2018 Summer recruitment

[RedStarTorphins]

bbc gossip column claiming Hamilton are hitting us with £500k compensation for Lewis Ferguson. Can’t see us stumping that up for a young and relatively untested guy who is likely going to sit on the bench most of the season.

Scott McDonald released from Dundee Utd - I’d have taken him last year as a better backup option up front than Maynard but he’s possibly a bit too old now.

Is it not a set amount based on age, how long they’ve been there, & the value/length of the contract Hamilton offered him?
If they can’t agree, it’s a tribunal.
As for McDonald, not a chance. Wasn’t pulling up trees at the worst DABS team in living memory.

[Basingstokered]

bbc gossip column claiming Hamilton are hitting us with £500k compensation for Lewis Ferguson. Can’t see us stumping that up for a young and relatively untested guy who is likely going to sit on the bench most of the season.

Scott McDonald released from Dundee Utd - I’d have taken him last year as a better backup option up front than Maynard but he’s possibly a bit too old now.

Makes sense signing someone from another clubs youth team whilst also spending money on our own youth team to simply ignore them effective use of a budget

[Don_Corleone]

Makes sense signing someone from another clubs youth team whilst also spending money on our own youth team to simply ignore them effective use of a budget

No problem snapping up promising youngsters from elsewhere but spending a lot of money to do it is a big gamble when you have a limited budget - even if it ends up say £200k that’s likely to be a fair chunk of our summer budget for a guy who won’t get in the team. Is he better than the young lad dean Campbell who we already have?

[bpdon]

No problem snapping up promising youngsters from elsewhere but spending a lot of money to do it is a big gamble when you have a limited budget - even if it ends up say £200k that’s likely to be a fair chunk of our summer budget for a guy who won’t get in the team. Is he better than the young lad dean Campbell who we already have?

There is no way that AFC would have offered Ferguson a contract without having considered and discussed any development fee with Hamilton. £500K is fanciful tosh IMHO. I think the very best that accies could hope for from a tribunal would be around £150K.

Hamilton accepted a pittance for Greg Docherty who was a much more established first team player and he had >2 years left on his contract. Going by the internet bampots, that pittance hasn't even been paid yet.

[kigoretrout]

bbc gossip column claiming Hamilton are hitting us with £500k compensation for Lewis Ferguson. Can’t see us stumping that up for a young and relatively untested guy who is likely going to sit on the bench most of the season.

Scott McDonald released from Dundee Utd - I’d have taken him last year as a better backup option up front than Maynard but he’s possibly a bit too old now.

McDonald contributed the square root of feck all in the two play off games v Livingstone. He is done.

If Ferguson has inherited something from his gene pool then here's hoping we've got a player. The moaning minnies can't have it both ways. The club cannot be criticised for failing to look at young Scottish talent instead of league one Englishmen and then be castigated for not bringing through our own youth when we do actually sign a Scottish youngster.

[87kilos]

Will Docherty and Jack have a future at Ibrox?

500k they can soon plums for that amount £75k and be happy. Actually invest that 75k in some proper grass.

[Feck_the_Huns]

The moaning minnies can't have it both ways. The club cannot be criticised for failing to look at young Scottish talent instead of league one Englishmen and then be castigated for not bringing through our own youth when we do actually sign a Scottish youngster.

Yeah, and these will be the same moaning minnies who will be questioning McInnes for looking at two Peterborough players, thinking they'd be beneath us, whilst simultaneaously asking why M'well's recruitment is so good?

[kigoretrout]

It will be no where near £500 k given his age and games played.

[87kilos]

It will be no where near £500 k given his age and games played.

Uncle Barry mixing it?

[Don_Corleone]

McDonald contributed the square root of feck all in the two play off games v Livingstone. He is done.

If Ferguson has inherited something from his gene pool then here's hoping we've got a player. The moaning minnies can't have it both ways. The club cannot be criticised for failing to look at young Scottish talent instead of league one Englishmen and then be castigated for not bringing through our own youth when we do actually sign a Scottish youngster.

Agree on McDonald - I thought he might’ve been worth a punt last year but over the hill now.

I don’t think anyone’s moaning about looking at other young Scottish players if they’re better than the ones we already have at the club - issue is that paying money for them is more of a gamble than putting the same money into a player with some proven experience. If it goes well it will be a great bit of business though.

If Ferguson’s inherited some playing ability that’ll be good, hopefully he’s not inherited the fudness as well.