Get all your transfer rumours in here for this summer's window 

So far in terms of incoming the talk has been about goalkeepers with Alnick seeming to have replaced Clark as most likely target.

Supposed exclusive this morning that we are after Conor Ronan either on loan or as permanent signing in the summer. Hearts also linked. Wonder when the Hibs stories surface as well.

Good riddance to Gallagher

Now, get rid of Bates.

See I think there is a player in Bates. When played on the right side of the defence he looked a different player. Far more confident and composed. Worth hanging on to him. 

For me it was old Bertrand staying rooted to the line while the killie striker ran unchallenged into the penalty area, every step making the target bigger.

Had flashbacks to my one and only game for my school where i believe i ended up in goal as the 3 others who were ahead of me had decided they couldnt be bothered. Subbed at 3mins into 2nd half 3-2 down with the coaches immortal words 'dont worry Tom, only 3 of the goals were your fault'

With Gallagher, Ojo and Gurr gone - who is going to be our nominated boo boy? 

8 minutes ago, donsdaft said:

Now, get rid of Bates.

Oh. Never mind.

39 minutes ago, donsdaft said:

Me too

At one point he dived and lay on the ground waiting for the ball to reach him.

To this day, I can’t understand why he did that. Horrible night in Ayrshire. Put me right off. I wish you’d all stop talking about it, I had almost got rid of it as a memory 😭

@Jute you must feel like you’ve got your team back now. Brown and Gallagher gone, welcome back 😉

Season ticket has been bought. 

2 hours ago, donsdaft said:

Good riddance to Gallagher

Now, get rid of Bates.

I can’t agree with getting rid of Bates. Time will tell but I think Bates will be just fine with a run of games where he plays as a RCB, with a competent player on his left. I don’t think anyone saw coming just how bad Bates and Gallagher would be together. It no doubt had a negative effect on Joe Lewis too who arguably had is his worst season for us.

I’m expecting good things from the defence this year. Much more confident and solid performances. 

I’m not sad to see Gallagher go but really disappointed with how his signing worked out. He should have been great for us. Perhaps he was like the Central belt Delle Alli….great for one season but a one season wonder and comparable to the mighty Andy Dow…except not as nice! 

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20 minutes ago, sheepheid said:

I’m not sad to see Gallagher go but really disappointed with how his signing worked out. He should have been great for us. Perhaps he was like the Central belt Delle Alli….great for one season but a one season wonder and comparable to the mighty Andy Dow…except not as nice! 

He played well in a back three doing the simple things - clearing the box with headers, scrambling the ball away.

When playing in a back two, given more responsibility, and when poor positioning is more easily punished, he was found out.

If we were to use a back three next season (Goodwin has said Aberdeen will be working on both a four and three in pre-season) then he may have been useful, but I suspect we've another centre-half on the way. We still need another left sided LCB otherwise if Scales is injured (or not up to it) then we'll be lopsided again like last season.

I don't think the Charles Dunne interest has totally died down yet. And St Mirren have now just signed a reinforcement in defence..

11 hours ago, donsdaft said:

Good riddance to Gallagher

Feels like a new signing.

2 hours ago, Panda said:

He played well in a back three doing the simple things - clearing the box with headers, scrambling the ball away.

When playing in a back two, given more responsibility, and when poor positioning is more easily punished, he was found out.

If we were to use a back three next season (Goodwin has said Aberdeen will be working on both a four and three in pre-season) then he may have been useful, but I suspect we've another centre-half on the way. We still need another left sided LCB otherwise if Scales is injured (or not up to it) then we'll be lopsided again like last season.

I don't think the Charles Dunne interest has totally died down yet. And St Mirren have now just signed a reinforcement in defence..

If we were wanting dunne it would have been part of the Gallagher I would have thought. 

1 hour ago, tlg1903 said:

If we were wanting dunne it would have been part of the Gallagher I would have thought. 

Not necessarily since Gallagher was released to allow that deal to go through.

8 hours ago, Panda said:

Not necessarily since Gallagher was released to allow that deal to go through.

Aye but it wasn't originally supposed to go like that though and you would think dunne would have been part of the original deal of we were after him. 

Michael Hancock off on loan to Arbroath. 
 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/3432810/arbroath-sign-winger-loan-aberdeen/

Always played defender before so interesting they see him as a winger. 

2 minutes ago, Jute said:

Michael Hancock off on loan to Arbroath. 
 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/3432810/arbroath-sign-winger-loan-aberdeen/

Always played defender before so interesting they see him as a winger. 

Aye, thought it was strange he was playing right back against Buckie as I thought he was a left centre half, so even stranger to see him as a winger. He did get forward well against Buckie and looks a good prospect. 

2 hours ago, Jute said:

Michael Hancock off on loan to Arbroath. 
 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/3432810/arbroath-sign-winger-loan-aberdeen/

Always played defender before so interesting they see him as a winger. 

Mason.

Not official article copied and pasted 😉

 

Decent step up from last season's loan.

Interested to see how he gets on with Arbroath.

Good luck loon 👍

No idea where I got Michael from. Knew it was Mason as well. 
 

Not using official release was down to club taking so long to release it. 

Good to see there's a recall option in January. I didn't think he had a long time left on his contract with us. Would be nice to get a few of the younger ones on contracts (not least Barron, who I fear will be the next Wright). 

Apparently deal for Mason Hancock has been pulled due to injury to McKenzie. 

28 minutes ago, Jute said:

Apparently deal for Mason Hancock has been pulled due to injury to McKenzie. 

Jesus, McKenzie has had nae luck with injuries. Although unless he's actually going to get regular game time, I'd rather we went ahead with the loan deal. Surely between Ngwenya and Hayes, we have cover in the short term? Unless McKenzie is out for a good while, in which case we should be looking at a loan move if we're not playing Hancock. It would be crap if we're taking away a good development opportunity for Hancock to sit on our bench as cover. Similarly, if Ngwenya is deemed not good enough to start there then we'd be best to move him on. Hancock looks to be at the right point to get good game time somewhere, that needs to be prioritised in my opinion.

Not just injuries he has bad luck with. I think he was lined up to go to Atlanta but covid put paid to that, unless of course I'm imagining that.

So at the moment, for the opening league game v Celtic, this could be our line-up.

Mjovski can play striker, N10 or winger. I'm simply guessing where he'll play just now as haven't seen him in the red shirt obviously.

Looking at that, we still need another centre half as when Scales is missing we have no other LCB and could go into the Celtic game with no back-up.

In general the squad still needs a bit more competition for places, especially on the left side. McGrath, Ronan, another striker and another defender and I'd be confident of a decent season.

If that's our first XI, and they stay fit (and making a presumption Ramirez stays), then I wouldn't be too upset. Reckon that side is beating Celtic 2-0.

I really dislike the idea of signing another left sided centre half as backup to a loanee from the Tims. Centre halves usually play a fairly large chunk of games in a season and it just seems like wasted resource to buy a backup. I doubt we'd be having the discussion if Scales wasn't already missing games, we'd be content with McRorie dropping back, Bates coming in, Stewart or McKenzie moving across or whatever for the odd suspension or injury. If we do get someone in, you'd think that they'd be assuming they're starting ahead of Scales too. Maybe Scales as a backup is fine.