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Post by vectis on Jun 26, 2024 10:28:50 GMT
www.southamptonfc.news/transfers/southampton-are-now-set-to-finalise-contract-talks-with-player-russell-martin-thinks-is-massive/Looks like McCarthy is staying then. Not sure how I feel about that. I don't dislike him, but I feel if he'd left, at least it would have put some pressure on the club to find better. Now that he is staying, I can imagine them thinking that it greatly eases the urgency to buy someone else in. I doubt they'd attempt to go through 3/4s of the season with only McCarthy and Lumley, but I do think they might look at it and either reconsider letting Lis leave or, rather than buying a highly rated and expensive keeper like Butland, Kotarski or Patterson, rather buying in some recently released free transfer on a year's contract... Like Loris Karius or Darren Randolph or someone. After all, for reasons that escape me, Bazunu is considered the future of goalkeeping at the club and will no doubt be reinstalled as first choice once he's fully fit, regardless of what league we're most likely to be in by then. No point in blocking his progress, right? In other news, the Danny Ings rumour seems to have reared it's ugly head again. With a vengeance. Alfie House said he'd been told there was nothing in it and that it was strange the rumour kept resurfacing. But that was last week. And a week is a long time in football. Ah well, nothing to do but wait and see. With any luck Che Adams will let his contract run down. But after the Euros that he's just had he might decide to just stay put. Not the worst that could happen, but again, completely underwhelming.
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Post by vectis on Jun 26, 2024 14:50:41 GMT
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jun 26, 2024 15:16:48 GMT
www.southamptonfc.news/transfers/southampton-are-now-set-to-finalise-contract-talks-with-player-russell-martin-thinks-is-massive/Looks like McCarthy is staying then. Not sure how I feel about that. I don't dislike him, but I feel if he'd left, at least it would have put some pressure on the club to find better. Now that he is staying, I can imagine them thinking that it greatly eases the urgency to buy someone else in. I doubt they'd attempt to go through 3/4s of the season with only McCarthy and Lumley, but I do think they might look at it and either reconsider letting Lis leave or, rather than buying a highly rated and expensive keeper like Butland, Kotarski or Patterson, rather buying in some recently released free transfer on a year's contract... Like Loris Karius or Darren Randolph or someone. After all, for reasons that escape me, Bazunu is considered the future of goalkeeping at the club and will no doubt be reinstalled as first choice once he's fully fit, regardless of what league we're most likely to be in by then. No point in blocking his progress, right? In other news, the Danny Ings rumour seems to have reared it's ugly head again. With a vengeance. Alfie House said he'd been told there was nothing in it and that it was strange the rumour kept resurfacing. But that was last week. And a week is a long time in football. Ah well, nothing to do but wait and see. With any luck Che Adams will let his contract run down. But after the Euros that he's just had he might decide to just stay put. Not the worst that could happen, but again, completely underwhelming. I get the logic, but it scares me that they're actually going to have a go at the PL with him as 1st choice... OK, he did us a solid stepping up from the cold to save our promotion campaign, but I'm very much in the once bitten twice shy camp. Our GK has been our weakest area for some time and given goals will be hard to come by and keepers are cheaper than strikers, you'd think getting the best we can to keep the ball out would be a no-brainer. Similarly with Che, I guess he's just about done enough to deserve a short term contract offer as a squad member, but we know what we're getting with him and it isn't good enough to keep us up. The other "cheapy" options we've been exercising so far make sense, but at some point we're going to have to spend some money to have a chance of not doing a Derby.
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Post by crazydanny on Jun 26, 2024 15:44:06 GMT
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Post by spot51 on Jun 26, 2024 15:54:45 GMT
Taylor is decent. Real improvement on Manning.
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Post by choixkoix on Jun 26, 2024 16:14:23 GMT
Decent depth option, I suppose. A FB rather than a,WB... Dont think he's played WB.
Does reinforce the idea we arent flush with FFP maneouvrability....
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jun 26, 2024 21:52:30 GMT
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Post by choixkoix on Jun 26, 2024 23:53:47 GMT
Ipswich making two very sensible signings I would have loved us to go for - Ben Johnson on a free and Jacob Greaves for 10m.
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Post by jickster on Jun 27, 2024 7:52:39 GMT
Taylor is decent. Real improvement on Manning. Yeah, plenty of experience and was a regular in Dyche's Burnley team that had a good defensive record. Not terribly exciting but a good signing I think.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jun 27, 2024 12:59:56 GMT
Ipswich making two very sensible signings I would have loved us to go for - Ben Johnson on a free and Jacob Greaves for 10m. Johnson is an odd one... allegedly we've looked at him the last couple of windows so you'd think we'd go in for him if he was available for a free, especially as we'll need a second RB even if KWP stays... surely we can't be expecting Bree to play any part next season?
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Post by choixkoix on Jun 27, 2024 23:33:37 GMT
Ipswich making two very sensible signings I would have loved us to go for - Ben Johnson on a free and Jacob Greaves for 10m. Johnson is an odd one... allegedly we've looked at him the last couple of windows so you'd think we'd go in for him if he was available for a free, especially as we'll need a second RB even if KWP stays... surely we can't be expecting Bree to play any part next season? I'd be surprised if we were not in for him, but that he chose them over us. On a personal level, a West Ham player moving to Ipswich might not have to change much off the pitch with the geographic closeness either.
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Post by crazydanny on Jun 28, 2024 9:35:21 GMT
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Post by crazydanny on Jun 28, 2024 10:03:47 GMT
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Post by crazydanny on Jun 28, 2024 12:13:27 GMT
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Post by jickster on Jun 28, 2024 12:25:31 GMT
Shame if true.
If I could only have one of the two players I would probably choose Downes on the basis that KWP is easier to find a replacement for, we've already seen rumours on these pages and the football world seems to be full of good full backs these days. But KWP would definitely be a miss, his excellent fitness record for one thing makes that a position where you can just forget about worrying. His experience and reliability would be a real loss to the squad. I would hope we'd get a small cash incentive, I don't think their market value is the same, but West Ham probably hold the cards in this situation.
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