Transfer News, Gossip & Speculation Transfer Thread - Summer 2025 Edition.

[Jack_23]

If Cashman happens that just leaves a forward, and a couple of centre backs as essential. Anything else would be a bonus IMO.

LB/LWB is a must imo

 

[Medway Blue]

Is Pereira unlikely because of wages or because of interest elsewhere?

Both

 

[Medway Blue]

I’d say probably more that we have Leon and hopefully Cashman that is in that kind of mould

Different positions though.

 

[Shrimper83]

We need to use the loan market to its full potential this season!

 

[henry18]

Loans don’t work .. they start doing well and performing well then get recalled to play at EFL level .. complete waste of time

 

[Magnum PI]

Do we think Cashman is better than Pereira and more what we need?

Pereira thinks he is better....

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

So is it looking more like Cashman, Spasov and Kawa?

 

[Callumturner22]

So is it looking more like Cashman, Spasov and Kawa?

That’s how I look at it .

 

[Hadleigh-shrimper]

That’s how I look at it .

I’d say 2/3

 

[danbowen]

Loans don’t work .. they start doing well and performing well then get recalled to play at EFL level .. complete waste of time

Get your point however tell that to the likes of Oldham who had Yoganathan on loan etc. You do need to use the loan market we just need to try and not have recall clauses in the deals.

 

[henry18]

Get your point however tell that to the likes of Oldham who had Yoganathan on loan etc. You do need to use the loan market we just need to try and not have recall clauses in the deals.

I might be wrong here so apologies if I am … didn’t Yoganathan join Oldham fairly late in the season ? If he did that would explain why he wasn’t pulled back and tested higher

 

[hlane17]

I might be wrong here so apologies if I am … didn’t Yoganathan join Oldham fairly late in the season ? If he did that would explain why he wasn’t pulled back and tested higher

Joined in January transfer window I believe

 

[AlfaShrimper]

Fiacre Kelleher, the man who was keeping Ben Goodliffe out of our team last season has returned home to Cork to sign for Cork City, I think this might mean we will be more keen to keep Ben for next season.

Please do

 

[Medway Blue]

I might be wrong here so apologies if I am … didn’t Yoganathan join Oldham fairly late in the season ? If he did that would explain why he wasn’t pulled back and tested higher

Yep, very different case to Bim, who we loaned in the first half of the season.

When loaning EFL players in the first half of the season, it is fairly standard for there to be a January recall clause in favour of the parent club, because they almost always want to take any opportunity to loan the player higher.

Less issue with Yoganathan, who joined Oldham with less than 2 months of the EFL transfer window remaining, so much less likely to get recalled or to even have the clause in there.

Also - Kevin Maher's preference is to sign players permanently and try to develop them for SUFC, rather than develop other club's players. I can see the reasons for and against and there's no right answer there. Just a preference.

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

Yep, very different case to Bim, who we loaned in the first half of the season.

When loaning EFL players in the first half of the season, it is fairly standard for there to be a January recall clause in favour of the parent club, because they almost always want to take any opportunity to loan the player higher.

Less issue with Yoganathan, who joined Oldham with less than 2 months of the EFL transfer window remaining, so much less likely to get recalled or to even have the clause in there.

Also - Kevin Maher's preference is to sign players permanently and try to develop them for SUFC, rather than develop other club's players. I can see the reasons for and against and there's no right answer there. Just a preference.

Kev hasn’t been totally averse to loans but as you say he’d rather build a close knit squad with loyalties to Southend. It’s a real shame we couldn’t hang on to Bim.

 

[Shrimper95]

When are we expecting an announcement in regards to incomings?

 

[Barling Magna]

When are we expecting an announcement in regards to incomings?

Early next month would be my guess.

 

[Smiffy]

So is it looking more like Cashman, Spasov and Kawa?

Kawa the least likely of the three I believe. I doubt we’d go for all of them.

 

[Suffering shrimper]

Is cashman a done deal then ?

 

[Holy Joe]

Loans don’t work .. they start doing well and performing well then get recalled to play at EFL level .. complete waste of time

I wonder where we'd have ended up without the contributions of Pebble, Golding, Goodliffe?