Panda

A point currently beIng debated on the ol' what's app. If Nilsen leaves, that would leave only Kjartansson as the defensive break your legs midfielder (Shinnie isn't a sitting midfielder, Clarkson and Palaversa can sit deep but wouldn't necessarily maim you). Does this mean that, when Gyamfi is fit, we may move towards a three at the back? A wee 3-4-3?

I mean, that's a fucking bargain like, even if there's add ons or we're covering his (likely) large salary.

A poster said I was living in cloud cuckoo land for suggesting this. Turns out we've paid less than that.

As are the BBC which makes it official. Delighted. He made our front line better last season, scored goals, won a trophy, and is the older head our young front 3/4 need.

Makhtar Gueye on loan from Blackburn is the rumours down in North England. Striker. Target man. Doesn't score much. Just how we like them.

And while we're at it, £25 for the Motherwell cup game is also a nonsense

Me too. To me, losing to Falkirk was the first real shock result of the season, and even then it was with 10 men after a first half when we should have had a lead. It's result that could happen to everyone. Hearts away, Celtic home, and the Romanian champions away are not worthy of throwing the toys out and demanding Thelin's head. Big September. Livi at home and the Motherwell double header. Win them all and we're motoring, in a semi final, and ready to conquer Europe.

Aye £30 is not reasonable. Our opponents will charge much less in all probability. We don't even need the money because we're getting a huge wad from Uefa too. It's greed, nothing less.

I would be fucking delighted with Scottish Cup winner Kevin Nisbet. We sign him and he's our number one striker, with Lazetic allowed to develop. Bring him home. The year is 2050 and Orlando Don suggests Allan Campbell and Mikey Johnston

Good luck to Shady Mo, but Luton can fuck off - making their move on the eve of a Europa League play-off. I know they're not used to playing in Europe so maybe didn't know it was happening, but was poor form. And their airport is shite.

Looks like Sokler going out on loan rumours could be true. Odd to start him on Thursday then ship him out a few days later (unless he requested it of course). On the other hand, Lazetic in the squad earlier than expected.

I don't think we have a Hibs thread, but these are terrific tears. https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/hibs-uefa-conference-league-kasper-schmeichel-celtic-5293288

That bloke we were linked with from Girona has barely touched the ball in the Old Firm game. Only action of note was a dive in the box. Looks like we've dodged a bullet there...

Probably didn't help that my some of the rockets in our support on Twitter and AFC Chat lost the plot when Boyd allegedly liked a Rangers post.

Snelders having a horror show in a 3-3 draw v us kept him in our good books. Let's stop all this Ash Taylor love in over a couple of tweets. He was delighted to get it right up us while at Kilmarnock, and he would have signed for Rangers in a heartbeat if they had come in for him.

Prediction already in that we'll finish bottom. Time to shock Europe again.

Need eight points to reach the knockout stage (although a few on seven last season made it. One team on seven points didn't make it last year - some mob called Hearts). Ten points likely enough to be seeded, while 12 and more could be enough to skip the play-off and go directly into the last 16. It's a tough group of fixtures, but it's very doable, especially if we make Pittodrie hard to visit

Forget the Europa. She never loved us anyway. Draw imorn. We play one team from each pot. Toughest draw: Fiorentina, Crystal Palace, Mainz, AEK Athens, Samsunspor, Hacken. Panda's draw: AZ Alkmaar, Shamrock Rovers, Bialystock, Lincoln Red Imps, Breidablik, Shelbourne (apparently the rules say we can play both Irish sides).

This game sums up where we're at and why, truthfully, FCSB are doing us a bit of a favour here. We've had good moments, were the better team for 35 minutes, and signs are that we're going in the right direction. But we're not clinical, throw away goals too easily, and we're not good enough for the Europa League. As glamorous as it would be, some of the teams in there would have pulled our pants down. That said, 3-0 harsh on us.

He might be, but that's from the uefa website and bizarrely you have to give UEFA your correct formation for the teamsheet. He's not in squad because he's been distracted by a bid late last night. Thelin will have more on BBC Scotland's excellent coverage later, from 19:15 BST.

Jensen on the left will be interesting, but at the moment I like it.

If we have £2.6m to spend, then as good as Miovski is (was) there's no-way I'd want it spent on him. Could sign five players for that.

Club goals in the past 12 months. Bojan Miovski: 2 Ester Sokler: 8 Meh. Let them have him. His best days are in the past, and the future is Sokler.

An excellent post from @OxfordDon the other day on this very topic.

A good Dons man is Liam. One of our own.