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Final two books of the trilogy finished and both very good reads. I'd say the third one was the weakest of the three, but still a good read. Thanks for the heads up on it. I just read there a further two standalone books relating to the trilogy, which are hopefully available.

That's not the debate though. The debate was you saying he's been Aberdeen's best forward in recent years bar Nisbet and Miovski. Well there is a comparison to be made, because Olusanya played on both the right and left under Robinson at St Mirren and may very well play there for Aberdeen. He's played in a front two because that's how Robinson set up in the handful of games he's been in charge. Short memory. There were many fans - a lot of here - debating if Olusanya was actually a footballer. In the last 12 months he has played for three clubs, made 35 appearances, and scored twice. He causes a bit of chaos and has his uses, but let's not pretend he's been terrific for Aberdeen, because for the most part he's been average at best. He's been made to look better by how abject Lazetic has been. Gueye scored eight goals, had assists, made an insightful impact in our run of form at the beginning of the season, suffered injury, and yet when he returned helped coax the best out of Nisbet. He could play as a forward, number 10, won headers, held the ball up, and his passing wasn't too bad either. Not amazing stats, but that's more than Olusanya has contributed. I'm not making out Gueye was fantastic - very much like Olusanya, he wasn't always that clinical in the box - but he was a better player than Olusanya, and if we had a choice of bringing one of them back I'd take Gueye. Again, we're talking about a guy who has scored two goals in 18 games. Bilalovic has played the same number of games and scored more.

Missed out duk, couldn’t stand him as a player, even in the season he scored goals. Selfish individual who didn’t give two shits about the team, his teammates, or the club. A player who would be very hard to play with. As bad if not worse than karlsson, no thanks.

It’s out of boredom I’m debating, where are the rumors and links to new signings?? I’m quite happy if olusanya doesn’t come back if we find someone better. But, like others I’ll discuss, he is a good option to have off the bench. id say olusanya is a forward, prob best in a two man front line. Morris is a winger, id say karlsson is a left midfielder/winger, so no comparisons there. At the same time, Morris was awful first season here, so olusanya maybe did more. dabbagh was very limited, scored some, but what else did he do? Id argue olusanya offers more and with a full preseason and a more settled team we may see more goals. i liked sokler, just didn’t work out for him. Perhaps he’s better than olusanya, but I do think the latter has had the bigger impact in games. Sokler was non existent far too often. gueye isn’t a forward either, more a 10 or wide. He was awful initially hence the loan out. So olusanya certainly did more first season. If he returns then time will tell to see how the second season plays out, but Olusanya had an impact in multiple games, the odd goal, assist, penalty won, sending off etc, arguable did more than gueye did. Morris and gueye weren’t great players, but because we’ve been so shit they’ve been missed. Morris wasn’t very good at all first season, but finally figured out how to use his pace and get assists. We cashed both in at the right time, we saw them at their worst and their best. olusanya has potential, with a preseason and some better players we may see more. But maybe not, and I don’t care if he’s not back. I’m certainly not a big fan but he’s taken some stick when he did play a part in as getting points and keeping us up this season. so back to my initial point, I’d put him behind bojan, nisbet, and Ramirez as proper forwards we’ve had over the last 5 years. That’s sad to say obviously, especially given we currently have lazetic yengi and Ambrose who all cost money (wages and or fees).

Any word on the two Moroccans felled against Norway last night?