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Episode 461: Transfer Tuesday!
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Southampton –Loads of rumours to talk about today... but mostly the wrong way!
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Introduction to Episode 461
00:00:13
DailySaintsPod
Hello and welcome back to episode 461 of the Daily Saints pod. My name is Greg and as always today joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host Zach. And mate, isn't it good to be back for some Transfer Tuesday fun?
00:00:28
Zak
Yeah, for sure. but's The problem at the moment we have is trying to be consistent due to the fact that the the world seems to be on fire. So few days in a row, talk about transfers, talk about some you know other bits and pieces. It's just nice to be back.
00:00:43
DailySaintsPod
It's good. It is enjoyable. I'm going to give you a a choice, mate. In's first or out's first? One's really shorter than the other.
00:00:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah?
00:00:53
Zak
Yeah, so let's let's let's let's get the good news to start with, right? Well, depends on your perspective and compare it to, yeah, looking at the fan base, it's there depends on your perspective whether it's a good thing or not.
00:00:58
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:01:06
DailySaintsPod
Okay, so let's start with the
Dan Neal's Potential Signing
00:01:08
DailySaintsPod
Inns. Southampton are believed to have all but confirmed the signing of Dan Neal as a free agent, formerly of Sunderland. Of course, double promotion winning Dan Neal. He's 24-year-old midfielder.
00:01:25
DailySaintsPod
Potentially, I guess, could be seen as a Shea Charles replacement without trying to get too ahead of ourselves.
00:01:32
Zak
but It depends, right? Because the position they definitely said that they would get somebody in for before any transfers happened was the players are back up for a Zas.
00:01:38
DailySaintsPod
And
00:01:42
Zak
So I don't know if it's meant to be there, but... We've already lost Romelu, so are we going to replace Romelu? I don't really know if that counts, considering he barely played the entire season is with us.
00:01:54
Zak
So, yeah, just it just feels like if this is one of the sanctioned ones, surely that's the position that's been sanctioned. If not, then what we were told about the transfer policy is a load of garbage and we can look forward to another 30 players in, right?
00:02:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. I don't know. There's lots of moving parts in the transfer window. if you don't know what conversations have been had in the background, right? Like...
00:02:21
DailySaintsPod
it it's very clear that we said we wouldn't be bolstering unless we were replacing, but just because we haven't officially seen someone go doesn't mean that we're not preemptively replacing.
00:02:33
DailySaintsPod
i don't I don't really know enough about Daniel, to be honest, to know if he's an attacking midfielder or more of a like holding midfielder. from From what I have read, he's generally more of a holding.
00:02:40
Zak
He's played attacking central and defensive. So he's played, yeah, he's played multiple positions.
00:02:44
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:02:46
Zak
That's the thing, right? Because Matsuki realistically came in as an advanced player and obviously now he's out on the right. So we do have players that can play there, but by just kind of feel like if it's if it's a backup for a Zaz, that might be what the intention is.
00:03:03
Zak
Or alternatively, maybe it was to, example, have Dan Neal in the middle and then maybe push Charles up, considering Charles play there. But
Evaluating Neal's Fit and Policy Alignment
00:03:11
Zak
then obviously with Charles potentially going, maybe it is just having somebody that can do both.
00:03:11
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:03:16
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. I mean, it could it could be it could be both of those things, right? Like, it could be... someone to take the space of Charles. So you can push Charles up as that number 10 or a replacement, right? It could be, Hey, if we keep Jay Charles, that's great. We've got this position sorted because he could do both of these things. Or if we lose him, which is, I guess, looking increasingly likely, that at least we've got that position covered, but, uh, another shrewd piece of business, I think, uh, seems to be fine. Let's hope it's not, uh,
00:03:16
Zak
Yeah, it's just that I just thought it's not the odds for the
00:03:52
DailySaintsPod
a player as injury prone as the last one we got from Sunderland, but yeah a deal on a free transfer. It's, it's one of the the profiles that we're going to be looking for to do, right? Is a a relatively cheap in with hopefully a big upside.
00:04:11
Zak
Yeah, like I've seen people compare and be a good for, you know, he's not James Ward-Prowse, basically.
00:04:11
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:04:18
Zak
I know we'll probably talk about that a little bit. But people are saying that they prefer James Ward-Prowse, who's got like prime quality, because I think they're already play thinking of a player in the Premier League.
00:04:30
Zak
As we discussed last episode, he's going to be really competitive this year. we are going to need players to get us up.
