Transfer Rumours The Summer “Have We Signed Anyone Yet?” Thread

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Ian Thumwood said:
I think that the formalities finish at 7pm tonight and that the transfers / loans to European clubs continues on to something like 27th August 2019. I am still hopeful that the centre back situation is addressed and am a bit staggered that this wasn't addressed during the window. Given that all Saints fans recognised that this was a problem 12 months ago, I am staggered that moves were not put in motion to rectify this is January let alone leaving it to the window. Of the current line up, only Bednarek strikes me as having a long term future with Maya being a steady back up. It is remarkable that Stephens has not been shunted out. I think Hoedt will still end up playing his football on the continent this season.

Like most fans, I was expecting the defence to have been beefed up and had anticipated seeing a greater number of payers disappearing out of the door. Got to agree with the sentiments of this post. Disappointing.
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Couldn’t agree more.... poor window regardless of Schaar signing.... we are and still will suffer the Reed reputation and if we do get rid of a few permanently, we’ll end up paying through the nose if we spend in January....
 
Beef said:
"Scapegoat" is a little weird don't you think? But then you do have a weird thing of only calling me out. Are you going to support WBA?
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You really dislike the dude, and at least a large part of it is due to off-the-pitch stuff. So you're disparaging his character and just kind of making personal attacks.

And for all I know those attacks are warranted. You don't seem like a guy who would go off on someone unjustifiably. But the rest of us aren't as ITK so we really can't confirm some of the things you said, and no doubt you've heard other things that color your view which you have not shared, and there's probably been some posts on the topic I missed.

From the outside, it seems like maybe Austin's had some bad luck with injuries. From the inside, those injuries occur because Austin isn't training properly. From the outside, Stephens just looks kinda sucky and has disappointingly failed to improve despite a promising start. From the inside, it's because Austin is a bad influence on him.

So yeah, a lot of times when I read your posts-- particularly about Austin-- I have to remind myself that you are privy to information that I am not. Otherwise I'd think you were just scapegoating him as well.
 
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I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
True. We have to keep our expectations realistic. We weren't going to turn everything around in one summer.

But IMO, this has still been a ****ty window. Maybe not disastrously bad if at least one of our attack signings pans out, but I still feel like they could and should have done better. Started off promising, then went fizzled out disappointingly.
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One CB from being fine for me.
 
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Onionman said:
But then you were the only person so obsessed with Austin that you posted negative stuff about him pretty much every game so it would be jolly odd for me to call anyone else out for it.

Yes, I'm now a Baggies fan. Because I could see there were two sides to Charlie Austin. That's the way things work.

Vin
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You are correct there is more than one side to Charlie Austin, like most people. You read some crap from people on these forums even though they usually dont know the guys personally. All this rubbish about him leading Jack Stephens astray, if anything Stephens needs to grow up a bit. Charlie scored a few crucial goals for Saints and he did like playing for us, but its all went down hill a bit at the end. Good luck to him at WBA ... and even better luck to Saints this season.
 
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Beef said:
I called many players out for playing poorly. I called Austin out for his offield behaviour, there is nothing wrong with that.

If you want to defend a millionaire football players honour on a forum then go ahead. I guess Austin will get in touch with you and thank you some time.

I am not replying to you anymore after this as I won't **** up a thread over a stupid argument.
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Oh dearie me. You criticised him incessantly for on-field as well. I'm not going to look it up (you criticised me last time I pointed out how regular your criticism was) but I recall matches where literally your only posts were about how bad he was. You had an absolute downer on the bloke and it affected your judgment.

And when it's pointed out you throw your toys out of the pram and accuse me of loving him so much I'll follow him to another club. As it happens, I'm happy to see him go. But because he's not good enough. Not because I have a personal vendetta against him.

Hot tip, mate, life's full of shades of grey. People are rarely out and out villains (or heroes).

Vin
 
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I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
You really dislike the dude, and at least a large part of it is due to off-the-pitch stuff. So you're disparaging his character and just kind of making personal attacks.

And for all I know those attacks are warranted. You don't seem like a guy who would go off on someone unjustifiably. But the rest of us aren't as ITK so we really can't confirm some of the things you said, and no doubt you've heard other things that color your view which you have not shared, and there's probably been some posts on the topic I missed.

From the outside, it seems like maybe Austin's had some bad luck with injuries. From the inside, those injuries occur because Austin isn't training properly. From the outside, Stephens just looks kinda sucky and has disappointingly failed to improve despite a promising start. From the inside, it's because Austin is a bad influence on him.

So yeah, a lot of times when I read your posts-- particularly about Austin-- I have to remind myself that you are privy to information that I am not. Otherwise I'd think you were just scapegoating him as well.
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Never scapegoated a player in my life and never will. I just call it how I see it, if a player plays poorly I will say.

I would never abuse them on the pitch and send them abuse online as that is being a dickhead.

I hope now Austin has gone Stephens can improve. I also wish Austin luck and hope he sorts his drinking out.
 
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