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12 hours ago, Kowalski said:

If we’re in the market for a new strikers reading coach then I’m sure Darren Mackie is available. 

EFA

1 hour ago, tom_widdows said:

Going on that story Nicholas could have potentially beaten Jean Marc Bosman to the punch had the Dons not come looking

Funnily enough, I also remember (perhaps incorrectly) that Gillhaus sat out almost a year with us after his contract had ended but we wouldn't agree a fee with clubs interested in signing him?

Edited to add...

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/hans-gillhaus-recalls-aberdeen-highlights-2475605

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If there was a bad time for Gillhaus in Scotland, it was at the end. When his two-and-a-half year contract expired, Aberdeen retained his registration and demanded prohibitive transfer fees from interested clubs, such as Borussia Dortmund and Feyenoord. When he finally moved to Vitesse Arnhem in March 1993, it had been 11 months since he last played. Asked if he was unfairly treated, Gillhaus replies: “I think so. At that time, there was no Bosman. My contract ended, but I was without a club for eight months. I was jobless. It shouldn’t have ended like that.”

1 minute ago, Slim said:

Idealist? Probably you’re right, I still daydream about knocking in the winner for us in the Champions League final. That’s probably what I was doing when I didn’t see these hundreds of goal attempts you saw us have in the last 12 months.

Confused between actual shots and xG.

7 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

 And as I keep saying, regardless of money, why does Charlie Nicholas come to us? London and a top club like arsenal to Aberdeen?? I didn’t expect that. We were not Ferguson’s dons by then.

https://www.afc.co.uk/2021/12/29/afc-archive-signing-charlie-nicholas/

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 “I was at Arsenal and it was clear I wasn’t in George Graham’s plans. I was never a guy who would hang about if I didn’t feel wanted. I have never been like that. I don’t see any merit in that for anyone.

“I was sent all over the place with Arsenal reserves and George even sent me away with the youth team. I was even sent up to Cambridge University to sit on the bench. It was clear my Arsenal career was over. There was no point in picking a fight, my time was up.

“So when Aberdeen came in for me I went up and met the chairman, Dick Donald. I met him in a hotel in Aberdeen and I was really impressed with him as a person and his ambitions for Aberdeen. It was a few days before New Year when I went up. Dick was a gentleman and I was impressed with his plans and ambitions for Aberdeen. I said give me a couple of days to think about things but I did say I wasn’t sure about coming back to Scotland.”

Yet, it was Graham, who indirectly, opened the door for Aberdeen to pull off their landmark, signing coup.

“If I was being honest I wasn’t really thinking about going back to Scotland before I joined Aberdeen”, Nicholas admitted. “Celtic were interested. There was an approach through Davie Hay to see if I would be interested in going back?
“I would have thought about it although I felt I was harshly treated at Celtic when I left. I was basically booted out the door and told that I had asked for a transfer, which was never the case.

“I then went to France and I had always wanted to play abroad. I went to Toulon, who were in the French top-flight at the time. I flew out with the Arsenal secretary Ken Friar and we had agreed a deal with them but then George blocked it. Brian Clough then came in for me to take me to Nottingham Forest and Jim Smith tried to get me to Queen’s Park Rangers and Newcastle but George wouldn’t allow those moves either.”

It left Nicholas running out of options and patience.

“George Graham wouldn’t have a meeting with me,” he added. “I had to go to Ken Friar but he said it was up to the manager to agree to a deal for me. George wouldn’t let me resurrect the deal with Toulon or go to England so I just told Ken that I wanted to go to Aberdeen.

“Aberdeen was a deal that George wasn’t adversed to. So I decided that was where I wanted to go and I phoned Dick on Hogmanay to tell him that I was going to Aberdeen and that is when the story began to break.”

3 hours ago, LA-Don said:

Eh? Why am I wrong and why grow the fuck up? And what subject am I changing? You are, to me, being narrow minded and are making assumptions about peoples career aspirations, motives, job ambitions, and money. The example of Steve Clarke is quite a good one, just like the example I gave of Charlie Nicholas. Right there I didn't see either happening. Ever been surprised about a team signing a player or manager you never saw coming? It happens. Why not for us? Fuck me, George Best played for Hibs!!!!!

It appears you don't like push back or a difference of opinion. Doesn't mean I am wrong because I don't agree with you. You going to cancel me because I don't toe the line now? Appropriate for society today.

Based on this post, you should ask the Admins to combine your accounts under the new moniker “Florida Man…” 

Think the gator has coughed up your cowboy boots, shit you out, and Mickey has already slipped in the excrement. 

George Best at hibs.

Give up min. 

