Summer 2024 Transfer Window

[CCB III]

29 minutes ago, Glass half full said:

Did Turnbull stay at Celtic? He would be a far better signing than Forrest.

Went to Cardiff. Won't see him in Scotland again until he retires at Well'

[Glass half full]

3 hours ago, CCB III said:

Went to Cardiff. Won't see him in Scotland again until he retires at Well'

Fair enough, cheers. Good player 

[wanderingscotty]

On 2/2/2024 at 12:36 PM, Tord31 said:

Will leave to others to divulge. It looks like a coup

Maybe this guy.
Marc Ronchon. Ex West Ham and Croatia. Definitely an upgrade!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64306575

[Tord31]

Yes, considered quite a coup for the club.

No idea on Head of recruitment 

[Tord31]

Ok Badman we need

A quality keeper

A £1M striker (to replace a £10M striker)

A winger

and anyone else you can find.

 

Get to work

[sigh]

12 hours ago, wanderingscotty said:

Maybe this guy.
Marc Ronchon. Ex West Ham and Croatia. Definitely an upgrade!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64306575

do like a bit of uptown funk

[Helmet]

On 2/5/2024 at 3:10 PM, DD1903 said:

No. He's done 

Absolutey. Why on earth would we want Forrest? He’s done nothing in about 3 years.

[Tord31]

There was a tiny argument to take Forrest on loan last week if he was going spare but absolutey no argument to consider him in the summer

[WesthillWanderersFC]

17 minutes ago, Helmet said:

Absolutey. Why on earth would we want Forrest? He’s done nothing in about 3 years.

33 next birthday.

Injury prone 

High wage 

There are literally no positives in signing him.

Hopefully the new HoR has a few potential wingers we can look to bring in. 

[Helmet]

25 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

33 next birthday.

Injury prone 

High wage 

There are literally no positives in signing him.

Hopefully the new HoR has a few potential wingers we can look to bring in. 

Yep, would be as useless as Hayes has been this season.

[Tord31]

22 hours ago, Tord31 said:

Ok Badman we need

A quality keeper

A £1M striker (to replace a £10M striker)

A winger

and anyone else you can find.

 

Get to work

Morning badman, how you getting on with that striker? 

[Dandys1983]

Could be an interesting window for us, hopefully we can get near 10m for Bojan and spend 3/4's of that on a new side ( I mean that aswell) and get a top quality manager in, no point buying all these decent player when we always have 3rd rate managers. 

Can't wait to see the first 👀 of this window and the 'suns coming out' 

Roll on the new manager appointment first and then we can spend a few weeks guessing which players he will be signing, have a good feeling about our new HOR 👍

 

[DD1903]

35 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

Morning badman, how you getting on with that striker? 

Are you talking to yourself again, tord?

[Durrant Dived]

31 minutes ago, Dandys1983 said:

Could be an interesting window for us, hopefully we can get near 10m for Bojan and spend 3/4's of that on a new side ( I mean that aswell) and get a top quality manager in, no point buying all these decent player when we always have 3rd rate managers. 

Can't wait to see the first 👀 of this window and the 'suns coming out' 

Roll on the new manager appointment first and then we can spend a few weeks guessing which players he will be signing, have a good feeling about our new HOR 👍

 

Spending 7.5m in one window 😂 

[AyrshireSheep]

42 minutes ago, Dandys1983 said:

Could be an interesting window for us, hopefully we can get near 10m for Bojan and spend 3/4's of that on a new side ( I mean that aswell) and get a top quality manager in, no point buying all these decent player when we always have 3rd rate managers. 

Can't wait to see the first 👀 of this window and the 'suns coming out' 

Roll on the new manager appointment first and then we can spend a few weeks guessing which players he will be signing, have a good feeling about our new HOR 👍

 

The problem with that is that if we start spending, for example, £1m+ on a new striker to replace Bojan they also demand bigger wages. 

Even if they did get close to £10m for Miovski they will spend in line with what they have in the last 2 summers imo. I can't see them breaking their wage structure. Could be wrong though. 

[Tord31]

31 minutes ago, DD1903 said:

Are you talking to yourself again, tord?

The man with the most popular post this week i'll have you know

[Dandys1983]

44 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Spending 7.5m in one window 😂 

 

32 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

The problem with that is that if we start spending, for example, £1m+ on a new striker to replace Bojan they also demand bigger wages. 

