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Thread | Saints transfer record
at 07:44 26 Aug 2025
Under SR our transfer record has been totally embarrassing
We’ve got shot of Henrik Kraft, Solak has taken over as Chairman, bought in Johannesburg Spors who has a good track record and sacked Darren Mowbray but nothing has changed
So who/where is the problem, because we’re making the same mistakes over and over |
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Thread | Sport Republic's transfer record
at 16:37 24 Aug 2025
This is a list of signings made by SR since they took over. It makes depressing reading.
2022/23
Sulemana - £22m – awful signing
Lavia - £10.5m – great signing if we hadn’t wasted his sell on
Onuachu - £15m poor signing
Bazunu - £12m – poor signing for the money
Alcaraz - £12m – great signing if we’d used him properly
Bella-Kotchap - £8.7m – utter disaster
Mara - £11m – cr@p signing
Aribo - £6m – bang average for the cost
Caleta-Car - £8m – awful signing
Edozie - £10m – never delivered. Another poor signing
Larios - £6m – poor signing has cost us £14k/minute
Orsic - £8m – awful signing
Bree – Free – okay signing for the Championship
Lis – Free – great signing for Goztepe
Maitland-Niles (loan) – utter joke, didn’t want to be here
2023/24
Charles - £15m – good signing
Stewart - £12m – complete mugging by Sunderland
Manning – free – good signing
Lumley – Free obviously
Holgate (loan) – Waste of space
Rothwell (loan) - Lazy
Brooks (loan) – half decent
2024/25
Harwood-Bellis - £20m – he has to do a lot to convince me
Ramsdale - £25m – great signing if we’d stayed up
Flynn Downes - £18m – not convinced he’s worth that
Archer - £15m – awful signing.
Fernandez - £15m – by far and away SR’s best signing
Brereton Diaz - £7m – dog sh**. Paid £10m too much
Sugawara - £6m for a defender who can’t defend – very average
Kayi Sanda - £4.2m – poor buy when we need experience not promise
Wood - £3m – about right for a bang average Championship CB
Edwards - £3m – we need experience not promise
Welington - £3.2m – okay signing for the price
Fraser – Free – good signing. I warmed to him when he fell out with Martin
Taylor – Free – not what we needed but okay as back up
Lallana – Free – past it and not what we needed
Matsuki – Free – the jury’s out
Juan - £??? – was cr@p at Goztepe
Ugochukwa (loan) – Good signing
Grønbæk (Loan) - Disaster
Cornet (loan) – Worse than a disaster
2025/26
Damien Downs - £7m – Looks cr@p but one for the future. Not what we needed
Quarshie - £3m – good signing but we need experience not promise
Roerslev – undisclosed – too early to tell but looks a half decent signing
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Thread | Possible £42m for Dibbling?
at 20:22 23 Aug 2025
In my opinion Saints are a bigger club than any of the following: Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Fulham, Leicester, Sunderland, Burnley and Wolves Yet consider each club’s record signing and tell me why our record signing is spaffing £22m up the wall for Sulemana
Bournemouth paid £40.2m for Evanilson
Brentford paid £42m for Dango Ouattara
Brighton paid £40m for Georginio Rutter
Burnley paid £25m for Lesley Ugochukwu
Crystal Palace paid £32m for Christian Benteke
Fulham paid £34m for Emile Smith Rowe
Sunderland paid £31m for Habib Diarra
Wolves paid £44m for Matheus Cunha
Leicester spent £40m for Youri Tielemans
It’s embarrassing.
Now is the time for SR to get the transfer policy right and actually buy a couple of decent players
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Thread | Player ratings v Northampton
at 21:55 12 Aug 2025
McCarthy - 5
Sugawara - 5
THB - 4
Wood - 2
Edwards - 3
Manning - 6
Charles - 4
Fernandez - 7
Archer - 1
Downs - 0
BBD - tw@t
Taylor - 3
Downes - 4
Matsuri - 3
Fraser - 6
Armstrong - 2
This will be a good learning exercise for Still
He’ll realise from this that not only are BBD and Archer 💩 they don’t give a 💩 either
Downs is a long way off being a championship player if he ever gets there. He completely missed his kick in front of goal again. Even a very average championship striker would be sitting with 2 goals right now
Let’s hope Sport Republic give Still the backing his potential deserves
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Thread | Brereton Diaz
at 20:58 12 Aug 2025
Should never play for us again
Archer Brereton Diaz and Downs are struggling against a team who were mid table L1 last season
Stewart out again
We desperately need a striker
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Thread | New signing priorities
at 11:54 9 Jul 2025
What does everyone think we need?
