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Is no left turns something to do with our inverted wingers?

So aouchiche is 1.5m. Unlikely we’re doing that. Given he’s out of contract, prob 500 for Watson? Obviously there’s competition but I’d really hope we try for this guy. Seems a legit Scottish up and comer and we’ve missed out on those of late, Bowie, mulligan, Cameron for example.

Any best of the rest realistic transfers out there? Agree on a Clarkson replacement, no point in replacing like with like if it’s not the system Thelin will play. At the same time, having a winger or two that can take a defender on the outside is essential if you ask me. what kind of CM is David Watson?? A Ferguson, Rama type??

I’ve coached a ton of Haitians in Florida, travel ban won’t affect things, they’ll have fans. But certainly not as popular as Brazil and a lesser extent Morocco. Was actually hoping for that one to be played in Miami.

Na. Too old for our player trading. We still have Ryan Duncan anyway.

So how do you boys get tickets? Will try for the Brazil game, only a 4 hr drive. ticket lottery opens up December 15.

Early Xmas request. We did well getting the likes of Rooney McLean Hayes shinnie, to a lesser extent Ferguson, the best of the rest. Maswanhise Longelo Congreve and Watson would be great additions, obviously tough to get but I can hope. Upgrade on gyamfi milanovic palaversa and yengi please!

Rated Congreve yesterday. Welsh u21 international under contract with Swansea until 2028 unfortunately. Young lad who would fit our player trading model. Maybe loan with option to buy if they don’t sell immediately??

Left back Longelo scored for Motherwell again today. He’d be a great addition.

Will be a challenge to keep the lie at work going if we make the final!

Just finished watching, good win and with killie ar home next weekend, good opportunity to keep the positive momentum. its all our midfield. Aouchiche Armstrong and polvara played well first half and it’s a solid performance, then second half it’s more passive, too deep, and not enough desire passion or fight in midfield to get the team up the park. Some fannying around too in the box too, should gave been more than 2 up before they score. think that’s our strongest 3 in midfield, but certain hope we add a cm or two in Jan.

Meh. You’ll have Covid for those few days. Best to stay home.

Great for me, 9pm, 6pm, and 6pm. Impossible to please everyone. To be honest, 9pm and 6pm in Boston shouldn’t be too hot, mid June is not hot hot either there, probably in the 70s which is ok. Miami will certainly be warmer.

Shinnie deserves a place in Aberdeen club history. A trophy winning proud Aberdeen for the jersey guy. Love the way he plays and delighted when he played for Scotland, more than deserved. Gutted when he left and delighted when he came back. At the same time, he’s on the decline and more and more people are holding him in less regard. I did criticize him last week, think he struggles at times now, but he will always be legendary shinnie. funny, I never rated considine and didn’t care for him much at all, but so many/the majority treat him with legendary status.

This has become a really disappointing thread! So few rumors in recent months/years. The club has done a much better job of keeping signings close to their chest, even though the majority have been shite. Takes the fun out of things! are we being losely linked with anyone at all besides David Watson? so who are the more recent signings on their way out besides yengi??

To me it’s all about midfield. Dominate there and the pressure is off the defense and mitov becomes more of a spectator. The majority of our problems stem from midfield. Lack of competitiveness and we get over run, lack of creativity and support in attack produces so few goals.

Didn’t realize Norway were 7th in the world at the time! italia 90 we lost to Costa Rica in the opener, similar situation here, hopefully we put up a better performance. A good start to the tournie will do us wonders. haiti’s keeper plays for aek athens, midfielder at wolves, winger at inter Miami. Looks like their top forward plays in the Persian league but played on loan at st mirren in 2019. Really intrigued by our mindset, qualifying was not great performances, and the last two euros were piss poor. Hopefully we can come out flying! I certainly think I’m in the minority but hoping a midfield of a healthy doak Ferguson mctominnay gilmour and Harvey Barnes do the business. A youthful Gordon in goal, back 4 of hickey Milne McKenna Robertson, and I do think if we have doak and Barnes either shankland or dykes at 9. Maybe Bowie has a killer 6 months and comes into the World Cup as europe’s form striker!

