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Been rumours on social media for last month Ramirez has interest back in the states and in English Championship. Then the stuff last week with Hayes' wife posting about how their daughters will miss each other. Ferguson needs to go this summer if we are to maximise value for a player who stated he didn't want to be here last year (albeit through his daddy and his agent).

This is all just a fucking soap opera at the minute. Cormack calling out the boy on twitter in January and now this. Mind, in the early McInnes days, when the first we knew of a signing was when the official club statement came out. Airing our business is, as has been said, pretty hunnish. If I had to guess we probably weren't too far away maybe Considine wanted two years and a second testimonial, and that's what prompted the leak? But who cares! The reaction from the club is pretty poor. Definitely not what was needed a few days before a potentially season defining game, a season that has fractured the relationship between fans and club. At least Considine offered a bit of stability next season in what is bound to be a massive turnover of playing personnel combined with whatever is left of this seasons flaky squad. 6 figures is just short of £2k p/w? He's likely to have been on close to double that considering his length of service. We've lost Brown, Hedges, McGinn since the turn of the year. Ramirez looks to be on his way, Ferguson will be gone too both bringing in fees you'd have thought maybe even Ramsey. McGeouch, Ojo wont be renewed. All, bar Ramsey, will be high earners. You've got to imagine the club will be making attempts to move Lewis and Jet on, another two of our high earners along with a number of others. I've seen suggested (if I remember correctly) that Lewis, Woods, McLennan, Kennedy, Campbell and JET have all been told the club won't stand in their way, if they can get a contract elsewhere. May just be some virgin getting over excited though. This potentially leave us with Gallagher, Bates, McCrorie, Hayes and Watkins as our most experienced players and spine of the team. Supplemented by the likes of Barron, MacKenzie and Vincente as young players with 1st team experience and Duncan and Ngwenya to join them. Not sure whether to be excited by the prospect of a whole new team or daunted by the type of shite we're likely to end up with?

Pleased with this. Was the obvious choice when we punted McInnes. Be disappointed if Brown goes but playing wise he’s not irreplaceable. As someone else said get McCrorie into midfield.

Wonder if McGhee has told his Dundee squad that they're not good enough yet?

EFA

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

Confused between actual shots and xG.

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

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.

2 Accounts?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

Oxymoron here.

Makes sense.