Liam Scales

[Matt Armstrong's Dog]

25 minutes ago, Donscanada said:

I suspect it was north of 1mm probably a recored fee for the dons and likely the turkish club offered a higher wage too.  Guessing mgmt did not think he was the messiah for that risk.  However 4mm in transfers and addons for mecorie, ram and mckenna plus euro group stage money it was feasible

Trabzonspor having a Croatian manager helped as well. 

[Footballs coming Rome]

11 minutes ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

Trabzonspor having a Croatian manager helped as well. 

Plus a few other Croats in the team. 

[Matt Armstrong's Dog]

8 minutes ago, Footballs coming Rome said:

Plus a few other Croats in the team. 

Spot on min. Making it far easier to settle in Turkey than, unfortunately, over here.

[Awayfromhomered]

1 hour ago, minijc said:

We'll take him on loan, as far as I'm aware no other club is in for him, Celtic will be happy to take another £200k+ off us for his loan.

Do we pay a fee and a percentage of wages when we get someone on loan?

[minijc]

Just now, Awayfromhomered said:

Do we pay a fee and a percentage of wages when we get someone on loan?

Depends on the club but Celtic have a history of charging a fee+wages so I wouldn't rule it out, even if they don't charge a fee I would expect them to want as much of the wages as possible.

[The Gee Man]

Is their any indication we paid a loan fee last season 

[Millertime]

4 minutes ago, Awayfromhomered said:

Do we pay a fee and a percentage of wages when we get someone on loan?

Wholly dependent on the deal!

I would imagine with Scales we definitely paid some of the wages and wouldn't be surprised if there was a nominal fee too

[Donscanada]

Personally if we were putting out that kind of transfer money would prefer matty pollack..think watford paid 500k for him. Heck i would like them both back with the number of competitions we are in this year

[shooftahmooftah]

Break in News  Darvel just signed Scales.    Price was off the Scales. So now time to move on. 

[Awayfromhomered]

10 minutes ago, minijc said:

Depends on the club but Celtic have a history of charging a fee+wages so I wouldn't rule it out, even if they don't charge a fee I would expect them to want as much of the wages as possible.

Aye, makes sense. Costly business either way. 

[Awayfromhomered]

10 minutes ago, Millertime said:

Wholly dependent on the deal!

I would imagine with Scales we definitely paid some of the wages and wouldn't be surprised if there was a nominal fee too

Cheers man !?

[minijc]

12 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

Is their any indication we paid a loan fee last season 

Educated guess based off of their previous loan moves, even if there wasn't a fee we were probably paying at least 75% of his wages last season.

[The Gee Man]

Just now, minijc said:

Educated guess based off of their previous loan moves, even if there wasn't a fee we were probably paying at least 75% of his wages last season.

Another reason if a loan fee was required we should be nowhere near him imo

[Dandyesque]

If its £200k plus wages for a loan deal, I'd much rather pay £500k for a permanent contract.

[thurso]

4 hours ago, minijc said:

What we paid for a player and got for another is totally irrelevant to the value of Scales, also last I checked Ten Caat or any other fans value means fuck all, for all we know Ten Caat might think Richardson is only worth 50k.

For me, 350k up to about 500k for a push would be fine for him, I think some don't realise the wages and signing on fee that would be required when signing a player for around £1m.

Im not saying I’d pay £1million for scales but hes pretty comparative to ramadani through last season. 
 

If Celtic did pay £500,00 for scales you can see why they would want their money back after a relatively successful season at us 

[Daisy1903]

2 hours ago, Awayfromhomered said:

Aye, makes sense. Costly business either way. 

Not really. If we don't pay a loan fee then only paying wages is a cheap way of getting a player for a year

[afc_blockhead]

2 hours ago, shooftahmooftah said:

Break in News  Darvel just signed Scales.    Price was off the Scales. So now time to move on. 

Shooftas brain is leaking again

Stupid cunt

[Dons79]

[alscotoz]

Loan/ buy? Does it really fucking matter? All this dithering makes his landing almost guaranteed. Personally think he's an average player...but then again, we're an average team.

[HaarDon]

Fuck Celtic and hanging around for Scales.

 

Move on AFC.

 

We're better than this.

[Broken_Glass]

7 hours ago, thurso said:

Im not saying I’d pay £1million for scales but hes pretty comparative to ramadani through last season. 
 

If Celtic did pay £500,00 for scales you can see why they would want their money back after a relatively successful season at us 

The figure I heard was Celtic wanted north of £700k not £500k - no idea if that is correct or not.

[thegodfuzzy]

Pollock doesnae want to come back. He made it clear he wanted to be at and give a go at Watford..

Scales it would seem is keen,otherwise there's no way this would've dragged on as long. I think it's more Celtic wanting money back on him. 

Pollock ain't coming anytime soon. I'd have both,but with Williams and Rubi I don't see the club going for Pollock unless he makes noises. 

Need to shift this Scales deal,I would take him no fuss. He's an upgrade on what we have. I want central defender to be that not full backs. 

[jamiesd]

21 minutes ago, Broken_Glass said:

The figure I heard was Celtic wanted north of £700k not £500k - no idea if that is correct or not.

Unreal that like.  Come on Aberdeen move on and get some other gadgie in at the back.

[Broken_Glass]

2 minutes ago, jamiesd said:

Unreal that like.  Come on Aberdeen move on and get some other gadgie in at the back.

The figure I quoted may be absolute made up nonsense, it may be near the correct Celtic valuation - I genuinely don't know. It was what I was told about 6 weeks ago. 

I'm certainly "not in the know" 🧐

[jamiesd]

18 minutes ago, Broken_Glass said:

The figure I quoted may be absolute made up nonsense, it may be near the correct Celtic valuation - I genuinely don't know. It was what I was told about 6 weeks ago. 

I'm certainly "not in the know" 🧐

£100 grand max.  I reckon it will be another loan but again not keen when we have to play them possibly 3 or more times without him in the side.  Just more disruption for the starting 11.

[Snelders Snottters 89]

As usual we are reluctant to move away from celtics feet' sniffing about for thier crumbs & thier hand me downs. Fucking putrid.

[Studebaker-90]

This is a really boring saga. 

[mike1234]

5 hours ago, Broken_Glass said:

The figure I heard was Celtic wanted north of £700k not £500k - no idea if that is correct or not.

Apparently Celtic are after £1.1 mil

 

no way is he worth that, but apparently we’re negotiating….. 

[fine-n-dandy]

Just now, mike1234 said:

Apparently Celtic are after £1.1 mil

 

no way is he worth that, but apparently we’re negotiating….. 

‘Negotiating’ is that what bending over is called now

[NEM]

Ridiculous if we break our transfer record on an average Joe like Scales.  Surely not happening