Transfers News For The Inferior Teams

[slippers]

27 minutes ago, King Street Loon said:

It should be viewed as a major concern to Aberdeen that there is nobody from within their ranks thought worthy of being called up.

Unless there is some reason we're not aware of as to why some players have not been selected. 

Campbell should be kicking himself that he's not been selected. Thought he might've gotten in after run of games at the tail end of the season.

He's maybe recognised that he needs to be better as he seems to have spent the last few weeks doing extra training which is good to see. Big season for him coming up.

 

Archie Mair is a product of our academy and starts in goal. The captain of U21 Wales side is also a product of our youth academy.
 

Looking at squad Campbell surely has to be in there. Very few in that squad have played the number of first team games he has in SPL. 

[Tord31]

1 hour ago, King Street Loon said:

It should be viewed as a major concern to Aberdeen that there is nobody from within their ranks thought worthy of being called up.

Unless there is some reason we're not aware of as to why some players have not been selected. 

Campbell should be kicking himself that he's not been selected. Thought he might've gotten in after run of games at the tail end of the season.

He's maybe recognised that he needs to be better as he seems to have spent the last few weeks doing extra training which is good to see. Big season for him coming up.

 

Aye ive seen on social media that he is training at banks o dee, and one day he flew past me (ellon road) on the bike so he's putting in the effort

[maryhilldon]

On 6/11/2021 at 11:43 PM, Tord31 said:

 one day he flew past me (ellon road) on the bike so he's putting in the effort

He was trying to catch the offsales. 

[The Gee Man]

Campbell off to Luton Airport then!!

[Wester Hailes Skins]

Imagine your agent telling you he's got you a move from Motherwell to a town that's even shitter. 

[The Gee Man]

Just now, Wester Hailes Skins said:

Imagine your agent telling you he's got you a move from Motherwell to a town that's even shitter. 

Edinburgh!!

[RED_JOHN]

Charlie (give a goal away) Mulgrew signs for Dundee United. 

[Mr John]

45 minutes ago, RED_JOHN said:

Charlie (give a goal away) Mulgrew signs for Dundee United. 

Is he still playing? Fucking hell, he's so old, when you ask him about the war he talks about the battle of hastings.

[BonnieDon]

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/2308870/exclusive-dundee-united-in-the-race-to-sign-st-mirren-midfielder-jake-doyle-hayes/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[Andy_123]

14 hours ago, The Gee Man said:

Campbell off to Luton Airport then!!

He surely can’t be too chuffed with that. Luton’s a shithole and a shit football team as well.

[The Gee Man]

6 minutes ago, Andy_123 said:

He surely can’t be too chuffed with that. Luton’s a shithole and a shit football team as well.

Money and the next stepping stone I imagine is his thoughts 

[Henry]

I don't think it's compulsory to live in the town your football team is based in. 

[Wester Hailes Skins]

Seems to be a lot of chat that Luton's offer blew everybody else out the water. One poster on Kickback saying Hearts are gutted, tried all they could, but the Luton offer is worth THREE TIMES as much. 

Assuming we pushed the boat to the top of our salary range. We might have offered him £4k-£5k a week. 

Even assuming Luton went to only £10k, that's ridiculous and shows what Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen are up against.

[slippers]

4 minutes ago, Wester Hailes Skins said:

Seems to be a lot of chat that Luton's offer blew everybody else out the water. One poster on Kickback saying Hearts are gutted, tried all they could, but the Luton offer is worth THREE TIMES as much. 

Assuming we pushed the boat to the top of our salary range. We might have offered him £4k-£5k a week. 

Even assuming Luton went to only £10k, that's ridiculous and shows what Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen are up against.

Especially when you consider they have a turnover of similar to Hearts and Aberdeen yet paying double the wages. There turnover was half that of Aberdeen’s prior to getting promoted. Majority of championship clubs are over 100% wages to turnover it’s just utter madness and hope the shit hits the fan sooner rather than later! 

[dazzy_deff]

6 minutes ago, Wester Hailes Skins said:

Seems to be a lot of chat that Luton's offer blew everybody else out the water. One poster on Kickback saying Hearts are gutted, tried all they could, but the Luton offer is worth THREE TIMES as much. 

Assuming we pushed the boat to the top of our salary range. We might have offered him £4k-£5k a week. 

Even assuming Luton went to only £10k, that's ridiculous and shows what Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen are up against.

My father in law is a taxi driver and picked up Greg Halford from the airport when he signed for us. At that time, Shinnie was still deciding where to go...he asked Halford about what sort of cash Shinnie would likely get and was told if he went to Championship probably between 15-20k a week and league 1 would be around 7/8k. Mental cash for the level. 

