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Stevie May and Wilson dream team upfront please! 

If the McKenna situation has caused any unrest in the dressing room that then is down to McKenna and agent making themselves look like a couple of prize plums.

Aberdeen however should have taken the Aston Villa offer back in January as at the moment, we would be lucky if anyone returns with even £3million for him in January.

For McInnes to roll out with the same set up and tactics that they nullified a week ago is mind boggling.

Playing mind games with Cosgrove fitness as though was Lionel Messi. I can just hear the conversation in the Rijeka dressing room when they got the team sheet:

"Oh no, Cosgrove is actually fit and starts! What ever will we do?!?"

"Wait a minute, lets just do the exact same thing we did last week when limited him to getting barely a sniff of the ball!"

This game was crying out for a different approach, something to mix our play up a bit rather than the same old and McInnes has flapped at it. This was easily our best chance to reach the group stages, the squad was signed well in time for the Qualifiers, the draw was quite favourable but McInnes has blown it.

When the system you are playing isnt working why on earth would you take Cosgrove off to replace him with Curtis Main, you would be as well seeing if Si the Seagull had his boots with him. In fact he would probably still be better than Main is he just wore his bloody bird feet!

#KeepStevie

It just looks at the moment that this move from McKenna and his agent has done nothing more than make them look a bit daft.

The Dons are not backing down and there isn't any teams, that we know of, banging on the door with the cash needed to buy him.

Aberdeen have never said that he isnt going anywhere full stop, they have always said that if their valuation of him is met then he can leave. If McKenna didn't agree with that stance then he shouldn't have signed a new long term deal earlier this year.

This smells like Celtic.

I had the exact same thought.

I know some people are talking about Leicester or Newcastle but they both have the money to meet a valuation with Aberdeen if they really wanted him.

Chris Harvey Tweeting confirmation of the transfer request, also said that Ash Taylor is 2-3 weeks away from being back and Devlin not likely to be ready for Thursday.

Pretty poor stuff if he has done this in a week where we have a massive game and a threadbare in central defence.

If true, I hope we hold firm on the valuation and get as much £££ for him as possible. 

If Celtic value Tierney at £25 Million then £10 million for McKenna isn't actually that bad a price.

If it was me however I would seriously consider around £7 Million for him.

Also the lack of experienced CM showed last night, hopefully Bryson is fit for the second leg.

I thought we played quite well, Gallagher was immense, running constantly and looked a threat whenever he was on the ball.  Mckenna I though was solid throughout, looked more like the player that was attracting the big money bids the season before last. Gutted that we conceded right at the end, the defence just switched off.

Cosgrove should have been pulled for Main. I know he got on the scoresheet but he missed 3 or 4 cracking opportunities as well, chances that I actually think it was harder to miss!!

We need to attack this team in the away leg, they had no answer for Gallagher and McGinn and everytime we attacked them down the flanks we were creating chances.

I will be wuite pleased if Wilson joins permanently.

If he continues in the same form that he ended last season in, then we have a very decent player on our hands.

Taylor would not be a squad player, that's the issue.

I think he would be an ok back up, probably on par or even slightly better than Considine to be honest.

A concern would be is that we again seem to be basing a lot of our player searching based on a players decent performance from about 2-3 seasons previous. I thought we may have learned our lesson about that.

The signing of main surprises me, I cant see how he offers anything more upfront than what we currently have.

Taylor I am more relaxed on. I think he would make an ok squad player.

McInnes saying he want to add one more player before the close of the transfer window.

Also said it is unlikely to be Jonny Hayes which means it will probably be Jonny Hayes 

Sunderland now trying to beat us to the signing of Morgan apparently

Dom Ball, who's cover for Shinnie. Campbell cover for Ferguson. It's not ideal, but if we get the opportunity to ditch Gleeson now, it might be an idea to take that. The biggest issue would be if both Shinnie and Ferguson get injured, as Ball and Campbell isn't strong enough. Shinnie could probably carry Campbell and we'd be okay, but Ball doesn't have the movement. One issue I can see is that if Lowe gets injured or suspended. The gulf in midfield, to me, means that you can't move Shinnie in to cover, it'd have to be Considine or Reynolds. Fine for the majority of games, but knowing our luck it'll be the game preceeding that against the Tims or Huns that Lowe gets a dubious red card that the panel don't overturn. Hopefully if we ditch Gleeson then it'd be to free up space for another midfielder in the mould of Christie (who could have covered for the Ferguson role on occasion).

Dom Ball.....

Wouldn't that just leave us with Shinnie and Ferguson to play in central midfield??

I don't think we paid £200K with the intention of releasing him in the window.....

 

I'm not sure what your solution is? Stop paying money for players in case it doesn't work out?

 

I think it's good that we have the ability to admit our mistakes and get rid. Far better that, than feeling obliged to give him a 20 minute run out here and there in order to keep him happy.

 

Would a £100K (half our Forrester fee) increase in the recruitment staff budget result in a better return on our scouting? Signings like this, Tansey etc would certainly suggest some investment wouldn't be wasted. Although, I have no idea what additional scouting could be bought for that type of money.

 

I'm going to claim that I had first call on here suggesting that Forrester wasn't up to it (and Gleeson). From the minute I saw him, I could tell that there was a huge part of his game missing to play in the current AFC team. I also called out Tansey before he signed, and Storey. I think I could get a better return on our investments if the club were willing to pay me £100K

I am sure some sort of deal to get him back to Ireland could have been sorted, whether it was a loan or permanent transfer.

Glad our finances or so vast that we can pay around £200k on a player, only to go and rip up his contract a few months later 

Thought we may have learned our lesson from loaning players from Celtic after Christie, it would seem not.

Papertalk linking us with McTominay at Man Utd on loan.

Ball isn't good enough for Aberdeen in my opinion.

Whenever I see his name on the team sheet it sends a cold shiver straight down my spine!

It pained me to go the page to read it but this is where the latest McKenna talk is stemming from.

https://www.celticnewsnow.com/news/scott-mckenna-appears-to-be-on-the-brink-of-a-move-to-celtic/262687/

Chris Harvey just Tweeted that McInnes has confirmed that NYC are in talks with GMS.

They contacted Aberdeen to inform them of their intention to talk to him.