00:04:35
DailySaintsPod
Very competitive.
00:04:37
Zak
Those players are not necessarily going to play for us in the Premier League. That is the reality of the situation. There are those that have been brought in with the prospect. And he might. Maybe maybe he didn't get his fair shot in his mind in Sunderland and, you know, get to...
00:04:53
Zak
play the minutes that he wants and wants be prove that. It doesn't really doesn't really matter. I think that if we specifically targeted him for a specific reason and we want someone that's proven and agreed to get a promotion, then it makes sense.
00:05:06
Zak
And whilst I understand that there's a lot of love for James Walsh in it, You know, maybe be he would play good in Diaz's position. Realistically, he's had a couple of seasons of being in and out of multiple teams pretty much since he left.
00:05:23
Zak
Has been unable to score a set piece, which was his entire thing when he was with us, right? I know he assisted a couple from corners, but, you know, he wasn't able to score the free kicks that he probably be desperately wanted to.
00:05:37
Zak
And again, it's like like sort of slammed an attachment to previous players we have more than anything.
00:05:41
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:42
Zak
And we saw that with Romelu, let's not, you know, debate the influence he's potentially had in the back room. But on the pitch, played like a bit at Millwall, the game we lost.
00:05:52
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:05:52
Zak
And
Southampton's Transfer Strategy
00:05:52
Zak
then I don't remember if we saw him again. Maybe I think he came on as a sub later.
00:05:55
DailySaintsPod
another another way to think about it is risk mitigation, right? Like, even if even if this is, you know, akin to the Jamesville Prows, and if you want to take them as like for like, maybe, i I don't know if I see it that way, but signing a player on a free transfer because he's a free agent, I'm sure there'll be agent fees and he'll come in, but also he's going to be looking for a club, so his wages are going to be not the highest. They'll have to be competitive because I'm sure there will be other suitors. I believe there's three or four other clubs linked with him as well.
00:06:31
DailySaintsPod
But, you know, those things combine to make it a much, even if it doesn't work out, you've not had that initial outlay for that to be as much of a problem. So it's kind of a low risk, high reward situation they put themselves into, which it makes sense for me.
00:06:49
DailySaintsPod
Like, obviously with the best will in the world, it it works out and it turns out to be another like shrewd signing where we found this like diamond in the rough. and happy days or it's well it didn't quite work out but actually it was on a free so it doesn't really matter we've got no nothing no ground to make nothing to prove here just seems like a shrewd bit of business it seems to make sense in a lot of ways for me obviously without knowing a lot about Daniel
00:07:09
Zak
Yeah.
00:07:14
Zak
Like, to be clear, to be clear, with, with that with like, more proud, it's not like be like, devastating for him to come back. Like, I like the bloke. This guy, he cares about Salampton. Clearly he's paid attention to us since and he went, you know, of course he would have been, he was here for years.
00:07:31
Zak
It's not that i have, like, a, it's just exactly what you're talking about. Like, it's, There's lots of risks that come with it. And, you know, the fact that people seem to think he's automatically going to come in and be the best player. And then he might. We could eat our words, right, if potentially we bring him in. But it is one of those things where...
00:07:51
Zak
we keep you know we're like oh We keep bringing these players back because we know what to expect from them, but we we don't when you leave such a gap right between them being gone and coming back. and i don't know. like i just think it's I think they're not really comparable situations as well, as you pointed out.
00:08:09
Zak
One's 24 and on a free, one's 31 and will probably require some for a free.
00:08:11
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. 24 on a free. Huge amount of championship experience. Double championship promotion winner, right?
00:08:21
Zak
And
00:08:21
DailySaintsPod
Played, you know, 44 games for Sunderland in their promotion season from the championship. And they're now on loan Ipswich last season, 16 games.
00:08:34
DailySaintsPod
Like, that's experience of this level.
00:08:36
Zak
and Theoretically, we'll have both if we really wanted to It depends on what, you know, ultimately if they decide they want to bring World Prows back and World Prows wants come back, I'm sure they'll figure it out way.
00:08:37
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:08:45
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:08:46
Zak
But as every single time there has been a rumour that he is going to come back, he's gone on loan somewhere else. so Or not not gone on loan or, you know, that in the background not playing for six months or whatever instead of being able to take a chance.
00:08:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:08:59
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:09:01
Zak
But then it might be that we're not interested. I think it's the other The other key part of it is that ultimately we are fans. We might think we all know ball. you know i don't really pretend as much as other people to to know it, but the fans, analysts, scouts...
