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

Yeah I'm really glad we didn't buy anyone this January. The loan deal was bad enough! He'll be one for the obscure players that played for Saints quiz in a few years.

 

****ing hell, 20m for ****ing Sulemana

 

Euros, not pounds.

 

Okay, sorry. I'll try again, as I still can't believe we're getting 17 million of the kings finest pounds for him

****ing hell, 17m for ****ing Sulemana

 

We mustn’t get ahead of ourselves. I don’t trust Juric to go through with it.

 

It would be pretty good business to get approx €24 million / £20.5 approx, for the sales of Tall Paul and Sulemana considering the little impact both have had. From a accounts and PSR point of view there would probably be around £14 million left, that’s if no down payments would have been made by us, so this would be a positive especially on PSR. Every cloud.

 

Gazzetta dello Sport are saying Atalanta have made a second bid of €18m today (£15.4m) but Saints are asking for €20m to €22m (£17.1m to £18.8m) before they are willing to accept and give Sulemana permission to travel for a medical

 

I hope we don't blow this opportunity for the sake of £1.7m

 

That's a fair bit of money. With PSR, we should be negotiating for every last million we can get.

 

Yeah I was going to say, I didn't even expect that much. Let's hope they don't move on to other targets as a result. Fine line between making sure you get good money and shooting yourself in the foot.

 

Take the 15m!!

 

We need to get funds in asap to recycle back into the team. I'd hate us to be stuck with certain players for another season.

 

Well we don't - Solak said there's funds available right now. We'll need to sell at some point, but not without negotiating.

 

Most Saints fans would snatch your hand off for £15m, it's a more than fair price.

 

This is why fans wouldn't make good owners!

 

Do you want to risk us keeping a misfit player for another season? We could really use that money to improve the starting XI.

 

If Atalanta are this deep in negotiations they clearly want him and it's not as if the clubs are miles apart here - Ankersen's job is to handle sales and get as much money as possible from them. Besides, he could do a good job in a high pressing team like Still plays so I don't think he'd be a misfit if he did stay.

 

Most fans are very good at spaffing other people’s money up the wall!

 

Think we’re in a lot stronger financial and PSR position than we were when last relegated, mainly due to lower wages and obviously not spending unnecessary money in January.
But we do need to reduce the squad size as Solak mentioned in his recent interview.
I make it 36 players with the likes of Matzuki, Robinson, Sandra and larios, included in that from last season.
Already 5 gone from that, With Lallana, Lumley, KWP along with Ugochucwu and Gronbaek, with the likely departures of Sulemana and Tall Paul, rumoured to be close to agreements? This would bring squad down to 29.
Think likely departures are Ramsdale, Bednarek and ABK, and I think Aribo will be allowed to leave bringing squad down to 25 before even discussing the likes of THB, Dibling and Fernandes.
Larios will probably get a cheap move if not a loan deal, and we’d probably let the like’s of BBD, Fraser and Taylor leave as well.
I really can see a good 12-15+ players leaving from the 36 which would need to happen to open spaces for 4-5 signings plus a few loan signings to give us a squad of 26-28 players.

 

Don't bloody curse it, Tom.