Summer 2022 Transfer Window

[slippers 287]

5 minutes ago, Kiriakov33 said:

Maybe the Norwegian lad wanted to show respect to his clubs fans / teammates by not announcing his departure a couple of days before a game and he actually wanted  to play his final home game before signing tomorrow.    Or he’s received a better offer…  will find out soon enough I suppose    

If he isn’t doing a lap of honour with tears in his eyes come full time he’s obviously not coming! 

[Zorba 11]

5 minutes ago, Kiriakov33 said:

Maybe the Norwegian lad wanted to show respect to his clubs fans / teammates by not announcing his departure a couple of days before a game and he actually wanted  to play his final home game before signing tomorrow.    Or he’s received a better offer…  will find out soon enough I suppose    

Maybe, I just find it weird if its all agreed to put the transfer in jeopardy by risking injury. Think Odd are resigned to losing him, he's out of contract in 6 months and think clubs can offer him a pre contract now. Someone said earlier their transfer window opens in August, maybe they want to hold on to him until then so they can sign a replacement?

[starryfish 87]

Hopefully the Norwegian journalists can find out what is happening post match 

[Donstar83 78]

Sounds like he's thought he'll just wait till August and see if someone else comes in for him. 

[Tord31 779]

25 minutes ago, redone said:

Is ignorance really bliss ?

If we learn to successfully trade players properly we can probably look to increase the salary budget from £10m/year to £15m/year 

[Zorba 11]

3 minutes ago, Donstar83 said:

Sounds like he's thought he'll just wait till August and see if someone else comes in for him. 

That's when the Norwegian window opens, I think. He can sign for anyone on a pre contract now I think but has to wait until January to move, hence why we are bidding £300k plus that again in add ons apparently. If anyone's waiting till August, its Odd so they can replace him straight away.

[Zorba 11]

10 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

If we learn to successfully trade players properly we can probably look to increase the salary budget from £10m/year to £15m/year 

An extra £95,000 per week on wages? Is ours £10m annually at present?

The huns annual wage bill £20m and the tims are £18.5m surprisingly. Dont know if that included staff either.

Edit - The source of claims our wage bill is a bit under £6m annually. Aberdeen 2022 Wages | Player & Team totals (salarysport.com)

Edited Sunday at 06:08 PM by Zorba

[Tord31 779]

So we've literally signed no one on a planned Bosman transfer this summer.

What the hell happened to 'close to 2-3 pre contracts'? Not even one got over the line.

[slippers 287]

I was confident reading between the lines he had signed. Now I think the lad having doubts above is correct. 
 

Would be really interesting to know what players we have spoke to/ shown round complex for them to reject us. Bet their is a good few decent players we have missed out on. 

[Tord31 779]

4 minutes ago, Zorba said:

An extra £95,000 per week on wages? Is ours £10m annually at present?

The huns annual wage bill £20m and the tims are £18.5m surprisingly. Dont know if that included staff either.

We were £10m for 2019/20 and £9m for 2020/21. 

That's full staff wage bill plus burdens (NI and pension)

[WesthillWanderersFC 1,127]

1 hour ago, NEM said:

The bed wetting continues apace

Cliche klaxon 

[Tord31 779]

5 minutes ago, slippers said:

I was confident reading between the lines he had signed. Now I think the lad having doubts above is correct. 
 

Would be really interesting to know what players we have spoke to/ shown round complex for them to reject us. Bet their is a good few decent players we have missed out on. 

Well my theory was it was only down to the visa, but absolutely fat chance he'd have got the 90 mins if he was already our player

[WesthillWanderersFC 1,127]

25 minutes ago, slippers said:

If he isn’t doing a lap of honour with tears in his eyes come full time he’s obviously not coming! 

I see he scored tonight. 

[slippers 287]

10 minutes ago, Zorba said:

An extra £95,000 per week on wages? Is ours £10m annually at present?

The huns annual wage bill £20m and the tims are £18.5m surprisingly. Dont know if that included staff either.

Edit - The source of claims our wage bill is a bit under £6m annually. Aberdeen 2022 Wages | Player & Team totals (salarysport.com)

Our wages is around 10m, Rangers just under 50m and Celtic just over 60m. 

[North_Andy_Dandy 12]

22 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Maybe, I just find it weird if its all agreed to put the transfer in jeopardy by risking injury. Think Odd are resigned to losing him, he's out of contract in 6 months and think clubs can offer him a pre contract now. Someone said earlier their transfer window opens in August, maybe they want to hold on to him until then so they can sign a replacement?

