Wester Hailes Skins Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 hours ago, ThomohawkKid said: Money talks and we can still offer third highest wages. Shouldn’t be any more difficult than usual. You sure? We're on a minimum £3m for Europe. £2m from FOH. Likely percentage of Hickey sale. And sell more STs than you. And you've got a stadium to fund. Not giving it large, just facts and not sure you'll be offering bigger wages than Hearts. Link to comment
slippers Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Wester Hailes Skins said: You sure? We're on a minimum £3m for Europe. £2m from FOH. Likely percentage of Hickey sale. And sell more STs than you. And you've got a stadium to fund. Not giving it large, just facts and not sure you'll be offering bigger wages than Hearts. Had a way bigger budget that you this season. Millions more. Next season who knows if club will try and reduce or speculate? Obviously Hearts budget will Increase. Link to comment
sigh Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 26 minutes ago, Broken_Glass said: Can't wait for this season to be over and the shopping to commence. I like a good pre season transfer window..... Thats the crux of it though, we NEED a good pre season transfer window - especially when loosing so many players Link to comment
DD1903 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said: Watch as they declare every signing to be a brilliant one. Followed 3 months later by a list of players we need to get rid of which features many of the aforementioned brilliant players. ...over and over and over ? Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 10 minutes ago, slippers said: Had a way bigger budget that you this season. Millions more. Next season who knows if club will try and reduce or speculate? Obviously Hearts budget will Increase. I'm fairly certain certain both Hearts and Hibs can pretty much match any deal we can offer a player now. And as Skins says, they are making a minimum of £3m from guaranteed group stage EL football (with 3 likely sell-out crowds on top), and Hickey looks likely to be sold for a massive fee netting them a decent percentage. Their FOH initiative dwarfs our AberDNA and we do have the new ground to fund at some point. I'd even suspect United could probably on an individual case offer at least as good a contract to a player that they really wanted. Link to comment
KenDodd'sDad Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 24 minutes ago, Wester Hailes Skins said: You sure? We're on a minimum £3m for Europe. £2m from FOH. Likely percentage of Hickey sale. And sell more STs than you. And you've got a stadium to fund. Not giving it large, just facts and not sure you'll be offering bigger wages than Hearts. Aberdeen had a higher turnover than Hearts and Hibs pre pandemic due to corporate, not sure if that has gone back to normal now but assume so. Link to comment
ericblack4boss Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Hearts will blow us out of the water with thier funds next season, Link to comment
slippers Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 6 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said: Hearts will blow us out of the water with thier funds next season, Think we will still be ahead of them fund wise due to player sales however I doubt it will all be invested. It’s absolutely sickening that we lost the McKenna, Cosgrove cash to covid and now we are about to lose the Ferguson and Ramsay money to us being an absolute joke outfit. Easily lost out on 5m this season. Probably more! Link to comment
CCB III Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said: Hearts will blow us out of the water with thier funds next season, Dk like, Ferguson and Ramsay could go for close to 10,000,000 all in. They don't have assets that people would pay as much money for. The hard bit is convincing people to pick here over them, but an extra thousand or so every week probs helps. Link to comment
Guest Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Surely bringing in some good/exciting signings will hopefully boost st sales. Fans need to buy into it & if they see us making signings which "turns heads" then we might sell more. We live in hope & anticipation that we can attract top players for next season & hit the ground running. Link to comment
The Gee Man Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 48 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said: Hearts will blow us out of the water with thier funds next season, Hearts are in debt! If it wasn’t for “loans” they’d be goosed Link to comment
DD1903 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 All this hearts pulling away from us chat will send the Canadians over the edge 1 Link to comment
minijc Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 minute ago, DD1903 said: All this hearts pulling away from us chat will send the Canadians over the edge Good, I now hate them all after Al picked Mainstandmoan over me. Link to comment
shooftahmooftah Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 16 hours ago, Dons79 said: Wouldn’t think we could afford his wages as I can’t see him dropping from Chelsea to Fulham to us wages wise?, surely not I spoke to him yesterday, said he loves Aberdeen and if they come up with the right deal he’s on his way. Link to comment
KidCreole Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 12 hours ago, Durrant Dived said: Hayes signed the new deal months ago. Can take him off the list. Love new labour Link to comment
DD1903 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 29 minutes ago, minijc said: Good, I now hate them all after Al picked Mainstandmoan over me. they'll be back, @'ing you for info. They can't help themselves Link to comment
TheRedPrawcess Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 10 hours ago, BonnieDon said: We aren't in Europe and are a bottom six team. Could be a difficult summer trying to attract decent players. We'll see. We aren't in Europe for the coming season, but we're only bottom 6 for 3 more games of this disastrous season. I hardly think players will look at us as a bottom 6 club and we won't promote ourselves as that. The no Europe is a bit shit however. It will go down as, "Sign a 2-3 year deal and you'll get European football in 1 year" Link to comment
