2018 Summer recruitment

[Mr_Grieves]

Aaron Lennon against Considine gives me the fear.

I'm more concerned about Guðmundsson against Logan.

The fact that we bid for Naismith last month suggests McInnes is as well.

[The_Moog]

Alan Nixon on Twitter, who’s not unreliable, suggesting Swansea are still sniffing around Scott McKenna.

And here’s the shocking (but not surprising part with our club), we’d accept £3.5m.

Not even £5m...£3.5m

Absolutely pish if true.

The only question we should be asking is would Hibs or the Tims accept a figure like that for a player like McKenna with 5 years on his contract?

Would they f’uck.

Hibs will hold out for that sum for McGinn with one year left on his deal ffs.

Let him go for that figure and that is selling the club down the river. The “gamble” of keeping him is a no brainer if that’s the offer just now.

£10m - not a penny less. What’s the worst that can happen - we keep the best young centre half in Scotland. I can live with that.

[Don_Corleone]

If we play like we did on the final day against Celtic we'll give Burnley a good game. They're not as good as Celtic and on our day we can beat them. Devlin in for O'Connor should be an improvement on that side. My only fear is actually Gleeson as he's not had much game time with his new team mates - we will miss McLean more than some people on here want to admit - they'll soon see though. I'd possibly go with Ferguson over Gleeson in the opening game just because he's had more game time - I don't think he'll be intimidated by the opponents even though he's young.

[87kilos]

McKenna ain't going anywhere.

He's worth more than £3.5 million.

[RED_JOHN]

I’d say we won’t.
Even if we do, no way they’ll start the game Thursday.

Fitness allowing, this is the team I think McInnes will pick (not necessarily my team).

Lewis
Logan Devlin McKenna Considine
Gleeson Shinnie
McGinn Forrester GMS
Cosgrove

Suns; Craddock, Ball, Ferguson, Campbell, Wright, May, Ross.

Aaron Lennon against Considine gives me the fear.

I think Ferguson will be in instead of Gleeson and that will be the team we start with against Burnley.
(That is assuming Niall McGinn is fully fit)

[afc1903mad]

The only question we should be asking is would Hibs or the Tims accept a figure like that for a player like McKenna with 5 years on his contract?

Would they f’uck.

Hibs will hold out for that sum for McGinn with one year left on his deal ffs.

Let him go for that figure and that is selling the club down the river. The “gamble” of keeping him is a no brainer if that’s the offer just now.

£10m - not a penny less. What’s the worst that can happen - we keep the best young centre half in Scotland. I can live with that.

I’d agree, the only caveat we don’t know is if there is a release clause with the long extension.

[afc1903mad]

It's probably best we didn't sign anyone now with the intention of throwing them straight in at the deep end on Thursday. Then we'd be gambling that they find their feet in a matter of days. Too much of a risk I'd say. Give Cosgrove a go at it and see if he can't get another one or two.

GMS went straight into the lineup last year.
That said, if we were to sign a new player, I’d want them to be on the bench as an option.

[Redmadders96]

Think this is an absolute joke.
Transfer window has been chronic. They want our season ticket money but are doing nothing to even entice us to splash out.

Sell players and buy nobody. We will be luck if we even finish 4th never mind 2nd.

SM is only concerned on the new stadium (which he doesn't wanna pay for either) buy some players SM.

GET YIR FINGER OOT MIN.

[Ten Caat's]

GK Sebastian Gessl joins AFC on trial for a week

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/...-week-12962873

[RED_JOHN]

GK Sebastian Gessl joins AFC on trial for a week

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/...-week-12962873

Wow...I honestly thought McInnes had another keeper lined up when he let Rogers go to St.Mirren but more fool me for thinking that.
We are back to the trial and hope approach which didn't serve previous managers very well.
Serious question....has Del lost desire to improve us due to financial constraints?
It certainly is a very unprofessional approach to let your back up keeper and top striker leave the club (after already seeing an exodus of last season's squad go) without having ensured you have new replacements.