might not and tell us where to go if we try the same again next summer when signing their young players.
     
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  17. Archers Road

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    Osvaldo was worth all the agg, just for that goal vs City
     
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  18. Le Tissier's Laces

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    If anyone wants a giggle - the replies to this are priceless.

     
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  19. Gregm1988

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    I wonder how many more City youngsters are going to be in the queue. How many times are we going to go back there. I’m sure there are some for next summer but going much beyond that it seems like the distance between how closely Shields knows them and can tempt them will get greater

    I guess I’m saying that I don’t see it being a never ending conveyor belt from the Man City academy. But perhaps it might be. Maybe future deals would contain different buy back clauses that can be activated earlier if we get a sizeable bid early. But maybe not because it could still be the case that Man City still don’t consider him ready
     
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  20. Saintmagic

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    I don’t think Shields is the only factor for the players wanting to come. He will obviously have insight into which players are most ready for PL football having worked closely with them, but that will change in a year or 2 with him not being involved with City.

    If we can get a couple of the young players we’ve signed moves to big teams in a year or 2 then that will be far more attractive to a young player than if some behind the scenes guy is there or not Id suggest. He’s not a coach so beyond recruiting them to the academy in the first place I’m not sure how much involvement he had day to day.
     
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