Tommy Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, DD1903 said: I'd rather we didn't sign anyone, than just signing players for the sake of it Aye, use our youth players instead of taking in loans. Summer is when to take in new signings. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, DD1903 said: I'd rather we didn't sign anyone, than just signing players for the sake of it So would I. My worry is why can't we sign anyone we want? Link to comment
sooth_stander Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Ten Caat said: Anyone know if we are still after the Icelandic left back? Davíd Ingvarsson? Think the only person who mentioned him was mainstandmoan both in the summer and again this month. Link to comment
shooftahmooftah Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 49 minutes ago, DD1903 said: I'd rather we didn't sign anyone, than just signing players for the sake of it Don’t give the management excuses for not signing anyone this window that’s all they need to hear. Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 1 hour ago, DD1903 said: I'd rather we didn't sign anyone, than just signing players for the sake of it If we’re stuck & the only viable options are shite like Samuels, then I’d rather go with what we have &/or promote & youngster or two (although most of them are out on loan?). Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Thankfully Glass realised how shite a signing JET was a good while ago but if he hasn’t been looking for another striker for when Ramirez is either injured or burnt out he is a fkn idiot. Ridiculous we haven’t even been linked with a striker this window 1 Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Maybe Glass isn't bringing in the players but is defending his bosses who are responsible. After all Cormack didn't want a manager who wanted any control over recruitment. Probably because he wants to control everything would be my guess. Link to comment
minijc Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said: Maybe Glass isn't bringing in the players but is defending his bosses who are responsible. After all Cormack didn't want a manager who wanted any control over recruitment. Probably because he wants to control everything would be my guess. Aye, could have saved himself a couple hundred grand by not implementing a DoF and new head of recruitment if that was the case. Link to comment
DD1903 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Tommy said: Aye, use our youth players instead of taking in loans. Summer is when to take in new signings. Correct Thomas. stop 'developing other teams' players and concentrate on our own. (Unless it's some world class talent) 1 Link to comment
DD1903 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, ConsiCanBoogie1903 said: So would I. My worry is why can't we sign anyone we want? January is always a strange month for signings though. Don't you worry your young self Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 53 minutes ago, minijc said: Aye, could have saved himself a couple hundred grand by not implementing a DoF and new head of recruitment if that was the case. He's not here half the time. Needs folk to do the grunt work anyway. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, DD1903 said: January is always a strange month for signings though. Don't you worry your young self I agree. But we should have identified what was needed ages ago, and should be a lot further along with such deals etc. Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 16 minutes ago, DD1903 said: January is always a strange month for signings though. Don't you worry your young self The problem with the January window is that players contracts don't run out till the summer, and teams don't want to lose their best players mid season. It's usually a window for getting in cover for injuries and letting players go out on loan who aren't getting games. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, StandFree1982 said: The problem with the January window is that players contracts don't run out till the summer, and teams don't want to lose their best players mid season. It's usually a window for getting in cover for injuries and letting players go out on loan who aren't getting games. Aye. And with ten days to go now it's unlikely there will be many permanent transfers coming in. Maybe one. Or a loan now to buy in the summer. Expecting some loan movement in both directions but nae much more than that. Link to comment
thurso Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, AyrshireSheep said: Going with what we have just now isn't really the problem. The majority of the 1st 11 as it is is fine. It's the backup to it though. What happens if Ramirez gets injured? What happens now if Ramsay picks up another injury? Who's going to create the chances if we lose him to another injury? Ramirez does so much running off the ball i find it difficult to believe he won't pick up some form of injury between now and the end of the season. JET isn't the answer. Watkins injured, McLennan pish, McGinn? Be aswell letting him go. That's my issue with it so far. Maybe Ramirez won’t get injured some players don’t pick up muscle injuries from running around a lot while others pick up a lot Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 21 minutes ago, ConsiCanBoogie1903 said: I agree. But we should have identified what was needed ages ago, and should be a lot further along with such deals etc. We probably did have players identified, but it's not always plain sailing getting players to the club. We're not Real Madrid, players aren't jumping at the chance to come to us and we've got a budget not much bigger than our rivals, outside of Rangers/Celtic, and a budget that is dwarfed by League 1 sides in England. Cormack or Glass, whoever it was, should never have come out with "we'll get business done early" or whatever the quote was. This isn't Football Manager, there's 101 things that can stall talks and prevent things happening. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, StandFree1982 said: We probably did have players identified, but it's not always plain sailing getting players to the club. We're not Real Madrid, players aren't jumping at the chance to come to us and we've got a budget not much bigger than our rivals, outside of Rangers/Celtic, and a budget that is dwarfed by League 1 sides in England. Cormack or Glass, whoever it was, should never have come out with "we'll get business done early" or whatever the quote was. This isn't Football Manager, there's 101 things that can stall talks and prevent things happening. Ultimately, it's up to them to get them in. I understand how transfers work. Clear as day we need reinforcements for the starting XI as well. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Aye at the moment we've brought in one young player identified through Bobby Clark's contacts. Seen a couple of loanees recalled to their parent clubs and Gurr has found himself a new job. Gunn and Mowbray have done fuck all so far of any substance in terms of getting anything over the line. Let's see what they can deliver over the next ten days. Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I think we put all our eggs in one basket with McGrath, from what i've heard, and that's now a no go. Must have assumed that was going ahead and didn't bother with anything else. Now we're 20 days into January with 3 players out and a young guy who's likely not going to be close to being first team ready till at least start of next season. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 We had a shite (REALLY SHITE) summer window, so repairs were clearly always going to be required in this window. Quit making excuses for the club by using ‘but it’s January’ blah blah blah. If you buy a shit second hand car that then keeps breaking down but you need it to get to work. You don’t fkn park it & hitch to work for next six months. You bite the bullet & spend the money & fkn fix the damn thing or risk losing your job. Link to comment
Crossbow Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 40 minutes ago, thurso said: Maybe Ramirez won’t get injured some players don’t pick up muscle injuries from running around a lot while others pick up a lot That's quite a gamble to take given our other "striker" has a penchant for spending much of a season on the physios table. Link to comment
thurso Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 1 minute ago, Crossbow said: That's quite a gamble to take given our other "striker" has a penchant for spending much of a season on the physios table. Would our other “striker” not be jet who is just a bit lazy and drops to deep Link to comment
DD1903 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 1 hour ago, ConsiCanBoogie1903 said: I agree. But we should have identified what was needed ages ago, and should be a lot further along with such deals etc. 55 minutes ago, StandFree1982 said: The problem with the January window is that players contracts don't run out till the summer, and teams don't want to lose their best players mid season. It's usually a window for getting in cover for injuries and letting players go out on loan who aren't getting games. What he said Link to comment
thurso Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said: If you buy a shit second hand car that then keeps breaking down but you need it to get to work. You don’t fkn park it & hitch to work for next six months. You bite the bullet & spend the money & fkn fix the damn thing or risk losing your job. I’d probably cycle to be honest. 1 Link to comment
Guest milne_afc Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 5 hours ago, DelMonte said: The transfer windows fairly weeds out the window lickers on here. 5 hours ago, BonnieDon said: I'm genuinely pleased with the window thus far as we've offloaded Longstaff, Samuels and Gurr. Hopefully Campbell gets a loan move to give him much needed first team action. Potentially sell Ramsay for a club record of 6+ million plus add ons and have him loaned back to us for the remainder of the season. Even if we only sign up 2-3 decent players on pre-contracts I'd mark it down as an improvement on the past 3 transfer windows. I'm not denying we need improvements now. I just rather we didn't waste a wage on dross anymore and would prefer o see us wait till the summer. Link to comment
super_al Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 My bed sheets are getting little damp....any ITK'ers got any news? Link to comment
AyrshireSheep Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, thurso said: Maybe Ramirez won’t get injured some players don’t pick up muscle injuries from running around a lot while others pick up a lot It's a bit of a risk considering he's the only proper "no9" we have. How many teams do you know that run with 1 recognised striker? Only other one i can thunk of is maybe Man City. JET isn't a striker in a million years and if the management team brought him to be one then that's a sackable offence in itself. Watkins isn't an out and out striker either. So it's mot as if the striker situation has suddenly been sprung upon us. Neither is the lack of creativity. Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 17 minutes ago, super_al said: My bed sheets are getting little damp....any ITK'ers got any news? Glass was pretty unambiguous in his REDTV interview today. Nothing imminent. Link to comment
AyrshireSheep Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 1 minute ago, WesthillWanderersFC said: Glass was pretty unambiguous in his REDTV interview today. Nothing imminent. I'm shocked. Link to comment
RED_JOHN Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said: Aye at the moment we've brought in one young player identified through Bobby Clark's contacts. Seen a couple of loanees recalled to their parent clubs and Gurr has found himself a new job. Gunn and Mowbray have done fuck all so far of any substance in terms of getting anything over the line. Let's see what they can deliver over the next ten days. It’s a sad state of affairs if we have to rely on Steven Gunn regarding transfers. The guy is nothing more than a butler. 1 Link to comment
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