00:09:20
Zak
you know coaches that they're all coaches and the staff are the ones that are paying attention and they will deem if it's a good decision to bring him back or not. But I think it's really weird that we get like locked into the mindset that every single transfer window, we need to bring back a player that's played for us.
00:09:34
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:35
Zak
but
00:09:35
DailySaintsPod
I look forward to still having to talk about it every week for the rest of the day.
00:09:39
Zak
Oh yeah, 100%. At least we kind of got rid of the idea of bringing back Danny Ings, considering he scored a whole grand total of one goal for Sheffield.
00:09:45
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:47
Zak
So...
00:09:48
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:49
Zak
hey I'll probably run there.
00:09:49
DailySaintsPod
But look, coming back to Dan Neal, trying to keep it on topic. The a supposed reason that we haven't announced him yet is that the 30th of June is when all actual contracts expire and he technically becomes a free agent.
00:10:07
DailySaintsPod
And so waiting for that actual deadline to tick over to dot the I's, cross the T's.
00:10:10
Zak
I mean, that makes sense, doesn't it? You know?
00:10:13
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:10:15
Zak
No problem with that.
00:10:15
DailySaintsPod
But i as I believe I've read from multiple sources, he completed a medical last Friday and all seems to be in the advanced stages. So I would be very surprised to see if that doesn't come to fruition. But that is more or less it from the inbound front. Not a lot of talk corroom or rumour or speculation.
00:10:40
DailySaintsPod
at this point. But to be fair, that is often the way that it goes with Saints, right? You tend to not really hear about it until it's pretty close.
00:10:50
DailySaintsPod
Even a lot of the inbound rumours.
00:10:51
Zak
I don't know. We tons of... The Spotsian saga seemed to feel like it went on forever and then resulted in a whole load of nothing.
00:10:56
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. But that's that's because now it was...
00:10:59
Zak
no one started spinning the rumor mills.
00:11:02
DailySaintsPod
Just that, right? Like all of the other transfers like, oh, it looks like we're going to sign this bloke. Oh, we signed this bloke. Like it happened relatively quickly. And once it became out into the open, it was it was more or less done and dusted.
00:11:18
DailySaintsPod
So it does make it more difficult to speculate. But I'm sure there are wheels in motion. There's still a World Cup being played. There's plenty of time.
00:11:26
Zak
Yeah, that's that's kind of where I'm at.
00:11:26
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:11:27
Zak
If there wasn't a major major tournament, but I think things would be would be different. But that means that a vast majority of the people involved in the major tournament are being monitored by other bigger clubs.
00:11:38
Zak
When we're looking at transfers, they're going to be willing to see potentially if they can move in through all these kind of things, all that fun stuff. It's just, the yeah, like one minute it feels like we've got tons of information. I just think it's more upsetting we've got more information than outs than ins, but that was always going to be the case because we didn't get promoted.
00:11:52
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, 100%. But not a lot of the outs, I guess, when we get to the the overall summary of it that aren't massively expected. so Let's start at the top and work our
Shea Charles Bid Rejection
00:12:04
DailySaintsPod
way through. it is reported by the Daily Mail that Southampton have rejected a second bid from Leeds for Shea Charles, this time thought to reach as high as £25 million.
00:12:16
DailySaintsPod
They are thought to be holding out for £30 million, and Leeds are no longer the only party that's interested, with Crystal Palace also throwing their hat into the mix. So...
00:12:29
DailySaintsPod
You know, seems to be one of those ones that is very much a classic Southampton if we're going to hold out for the price that we want because it doesn't matter if you think he's worth that or not. That's what he's worth to us.
00:12:42
Zak
Still feels like that it's probably likely at this point, considering now that we've got other multiple suitor sharks swimming around in the water, right?
00:12:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, and I mean...
00:12:49
Zak
imagine they're probably dependent on
00:12:51
DailySaintsPod
especially the bids coming in this early and this relatively close to the price mark we're expecting for it to have already jumped from 20 to 25. It's not impossible to see a world where that pretty quickly jumps up to a range that we are happy with, which, you know, will be a shame. I will be sorry to see Shea Charles go if he does.
00:13:14
DailySaintsPod
but you don't begrudge it of him.
00:13:14
Zak
So many important goals.