Even if they did get close to £10m for Miovski they will spend in line with what they have in the last 2 summers imo. I can't see them breaking their wage structure. Could be wrong though. 

When you add I'm contracts transfer fees etc probably wouldn't be far off, we need a top manager and top players to challenge these cunts.

[sooth_stander]

1 hour ago, Dandys1983 said:

Could be an interesting window for us, hopefully we can get near 10m for Bojan and spend 3/4's of that on a new side ( I mean that aswell) and get a top quality manager in, no point buying all these decent player when we always have 3rd rate managers. 

Can't wait to see the first 👀 of this window and the 'suns coming out' 

Roll on the new manager appointment first and then we can spend a few weeks guessing which players he will be signing, have a good feeling about our new HOR 👍

 

Should also be approx £3m from the Ferguson sale, should he move on.

Question is, with a caretaker manager in place now and the permament manager not to be announced till April/May, how does that impact on pre contracts being offered and summer recruitment? With a proper structure inc. a DoF, it shouldn't have any impact at all but given there must be doubts over Gunner et al, we're in a state of limbo, it would seem, which is not ideal

[Dandys1983]

6 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

Should also be approx £3m from the Ferguson sale, should he move on.

Question is, with a caretaker manager in place now and the permament manager not to be announced till April/May, how does that impact on pre contracts being offered and summer recruitment? With a proper structure inc. a DoF, it shouldn't have any impact at all but given there must be doubts over Gunner et al, we're in a state of limbo, it would seem, which is not ideal

Dunno how it's all going to work tbh, I'm sure we shall see how it's all went once the summer window has slammed shut. 

Not sure how much Gunn is actually involved...alot of what's happening seems to be Burrows. 

If I was a betting man I'd bet on a new manager and DOF this summer. 

[sooth_stander]

26 minutes ago, Dandys1983 said:

Dunno how it's all going to work tbh, I'm sure we shall see how it's all went once the summer window has slammed shut. 

Not sure how much Gunn is actually involved...alot of what's happening seems to be Burrows. 

If I was a betting man I'd bet on a new manager and DOF this summer. 

Yeah, that last paragraph is pretty obvious but does that mean all recruitment starts only once they are in place? Last minute.com therefore.

[DD1903]

4 hours ago, Tord31 said:

The man with the most popular post this week i'll have you know

Well done! I'm proud of you

[Adogcalledspot]

Wrong thread. 

[Durrant Dived]

5 hours ago, sooth_stander said:

Should also be approx £3m from the Ferguson sale, should he move on.

If we do get that we should use this cash for the player rebuild. The duk/miovski cash needs to go towards a new stadium or we are never going to move.

[Arthur FN Shelby]

Any decent Irish players we should be looking at? McGinn, Rooney , Hayes (younger version) didnt do too badly for us. 

[Dandys1983]

26 minutes ago, Arthur FN Shelby said:

Any decent Irish players we should be looking at? McGinn, Rooney , Hayes (younger version) didnt do too badly for us. 

Brighton have got them all their youth academy is full of all the decent Irish youth lads. But probably 1 or 2 left, just seems they get first pick 😳

[Don Fonte]

31 minutes ago, Arthur FN Shelby said:

Any decent Irish players we should be looking at? McGinn, Rooney , Hayes (younger version) didnt do too badly for us. 

 

5 minutes ago, Dandys1983 said:

Brighton have got them all their youth academy is full of all the decent Irish youth lads. But probably 1 or 2 left, just seems they get first pick 😳

Not like we scouted Ireland anyway. Just Inverness mostly.

[Arthur FN Shelby]

Cheers, did know Brighton have the lad Ferguson, didn’t know about their youth academy though. Impressed how Brighton run their club. 

[Andy_123]

Long one here, I'm bored at work...

Going by Tord's list on the OOC thread, assuming those out of contract at the end of the season all leave and Miovski is sold which seems inevitable, the first team squad will look like this (listed from strongest to weakest imo);

 

GK - Roos / Doohan / Ritchie

RB - Devlin / Richardson / Milne

CB - MacDonald / Ruby / Jensen / Gartenmann / Stewart

LB - MacKenzie / McGarry / Hayes / Ngwenya

CM - McGrath / Barron / Clarkson / Shinnie / Polvara / Phillips

Wingers - Duk / Morris / Duncan / Besuijen

CF - Miovski / Sokler / Gueye / Bavidge

 

New GK required obviously. I'd bin Doohan as well tbh and just let Ritchie ride the bench if we've no intention of ever playing the backup.

