He's be an excellent signing to replace McGinnOriginally Posted by medw1311
Plays on the right (although he's an out and out leftie)
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He's be an excellent signing to replace McGinn
Plays on the right (although he's an out and out leftie)
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Ali Crawford isn't great. If we are sniffing about clubs that have been relegated or nearly got relegated then we are doooooomed.
A really good centre half is needed and a really good player to replace McGinn. Anything else will just be filler.
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what happened to the 2 new players, we were going to sign before the end of season, have they changed their mind? We were promised them the day Tansey signed.
if not come on DM get them signed or are they awaiting to see if you are going to Sunderland?
I hope they are signed before the players return for pre-season
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From the BBC Gossip Column:
"Ryan Christie's reluctance to make a permanent move to Aberdeen, where the midfielder had been on loan, could force Celtic to make a straight cash bid for Dons winger Jonny Hayes. (Daily Express, print edition)"
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Still think that is a load of *******s!
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If Christie doesn't want to come to AFC, then Celtic don't get Hayes unless they pay WAY over the odds, say £2m. Otherwise, he can go to England
These 4 players must be 1st team picks, lads that can come straight in and play week in week out, if required. NO SQUAD PLAYERS. Squad players should be our kids.
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In theory that's fine
Reality is maybe different.
What I mean is this;
Say Notts Forest offer £1m and we accept that, then Celtic will also offer that - they wouldn't offer say £1.25m
We then would have a very unhappy player if he's not allowed to talk to Celtic but is Notts Forest.
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I guess it wouldn't matter to us rst, he would be at Notts Forest and would be their unhappy player
I wouldn't have thought he would be desperate to go to Celtic anyway, I suggested a while back he was a Tim and was told on here that he wasn't.
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Its a worrying time to be honest. Selling Hayes to Celtic would be a disaster for us, if we are to even think about getting near them next season. If you sell your best players to your rivals, then whats the point? it would take big money for me to be happy and that money would 100% have to be reinvested back into the transfer kitty.
We have already replaced Jack, so thats not a problem, easy shoes to fill. The issue for me is we have to replace Taylor, Reynolds and Considine, along with Mcginn and possibly Hayes. We could even lose McLean if he attracts attention and Logan is an attractive player for other clubs too. Luckily theya re under contract and would require a fee, but I'm not convinced it would all be reinvested. These are worst case scenarios of course.
As for point on Reynolds and Considine, they just aren't good enough and if we are to progress and they will need replaced. Rooney needs someone to back him up with Stockley out and we would ideally want to strengthen on our striking options so it may cost us money.
McInnes and Milne have their work cut out! I have a mix of fear of the unknown and excitement about a freshening up!!
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Its a massive summer for us. And that's an understatement. I personally want
Devlin
Maloney
Christie
GMS
New Striker
But i strongly doubt that's what we're getting.
Just a wee bit of food for thought. I came home the cup final (great day, shyte score) and at the last minute a mate from Belgium (big KAA Gent fan whom I've adopted.....aye the team....nae my mate... and vice versa) decided to fly over last minute and come with us to the game. He got a ticket and all worked out great. Got into a great pre-match conversation with him in the boozer which may or may not offer a little hope for the future.
Only a few years back KAA were based in their traditional 1920's built home; The Jules Ottenstadion. just shy of 13,000 capacity and if you look at pictures of it, it's exactly what you'd expect from a provincial teams stadium from that era. Would easily be mistaken for a Scottish teams ground. They decided to build a purpose built 20,000 all seater in an industrial estate further out of town in 2003, but due to objections and enviromental concerns the Ghelamco Arena wouldn't get built until 2013 i think.
KAA Gent live in the shadow of bigger teams traditionally with Anderlecht topping the pile with a budget that usually would very much dwarf their own. I'm sure you're seeing the similarities here. There was a natural pecking order that was reinforced and existed as the status quo. The Ghelamco Arena ultimately helped change that. KAA became champions of Belgium for the first time in their history in season 2014/15 with home games selling out at 20,000 each week. Gent is a beautiful city with a population very close to that of Aberdeen and the stadium, which i visited last year, is quite incredible. It's the sort of place you'd WANT to take you're family to to sit and watch football. It's the sort of stadium a player would walk into for the first time and say "i want to play here".
My friend said to the group of us (while wearing his KAA Gent and Dandies pin badges) "Gent were Aberdeen, Where you are now is where we were not long ago. But we changed things".
Gent went on to compete in the Champions league and for anyone who didn't catch it, they made the Europa League quarters i think having knocked out Tottenham. Last year they sold their keeper and top midfielder for a combined price of 18m Euro's. Impressive stuff. Point is, while you can't make a direct comparison with all the variables, there's surely hope in there that the club might be on the right track and that 10 years from now, our expectations might be quite different.
Sadly i think this year's team has had it's chips and will be picked off including the manager. We just have to avoid the textbook Matalan Catalan fall from grace.
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