00:13:18
Zak
Hey
00:13:19
DailySaintsPod
And that's it from like solid links with official bids, but some other speculation from different sources. So the Jack Rosser of the sun says on a podcast that Casper Yander is one of the players. Saints are concerned they will lose this summer.
00:13:39
Zak
We've been talking about this since January though, to be fair.
00:13:39
DailySaintsPod
And, Yeah, that's not really a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, is it? There are a lot of reasons in the background that that will you know potentially come to pass, not not all of which are related to the specifics of playing for the club, right?
00:13:55
Zak
Yeah, as you said, his girlfriend lives in in Germany.
00:13:55
DailySaintsPod
So... Yeah.
00:13:58
Zak
He wants to be back with her because they can't live together because it's a bit of a she's got her own career.
00:13:59
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:14:03
Zak
It can't it means that she can't move. you know I feel like I wouldn't be surprised if he's living out of Harbar on the 6th still at this point, right? Like that hotel, that's where they seem to live at some point.
00:14:15
Zak
for a year or two before they get a place.
00:14:18
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, exactly.
00:14:19
Zak
So yeah, I wouldn't be really surprised. And I know that he had some really key games towards the end of the season, but he he was kind of in and out because that position got really competitive. So, you know, if he gets a a strong Serie A team,
00:14:32
Zak
sorryer a sorry, Bundesliga offer, I'm sure that, you know, he'll go. The reason, by the way, that I i speak about Serie A is that our former manager, Ivan Juric, has been hired by the newly promoted club AC Monza in Serie A, Greg.
00:14:48
Zak
So it was on my mind.
00:14:48
DailySaintsPod
Fascinating. Fascinating. I'm sure that that will go as well as expected.
00:14:54
Zak
Yeah. Yeah, there you go. There you go. There's some technically the old, not really Saints anymore, Saints transfer news. And in fact, it's a coach. So does count?
Aaron Ramsdale Transfer Rumors
00:15:04
Zak
Who knows? So...
00:15:06
DailySaintsPod
Other rumours. Aaron Ramsdale is apparently due to be approached by Besiktas, reports Sporks, which is a Turkish media outlet.
00:15:19
Zak
but
00:15:19
DailySaintsPod
It's interesting, isn't it?
00:15:20
Zak
not really surprising because, again, where's he going to want to move to in the Premier League that wouldn't be similar to us anyway, right? Because it might be one of the newly promoted squads like Hull or something like that. Does he really want to get another relegation under his belt? Probably not.
00:15:34
Zak
He had a taste of the high life in the Champions League at Newcastle. Probably want something similar. I think that we're probably...
00:15:40
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:15:41
Zak
so Some people were talking about it, I saw on Twitter, that was basically we might have to just be... ready to accept that we take a cut price for him, which, you know, wouldn't really surprise me, considering we got quite a big loan fee for him last year, right?
00:15:55
Zak
if we If we lose a little bit of money on transfer, we're probably not actually losing money overall. And it was more for the season we brought him in.
00:16:00
DailySaintsPod
yeah like think the way I think the way that transfers are calculated in return in relations to like profit and how it ties in are like split across the years. I think it's amortized over the years anyway. So I think we paid $21 million him.
00:16:19
DailySaintsPod
for him And we he's had his contract for two years now, so that will be... If we get 12 to 15 million, we'll probably going to be reasonably happy with that.
00:16:31
DailySaintsPod
And that feels like a an easy target hit for a goalkeeper of such quality. I don't know. it's as It's a strange one for me. I did speculate that he would be looking to move abroad.
00:16:42
DailySaintsPod
just i don't know if Turkey is where I would have seen that happening. Yeah.
00:16:48
Zak
i seen I see Turkey as one of those places that people seem to go now for like a year or so to put themselves back in the zeitgeist and they end up moving back to a better club, right?
00:16:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:16:57
Zak
You've kind of seen that. I say it depends, right? like I'm thinking, don't know why was thinking specifically of Oxlade-Chamberlain and him. going and then coming back to Celtic.
00:17:08
Zak
Originally, when Lamina left us, he went over to Turkey, right, before coming back to Wolves and then before, I think, now going back to Turkey again. But it seems to be one of those places where, you know, you're going to struggle to get into a lot of the top-tier teams in a vast majority of the other like places in Europe, right?
00:17:29
Zak
Italy, you know, I know that they've they've had their affinity with, like, Scott McTominay, like, Tammy Abraham when he played for Roma. There's a couple of English players that have sort of gone over there and done well. But it does seem to be that Turkey seems to just sort of be a place they kind of want to go to then rebuild their career.
