Transfer Rumours January 2026 Transfer Thread…

Southampton have a new manager who will want to bring in his own players - given that both Leicester and Southampton have had crap starts to the season I can absolutely see them coming in for a player like Gelhardt, hell if it were City in that position he's exactly who I'd hope we would go for, Hughes too.

So Tufan loved the club, but wasn't willing to stay longer than a month? Obviously didn't love it as much as he said. Or, more likely, he got an offer from a bigger club and left. Our academy products were never going to stay with us for life and it's probably low hanging fruit to use them as an example, but they did indeed leave when a bigger offer came along, which is exactly my point - we're all asking why Joffey would want to leave, while the question should really be why would he stay if a bigger club comes in? Hell even if it's not one of the clubs I mentioned and it's somebody like Wolves, Burnley or Forest come in, how can we as a club offer him anything to make him turn that down?

 

Leicester have no money though. Southampton have players like Azaz in a similar position. I'd be incredibly skeptical of them targeting someone like Gelhardt.

No he loved Rosenior, which is what I said.

Hughes got an offer from Coventry, why didn't he jump at it?

If it's Wolves, Burnley or Forest that come in then yes of course he would go. As I said, it would take the lure of PL football, but I just don't see any of those being particularly interested at this stage, moreso in the summer.

 

I imagine Wolves will do in January what they always do, which is read down the Portugal national team's squad list and start chucking money at those player's clubs.

 

We rejected the offer outright and told him he wasn't leaving. Had it been a PL club, he probably would have gone.

 

Bingo.

I can't imagine Leeds sell in January to Leicester/Southampton/etc. as I doubt they offer them enough and Gelhardt has shown he wasn't interested in considering other clubs than us at this level. It'd take a PL club.

 

I doubt Tufan would take a pay cut to come back here like Gelhardt did