January 2021

[GDON21]

8 hours ago, SupportmeansSUPPORT said:

I think If Ferguson was to leave we would be more likely to look at Ali McCann from St Joihnstone as a replacement, I would say he is closer to being the same type of player as Ferguson. Obviously would depend on how much St J wanted but if we got say 4 million for Lewis id be happy to spend maybe £0.5 to £0.75 of that on McCann as a future investment.

0.5 to 0.75 would be lucky to buy you half of Aii McCann. 

[GDON21]

2 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Aaron Hickey could be one for RWB for Scotland instead of O’Donnell. 

He’s right footed even though he’s played predominantly left back or left wing back. 

Not that it matters but he’s 100% left footed. 

[Andy_123]

1 hour ago, Jackp said:

Ojo to Wigan apparently 

How much did we pay for him again?

[WesthillWanderersFC]

10 minutes ago, GDON21 said:

Not that it matters but he’s 100% left footed. 

No he isn’t.

Right foot is stronger than left. 

https://www.90min.com/posts/things-to-know-about-highly-rated-defender-aaron-hickey

[WesthillWanderersFC]

Just now, Andy_123 said:

How much did we pay for him again?

£125k? 

[jamiesd]

When does the window close?  Come on Funso son, you know it makes sense

[sooth_stander]

9 hours ago, Jackp said:

Ojo to Wigan apparently 

We’re not getting dough for him as well, are we?

[Durrant Dived]

16 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

We’re not getting dough for him as well, are we?

Who cares as long as they cover his wage...

[sooth_stander]

3 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Who cares as long as they cover his wage...

As mentioned, we could cope with the imminent loss of Ojo and Wright, with McGeouch/Virtonen and McGinn/McLennan till the summer but losing one or both of our strikers and Colgate will need to get the Gold Card out

[Andy_123]

8 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

£125k? 

Derek should not be trusted with a transfer budget again

[Durrant Dived]

12 minutes ago, Andy_123 said:

Derek should not be trusted with a transfer budget again

Did we not say this pre Ojo and post Forrester? Think we paid 200k for that goofy bute.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Whats the combined fee for Ojo, Forrester, May and Hernandez??? Superb contributions all round

[Durrant Dived]

4 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Whats the combined fee for Ojo, Forrester, May and Hernandez??? Superb contributions all round

I don't think May should be in this list. Aye, it didn't work out here for him but on paper he was a good signing and the fans were excited about signing him. The rest are taking expensive gambles on cunts no one has ever heard of. 

[YorkDon]

11 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

I don't think May should be in this list. Aye, it didn't work out here for him but on paper he was a good signing and the fans were excited about signing him. The rest are taking expensive gambles on cunts no one has ever heard of. 

Given the injuries he’d sustained down South I’d say he was still a huge gamble? 

[Durrant Dived]

27 minutes ago, YorkDon said:

Given the injuries he’d sustained down South I’d say he was still a huge gamble? 

Suppose, wasn't really injured for us he was just shite though.

[Simosmashed my knee]

51 minutes ago, Dad said:

2million bangers give or take

 

Ah no

That is a lot of cash on shite, are we staying paying  a percentage of May's wages?

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

1 hour ago, Durrant Dived said:

I don't think May should be in this list. Aye, it didn't work out here for him but on paper he was a good signing and the fans were excited about signing him. The rest are taking expensive gambles on cunts no one has ever heard of. 

Agree but it bumps the figure up which suits my agenda better so shut up

[Granite95]

1 hour ago, Andy_123 said:

Derek should not be trusted with a transfer budget again

Should never be trusted to sign a player. Fact he thought crap like Curtis Main and James Wilson were good options at striker shows his inadequacy to recruit properly

[YorkDon]

51 minutes ago, Durrant Dived said:

Suppose, wasn't really injured for us he was just shite though.

True enough, but when he was signed a lot of folk were saying “if” he was the same player that tore us a new one in the cup with MaClean, we’d have a cracking SPL standard player-sadly he wasn’t.

I still wonder if he’d scored a lot earlier in his stint with us whether or not he might’ve kicked on.