00:17:46
Zak
And again, I think it's the allure of European football as well. There's usually a good chance that if they're going to one of the top three Turkish clubs, i get to play in Europe. Also, the weather's quite nice most of the time, so I can't really complain too much.
00:17:58
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I mean maybe he wants a new haircut or some new teeth or something. I don't know. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons.
00:18:07
Zak
You need to find the guy who did James Bree.
00:18:09
DailySaintsPod
yes
00:18:12
Zak
and
00:18:14
DailySaintsPod
But like obviously just a link at this point of speculation, but potentially the location
Buzunu's Possible Return to Portsmouth
00:18:21
DailySaintsPod
for him. and other goalkeeper news, I haven't got a source for this, but I did see it doing the rounds.
00:18:27
DailySaintsPod
Some rumours that Pompey might be interested in taking Buzunu back.
00:18:31
Zak
Yeah, you you said that to me and I was baffled. That's an interesting one. Because considering... won't be surprised, considering how slighted he might feel by the fan base and how slighted he's been if he goes back and, you know, throws a load of stick our way. But I don't know how they would want to... If they were taken back, right? Because when he came to us, it was...
00:18:50
Zak
It was off the back of him going to Pompey but on loan, so it didn't really matter as much, right? It wasn't like he was a proper rival player. But now he's had, you know, been a fairly established member of the squad for quite a long time, you know, promotions, demotions, that kind of stuff.
00:19:05
Zak
kind of seems wild when he would go back there. But also, if the only other suitor we've really, we've written down so far for him has been russell Martin and League One, yeah, it's Leicester, but it is also League One.
00:19:16
Zak
So they're not going to be able to probably pay as much as, you know, maybe it's probably on par. I don't know, just seems a bit seems a bit of an odd one, but it's There's nothing substantial as of yet, right? And I think that he's far more likely to end up following Russell Martin. He was a player, you know, he was manager who was always seen, you know, a good player in there.
00:19:35
Zak
As we famously remember, right, from the fan advisory board, when people were asking about goalkeeper, he turned around and said, we don't need a new goalkeeper, we've got a solid one in Baz. Which we did for that championship season, then subsequently got sacked in the Ramsdale.
00:19:46
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:19:48
Zak
Okay.
00:19:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:19:49
Zak
it Yeah, it's just a bit of a weird one. It's always fun to have those little rumour mills started, and I guess we'll have to see what happens. But I still expect Baz to go this year.
00:20:00
Zak
i don't know about you.
00:20:01
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, 100%. I don't expect him to stay at all. I really like Alfie House's way of putting it. It's just a bag of money with gloves. Yeah.
00:20:10
Zak
That was Ramsdale, mate. You can't say that. You can't say it about all our goalkeepers.
00:20:23
DailySaintsPod
I think it spoke volumes that he immediately went out on loan when we bought in Peretz. So, yeah, I don't see that change him.
00:20:29
Zak
Yes, no, you're right.
00:20:34
DailySaintsPod
Right, couple more to rattle through. According to, and I apologise to all of our German listeners, the Rheinfanz, a German newspaper, quasi has been linked to join FC Kaiserslautern. They are showing an interest in signing the young defender.
00:20:57
DailySaintsPod
Kind of makes sense. Move back to Germany.
00:21:01
Zak
I don't know if it would be Would it be in a permanent mode? I wouldn't be surprised if he goes out on loan, but I feel like they don't really have a problem with him as a defender.
00:21:06
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:21:08
Zak
It's just that, unfortunately, at the moment, and you've got people above him in the pecking order. So I'd be really surprised to see him go, leave in a permanent, unless he's decided he doesn't want to wait around for ages, which is understandable, you know, with the way that footballers' careers are.
00:21:22
Zak
But... Yeah, I didn't really see a huge... like we're We're not going to be able to play Jack Stephens forever. And considering these injury problems towards the end of the season, we're going to need some rotation options. And we don't know what's going to happen with Taylor Harbour-Bellis.
00:21:34
Zak
We'd like to believe we're going to keep him. But at the same time, you know you've got a couple of you know teams that are already... We're starting the rumour mill before the rumour mill, like before the season even finished, there were talks going.
00:21:44
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:21:45
Zak
So, yeah, I don't know. I'd be a bit i'd be surprised, but also i completely get it. Maybe the jump was a bit too much. Maybe it was the fact didn't get to play. Yeah, surprising one.
