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Christ. This proves that some folk can quite literally argue about f**king anything.
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5 hours ago, Doakes said:
Left back is priority
Heard a rumour we looked at George Cox, out of contract, but Wigan want him so unsure how likely that is
Would be a quite superb signing in all honesty.
Not Wigan bound either. Might we chance our arm?
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Been hearing this guys name for weeks now. Load of pish, someone has grew it arms and legs from 'a striker from Rotherham' into this.
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One look at the rest of this 'journalist's' tweets should tell you everything you need to know here.
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3 hours ago, Warrior Saint said:
Think we need centre half and desperately need a left back. Taylor, Tanser are defo not up to it for those positions and Dunne at times is a bombscare. Midfielder would be decent and get Jamieson, Offord, Grieve out on loan....Ayunga prob won't be up and running properly till next year...might need to keep Grieve....still think goalie situation is worrying....
Taylor is definitely good enough to play centre back.
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39 minutes ago, Smithers Jones said:
Not having that. He's a brilliant keeper. He will be a massive loss if he goes.
If he wants back, he owes his gaffer a massive apology if the stories are true, and given he was happy enough to sign a 2 year extension only 3 months ago, I can't see anything else it could be.
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3 hours ago, ALBIONSAINT said:
O’hara to Celtic……you heard it here first
NURSE! 😂
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3 minutes ago, beyond our ken said:
If he suddenly ups his value to £2 million plus then I'd say we might have some trouble enforcing that option without passing on a big chunk of the future fee to his parent club
But as i said, the record is hardly reliable
If it's correct what is being reported in the Record then we'll have no trouble enforcing it regardless of his true value unless the parent club insert a clause to pay us money to exit the optional fee.
Any sell ons percentages will be negotiated in the loan agreement and future fee. The selling club, if they write down that we have option to buy for £250k, cannot then go 'well yes but we also want 25% of what you flog him on for'. If it's not written down, then we'd have no issues.
Rangers saw similar with Tillman recently but they did have a clause inserted where Bayern could pay a fee to Rangers (£1m) to cancel the £5m future sale clause and a percentage of whatever they do sell him on for eventually (now rumoured to be £10m) so in that scenario Rangers would get £2m for not buying Tillman but that isn't a standard with 'option to buy' loan agreements.
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17 minutes ago, beyond our ken said:
£ 250K? Before we even talk about salary?
I thought the model was to sign a low or no upfront cost and then make a profit
He's 20 years old.
If we sign him on a season long loan and he scores 15 goals next season, we have the option to make that permanent for £250k. In that scenario, we'd splash the money then move him on for significantly more than that.
Several sides in England's championship are well aware of the lad and have been watching him so we've essentially been given a foot up here and if he's good enough to move south, we've already agreed we can get him for significantly more than his transfer value.
IF that is all true though, I see elsewhere he's out of contract and we'd be able to get him for a development fee.
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10 hours ago, MenstrieSaint said:
I had hoped we might have made a move for Morton Full backs Liam Grimshaw and Lewis Strapp .
Grimshaw, absolutely not. Glad he's at Utd.
Strapp would be a good option at left back as backup if we had someone established there.
As it stands, we should be looking at a first choice LB and making Tanser the backup and I'm not sure Strapp is that person.
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Liam Donnelly linked now.
Not for me. Lad is either constantly injured or a bit of a headless chicken. He wouldn't improve our starting XI.
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7 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said:
Some amount of money he must have made on transfers & contract signings since leaving Brighton:
On 6 January 2020, FC Midtjylland announced that Dreyer had returned to Denmark and signed a four-and-a-half year contract.
On 28 August 2021, he signed a five-year contract with Russian club FC Rubin Kazan.
On 6 July 2022, he transferred to Midtjylland on a permanent basis and signed a four-year contract.
On 15 January 2023, Dreyer signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with Anderlecht in Belgium.
His agent must absolutely love him. He’s only 25. 😂
To be fair, he'd probably still be in Russia but the war led to him being able to cancel that 5 year deal after less than a season and go back to Midtjylland.
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Not quite released by us but Anders Dreyer who some of us saw early doors was an absolute pler, is now at Anderlecht and has racked up some record between the Danish and Russian leagues before his Belgian move.
