Transfer Rumours January 2020 transfer window

[SaintinNZ]

Maybe it's to cover Slattery who's out on loan getting first team experience.

Yeah but.... it’s our development squad, not Chelsea’s, right?

 

[SAINTOSPREY]

So we don’t have a single player under 23 who can play midfield at the club? Our u23s aren’t good enough to play for the U23s? Needs a bit of explaining that signing.

Will Smallbone is only 19. Enzo Robise is 18 both looking useful, otherwise it is a bit sparse in that department. Also Will Ferry who is 19 may feature.

 

[Dark Lord SFC]

Saw the U23’s live at Walsall in the cup and against Villa U23’s, they were dreadful tbh. Slattery was the only real quality

 

[VocalMinority]

So we don’t have a single player under 23 who can play midfield at the club? Our u23s aren’t good enough to play for the U23s? Needs a bit of explaining that signing.

As Osprey pointed out recently in the academy thread, basically all the youth from last year who won our promotion have gone one way or another. To me I dont think we have brought in enough to cover the outgoings.

The artical did say there's an option to buy in the loan too so if he does well he should be ours.

 

[Schad]

Maddox was out of contract at the end of next season, and hasn't broken through at what is admittedly a very difficult position to break through with Chelsea, so I'd imagine that he's ours at year end if he makes the grade, and likely for a pretty reasonable price.

 

[saintrichie123]

Wrong thread

 

[San Tejón]

Will Smallbone is only 19. Enzo Robise is 18 both looking useful, otherwise it is a bit sparse in that department. Also Will Ferry who is 19 may feature.

What I saw of Will Ferry, last season, impressed me. His off the ball movement was decent and he always seemed to be available for a pass.
Hasn’t he been injured this season?

 

[I Sorry I Ruined The Party]

So we don’t have a single player under 23 who can play midfield at the club? Our u23s aren’t good enough to play for the U23s? Needs a bit of explaining that signing.

I think the key is the option to buy. We get him on loan for a bit so we can kick the tires. If we like him, we might buy him. If not, we don't.

In the meantime for Chelsea, they don't think he's going to make the grade and he's been injured. So playing at Saints where he'll have nice facilities and doctors and where we can easily manage his workload because there's not a huge amount at stake in U23 is preferable to sending him to League One or Two.

 

[----HistoryRepeating----]

Sounds to me, like another couple of steps strayed from our path.

 

[VocalMinority]

Honestly I like the strategy as long as he's good. Most of our youth aren't going to be good enough. I would rather we signed decent players to play along side our homegrown gems, win games and get everyone in form, than pack our ranks with players who wont make it and have our gems trying to shine in a poor side.

Especially needed if we are loaning out so many which is obviously going to create a deficit.

 

[SaintInKuwait]

To interrupt the melodrama and inquisition at signing an U23 midfield player (an act that has literally had no impact on the visible universe) here's David Ornstein on Cedric to Arsenal:

Eyebrows were raised when Soares arrived at Arsenal’s London Colney base to complete his move wearing a knee brace. However, there is confidence his ligament problem is healing well.

That said, it was a transfer that came as a pleasant surprise to Southampton. With Soares entering the final six months of his contract, Saints suspected the full-back’s representatives were working on an exit from St Mary’s and assumed it would be overseas or to a lower level. When the extent of the injury he suffered away to Crystal Palace on January 21 emerged, it was accepted that leaving for free in the summer may now be the most likely outcome.

As deadline week drew closer, news of Arsenal’s interest surfaced and Southampton could hardly believe it was true. They saw barely any logic in the approach and put it down to certain relationships between Arsenal and Soares’s people, yet there were no complaints from the south coast. A deal was done that suited all sides — the package is worth around £5m to Saints and Arsenal feel that, once fit, in Soares they will get exactly what they were seeking from the market.

 

[Brinkworth Saint]

Sad end to Mayas saints career. Why we are keeping vesty and hoedt and shipping maya off I will never know.

Agree in part with the sentiments expressed but at the end of the day, he’s served us so well and just needed more security for the future, that much we owe him.