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Harry Souttar off to Leicester for £15M The easiest £3M Dundee United will ever make.

sancho_panza, we were playing Darvel not AC Milan. It was not about a game plan on Monday it was 100% about attitude. It was a game that the manager should have been able to just leave the players to get on with it without even needing a team talk. No exaggeration to say that our reserve team should be beating Darvel, they are part time players training a couple of times a week. A leader on the pitch would have made a massive difference. Falkirk will thrash them in the next round.

Glass was hopeless and should have been sacked earlier than he was. It was clear very early on he was nowhere near good enough to manage Aberdeen. We are not going to be a good team just by signing a couple of defenders. Watch back the game from Monday night. The attitude was wrong. No one fancied it. No fight. No desire. No professional pride. We'd just been beaten 5-0 by Hearts so you would think they would have gone out with a real point to prove. There were a few times early on that our players basically pulled out of proper tackles. Nobody looked bothered they were getting embarrassed by part time players. There are no leaders. I said it after the Rangers defeat at Ibrox and it was the case again in the home defeat a couple of weeks ago and the last couple of games, the team is mentally weak and has no bottle. Can you imagine Scott Brown accepting defeat so easily if he had been there on Monday night? He would have been kicking players up in the air in the first 5 minutes. The Stewart situation epitomises this what this team is all about and I actually feel sorry for the lad. I do wonder if there is a better player in there and things might have turned out differently if he had not been burdened by the stupid decision to make him team captain.

This interim manager stuff baffles me. If Robson is good enough to become the next Aberdeen manager then give him the job. If he is deemed not good enough then why would you give him the job for a while? No point sacking the current manager you think is not good enough just to replace him with another that is not good enough??? Just decide who you want and give him the job now. We need someone who knows the Scottish game, not someone who needs on the job training. We already have a lot of players with little experience of this league. Get in an experienced man who has been around the block and is not going to be fazed by the size of the club and expectation level.

It's ok looking good at Hampden but how are these fancy foreigners gonna cope on a freezin' January night in Darvel eh?

11 defeats in 22 league games is a horrendous record. I know new players take time to bed in but I just don't think it is working for Goodwin. His tenure has all been a bit of a pantomime with a lot of naivety shown from Considine leaving, the Porteous incident, whatever has gone on with Ramirez and his statement at the start about third being the minimum requirement. Anthony Stewart's comment about Morelos the other day just put the icing on the cake. The job at times seems too big for him and I think he massively underestimated how big a club he was coming too especially the fact that everything a Dons manager says gets scrutinised in a way that he has not had in his previous clubs.

Apart from being utterly shite at Cardiff and Man Utd, what you seein in Solskjaer? At least Goodwin showed promise of maybe becoming a good manager whilst at his previous clubs but Solskjaer? or are you just going on the premise of he is foreign so he will be superb or R U just taking the piss by suggesting him?

Not saying you are necessarily wrong Rico, but none of us know what Steven Gunn does on a day to day basis, how good he is at what he does and how well he is doing compared to others in the same field.

It scares me how much this is starting to mirror previous regimes with round pegs in square holes which is one of my biggest gripes with managers. Our starting line up last night had a winger at right back when we signed a recognised right back in the summer. Johnny Hayes, a left winger, playing on the right when we seemed to have about a million wingers a few months ago so just play him in his proper position. Duk should be playing centrally. McCrorie just chucked in another role because he is seemingly a utility man who never gets asked to play the same role two weeks in a row. Besuijen we were told was some kind of unpolished diamond who would make us millions yet he starts on the bench again. Coulson is meant to be a left back but is never in position hence the Hearts goals. Clarkson and Scales aside, who are not our players, are any of the summer signings actually better than what we had last season? I'm not sure. ................and what's the deal with Connor Barron? Why is he warming the bench? In conclusion, to me a 5-0 defeat by Hearts is a P45 job.

