Summer Transfer Window (Stephen Glass’ first)

[Don_Corleone]

I will be probably one of the first to pull him up if we are not performing the way he aims the club to be. If you make bold statements like selling 15k season tickets and aim to win every competition we enter then I fully expect us to at least give it a right good go. I am for giving him a chance to prove himself and in all honesty I want him to succeed.

On another note though....was anyone actually convinced about this Hernández escapade? It’s good that he explained in detail about the transfer of him though, maybe he was feeling guilty about something?!

The Hernandez thing still makes no sense. He had to answer it because he would have got hammered for avoiding it if he didn't. He did shed a bit of new light on it by saying he put the money in himself to do the deal. But he also said it was Derek's signing, but then said the reason he didn't play was because Derek changed to the 352 system. Why would the manager want to spend close to a million quid on someone he knew wouldn't fit into his system. Having said that, I think Hernandez could have played the right wing back role better than some of the players McInnes deployed there - so definitely still something not quite right about it all.

On next season, I agree with others - I can see a couple of young English players coming up (probably on loan), a couple of Americans coming over (probably on loan, or some kind of exchange idea with a couple of our players) and one or two of Brown's contacts. That would certainly be a more interesting combination of signings than we've been used to.

[Aldo1983]

The Hernandez thing still makes no sense. He had to answer it because he would have got hammered for avoiding it if he didn't. He did shed a bit of new light on it by saying he put the money in himself to do the deal. But he also said it was Derek's signing, but then said the reason he didn't play was because Derek changed to the 352 system. Why would the manager want to spend close to a million quid on someone he knew wouldn't fit into his system. Having said that, I think Hernandez could have played the right wing back role better than some of the players McInnes deployed there - so definitely still something not quite right about it all.

On next season, I agree with others - I can see a couple of young English players coming up (probably on loan), a couple of Americans coming over (probably on loan, or some kind of exchange idea with a couple of our players) and one or two of Brown's contacts. That would certainly be a more interesting combination of signings than we've been used to.

Everyone at the time knew it wasn't a McInnes signing. He was foreign and playing abroad with no links to the UK at all. Mcinnes was never paying £850k for someone like that. Clearly signed by Cormack on the back of something from Atlanta. He's also converted it into shares.