1 hour ago, OrlandoDon said:

Reading reports, no clue how accurate, that we are discussing compensation with st mirren. Blown away by this if goodwin is our guy. 
 

most want a manager with experience and say that’s where glass failed. Is a stint at alloa and a couple of years at st mirren good enough experience? Does that truly transfer to managing us? Hasn’t won anything, hasn’t managed outside of Scotland, no European experience. Has he even experienced a cup final, too lazy to check? I’d even value the battle hardened experience of being sacked before.

Surely we should be looking at all of the above, plus a manager with national and international connections. While I’m not saying Lennon or Ross are the answer, they are more qualified than goodwin. I see goodwin as slightly more experienced than glass and coaching st mirren to not be shite doesn’t win me over.
 

as I mentioned before, goodwin is the flavor of the month, not unlike tommy Wright or callum Davidson. I think we should be aiming for better.

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

Jesus.

45 minutes ago, LA-Don said:

Are you suggesting him for next manager? No experience. And dead. But apparently he can perform miracles and based on yesterdays game, he's maybe a better option than Paul Lambert.

There's fixed mindset and growth mindset. Open and closed minded. Blinkered or eyes wide open. I'd even say I'm not the abused who go running back to the abuser because it's what I deserve and the best I can do. Aim high. Like I said, you see it as realistic, I see it as limiting us. The fact I get a one word answer says a lot. You've nowhere to go except criticize me for stupid ideas. There are many wonderful people who wouldn't have accomplished what they did in life if they'd backed down when told they had stupid ideas. Dream big. 

2 Accounts?

3 hours ago, LA-Don said:

Honestly, big Dunc would be my choice but he's another I'd say is in the 'if you don't ask' category. I don't see it as stupid, I see it as exploring. Who knows who is interested. Is Klinsmann? I doubt it but he's been US based, maybe Cormack has connection there. You just never know and you are speculating what OGS would want. My comparison with signing Nicholas as a player is the equivalent, I never expected him at Pittodrie. 

The difference between signing Nicholas as a player in ‘88 and signing Solskjaer as manager now, is Ferguson took a pay cut to go to Manchester Utd 2 years before that, and Solskjaer signed a player for 3 times our turnover to sit on the bench at Manchester Utd 2 years before now. 

6 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

I've never been convinced of the "commands respect" thing. The evidence doesn't really bear it out, with some of the best players in the world being horseshit managers. John Collins being a prime example of someone extremely similar to Lambert. It's really something that has to be maintained too, it'll wear off pretty quickly when you're in and around the place daily and everyone can see that you're an uninspiring dullard, which is the vibe I've always got from Lambert (I could be completely wrong of course, it's just the way he comes across on telly). I certainly don't think he's unlikeable, he seems nice enough. Without question, he'd be an old firm panderer, far more than McInnes ever was - and probably even McGhee. He will literally see Scottish fitba through the lens of the scum, which is why I wouldn't want him. I'd definitely have haardon's foreigner suggestions over him.

Yeah, a hun who grew up to pay for the tims. With two years of relative and certainly easily financially achievable "success" out of about 16 years in total in management. 

10 hours ago, Panda said:

Putting two and two together here, but Scott Burns reporting There have also been applicants with English Premier League experience and with top Championship CVs.

Jokanovic may well be one of them. 

Just assumed it would be Lambert.

I thought we should have gone for McInnes while Calderwood was still here. I felt last year we should have gone for Goodwin. Think I had Ross in mind while McInnes was flirting with the Huns.

In much the same way we should try to sign young players on an upward trajectory who know the league. As a club we have to be pragmatic. While we can fantasise about finding another Ferguson, it’s even less likely than me winning the Euromillions.

We wait too long and anyone with a modicum of talent goes to Championship/League 1. Such is the state of Scottish football. Seems to me the English are willing to take those chances. 

Cormack has said he wants us to be a top 100 club. There are 2 ways to do that nowadays, oligarch level funding or sustained improvement over a number of years.  We won’t get everything right all the time but appointments like this are what we should be making.

Fuck all point bringing in someone who has won something and is now on a downward curve living on payoffs for phoning in a managerial career. 

Equally, no point In bringing in managers like Skovdahl and then not being able to support them with the funding required to recreate that success. 

Let’s not forget that Goodwin is a foreign manager, one from a country where there is more youth players than anywhere else in Northern Europe per head of capita (IIRC) the same country also has an excellent record of players moving to this country and being a success. 

As most on here know I go to Cheltenham games down here. Michael Duff is on an upward trajectory and I would say a very highly thought of manager. BUT he knows (as far as I am aware) nothing about Scottish Football. Oh and the suggestions I’ve seen on Twitter for Grant McCann can go in the bin. Was one of my favourite Cheltenham players, but turned out he is the worst kind of northern Irish huns. 