Aye I think we need to put this Norwegian lad to bed and move onto the next target. CR9 is back in town so guess he’ll be starting against Peterhead. 

[The Gee Man 142]

9 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

We were £10m for 2019/20 and £9m for 2020/21. 

That's full staff wage bill plus burdens (NI and pension)

Over £9 million for those lot is scary! DC has big questions to answer 

[Zorba 11]

15 minutes ago, slippers said:

Our wages is around 10m, Rangers just under 50m and Celtic just over 60m. 

Yeah that must be including all staff with NI etc.

As the breakdown on salarysport looks pretty on the money with players basic wages.

[slippers 287]

10 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

Over £9 million for those lot is scary! DC has big questions to answer 

I’d hazard a guess that we pushed the boat out more than ever last season. Could be 1 or 2m added on with the wages we were paying players like Brown, Ramirez and Longstaff.

[slippers 287]

3 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Yeah that must be including all staff with NI etc.

As the breakdown on salarysport looks pretty on the money with players basic wages.

Don’t think our top earners is anywhere near accurate. No chance Brown or Ramirez is only on circa 5k a week even basic with add ons. 

[AyrshireSheep 212]

Shota Arveladze's nephew Vato is apparently due to sign for a club in Scotland. Plays as a no10 or second striker according to TransferMarkt. Wonder who the club is?

[milne_afc 1,997]

2 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Shota Arveladze's nephew Vato is apparently due to sign for a club in Scotland. Plays as a no10 or second striker according to TransferMarkt. Wonder who the club is?

Hopefully not the Dons. He looks like a retard.

[AyrshireSheep 212]

Just now, milne_afc said:

Hopefully not the Dons. He looks like a retard.

Aye he's not a bonny lad. Keeping up the family tradition i suppose. 

[Zorba 11]

11 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Shota Arveladze's nephew Vato is apparently due to sign for a club in Scotland. Plays as a no10 or second striker according to TransferMarkt. Wonder who the club is?

Isn't he the gaffer at Hull City due to his weird relationship with their new owner?

[Zorba 11]

14 minutes ago, slippers said:

Don’t think our top earners is anywhere near accurate. No chance Brown or Ramirez is only on circa 5k a week even basic with add ons. 

I was more meaning the OF wages looked pretty accurate.

[AyrshireSheep 212]

2 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Isn't he the gaffer at Hull City due to his weird relationship with their new owner?

He certainly was at Hull. No idea if he still is. 

[torry_battery_ram 134]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

Tranmere FAN. 

I'd be happy if we sign him, and it turns out to be the case. But League 2 is still a lower standard than SPL.

Jamie Vardy was playing non-league football when Leicester signed him so writing a player off purely because he's League 2 is silly.

There are players in those lower leagues who will do a perfectly decent job for Aberdeen.

[BonnieDon 247]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

Tranmere FAN. 

I'd be happy if we sign him, and it turns out to be the case. But League 2 is still a lower standard than SPL.

Sam Cosgrove.

[Zorba 11]

3 minutes ago, torry_battery_ram said:

Jamie Vardy was playing non-league football when Leicester signed him so writing a player off purely because he's League 2 is silly.

There are players in those lower leagues who will do a perfectly decent job for Aberdeen.

Slightly weird comparison. LCFC signed Vardy when they were in the Championship after he scored 34 goals to get Fleetwood promoted to League 2 costing a million quid. Chump change for them, which £400k isn't to us and he had been outstanding for a full season.

I've never said he couldn't do a job or writing him off IF we sign him. I'm just saying from what I had seen of him in a few games he didn't stand out as a player I would have given a second thought to. I hope every player who signs turns out to be a great signing but it's not "silly" to have doubts.

[Zorba 11]

3 minutes ago, BonnieDon said:

Sam Cosgrove.

Your point is? He's struggled in Championship and League 1 since leaving us. Think we all knew he was going through a purple patch and wasn't going to be our number 9 for years. 18 months of goals including a lot of pens helped us a lot, but no one was sad to see him go especially for £2m. Imagine he will struggle when he inevitably comes back on loan to the likes of St J, Motherwell etc.

[Bournemouth Gee 110]

30 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Shota Arveladze's

Fucking hell