Assuming Rambo moves on and we keep Charles , Edozie and Fraser I think the minimum we need is a keeper, right back, creative midfielder and experienced quality striker (I don’t count Downs as that)
If we lose Edozie we need another winger [Post edited 9 Jul 11:55]
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Thread | Samuel Amo-Ameyaw
at 09:42 17 Jun 2025
Can somebody explain the logic of selling an up and coming winger when we have struggled so badly in that position?
He's gone to Strasborg for £6m (that's £1m less than we spaffed up the wall on Brereton-Diaz) and we've lost a player who two years ago in the Championship impressed me when Martin actually showed any faith in him. I think in his handfull of sub appearances he put in more dangerous crosses than Sulemana has his entire Saints career |
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Thread | KWP
at 11:26 29 May 2025
Obviously it’s been clear from probably last season he’d be off at the end of this season but I’d like to wish him well wherever he ends up
A model professional who always gave 100% even though he was leaving which is a rarity in football now |
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Thread | Players who didn’t give a 💩 today
at 14:14 18 May 2025
Dibbling, Kameldeen, THB, Downes and Aribo
They’ll all be gone in the summer apart from possibly Downes and good riddance to all of them
If everyone this season had put the commitment in that Fernandez has we’d have finished mid table. I hope we keep him |
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Thread | You know you are 💩
at 16:56 10 May 2025
You know you are 💩, Derby County you know you are 💩 🤣🤣 |
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Thread | Players beyond criticism this season
at 23:36 11 Apr 2025
There’s been some players this season who deserve to be criticised but similarly there are some that have put an effort in
KWP imo is a model professional who will most likely move on and I’d wish him well wherever he went
Ramsdale is another who always puts in a performance
Fernandez is our best player this season and hasn’t had a bad game as far as I can recall. What I like about him is he is still giving 100% when we’re 3-0 down. I hope he stays
IMO Bednarek usually puts in a decent performance and effort and you can see it hurts when we lose
Manning although limited as a PL player always puts 100% in
Other than those I think the rest of the players owe us some performances |
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Thread | 12 points
at 23:14 6 Apr 2025
Are we going to smash Derby’s 10 point record low
It’s our cup final for the season now. What an embarrassment
I think if we’re going to beat it Juric must be gone by the morning |
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Thread | It’s about time
at 23:03 6 Apr 2025
That Sports Republic issued an official apology to all the Saints fans
The one thing that can be taken from this season is the outstanding performance of the Saints fans. Most home and away games have been sold out and even today the away end was sold out and the fans tried their best as always to encourage the players to put some effort in. Unfortunately only Fernandez did
Saints fans deserve a whole lot more than the 💩 shows dished up by SR every week |
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Thread | Strikers in the Sport Republic reign
at 08:30 24 Mar 2025
With the news of yet another Ross Stewart injury setback I thought I’d put together a list of Saints strikers bought by SR:
1. Sekou Mara cost £10.2, paid £2.6m (£1.3m pa for 2yrs) scored 4
2. Paul Onuachu cost £18m, paid £3m (£1.5m pa for 2yrs) scored 3
3. Ross Stewart cost £10m, paid £2.1m (£1.04m Pa for 2yrs) scored 0
4. Cameron Archer cost £17m, paid £2m for 1yr scored 2
5. Ben Brereton-Diaz cost £7m paid £1.82m for 1 year scored 0
So in the 2.5 years Sport Republic have been here they’ve bought 5 strikers at the cost including wages of £73.72m with a goal return of 9 goals
These are possibly the most incompetent owners in the history of football
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Thread | Meanwhile in Germany
at 23:40 2 Mar 2025
Wolfsburg win 2-1 at Werner Bremen to move within 4 points of a Champions League spot |
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Thread | Sports Republic PL managerial points record
at 00:03 23 Feb 2025
SR sack Ralph and appoint Nathan Jones to keep us up
Nathan Jones - P 8, W 1, D 0, L 7, 3 points out of possible 24
So they replace him with Seles
Ruben Seles - P 18, W 2, D 5, L 11; 11 points from a possible 54
So they sack him and appoint Martin. We get promoted and I think most fans knew that unless Martin changed his style of play we’d get dicked every week
Martin’s PL record - P 14, W 1, D 2, L 11; 5 points from a possible 42
So SR sack him way too late and appoint Juric
Juric’s PL record so far - P 9, W 1 , D 0, L 8; 3 points from a possible 27
So Sports Republic’s managerial appointments have bagged us 22 PL points from a possible 147 available points
Bunch of tools [Post edited 23 Feb 7:34]
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