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9 hours ago, W6er said:
Anyone in the know?
@djchapsticks - do you know if both kits will be released simultaneously? I'd imagine they won't be, but thought I'd ask.
Anybody else ITK? What colour's the away top?
No idea if they'll be out at same time. Don't see why not though if stock is there.
Interestingly, passed the stadium on way to gym earlier and the Joma sign is still up on club shop which makes me think we're still under contract to sell their merchandise for a few more days at least.
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5 hours ago, Mainstand Sweary Mob said:
Thank god. My 9yo is getting football obsessed. He asks every bloody day if there is any news on the new strips and Training gear.
At this rate I feel I might see if the club is willing to take him off my hands for nothing.
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Good news is that the strips and training gear are on site and have been for a while so they should be available for sale pretty soon after the reveal.
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3 hours ago, W6er said:
Any idea when the kit will be unveiled? I thought we had been promised it would be early this year?
From @FTOF's quote above, I'm guessing it may feature the Paisley Pattern:
'they will respect the club’s history and traditions along with those of Paisley, the sixth largest town in Scotland.'
Should be next few days. And that is early by our standards.
Don't think there is any Paisley pattern on either kit.
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14 minutes ago, W6er said:
I've heard Jake Carroll and Dean Cornelius are highly rated by Robinson. You heard it here first. 😉
Carroll doesn't fit the bill or what we seem to be looking for.
31 and getting over serious knee surgery.
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20 hours ago, elvis said:
Dj chapsticks over on PnB saying signing very close but doesn't know who it is.
I've heard that there's going to be some movement this week. Expect 1 or 2. But as you said, no names.
If I was going to guess though (and a total guess is all it is) I'd say Bedeau and/or Sule. I'd be massively happy with the former and hope Sule can adapt to the higher level of football.
Bear in mind the transfer window in England doesn't open until this Wednesday (14th June) so I'd be surprised if we announce any signings from down south who still have a club before then. Particularly as Robinson has already gone on record to say we are looking at players under contract elsewhere.
Any out of contract players are under contract with their clubs until June 30th but I dare say they could join up with us for training and preseason before contract starts.
Everything is a really tight ship within the club nowadays which isn't bad at all. A few years back I'd have been told of the Robinson extension a few days before but nothing, or very little, gets out nowadays.
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2,500 is excellent going and will hopefully climb significantly again tomorrow with people off their work and going down to renew.
On June 10th 2022, the figure was just over 2000 and by the time the season kicked off we were on a bit over 3,400. By the end of the season after the half season tickets were taken into consideration, the club shifted 3,800 season tickets.
If we could get anywhere close to that number by kick off, it would be brilliant progress and would probably leave us with well over 4,000 ST holders after the half season tickets go on sale in December.
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If we pull seven figures for a guy who has had a journeyman career before us, it's a tremendous bit of business.
I'm not for selling the prized assets but I don't think even the most optimistic of us viewed O'Hara as a potential 'sign cheap, sell high' player when he joined last summer so for me, he'd go down as one of the best bits of dealing the club has ever done if the rumoured figure is correct and shows you what can be achieved with the right manager sounding out the right players for the system we play.
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10 hours ago, Warrior Saint said:
Baccus is struggling to play at level he is at just now never mind playing at higher level.
You need to stop sniffing the marker pens mate.
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Of the three players that we are realistically likely to pull a transfer fee for in the summer (Baccus, Strain O'Hara), I'd be most accepting of losing Keanu of the three.
Strain and O'Hara are absolutely pivotal to the way we play. Baccus has had a very, very good season but I feel he'd be more replaceable than the other two.
I've got a feeling there will be a worrying amount of interest in Strain though.
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1 minute ago, linwood buddie said:
Is there any word on Big Curtis read yesterday he was leaving and then staying ?
Rumour was he was about to sign a new deal but Robinson squashed that post match and said he had offers in League One and Two which is twice or three times as much as we could afford.
I could honestly envision him turning up at Wrexham or somewhere.
Simon Murray
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He's out of contract and been linked with a return to Dundee Utd.
I've never been a fan but he's had a very good season.