Summer transfer window 2024

[dave mc]

50 minutes ago, Cagey said:

Can't even get in Scotland under 17 team .Then again plays for wrong club.

He plays under 15’s  for Scotland, if he was Messi, he’d play under 17’s 🤷🏻‍♂️

[glenrothes saintee]

3 hours ago, Linky said:

Reported £500k release clause for Sidebeh. The hope is to get two clubs bidding against one another so it goes well beyond that

Get him and Kimpioka on longer contracts like a young Callum Davidson was (allegedly) was  on,  sign a longer contract, we won’t stand in your way,  if the right bid comes in an you get a % of what  we get.

[Cagey]

59 minutes ago, glenrothes saintee said:

Get him and Kimpioka on longer contracts like a young Callum Davidson was (allegedly) was  on,  sign a longer contract, we won’t stand in your way,  if the right bid comes in an you get a % of what  we get.

Agents involved unfortunately.

[mayseventeen]

7 hours ago, Linky said:

Reported £500k release clause for Sidebeh. The hope is to get two clubs bidding against one another so it goes well beyond that

Definitely no release clause. Confirmed by the Owner.

[bankfoot saint]

Still have the fear that this turns onto Kerr and Mccann again we wake up on the 1st and both players are away keeping both past the window must be a priority 

[garydavidson]

8 hours ago, mayseventeen said:

Definitely no release clause. Confirmed by the Owner.

If you fancy shooting down a 'journalist' here is one for you 🤣

 

[double deluxe]

19 hours ago, double deluxe said:

Not a lot, £20-30k is all Arsenal would be obligated to pay but that’s not to say they won’t pay a little more or add in clauses out of courtesy

Got this wrong, it’s €10k for every year he was with us between 12-15 years old plus €90k next year as he turns 16 before moving south so should be €130k, additional clauses can still be negotiated between the clubs after that

[Saintdunc]

Missed a trick in the group stages of the cup. If he is good enough, he is old enough, so let's have this starlet in the first team.

Can't do any worse than what we have.

 

[THE LARK SAINT]

 To Saint Dunc Not allowed have to be minimum 16 

Same thing with Fran 

Couldn't play till 16 

Edited August 13, 2024 by THE LARK SAINT

[The Real Saints]

28 minutes ago, Saintdunc said:

 

Can't do any worse than what we have.

 

Considering we won our group and we've now won one of our first two league matches, we probably could do a bit worse. Time to calm things down a bit, Dunc.

[rik2304]

Just seen that Aberdeen are interested in activating the clause in Sidibeh's contract.

Is there one or not? Looks like we'll be finding out soon.

[scott1982]

I've went from being desperate that Sidibeh doesn't leave to desperate he does leave, but please go to England.  

[pezza70]

The cash injection would be nice but if he is to leave then please don’t go to one of our rivals.

[The Real Saints]

Don't worry, guys. It's a Pete O'Rourke story so 99.9% unlikely to be true.

[bankfoot saint]

Courier confirms there is a clause but its higher than the 500k being mentioned 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/st-johnstone/5057993/adama-sidibeh-st-johnstone-bids-aberdeen-derby-county/

Edited August 13, 2024 by bankfoot saint

[Saintdunc]

1 hour ago, bankfoot saint said:

Courier confirms there is a clause but its higher than the 500k being mentioned 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/st-johnstone/5057993/adama-sidibeh-st-johnstone-bids-aberdeen-derby-county/

That will be it then.....offski.

It is hoped we can pick up a gem from somewhere before the end of the window because Clark's fitness can't be guaranteed for very long, Ikpeazu, even if he does return doesn't score many, Kirk has potential, and although Kimpioka has found Scotland easy to score in, he is hardly been a proven goalscorer in his short career.

What happens if Kimpioca has a release clause as well?

Nightmare.

 

[RandomGuy]

Just now, Saintdunc said:

That will be it then.....offski.

It is hoped we can pick up a gem from somewhere before the end of the window because Clark's fitness can't be guaranteed for very long, Ikpeazu, even if he does return doesn't score many, Kirk has potential, and although Kimpioka has found Scotland easy to score in, he is hardly been a proven goalscorer in his short career.

What happens if Kimpioca has a release clause as well?

Nightmare.