Chester Don Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 hour ago, shooftahmooftah said: I spoke to him yesterday, said he loves Aberdeen and if they come up with the right deal he’s on his way. That would in fact be terrific if not on the wind up! Link to comment
ThomohawkKid Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Wester Hailes Skins said: You sure? We're on a minimum £3m for Europe. £2m from FOH. Likely percentage of Hickey sale. And sell more STs than you. And you've got a stadium to fund. Not giving it large, just facts and not sure you'll be offering bigger wages than Hearts. Yeah I’m sure, numbers quoted would merely cover your losses last year, never mind previous. The Hearts squad would have been down with Aberdeen and Hibs bar Craig Gordon. He’s POTS for a reason. Tbf I like Kingsley and Halkett too but after that there’s no many you’d write home about. McKay on a purple patch maybe. I would be very surprised if Hearts are third next season. Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 11 hours ago, BonnieDon said: We aren't in Europe and are a bottom six team. Could be a difficult summer trying to attract decent players. We'll see. I doubt playing random unknown teams in qualifiers, then ultimately losing at the final hurdle is going to be the selling point of coming to Pittodrie. Link to comment
DD1903 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 22 minutes ago, Chester Don said: That would in fact be terrific if not on the wind up! Lolz ?? Link to comment
afc_blockhead Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 18 minutes ago, ThomohawkKid said: Yeah I’m sure, numbers quoted would merely cover your losses last year, never mind previous. The Hearts squad would have been down with Aberdeen and Hibs bar Craig Gordon. He’s POTS for a reason. Tbf I like Kingsley and Halkett too but after that there’s no many you’d write home about. McKay on a purple patch maybe. I would be very surprised if Hearts are third next season. This. Hearts own financial report indicated this year would see the impact. They didn't cut back at all while in the league below and came back up this year with the 4th biggest budget in the league. Even for last year they had 3 million plus put in by shareholders for a start that would have otherwise been a loss! Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Dom Ball and Lee Wallace released by QPR. The previous regime would have been snapping them up. Link to comment
Andy_123 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 33 minutes ago, ThomohawkKid said: Yeah I’m sure, numbers quoted would merely cover your losses last year, never mind previous. The Hearts squad would have been down with Aberdeen and Hibs bar Craig Gordon. He’s POTS for a reason. Tbf I like Kingsley and Halkett too but after that there’s no many you’d write home about. McKay on a purple patch maybe. I would be very surprised if Hearts are third next season. Without Gordon Hearts would absolutely be mid-table. Possibly bottom 6. He's a great keeper. Did we not pass on signing him when he first came back from that 2-3 year injury he had before he went to Celtic? Or am I making that up? Kingsley would easily get a game for us. Not convinced on Halkett, but no doubt he's a better defender than the nuggets we have just now. 5 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said: Dom Ball and Lee Wallace released by QPR. The previous regime would have been snapping them up. I actually thought Dom Ball was a useful enough player as a holding midfielder when he was here before. Wouldn't sign him now though. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 We should have signed Kingsley instead of Greg Leigh at the time. That was a no brainer. Link to comment
BaaBaaRedSheep Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Have a hunch that big Andy will sign a one year contract, with some minor coaching responsibilities with under 18's, prior to final match of season. He will then start against St Mirren and play a stormer. Age wise he will not play too many games next season but will, hopefully, be around to give benefit of Dons experience. Whatever the case as long as Bates is ditched and a more reliable defender is brought in next season will, surely, be a more positive one. Link to comment
super_al Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 3 hours ago, minijc said: Good, I now hate them all after Al picked Mainstandmoan over me. I would never do that. However I would LOVE to know who we are after…. 1 Link to comment
minijc Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Just now, super_al said: I would never do that. However I would LOVE to know who we are after…. So would I, Super_Al, so would I. Link to comment
sooth_stander Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 6 minutes ago, BaaBaaRedSheep said: Have a hunch that big Andy will sign a one year contract, with some minor coaching responsibilities with under 18's, prior to final match of season. He will then start against St Mirren and play a stormer. Age wise he will not play too many games next season but will, hopefully, be around to give benefit of Dons experience. Whatever the case as long as Bates is ditched and a more reliable defender is brought in next season will, surely, be a more positive one. I think you might be right. A compromise will be had. And, fuck taking condescending financial shit from Hearts fans. Fucking basket case of a club who will fall just as quickly as they have “risen”. I look forward to a rejuvenated Dons kicking their jam asses next season 1 Link to comment
minijc Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 23 minutes ago, sooth_stander said: I think you might be right. A compromise will be had. And, fuck taking condescending financial shit from Hearts fans. Fucking basket case of a club who will fall just as quickly as they have “risen”. I look forward to a rejuvenated Dons kicking their jam asses next season It won't! Link to comment
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