 

[sooth_stander]

29 minutes ago, YorkDon said:

True enough, but when he was signed a lot of folk were saying “if” he was the same player that tore us a new one in the cup with MaClean, we’d have a cracking SPL standard player-sadly he wasn’t.

I still wonder if he’d scored a lot earlier in his stint with us whether or not he might’ve kicked on.

 

Thing is, he did score a few early on for us. A double v Dundee in his home debut, then  another v Killie soon after, which I thought dispelled the myth that the injuries sustained down south did him in.

Then he hit a dry spell, ahead of The Rat tackle,  and THAT was him finished,  as a goalscorer anyway.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

29 minutes ago, YorkDon said:

True enough, but when he was signed a lot of folk were saying “if” he was the same player that tore us a new one in the cup with MaClean, we’d have a cracking SPL standard player-sadly he wasn’t.

I still wonder if he’d scored a lot earlier in his stint with us whether or not he might’ve kicked on.

 

Scored twice against Dundee in his second match. Both excellent goals too... I mind thinking "here we go, this boys going to be class"

[YorkDon]

Apologies for my hazy memory.Aye he took them really well from what I remember(which doesn’t appear to be a lot just now ?)

[NEM]

48 minutes ago, Granite95 said:

Should never be trusted to sign a player. Fact he thought crap like Curtis Main and James Wilson were good options at striker shows his inadequacy to recruit properly

Giving us £200k for Ricky Foster should have had the alarm bells ringing

[sooth_stander]

Motherwell are signing Sam Foley from St Mirren, to replace Jordan White who is going to County, so doubt Allan Campbell will suddenly become available.

Transfer merry go round for the bottom sixers.

[Andy_123]

2 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

I don't think May should be in this list. Aye, it didn't work out here for him but on paper he was a good signing and the fans were excited about signing him. The rest are taking expensive gambles on cunts no one has ever heard of. 

May was not a good signing on paper. Had been out for 18 months and he just had his knee rebuilt. He was never going to be the same player who left St Johnstone.

Can’t fault his effort while he was here, but £400k on him was crazy.

[Andy_123]

2 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

Did we not say this pre Ojo and post Forrester? Think we paid 200k for that goofy bute.

I forgot about that guy Forrester. Awful.

[SupportmeansSUPPORT]

4 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

Motherwell are signing Sam Foley from St Mirren, to replace Jordan White who is going to County, so doubt Allan Campbell will suddenly become available.

Transfer merry go round for the bottom sixers.

M'well signed Harry Smith as a targetman last week and so already have the replacement for striker Jordan White. Foley is a defensive midfielder.

It does though probably mean that the interest in Funso will be dropped.

[standfree1978]

7 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

Motherwell are signing Sam Foley from St Mirren, to replace Jordan White who is going to County, so doubt Allan Campbell will suddenly become available.

Transfer merry go round for the bottom sixers.

Sam Foley is a midfielder. White is a striker, so not a direct replacement. 

[SupportmeansSUPPORT]

11 hours ago, GDON21 said:

0.5 to 0.75 would be lucky to buy you half of Aii McCann. 

Yes, its wishful thinking on my part. But 800k was figure being quoted in papers in December and we are living in the covid world so with every club struggling financially right now I'm speculating that it might be possible to get him for less than in the past and it would be worth asking the question. But just pure speculation on my part nothing more.

I know we liked him last season and were hoping he wouldn't sign a new contact when he did back in Dec 2019. We would have liked to have done the same with him as we did with Ferguson when we took him from Hamilton

[standfree1978]

5 minutes ago, SupportmeansSUPPORT said:

Yes, its wishful thinking on my part. But 800k was figure being quoted in papers in December and we are living in the covid world so with every club struggling financially right now I'm speculating that it might be possible to get him for less than in the past and it would be worth asking the question. But just pure speculation on my part nothing more.

I know we liked him last season and were hoping he wouldn't sign a new contact when he did back in Dec 2019. We would have liked to have done the same with him as we did with Ferguson when we took him from Hamilton

That should be our model. We’re not nearly good enough at getting quality pre-contracts in.