The centre of defence has been a disgrace all season and needs a complete overhaul. A left sided CB in the mould of an Anderson to marshal everything and help Ruby keep his calm would be ideal. Could have been MacDonald but for whatever reason it hasn't been this season. Jensen is pish and we need much better than him, and we'll need to replace Gartenmann too.

First choice LB required. MacKenzie isn't terrible and can have a good game now and again, but if the aim is Europe every season then we need to do better. I think I've decided that McGarry is pish as well, but he can't stay fit anyway so it doesn't matter.

Midfield needs an overhaul too. Minimum 2 quality starters who can control the middle of the park required. McGrath / Clarkson both good options playing a bit more advanced, but we look really light in there behind them with Barron likely away, Shinnie visibly slowing down and Polvara unable to last longer than 60 mins.

A few wide players required. Maybe we can get Duk firing again, but we need much better options than him out of form, Morris / Duncan who aren't of the standard required and Vinny who's time here is clearly up.

Up front a replacement for Miovski when he goes is the obvious one. Binning Gueye and bringing in a target man when we need to go to plan B wouldn't go a miss and hopefully Bavidge comes back from his loan at Kelty the same way Barron did ready to come into the first team and contribute too.

As it stands we've 22 contracted first team players for next season, so there's no need to go for quantity over quality for the first summer in a few years. The wages freed up with players leaving, a Miovski fee and a Ferguson windfall should provide ample funds for the new recruitment team to improve the overall squad.

 

[Durrant Dived]

49 minutes ago, Andy_123 said:

bringing in a target man when we need to go to plan B wouldn't go a miss.

 

Sammy Cosgrove Ballon D'or. BHH.

[NEM]

51 minutes ago, Andy_123 said:

Long one here, I'm bored at work...

Going by Tord's list on the OOC thread, assuming those out of contract at the end of the season all leave and Miovski is sold which seems inevitable, the first team squad will look like this (listed from strongest to weakest imo);

 

GK - Roos / Doohan / Ritchie

RB - Devlin / Richardson / Milne

CB - MacDonald / Ruby / Jensen / Gartenmann / Stewart

LB - MacKenzie / McGarry / Hayes / Ngwenya

CM - McGrath / Barron / Clarkson / Shinnie / Polvara / Phillips

Wingers - Duk / Morris / Duncan / Besuijen

CF - Miovski / Sokler / Gueye / Bavidge

 

New GK required obviously. I'd bin Doohan as well tbh and just let Ritchie ride the bench if we've no intention of ever playing the backup.

The centre of defence has been a disgrace all season and needs a complete overhaul. A left sided CB in the mould of an Anderson to marshal everything and help Ruby keep his calm would be ideal. Could have been MacDonald but for whatever reason it hasn't been this season. Jensen is pish and we need much better than him, and we'll need to replace Gartenmann too.

First choice LB required. MacKenzie isn't terrible and can have a good game now and again, but if the aim is Europe every season then we need to do better. I think I've decided that McGarry is pish as well, but he can't stay fit anyway so it doesn't matter.

Midfield needs an overhaul too. Minimum 2 quality starters who can control the middle of the park required. McGrath / Clarkson both good options playing a bit more advanced, but we look really light in there behind them with Barron likely away, Shinnie visibly slowing down and Polvara unable to last longer than 60 mins.

A few wide players required. Maybe we can get Duk firing again, but we need much better options than him out of form, Morris / Duncan who aren't of the standard required and Vinny who's time here is clearly up.

Up front a replacement for Miovski when he goes is the obvious one. Binning Gueye and bringing in a target man when we need to go to plan B wouldn't go a miss and hopefully Bavidge comes back from his loan at Kelty the same way Barron did ready to come into the first team and contribute too.

As it stands we've 22 contracted first team players for next season, so there's no need to go for quantity over quality for the first summer in a few years. The wages freed up with players leaving, a Miovski fee and a Ferguson windfall should provide ample funds for the new recruitment team to improve the overall squad.

 

You've said we need at least 8 or 9 new players - not quite as bad as last year that's still a massive overhaul 😄