Quote Originally Posted by Don_Corleone View Post
Yup, this bit is what irritates me. I don't think this midfield issue is just affecting the quality of football, it's also affecting the results. McLean and Shinnie were always going to be very hard to replace, whatever anyone says. I think we got over the loss of Jack and didn't miss him too much because of the presence of those two, plus the loan of Christie. McInnes has done a dreadful job in terms of planning for these guys to leave - how many midfielders has he taken in over the last 3 seasons who have been beyond hopeless? Gleeson, Forrester, Tansey, Gallagher, Ojo, Bryson... then we have defenders filling in for them, Vyner and Leigh. You can't replace the likes of Shinnie, McLean, Christie and Jack with this kind of rubbish. I would expect him to sign a midfielder in the January window and I actually think our season is resting on it being a good signing. If he gets it wrong and we go through the rest of the season with Ferguson as our only decent midfielder we're just going to get more of the same.
Yup for a midfielder he doesn't have much of an eye for a player. Gleeson and Forrester were disasters. Id actually erased Tansey from my memory.

You could sort of see his thinking with Gleeson. He had racked up.A lot of championship games for decent teams but he just didn't seem to have the legd. That should have been apparent if he had been properly scouted.We had been chasing after that hibs p rick McGeoch for the whole season and didn't get him and panicked bought. With Forrester we took a gamble on a relatively young loon who had shown potential previously and who McInnes thought he could get back on track.

I still think a midfield of Ferguson Ojo and Bryson if fully fit could be decent but am beginnIng to think it aint going to happen. He does need another midfielder this January.