 

Lots of ifs and buts there. You must struggle walking down the street worrying about all the things that could hurt you.

[CarseSaint]

2 minutes ago, Saintdunc said:

That will be it then.....offski.

It is hoped we can pick up a gem from somewhere before the end of the window because Clark's fitness can't be guaranteed for very long, Ikpeazu, even if he does return doesn't score many, Kirk has potential, and although Kimpioka has found Scotland easy to score in, he is hardly been a proven goalscorer in his short career.

What happens if Kimpioca has a release clause as well?

Nightmare.

 

Negative Norman

[rik2304]

And Putin might invade because our armed forces are weak or COVID might rise again (it's never gone anyway) or the economy could crash or bird flu might develop into a deadly human strain or AI might take over and enslave us all.

[Cksaint]

So if Aberdeen do buy him do we get someone else from hearts 

SPL merry go round 

[Broggy Man]

This adama chat makes me wanna cry

[The Real Saints]

Why are people feeling negative after the most positive news report you could possibly read?

The club haven’t received a single phone call about Adama in the past month and the £500k release clause isn’t a thing.

[blueheaven]

10 hours ago, The Real Saints said:

Why are people feeling negative after the most positive news report you could possibly read?

The club haven’t received a single phone call about Adama in the past month and the £500k release clause isn’t a thing.

For me it feels a bit like we're heading towards losing him at the last possible moment of the transfer window and not having time to use the fee on beefing up the squad. Weirdly, it would almost be better for us if he had a crap couple of games for the next few weeks, to put suitors off until the window closes.

I still think it would be better for him to stay with us at least until the January window. If he hits a good number of goals for us between then and now, the offers coming in for him will be more lucrative than the ones likely to be on the table at the moment. But of course as a footballer you never know what's around the corner and it must be tempting to just grab a big offer when it's available. Still remember everyone thinking another big offer would come along for Danny Griffin after he turned down Derby, and it never did.

[The Real Saints]

49 minutes ago, blueheaven said:

For me it feels a bit like we're heading towards losing him at the last possible moment of the transfer window and not having time to use the fee on beefing up the squad. Weirdly, it would almost be better for us if he had a crap couple of games for the next few weeks, to put suitors off until the window closes.

I still think it would be better for him to stay with us at least until the January window. If he hits a good number of goals for us between then and now, the offers coming in for him will be more lucrative than the ones likely to be on the table at the moment. But of course as a footballer you never know what's around the corner and it must be tempting to just grab a big offer when it's available. Still remember everyone thinking another big offer would come along for Danny Griffin after he turned down Derby, and it never did.

I honestly can’t see it. I don’t think any club would be willing to pay our minimum demands until he’s proved himself in the Scottish Premiership over a longer period of time. Regardless, by that point, we’ll hopefully have made use of Stevie May’s wages (amongst others) in addition to the Rangers cup match income. If we needed to strengthen any further, we’d have the opportunity to find a free agent or two after the transfer window closes.

Aside from the lowball Swansea offer, there are no other offers on the table for Sidibeh and there haven’t been any whatsoever.

The transfer speculation has been entirely drummed up by his agent and Pete O’Rourke. We’ve got to take a step back and consider why there’s been so much apparent interest in him compared to someone like Kimpioka who is younger with a slightly better goalscoring record and more experience of senior football. The Courier is genuinely speculating that Sidibeh might sign a new contract here as well, so it seems like his representatives are just scrabbling for more money as quickly as possible, regardless of how they manage it.

Edited August 14, 2024 by The Real Saints

[aagb1884]

51 minutes ago, The Real Saints said:

Aside from the lowball Swansea offer, there are no other offers on the table for Sidibeh and there haven’t been any whatsoever.

The transfer speculation has been entirely drummed up by his agent and Pete O’Rourke. We’ve got to take a step back and consider why there’s been so much apparent interest in him compared to someone like Kimpioka who is younger with a slightly better goalscoring record and more experience of senior football. The Courier is genuinely speculating that Sidibeh might sign a new contract here as well, so it seems like his representatives are just scrabbling for more money as quickly as possible, regardless of how they manage it.

Yeah, this. It's hard to gauge how likely Sidibeh is to go simply because of how much talk is being generated by unreliable parties.