Summer 2022 Transfer Window

[Hagi's pubic hair]

Just now, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Why are you expecting contracted players to be on a released list? 

Living in hope

[WesthillWanderersFC]

6 minutes ago, North_Andy_Dandy said:

Some real depth in the wage budget opening up now, it will be really interesting to see what Goodwin does with it. Considering this will be his biggest ever budget I’d think.
Also are we only in the market for free transfers or does anyone see us bidding for players? 
 

We’ll spend money, how much will depend if/when Ferguson &/or Ramsay are sold. 

[AyrshireSheep]

Did we sign Kennedy on a 3.5 year deal??? He's had our fucking pants down if he is ?. 

No surprise on the out of contract players all going. Suspect the players under contract like McLennan, Kennedy etc will all be told they are free to find new clubs as they won't get game time. Just don't want to see us pay them off if we can avoid it as it will bite into summer budget. There will be teams that want them. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

Just now, Hagi's pubic hair said:

Living in hope

I think the SPFA might have something to say if we did. 

I’d expect a couple of contracted players such as Woods & McLennan to go too.   
We’ll be negotiating how much of a pay off to get rid. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

2 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Did we sign Kennedy on a 3.5 year deal??? He's had our fucking pants down if he is ?. 

No surprise on the out of contract players all going. Suspect the players under contract like McLennan, Kennedy etc will all be told they are free to find new clubs as they won't get game time. Just don't want to see us pay them off if we can avoid it as it will bite into summer budget. There will be teams that want them. 

Not Kennedy. JG likes him. Suspect we’ll be stuck with him. Unfortunately 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

10 minutes ago, Dandiesmin68 said:

Just pay him off along with Bates.

It would cost about £450k to pay Bates off if we paid up his 3 year contract in full. 

[SupportmeansSUPPORT]

2 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

It would cost about £450k to pay Bates off if we paid up his 3 year contract in full. 

Yeah, we are defo stuck with him. 

[Durrant Dived]

5 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

It would cost about £450k to pay Bates off if we paid up his 3 year contract in full. 

Well it's only a 2 year contract now...

[North_Andy_Dandy]

7 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

We’ll spend money, how much will depend if/when Ferguson &/or Ramsay are sold. 

That’s my thinking as well, but I only see the monetary signings being investments like Vicente. Which is potentially good for the future but at the moment we need to be signing players who are playing at their peak. 

[SupportmeansSUPPORT]

6 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Not Kennedy. JG likes him. Suspect we’ll be stuck with him. Unfortunately 

JG liked him when he was working with St Mirren's budget and trying to find players at that level but now he has a better budget he will be trying to source much better. And although he said it was great to have him back in training he also praised Jet for the hard work he was doing to try to get fit just a few days before he was given his pay off.

 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

2 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Well it's only a 2 year contract now...

I thought he had a 4 year contract when he signed? Now 3?

Even if it’s just 2, it’s still £300k to pay it up (assuming it’s about £3k per week).

Won’t be happening 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 minute ago, SupportmeansSUPPORT said:

JG liked him when he was working with St Mirren's budget and trying to find players at that level but now he has a better budget he will be trying to source much better. And although he said it was great to have him back in training he also praised Jet for the hard work he was doing to try to get fit just a few days before he was given his pay off.

 

Aye, hopefully you’re right.

 

[Durrant Dived]

1 minute ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

I thought he had a 4 year contract when he signed? Now 3?

Even if it’s just 2, it’s still £300k to pay it up (assuming it’s about £3k per week).

Won’t be happening 

Na it was a 3 now a 2. Keep him as back up cb and then release him next summer. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 minute ago, Durrant Dived said:

Na it was a 3 now a 2. Keep him as back up cb and then release him next summer. 

Aye, agree with that. 
Hopefully by then Evan Towler might be ready for the first team. 

[Andy_123]

46 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

It would cost about £450k to pay Bates off if we paid up his 3 year contract in full. 

We paid a fee for the useless cunt as well

[ERNIE]

Where did Dundee utd get their players that got them to 4th?We were  far better than them when we beat them early in the season....

[AyrshireSheep]

53 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Not Kennedy. JG likes him. Suspect we’ll be stuck with him. Unfortunately 

He might like him but one look at his injury record should tell him he should go. Just because he liked him whilst at St Mirren doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to source a player capable of staying fit for more than 10 mins to take Kennedy's place. He'll have a bigger budget than he had at St Mirren to attract better players. 

[DD1903]

12 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

Aye much rather have absolutely no one as back up striker. That's worked out brilliant for us. 

 

5 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

 

 

Don't talk pish.

You’re the one advocating Hendry…?

[TheRedPrawcess]

22 minutes ago, DD1903 said:

 

You’re the one advocating Hendry…?