Feel sorry for Glass. Agree with the consensus in that I wanted him to succeed but didn’t feel he was experienced enough. I think next it has to be Goodwin and should have been him last year. Young manager on the up. Knows the league and what is required has his team 3 points ahead of us on what must be a fraction of the budget.  Downsides are both this and last season St Mirren have had periods of poor form. But, each time he has resolved it. That and him going to Tim matches. 
 

Oops!

56 minutes ago, redordead said:

Thought he did very well, as did Vinnie. The big plus though was that Gallagher looked like a defender.  He's got to stay in the team because he's the only composed one back there and the only one that you can rely on to win a long ball.

McRorie was the difference in the second half. Gallagher looked better too. So time to get him into midfield and not just shoehorned for a half.

A good tactical manager can work it out.

We have Glass who should know about defensive shape, we have Brown who is a motivator and able to coach how to play midfield and can get on the pitch and direct, we have whatsisname as a striker coach. And Henry’s cat and whatever it is he does. What does Apaloo doo?

Could we not get a tactics person like the Huns did with Beale? 

I think December did a lot to distract from the team being pretty fucking pish since Glass took over. If anything our form leading up to December emboldened teams to not sit in against us which allowed out shortcomings to become less obvious. 

8 minutes ago, wokinginashearerwonderland said:

Ok, I’m not convinced Rico. Tell that to the guy who Gallagher battered with a baseball bat who had a bleeding brain and 20 odd staples to fix his head wounds. It’s like arguing whether paedos or murderers are worse, there’s no real point. Why it is ok for Gallagher to represent Scotland and the Dons but Goodwillie gets it in the neck over signing for Raith is beyond me. Both are total animals, just monsters.

When I was about 11\12, I knew a girl a year or so older . She kept herself to the outside of a friendship group, but spoke to one of the other girls and told her she liked me, so we ended up chatting for a few weeks/months. Turned out she lived with her granny, as her Dad was in prison. I didn’t ask but eventually she wanted me to know she was moving away, after her Dads trial, but couldn’t say what he’d done. She said “ It's the only thing he could have done that’s worse than murder”. 

Just had a look at Juve’s Twitter. The thread announcing Ramseys departure is full of boot licking huns, but my favourite tweet was “Addio Parassita”, seems like they may be well suited. 

16 minutes ago, BigAl said:

To be honest, it is seriously worrying that those in the corridors of power can't see just how unpopular a move something like this is going to be.

If they couldn’t see before the reaction in their social media channels will enlighten them. 

See the huns are being linked by the boy Romano, with a loan for £400k p/w Ramsey from Juve. 

Almost hope it's true in a "win or bust attempt at the auto ECL spot", with the obvious caveat that it ends up in failure and BUST!! just like the old club. 

I think Al is suggesting that Ferguson is away? 

4 hours ago, HaarDon said:

Think we will see Kennedy come on for this one if Glass has been impressed with him in training.

I would've started him if he's been decent.

Oxymoron here. 

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He ran and got the ball, as if the draw wasn't enough. He looked determined, and maybe slightly relieved after that dirty Hun Uri Geller tried to fuck up his penalty. I don't know what the poster on Twitter is suggesting, but you don't have to look too far back to see Ferguson celebrating a winner against the Huns. 

Makes sense.

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

Glass saying that Ferguson not going to Cagliari. I think the Italian league would be a good move for him. 

I'm hoping that whoever comes in for him will give us the Kenny McLean option of keeping him until summer. He dominated the Huns midfield last night and that's a run of about 6-7 games where he's really starting to show his ability. I think we'd really struggle to replace him and especially in this window, but I also think we'll miss out on the best form of his career if we cash in right now.

Between now and August 31st, or whenever the summer window closes, has to be the strongest position we'll be in with Ferguson. Strongest we've been since Aston Villa offered a similar deal for McKenna with a few hours of the transfer window left. If he can keep the form till end of the season with 2 years left on his deal, we should receive a sizable offer.

While I'd like to see us keep him for a long time, if we let it go much beyond next January, I can imagine him pushing for a move from a derisory offer from the huns or he'll wait 6 months and sign a pre-contract with the cunts. Can't really fault his performance last night, someone said on twitter (so likely to be absolute shite) that he didn't celebrate his goal?

See Charles-Cook got 2 tonight for County. Thought he’d looked decent few times I’ve seen him in highlights.

One to keep an eye on or just an irregular run of form? 

So far against this one team they’ve had a goal scored from a FK that should not have been given, another from a penalty that shouldn’t have been given and another from a counter that should not have happened due to us not being given a penalty that should have been given. 

10 hours ago, manc_don said:

We are also playing the huns tomorrow!

Ha Ha! I actually googled to see if Gattuso was manager, or any other hun links.