Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 1 - 10 June, 16 June - 1 September

He looked distraught when he went off I thought. Like he knew it was a really bad one and it’s ****ed up his chances of a move

 

Not sure if he’s Wills style of player…. But would happily keep Lesley Ukochukwu… we know that Chelsea would probably bin him off anyway….

 

If there was an award for best player since Martin was sacked, Lesley would be in with a shout (though he'd still lose out to Fernandes). But I can't see Chelsea sanctioning a loan move to the Championship, especially given that other PL clubs will presumably be interested.

 

Ugochukwu isn’t coming back next season. Why would he even want to? He could get another PL loan or he’ll go for £25m-ish, or be a Chelsea squad player.

 

Well, we got the new manager in quickly( far quicker than I was expecting) and I just hope we have our ins and outs done quicker than previous years.
No dragging it out please Saints.

 

Assume the squad have a debrief on yesterdays game and fitness checks before going on their holidays, so a chance for Will to sell his vision and maybe convince that very select list of players who we want to stay.

 

Someone posted about us being close to signing a German CB the other day too.

 

Yeah, it's a left footed CB apparently

 

Fine with that if he plays alongside Edwards. Edwards is right footed so that would fit. Bednarek is obviously close to leaving and THB looks like following him out of the door.

 

Ideally someone in the mould and age of Fontr would be bloody lovely.

 

And that would legitimise everything else he said, which if I remember rightly, included that the club want to hold on to Fernandes, and see him, Downes and Charles as our starting midfield next season.

And that the club is frustrated with THB's lack of fitness.

 

Where do I find the post you are referring to?

 

That would be filthy. Fernandes would surely be a cheat code.

 

It was me on Saints stuff thread on Wednesday:

Some feedback from Phil Parsons at Goodison

Rohl was no 1 target but Sheff Weds not playing ball. Not completely dead but likely to be.
Still very impressive and got third interview this week. Could even be announced before final game
Will only sell Fernandes for £50m as see him as key to going up, with Charles and Downes in midfield.
KWP been brilliant but will go after Sat
ABK is massive prick that everyone at the club hates, desperately trying to sell him but no one wants him
Might loan Ramsdale as he would like to stay but needs to play in Prem for World Cup spot
Bednarek is gone - potentially to a top half Prem club
THB is going - been overweight and unfit most of the season apparently
Should sign a left footed centre back from Germany shortly
Oh and Dibling to Utd reasonably likely. Jason Wilcox big fan

 

This was the bloke suggested by someone, given Spors' links to Hertha Berlin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Márton_Dárdai

He's a Hungarian International left footed CB playing in Germany, which was exactly the criteria of the original post.

 

He ended up at Arsenal on my FM save. I had him on loan at Deportivo La Coruna and he was great. And we know Johannes and Will like Football Manager

 

Rated 71 on Fifa I think.

 

The Ramsdale loan is an interesting option.

If he wants to stay and is happy but doesn’t want to play in the Champ then it puts us in a bit of an awkward position. If we loan him out for the season, we would likely need to replace him unless we are happy with Bazunu and McCarthy (the club may well be).

If we sign someone to replace him and we get promoted Ramsdale returns likely as the best keeper and wanting the number 1 spot back, and the bloke we signs gets ditched either to back up or sold, which seems harsh if he was part of the promotion team. Feels a bit like Ramsdale would be dictating terms to us if he does go on loan.

Obviously if we don’t get promoted then we sell him next summer so doesn’t matter

 

Very interesting. Thanks.