Firstly no intention to wind up Rico ( but it is a bonus) by starting this more than forty eight hours ahead of January window closing BUT as a squad we are all over the fucking place and even at this early stage I would imagine we all would have opinions on what need to happen over the summer.

Appreciate that certain things might be addressed in the remaining forty eight odd hours of the winter one BUT given our performance to date, coupled to us being manager less, I wouldn't stake any money on it

Thoughts lads and lassies 

Must be a upgrade on Bilalovic or what's the point 🤔

84 games for Lugano, three goals...

EDIT: Or 108 games, six goals depending on your source.

Edited September 9Sep 9 by wee toon red

3 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

84 games for Lugano, three goals...

But what a 3 goals⚽⚽⚽

36 minutes ago, Brochred said:

But what a 3 goals⚽⚽⚽

Exactly. I'd sooner have a player who scores three worldies than someone who scores ten tap-ins.

Quality, not quantity.

He looks pretty good from clips on youtube.....but then I said the same about Jesper Karlsson.

I am hoping that sharing a first name with Zerouali is a good omen

Anyhoo welcome to the dandies Hicham 😀

How many assists? Surely a more relevant metric for a winger? I mean, we are awash with rampant goalscorers, we just need the dlivreeeee

He appears to be pretty versatile 🤣

At his last club, he played mostly on the left, despite being right footed.

So one of those wingers who plays 30% of his games on the actual wing. Awesome.

We’ve watched that one game at LB and thought, he’ll do, haven’t we 😞

Edited September 9Sep 9 by Ajja

Come on Hicham, prove me wrong

My negativity based on previous signings this window has reached a new low so while this seems another desperate attempt to add to our misfiring team I hope you do better than some of the other players brought in

I wish you well in a red shirt despite my fears that you will end up in the development squad with Frame, Devlin, etc never to be seen again

And you have my full support and will get time to settle before real criticism starts - unless you say you are tired from travelling great distances

Edited September 9Sep 9 by 2stars

5 minutes ago, 2stars said:

Come on Hicham, prove me wrong

I wish you well in a red shirt despite my fears that you will end up in the development squad with Frame, Devlin, etc never to be seen again

And you have my full support and will get time to settle before real criticism starts - unless you say you are tired to the local chipper an' back.

fify

Super, another “attacker” without a defined position.

He's fucking ace. And I haven't even seen the YouTube videos that people keep talking about but haven't shown the general forum etiquette to post for others.

More excellent analysis from vitamin.

Few things that stand out.

His crossing isn't a threat, and he doesn't score much.

But, had a look at how Lugano set up last season. He played left of a 4-2-3-1 mostly, but was expected to cut inside and play centrally and link play, although Lugano's system was possession based, which we certainly are not.

No idea where he'll play really in Robboball.

2 hours ago, Panda said:

More excellent analysis from vitamin.

Few things that stand out.

His crossing isn't a threat, and he doesn't score much.

But, had a look at how Lugano set up last season. He played left of a 4-2-3-1 mostly, but was expected to cut inside and play centrally and link play, although Lugano's system was possession based, which we certainly are not.

No idea where he'll play really in Robboball.

Looks wise the boy could be Aouchiche's brother couldn't he.

What stood out for me is he seems to be someone who can take the ball under pressure and still get you up the park whilst not losing it very often. 1.9 key passes per match particularly caught my eye, we have others that can cross and shoot but getting the ball to them in key areas has been our biggest shortcoming so far. That he will speak Arabic could be a bonus too given Mouloua doesn't speak English.

Sounds like a slightly better version of Yogane. If he doesn’t have the demeanor of Eeyore from Winnie the fucking Poo on the ball that’ll be an upgrade.

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He's fucking ace. And I haven't even seen the YouTube videos that people keep talking about but haven't shown the general forum etiquette to post for others.

Right? So rude. First impressions on watching it is that he does look handy 2bf. He certainly takes the ball well and seems to have that really tidy knack of bouncing off players who are trying to take the ball from him in a way that allows him to keep it and run into space. The previous Hicham we had was good at that too. Would be a nice touch to give him the 47 shirt come to think of it. That's what Zerouali wore in his first season and, imo anyway, played his best football wearing that number.

In a lot of those clips, he doesn’t quite seem to have control of the ball and snaps into passes and cross balls that don’t find a team mate as he hasn’t paid much attention to where he’s laying it off. He does look like he does things at pace and works hard off the ball. Might give us the legs and urgency we need in the middle to front.

Just now, Ajja said:

In a lot of those clips, he doesn’t quite seem to have control of the ball and snaps into passes and cross balls that don’t find a team mate as he hasn’t paid much attention to where he’s laying it off. He does look like he does things at pace and works hard off the ball. Might give us the legs and urgency we need in the middle to front.

Seems like a confident and mature player. Read he was right mid but most of the clips he was left, plus he says in his redtv interview that he prefers left mid. Decent pace and athleticism by the looks of things, explosive, unlike yogane.

Edited September 9Sep 9 by OrlandoDon

3 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Right? So rude. First impressions on watching it is that he does look handy 2bf. He certainly takes the ball well and seems to have that really tidy knack of bouncing off players who are trying to take the ball from him in a way that allows him to keep it and run into space. The previous Hicham we had was good at that too. Would be a nice touch to give him the 47 shirt come to think of it. That's what Zerouali wore in his first season and, imo anyway, played his best football wearing that number.

I really, really don't want to be that guy that writes off a player before he has even kicked a ball for Aberdeen. But I wish I could unsee that video.

As @Ajja says, he runs into trouble a lot and his awareness is poor. His crossing and shooting is appallingly bad. I was actually getting annoyed at him in that video and it wasn't even us he was playing for.

I'm gonna go watch some highlights of Jonny Hayes and remember the glory days.

4 hours ago, Panda said:

I really, really don't want to be that guy that writes off a player before he has even kicked a ball for Aberdeen.

We've seen plenty of shyte over the years to know a shit player.

I've never heard of the loon and don't look at online videos of any player, but he gets a chance to show what he can do.

We have a very low benchmark with recent signings, so the lad doesn't need to be a world beater to do well for us.

8 hours ago, Ajja said:

Sounds like a slightly better version of Yogane. If he doesn’t have the demeanor of Eeyore from Winnie the fucking Poo on the ball that’ll be an upgrade.

I said the same thing to my loon at a game, a few weeks back. I even have it in my head that he talks like Eeyore.

Aye, I can see why nobody posted the video! He's not a left winger, that's for certain. In a 4-3-3, he could take up the left midfield slot, behind Yogane. I expect we'll see him moved into some form of midfield role if he does get a game. Looks like he can run and is comfortable on the ball, and connects play well between the better players. If he can press well high up the pitch then we might have something to work with.

I hope he does well but he wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t shite

COYR

So this is our squad until January (unless there's other free agent movements pending).

1 hour ago, Panda said:

So this is our squad until January (unless there's other free agent movements pending).

It’s grim when you lay it out like that