00:21:56
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, and there was no mention as to whether it would be a loan or a permanent deal, just that they have an interest in him. Whether that amounts to anything or not, who knows? But yeah, again, like you say, one that I thought we'd be looking to build into the future seems solid enough at the moment with definitely the right qualities to progress and get even better under us. So guess we will see what happens in that position. Yeah.
Interest in Leo Sienza
00:22:24
DailySaintsPod
Who knows? Only time will tell.
00:22:26
Zak
Indeed.
00:22:26
DailySaintsPod
And last on my list, a very vague and very broad speculation that several Brazilian clubs have expressed an interest in Leo Sienza.
00:22:37
DailySaintsPod
And talking to you briefly about this before we went air, mate, and you made an interesting point about something from an interview.
00:22:43
Zak
Yeah, he was talking about, when he was talking about an interview early on, I can't remember if it was literally with the club, but he was talking about how he, fool or a pod or something like that, but he'd obviously been to Brazil, lived in Brazil, or loves Brazil, but and would never want to go back and necessarily play there, because if that's never the place that gave him the opportunity.
00:22:58
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:23:00
Zak
Like, he had to go abroad to actually get a proper opportunity to play. And so seemed kind of counterproductive that he's worked for all of us. career to get to you know Europe and and get to a side. And obviously now he's beloved and is being picked up on the radar by everybody. Just seemed like an incredibly strange move to then move back to Brazil, you know kind of fall out, fall to the wayside.
00:23:23
Zak
i I don't doubt that there are Brazilian clubs showing interest. I think judging by what he said to media previously, you know i doubt that he'd probably be interested and move unless they started you know offering silly money. But I don't really see that happening either.
00:23:41
Zak
See, just again, it's you can have an interest.
00:23:41
DailySaintsPod
Without trying to like read too much into i don't know things that maybe you shouldn't read into, he was one of the very select players that the club social media decided to actively ask what game he was most looking forward to next season.
00:23:43
Zak
Yeah.
00:24:02
DailySaintsPod
Should we be taking that as as a sign?
00:24:05
Zak
No, James Wilt Prowse was put in all of the... you remember him wearing chinos, wearing the new championship top before he immediately went out on the transfer and left?
00:24:15
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:24:16
Zak
So I'm kind of... It's one of those situations where, like, No, I see not. At least they've got smart this year and decided to try and get fans to do all of there they're like with their clothing shoots because they're like, well, this way we don't have to have, you know, as you pointed out, half of the team, you know, plastered around the stadium but then no longer with us for most of the season. yeah.
00:24:38
Zak
Yeah, I don't read anything into into that realistically. I think that, you know, it would be everyone knows that the club would love to keep him. And I think that it would take quite a monumental offer to seize his services, especially where a lot of these guys are on quite big contracts and have only just signed, right?
00:24:54
Zak
Like there are some that we've already kind of know and aware of that even though they're on long-term contracts are probably going be shipped off elsewhere or go elsewhere.
00:24:55
DailySaintsPod
No. 100%.
00:25:02
Zak
But I don't think that, you know, we want Leo to leave But if you're asking me whether or not the social media guy is being informed, this is the guy you can ask that question to.
00:25:07
DailySaintsPod
no
00:25:13
Zak
It might just be simply the fact that those are the players that responded.
00:25:13
DailySaintsPod
but
00:25:16
Zak
or Like that that's kind of where I'm at. Like the rest of it might be like, you know
00:25:21
DailySaintsPod
a hundred percent but But even that in itself might be a sign that that Leo himself is settled and excited for that South Coast derby.
00:25:31
Zak
no leo leo sienza likes southampton and fans shocker
00:25:38
DailySaintsPod
Indeed. all But that's it. That is the the end of the list, the end of the rumours.
Episode Conclusion and Social Media Engagement
00:25:45
DailySaintsPod
Another week of transfer news wrapped up.
00:25:49
DailySaintsPod
Plenty to think about, plenty to discuss, but let us know in the comments on the socials, what do you think? Any of these rumours hold any weight? Anyone in particular you would expect to get through? Let us know. We love hearing from you. We are Daily Saints Pod absolutely everywhere. That's X, Blue Sky, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, everywhere. Hit us up and let us know. We will be back tomorrow with some more footballing goodness. But until then, everyone, have a wonderful day.
00:26:22
DailySaintsPod
We will see you then.