02 Apr 2017 10:15:25
So it's to be 3rd, yes a fair bit from what we wanted first season back or not and had it not been for some inexplicable rubbish results v Ross C etc we may well have got 2nd as that was the best we expected, however it's the cup that I care about now and in the meantime winning as much as we can including Pittodrie on Sun, although I feel we will do well to get a point there as I feel they are the form team right now, and I include Celtic in that as they have possibly recently been feeling the effects as the season nears it's end.
02 Apr 2017 14:36:08
Our players are not good enough. They have totally the wrong mentality. Warburton turned them into a bunch of softies. Pedro needs to be given money to spend to bring in his own guys. If that means selling players like McKay so be it. Difficult to see many, if any of our current squad that are good enough to wrestle the title away from Celtic other than Hyndman
02 Apr 2017 15:12:22
3rd spot still gives us a crack at europa. let's just give Pedro and the boys our full support and we go again in the summer.
02 Apr 2017 15:16:18
We have good players who are all just too similar. We don't have the players to go out and just play a 442. Tavernier was a big miss offensively.
02 Apr 2017 16:44:08
That's correct we don't have enough versatility within the team, Crooks for instance seems different to the rest of the midfield with his power but literally hasn't kicked a ball for us this season.
02 Apr 2017 20:37:03
Really hope Warbuton comes in for Kiernan, got a feeling tho that Tavs, Waghorn and possibly Dodoo will be targets ahead of him. Out of them all i'd say Tavs is the player I would not want to lose, but i would be okay if all did! Think Kiernan is rubbish Wags is a Championship player Dodoo may become a 20+ goals player but for some reason the lad can't step up?
As for Tavs, Caixinha should use him with regards to who were playing. He's not the best defender but if we can play a team confident our backing can cope with opposing teams whilst our RB is bombing down wing then fine OR we utilise Tavs in midfeild but I think we have players that are better in that position and Caixinha will bring his own players.
So as we are struggling financially and a decent bid comes for Tavs i'd take it as Hudson is a decent replacement. i'd take anything over 1m for Tavs although I think if he was playing in Championship at moment his minimum valuation would be 2m! i'd take anything over 250k for Kiernan 1m+ for Wags and 500k+ for Dodoo.
Now these are prices that are probably a fair bit below what some of these players are worth BUT Clubs know our situation and will offer fee's that they think we will accept due to this. We must trim the squad, Caixinha will have been told how much his budget is and I think he will have been told that any money raised through outgoing transfers and the wages of Toral, Hyndman, Sendaros will be his to recycle.
This is why I'm slightly worried for Hill and Miller as Caixinha may think that he could get better players either on loan or free transfers for the wages they are on! And he may but if Hill and Miller take a cut in wages which I think we will ask them to AND I cannot see either of them getting anything better anywhere else then hopefully they will stay.
I think Hill has another season in him and could bring Bates on and Miller could run his legs off for 45-60 mins and again would be great for the younger guys coming through! So players that could go being a bit ruthless are.
Kiernan
Hill
Sendaros
Tavs
Halliday
McKay
O'halloran/ Forester (1 will go? )
Toral
Hyndman
Dodoo
Waghorn
Miller (hope he stays lot to offer)
If all of these players go I hope all the money raised goes straight back into Club that plus the Sports Direct thing being settled letting us buy tops and the money King and Co have told Pedro is there for him then a fairly decent Transfer Fund could be available, but it could be so very different!
Meaning our chances of making Group stage of Europa and having a decent season next year not much different to this one! Needed to wait and see, if McKay goes too I think we must realise that he may go for as little as £3 million but that figure could easily double with the way some Transfers have gone, again if he was playing Down South a 6m fee would be a minimum!
02 Apr 2017 20:40:03
I don't think we have a proper central midfielder, I mean a pure box to box midfielder.
02 apr 2017 21:10:02
still think there is a strong possibility of crooks being used as ch! if caixinha buys a cdm and hill goes and caixinha gets rid of kiernan and we all wish for this to happen.
i say we offer him dodoo and wags to forest and cross our fingers! anyways i just hope crooks gets a chance, be it cdm or ch. Don't know if crooks could play there but he has the build for it and could in no way bring any worse than kiernan!
even having crooks as squad back up to ch as i think the manager will have to use the squad like this instead of buying and paying 2 players for nearly every position!
get a solid settled back 4, then concentrate on assisting our strikers.
finding players who can make passes cutting open teams and players who can get down the wing and getting balls into the box to feet or crosses whipped in! bye bye dodoo and wags and got a feeling he may be considering letting miller go leaving us with garner!
we need strong, fast technical players who will take players on going forward. this team has been managed by a man, who by all accounts didn't like confrontation! hate to bring this up but the barton situation would have been different if we had a smith or a mcliesh at the helm. even if pedro was there, i think a man who knows how to talk to men would have banged heads with a degree of mutual respect would have told whoever involved to sort it out or all of them would be ball boys for rest of season!
At the end of the day our season depends on transfer capabilities!
02 Apr 2017 21:24:19
6 million for Mckay. Send me some of that stuff your smoking! He is valued at the current rate on transfer market at 850k.
We need to get a bit lucky and we need a scouting department in place or we are going to end up with more low quality players.
02 Apr 2017 23:28:13
Dodoo and Waggy to Forrest? Warbs didn't even play them when he was here
03 Apr 2017 14:25:18
We would be lucky to get £3 million for McKay.
03 Apr 2017 19:52:31
If someone offers 2 million for McKay I will drive him for his medical myselff