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Could have been worse but Vilnius have a decent recent record in Europe and Hacken are the current Swedish champions and presumably stronger since we played them so neither will be particularly easy.

You’d think a Croatian ‘B’ international who has signed for the Turkish champions of last season is the type of game changing player who could really move us up a level, hopefully there’s a couple more targets of that calibre on our shortlist.

It’s UN peacekeepers we’ll need at this rate.

Scott Wright signing for some Turkish mob with a 2500 capacity stadium for about £500k. Won’t be much of a sell on fee in that for us. Hame by Christmas no doubt.

Aye but what’s the name of the Beer Sheva defender?

Is this not coming from the same source that’s linking Ianis Hagi with us and Lecce?

I think it’s fucking ace.

Sokler could just be Marley Watkins’ replacement. Bavidge just turned 17, unlikely we’ll be relying on him as our plan B. I’d even be tempted to send him out on loan for the season.

Aberdeen is a city where an unusually high proportion of its male workers work in the middle of the sea for half of the year. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that many of them are season ticket holding Aberdeen supporters. And even then, why take the viewpoint that these people are doing anything wrong, that they’re somehow “blocking” the seat from being used? Most likely they’re thinking they’d rather contribute the cost of the season ticket to the club despite not being able to get the full value from it. This discussion has not moved on from its original premise - someone getting themselves worked up over an imagined scenario that we’ll draw a big team in Europe and demand will be high enough for him to struggle to get a ticket and he thinks that’s reason enough to lash out at anyone and everyone.

Yeah you still don’t get it. The issue isn’t your loyalty. The issue is you judging the loyalties of other people you know nothing about. No-one deserves to be shamed for their support just because it may potentially interfere with your ad-hoc attendance.

He seemed to play 90 minutes for Croatia’s B team the other night. Doesn’t sound like he’d be cheap (despite 12 months left on his contract).

As dire as your circumstances are, it doesn’t give you any right to judge other supporters without knowing anything about their own circumstances. You’ll probably find that the increased initiatives to make season tickets more affordable and accessible (e.g. zero interest instalments) has made more of a difference than “fake” fans shelling out hundreds of pounds to get priority to buy tickets to midweek European matches that rarely sell out anyway.

QOTS, the walk between Central and Queen Street was particularly embarrassing.

Shayden Morris’ closing down of the cross for their 4th goal is the footballing equivalent of sunbathing in your back garden while working from home. Cunt’s supposed to be lightning quick.

Dirty fucks have been diving in studs up the entire first half.

I’m guessing it was one of Devlin’s entourage that jumped the gun.

Him and his mates are a bit old for the AberDNA Junior tour are they not?

Interesting choice of kit being used for some e-sports competition…

His age is fine too, in his prime as a defender, you’d get 3 years out of him for a free transfer, not everyone needs to be whored out to Nigel Rovers for a higher return on investment.

You’d think if we were able to get a couple of million for Duk, Benfica would be offering up the next batch of their youngsters on a silver platter.

Aye, now we need to figure out who to appoint once Robson has been snapped up by Chelsea.

Will be interesting to see who they go after, considering we’ve already passed on everyone currently available. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them go for McInnes or Robinson.

“Born in England” is an incredibly simplistic viewpoint to take. We’re looking at players around 18-20 years of age, 18-20 years ago was probably the peak time for freedom of movement in Europe, you’ll have had Scottish parents working all over the place (including England) having kids. My own kids were born overseas and I don’t consider them to be anything other than Scottish. Anyway, if you’re that bothered about the purity of someone’s nationality, surely the origins of their blood is stronger than the geographical location of the hospital they happened to be born in? Unless they don’t sing the anthem loudly enough, then they should be strung up of course.

Fair point, so let’s appoint the manager with experience, success, winning, trophies, etc. Does he have a name?

Perhaps we’re his Forest Green? And even if you do send him off to manage a Cove Rangers or similar and he’s a massive success, you’re still going to say he’s lacking experience at the top level. The only way you ever find out is by giving him a go. It’s no bigger gamble than giving a contract to a Stephen Robinson type, so may as well anoint the Ginger Prince of Pittodrie.