I'm not sure what is going on with refereeing at the moment and I am not one of those that is into conspiracy theories about the old firm getting all of the breaks. The refs just seem to be pleasing themselves at the moment and the whole VAR thing has made things ten times worse. As an example, Kent pulled someone back by the shirt yesterday, the ref blew for a free kick but chose not to book him which is just plain wrong. The offside thing is on its arse as well. Much though I loved our goal yesterday, it's an absolute farce how the defenders can hold a line to play someone offside yet another player steams through the middle and scores. Similar to Man Utd's winning goal on Saturday. If that's going to happen you might as well just scrap offsides totally because there's no point in a defender ever trying to play someone offside. The game is becoming a joke. We did well yesterday though. I don't think we are ever going to outplay Rangers for the entirety because they have better players but we stuck in and were unlucky not to equalise in the end. Scales looks a right good defender. Shinnie, great signing. Still not overly convinced on the goalie. Are we any better than last season? Jury still out. Will be a hard game against Hearts after ET yesterday.

Heard a rumour we were trying to get Ryan Jack back. I'm sure he would be warmly welcomed.

£10 to watch Buckie on a stream! I thought Sky were ripping me off but I’ve changed my mind. Edit: that should really be on the totally deluded cunts thread

I do love this goal

Roberto Martinez “on the brink” of becoming Portugal manager. I don’t need to add any more.

Does anyone know if you can watch our games live in the UK simply by using a VPN if you subscribe to Red TV? And, do you need to use a non-UK address when you subscribe?

Tremendous BigAl. Delighted for Smith because if he had lost that one he was sure to be branded as a loser forever in some quarters. I’m sure Van Gerwen did not think he could possibly lose by playing that standard of darts but Smith was just brilliant. A few new stars born in that tournament as well, Josh Rock looks one to watch and the big German was excellent too.

Very sad to hear. Always came across as a genuinely lovely man. On a football level his CV is phenomenal.

This At last, a Scottish signing. His best years may be behind him but we have signed someone with a genuine will to win, tenacity and desire who should grab a few by the scruff of the neck and drive the team on. I'd almost say his character is the most important part of this signing, above what he will offer on a technical level on the pitch. I said this before in a previous post, we are few too easy to play against. We conceded just 5 fouls against Ross County, which is a recurring theme. Time to roll the sleeves up, get stuck in and be a bit more horrible.

Interesting topic BigAl. I've never seen Back to the future.

Noticed that McKenna has been on the bench since the league resumed in England. Putting two and two together but wondered whether he may be earmarked for a January transfer and they did not want him getting injured. Seems strange to have been dropped all of a sudden when he was such a constant on the Forest team sheet.

Forget signings, transfer windows, formations and style of play for a moment. Biggest issue for me is we are far too easy to play against. A lot people say a team is often the mirror image of their manager and with Goodwin it seems nothing could be further from the truth. There’s no one in our team the opposition would hate to be playing against. There’s no one nasty, we don’t concede enough fouls, not enough bookings. He was past it by the time he came to Pittodrie but we need a couple with the Scott Brown mentality.

McInnes signed Logan, Robson and Rooney. Not sure why winning the league cup on penalties is scoffed at like it doesn’t could as a trophy. Are we not classing Argentina as proper world champions because they did not win the cup in the 90 minutes? Pretty sure we would all take a win on penalties in the forthcoming semi final. I’d also argue that the league is no better now than it was 10 years ago, Rangers aside. Utd, Hibs and Hearts are no better than the teams they replaced. The performances in Europe this season demonstrated just that. So far Goodwin has had a fortune to spend and produced very little.

Disappointed with how McInnes left us and Cormack did not appreciate how good a manager he had inherited, I believe he is starting to see it now with the two pantomimes that have followed. Would not begrudge McInnes an opportunity to give Cormack the two fingers.

We were 2-1 up in the 94th minute so on that basis, he got it absolutely spot on, yes. Any team 2-1 down in injury time fighting for the league is going to put you under a bit of pressure in the last couple of minutes but fuck me, I could have stuck 11 traffic cones on the pitch instead of our players and Rangers would have struggled to score TWO goals inside three minutes. Our players bottled it, nothing to do with tactics. Was it bad tactics to cover Roos’ gloves with butter or something?

It’s very harsh to blame Goodwin. I did wonder what he was playing at taking off our three main threats with half an hour left but that had nothing to do with the result and is a different debate. Last night was down to pure bottle and failure to handle the occasion. No way any team should be losing two goals in the 95th and 97th minutes. Saturday was a different story because Celtic were pushing and pushing and will do that to a lot of teams but don’t hang the manager out to dry because his players bottled it last night. That was nothing to do with tactics.