World rankings, Brazil 5, Morocco 11, Scotland 36, Haiti 84. for comparison, teams we’ve played in the last few years, Spain 1, Portugal 6, Croatia 10, Swiss 17, Denmark 21, norway 29

Really? I think it will be different players. And in a different continent. It’s been 26 years. im delighted to avoid European teams. Particularly if it’s Italy or Denmark. Not only the strength of the Europeans, but nice to have different styles with this lot. While many of the players play in European, playing these teams will be something different. Particularly if we are physical, maybe that helps us against Haiti and Morocco. How many fans have seen Scotland play these types of teams? I remember Morocco, Brazil, Uruguay, New Zealand, Costa Rica, nice to avoid Europe. of the top teams, I think we had to face Brazil Argentina or a host. USA are a decent team and at home, as are Mexico. Canada are no mugs. Argentina are streets ahead of Brazil. Work with a bunch of Brazilians who can’t stand their national team at present, they aren’t a typically strong Brazil. they have all the pressure and expectation too. Maybe we’re due a result there? morocco could be good, maybe not, who knows about Haiti. I think it’s a decent and exciting draw.

So what exactly are we paying for then??

I’m good with that draw. Very hard to get an ‘easy’ draw as a third seeded European team. First game is huge, one I’ll try to go to if it’s in Miami which is possible. Work with a bunch of Brazilians who hate their national team at present, says they are pish. But they are still Brazil. Morocco have expectation on them, could be good or not. Plus it’s revenge from 98.

Impossible to tell how this goes, and mitov symbolizes the team. Could be good could be piss poor. Results have been good for the most part recently, but I think we’ve been fortunate. At the same time I still think we can click and play well. 2-1 us, karlsson and lazetic

I’m assuming VAR is about money and the league gets money to use it? I say that because I don’t see how anyone can argue it has made the game better. I’d argue we now have more debatable goals ,uncertainty on clear and obvious, delays, and the biggie for me, I don’t celebrate goals any more because you now have the ‘stress’ of a possible VAR check. I know decisions go for us and against us, and over time they may well even out, but VAR clearly has not improved the game or the fan experience. As I said, I assume it’s because of money that we have it and are stuck with it.

Didn’t realize we hadn’t made our 5 subs, but the issue was we’d used our three sub ‘windows’ so couldn’t bring in a 5th sub. That rule makes no sense when there’s a legit injury, not like it’s time wasting, and we’re forced to play with ten.

Disappointing to see we lost the lead twice, but we did ride our luck with the disallowed goal, looked shaky at the back, and mitov didn’t give us an lot of confidence, but we came back from a goal down, good character. Based on how we are playing, 4 wins and 2 draws out of the last 7 league games is more than we probably deserve. We’re just not very good. Yet 5 off third. What if we actually start playing well? Nice to see lazetic getting a couple of goals, even off the bench, problem is though, and it’s the same for the majority of the midfield/ forwards, it’s hard to get any sort of rhythm/form when you dont always start and we rotate/change everyone around you. Squad rotation is balance, and I dont think we’ve done well with it. harsh to criticize Milne, in any other game he wins/clears the ball and we don’t lose the second goal. Boy has had a great season to date. Same with devlin, could have been better on the goal too. Those two and knoester have certainly been our 3 most consistent players. disappointed to see Aouchiche balloon over the bar at a pretty open goal, he’s been better of late and a goal would have been good for him, and mitov continues to cause concern. Wonder if we are considering a new keeper. I didn’t see it but read polvara could/should have won the ball right before the third goal, as much as he scored and is a popular player, he’s one of a number of mediocre players we have and I’m not worried to lose him to hibs or the likes. We need to sign better. harsh to criticize JT for making 5 subs and we finish the game with 10. We subbed two in the 89th minute to see out the game, just unlucky there.