That's quite enough of that hun pish.

 

 

 

Close enough

[RabidGiraffe]

McInnes knew his time was coming to an end and rolled the desperation dice in the Jan '21 window.  Of the three strikers he signed, Hendry was the one I thought was least likely to make an impact.  Turns out he was the only one who made any kind of impact by scoring three goals.  He's had a decent season this year, scoring for Killie in the Championship and since January has scored 8 goals for a St Johnstone side that previously couldn't score in the proverbial brothel with a wad of £20s tied around you-know-where.  

Now, I'm not saying we should sign him as a first choice striker and I'm not even saying we should definitely sign him.  What I am saying is if we did sign him as a squad member with a couple of better strikers in the team ahead of him I wouldn't be unhappy.  He's only 24 and has improved over the last couple of seasons.  Think he could contribute in the region of 8 - 10 a season as a third choice striker in a good team with decent service.  He'd also be cheap and it's not like we've got any great young strikers he'd be keeping out of the team.  As others have said, we'd be better to put the young lad Harvey out on load for regular game time so he can develop rather than warming our bench for the odd 5 minutes of game time here and there.

[Durrant Dived]

6 minutes ago, RabidGiraffe said:

McInnes knew his time was coming to an end and rolled the desperation dice in the Jan '21 window.  Of the three strikers he signed, Hendry was the one I thought was least likely to make an impact.  Turns out he was the only one who made any kind of impact by scoring three goals.  He's had a decent season this year, scoring for Killie in the Championship and since January has scored 8 goals for a St Johnstone side that previously couldn't score in the proverbial brothel with a wad of £20s tied around you-know-where.  

Now, I'm not saying we should sign him as a first choice striker and I'm not even saying we should definitely sign him.  What I am saying is if we did sign him as a squad member with a couple of better strikers in the team ahead of him I wouldn't be unhappy.  He's only 24 and has improved over the last couple of seasons.  Think he could contribute in the region of 8 - 10 a season as a third choice striker in a good team with decent service.  He'd also be cheap and it's not like we've got any great young strikers he'd be keeping out of the team.  As others have said, we'd be better to put the young lad Harvey out on load for regular game time so he can develop rather than warming our bench for the odd 5 minutes of game time here and there.

@DD1903will be fuming at this.

[Rico1903]

1 hour ago, AyrshireSheep said:

He might like him but one look at his injury record should tell him he should go. Just because he liked him whilst at St Mirren doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to source a player capable of staying fit for more than 10 mins to take Kennedy's place. He'll have a bigger budget than he had at St Mirren to attract better players. 

Surely Goodwin must also be mindful of the fact it’s the club he’s now managing that was trying to punt Kennedy. Not quite sure how he can possibly justify keeping him. 

[DD1903]

10 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

@DD1903will be fuming at this.

Our definitions of 'fuming' seem to differ. 
 

lolz

[AyrshireSheep]

23 minutes ago, Rico1903 said:

Surely Goodwin must also be mindful of the fact it’s the club he’s now managing that was trying to punt Kennedy. Not quite sure how he can possibly justify keeping him. 

He'll need to find someone to take him. I don't think we should be in the business of paying anyone else off because we've already paid off Brown and JET. Find clubs to take them off our hands. Killie might want Kennedy and he's from  down there. 

[Durrant Dived]

15 minutes ago, DD1903 said:

lolz

Bit late for a 14 year old girl to be up on a school night.

[Durrant Dived]

2 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

He'll need to find someone to take him. I don't think we should be in the business of paying anyone else off because we've already paid off Brown and JET. Find clubs to take them off our hands. Killie might want Kennedy and he's from  down there. 

Brown ripped up his own contract to be fair. So only paid off Jet. Hopefully got some spare cash for mclennan Kennedy and a few others if we can't shift them.

[Rico1903]

3 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

He'll need to find someone to take him. I don't think we should be in the business of paying anyone else off because we've already paid off Brown and JET. Find clubs to take them off our hands. Killie might want Kennedy and he's from  down there. 

Yes agreed. 

[DD1903]

27 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Bit late for a 14 year old girl to be up on a school night.

Good one, DD. Good one.

 

[AyrshireSheep]

59 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Brown ripped up his own contract to be fair. So only paid off Jet. Hopefully got some spare cash for mclennan Kennedy and a few others if we can't shift them.

Did he? I thought we paid him off. That's a bit of good news then as he wouldn't have been cheap to get rid of  

[Durrant Dived]

1 minute ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Did he? I thought we paid him off. That's a bit of good news then as he wouldn't have been cheap to get rid of  

He wanted to go and coach so agreed to terminate deal without a pay off. Fair play to him ?