[Don_Corleone]

6 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

My father in law is a taxi driver and picked up Greg Halford from the airport when he signed for us. At that time, Shinnie was still deciding where to go...he asked Halford about what sort of cash Shinnie would likely get and was told if he went to Championship probably between 15-20k a week and league 1 would be around 7/8k. Mental cash for the level. 

Would be interesting to know how much Greg Halford made from his few months spell at us, given that he only made it onto the pitch for about 6 minutes. On a pounds per minute basis he must be up there as one of our highest ever earners.

[starryfish]

Billy McKay off to Caley Thistle again, he might have been a good option for us, proven scorer on minimal expenditure.

[davieb]

1 hour ago, Wester Hailes Skins said:

Seems to be a lot of chat that Luton's offer blew everybody else out the water. One poster on Kickback saying Hearts are gutted, tried all they could, but the Luton offer is worth THREE TIMES as much. 

Assuming we pushed the boat to the top of our salary range. We might have offered him £4k-£5k a week. 

Even assuming Luton went to only £10k, that's ridiculous and shows what Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen are up against.

Stephen Kingsley was on 16k per week at Hull City, he's on a 5th of that at Hearts!

[WesthillWanderersFC]

12 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Billy McKay off to Caley Thistle again, he might have been a good option for us, proven scorer on minimal expenditure.

No. Ross County/ICT is his level. 

[slippers]

13 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Billy McKay off to Caley Thistle again, he might have been a good option for us, proven scorer on minimal expenditure.

We don't deserve to progress if we are signing players like that. 

[sooth_stander]

54 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

No. Ross County/ICT is his level. 

True, but he pisses all over the shite that we’ve had in our front line over the past few seasons, Watkins excepted.

Albeit, that says more about the shite that we’ve had in our front line over the past few seasons, than McKay

[DD1903]

52 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Billy McKay off to Caley Thistle again, he might have been a good option for us, proven scorer on minimal expenditure.

He really wouldn't have been

[starryfish]

McKay's Premiership goalscoring record, I think, is second only to Griffiths.  Not the type of signing we'd make though. 

[Ten Caat]

McKay would have cost about the same as JET. 

We would have got ourselves a known quantity, if he can score goals for ICT/Coonty then he certainly could for us. But he's 2 years older than JET, who is no spring chicken himself. On balance, I think we signed the right one.

[The Gee Man]

I think the fact he is fine dropping down to championship with ict says it all really 

[Andy_123]

Thought guff teams from the championship downwards were subject to a salary cap or something now?

I seriously doubt Luton are paying anyone anything like £10k a week. 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Always struck me as a Billy Dodds type.  Create  10 chances and he was guaranteed to score 1.  Problem was create only 1 chance that your season depended on you were still looking at the 1/10 ratio. 

[Tord31]

Billy McKay should have been on our radar years ago. Ship has sailed now.

[G31DON]

3 hours ago, dazzy_deff said:

My father in law is a taxi driver and picked up Greg Halford from the airport when he signed for us. At that time, Shinnie was still deciding where to go...he asked Halford about what sort of cash Shinnie would likely get and was told if he went to Championship probably between 15-20k a week and league 1 would be around 7/8k. Mental cash for the level. 

League one isn't that much. Sunderland when they had back to back relegations made the average much higher,  with folk on 30k a week. 

From season 19-20:

"What immediately jumps out from the 80-page report is the widening chasm between the Championship and those below, despite some incredible spending from some in League One which includes Portsmouth and Sunderland.

Indeed, the Black Cats’ new owners bemoaned the staggering overspend before hilariously proceeding to do just that themselves in the most recent series of the club’s Netflix documentary.

In League One, where 15 of the 24 clubs responded, the average highest earner is on £247,188 (£4,753 a week) and in League Two, where 14 responded, it is £114,020 (£2,192). "

[Ten Caat]

29 minutes ago, Andy_123 said:

Thought guff teams from the championship downwards were subject to a salary cap or something now?

I seriously doubt Luton are paying anyone anything like £10k a week. 

EFL salary caps, voted for by the clubs in 2020 were abandoned after the PFA put in a challenge to them. 

You can be certain than Luton will have a good few on £10k/week possibly a bit more (although I'm also certain Campbell won't be one of them....he will still probably have trebled his Motherwell wages though). Championship clubs are living way beyond their means and Luton will be no different. At the top end, gambling on getting them up to the EPL. At the bottom, doing so to avoid relegation to the EFL at all costs.

It has to be unsustainable long term though. And when (not if) it all comes crashing down on top of them, hell mend them if a few end up going out of business. Although at least if they do try to go down the sevco newco route, at least the English leagues do make them start right at the bottom rung as newco Bury AFC are doing