Christ, I must be slipping up now that I've commenced my seventh decade as I started last summer's one back in mid March 2022 much to Rico's annoyance.

Anyway, here goes, the exact date the window will open has yet to be announced but will be at some point in early June meaning we are potentially only just over six weeks away.

If we thought last year's one was busy, then I think its fair to say there is going to be a fair old churn this summer as well.

Difficult to forecast too much at this point given amongst other minor things we don't actually know who'll be in charge next season, but lets not let that stop us speculating too much.

Rumours in the papers suggesting we're still after the lad from Go Ahead Eagles that we came close to signing in January.

There will be all the usual chat about who's leaving and how much we'll rake in in fees, so knock yourselves out and get them fired in here lads. 

Seen some stuff on social media suggesting the Tims are sniffing around Roos?

1 hour ago, Kowalski said:

Seen some stuff on social media suggesting the Tims are sniffing around Roos?

No, you saw a parody account (or people you've seen talking about it fell for the parody account).

The same account also said Michael Beale was getting a two-match ban by UEFA for sectarian singing.

Edited August 16, 20232 yr by Panda

2 minutes ago, Panda said:

No, you saw a parody account.

The same account also said Michael Beale was getting a two-match ban by UEFA for sectarian singing.

Oh well, he was a great keeper for us.

2 hours ago, Kowalski said:

Seen some stuff on social media suggesting the Tims are sniffing around Roos?

He does only have a year left on his deal.  Same with polvara.  We could defo do with extending these two pronto 

15 minutes ago, tlg1903 said:

He does only have a year left on his deal.  Same with polvara.  We could defo do with extending these two pronto 

I think we'd all be surprised if he was still with us next season, but definitely don't want to lose him this. If we're giving Polvara minutes this season, we really need to tie him down.

Less than a year ago we were debating if Roos was any better than Lewis, suggested Polvara had never seen a football before joining Aberdeen, and if Morris would never be spotted in a red shirt again.

Going to against grain here and say I would not be rushing to offer Polvara a new deal. Definitely looks better than he did when he first arrived but that’s a low bar to set. 

44 minutes ago, Jute said:

Going to against grain here and say I would not be rushing to offer Polvara a new deal. Definitely looks better than he did when he first arrived but that’s a low bar to set. 

Agreed. Two games does not a player make. And we haven’t won yet, and no goals or assist from him yet. Think a few have talked him up a little too much. Hope I’m wrong.

Agree we may be over praising Polvara at pres,but what we don't know(yet) is how more progressable he is. We'll know in a few more months

Still crickets……?!??

I don't think we are over praising Polvara.  Bear in mind Robson clearly has high hopes for him and he defo knows better than us.  He's clearly a player with potential and I'm sure he would be fairly easy to deal with.  

 

Rumour mill saying we may be in for Rocco Vara whom has apparently been told he can leave the tims.  I know very little about him other than he's a wide player. 

On 17/08/2023 at 08:01, tlg1903 said:

He does only have a year left on his deal.  Same with polvara.  We could defo do with extending these two pronto 

I'd be surprised if Roos moves on soon. His missus Nadine Hanssen only signed for the Dons Women recently. His family are fairly settled here. I'd be happy if he extended his contract. 

 

Polvara however.... I'm in the wait & see camp. Yes he's been better so far this season, but he's still below the standard I'd expect. Would he get into our 2014-2017 teams? Cos those teams are the standard I expect 

5 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

I don't think we are over praising Polvara.  Bear in mind Robson clearly has high hopes for him and he defo knows better than us.  He's clearly a player with potential and I'm sure he would be fairly easy to deal with.  

 

Rumour mill saying we may be in for Rocco Vara whom has apparently been told he can leave the tims.  I know very little about him other than he's a wide player. 

Rocco Vata is attacking midfielder who mostly played for Celtic B team last season. No idea if he is any good but would be some step up from lowland league to Premier. 

On 14/08/2023 at 19:38, OrlandoDon said:

Correct, thin squad and gaps, but scales position is not the huge gap. We can play a back 3 or 4, and have multiple options. We have minimal depth in center mid, virtually no wingers, and very little creativity. Given our finances are so limited, scales is a luxury we don’t ultimately need. Injuries to clarkson, shinnie for example, we are pretty fucked. When we need creativity it’s pretty much clarkson and that’s it. We need to invest further up the field, we have way more depth in defense than midfield.

Interesting that a league one side made our left side look quite vulnerable tonight. Liam Scales anyone? 😂

it’s one game but the first game in a long time we’ve looked vulnerable at the back and lose a really shitty goal where our defending is awful.

2 hours ago, Jute said:

Rocco Vata is attacking midfielder who mostly played for Celtic B team last season. No idea if he is any good but would be some step up from lowland league to Premier. 

I don't know if there's any actual truth in the Rocco Vata rumours, but I would suggest that if he's willing to turn down a new contract with Celtic, and has Club Brugge and Torino being interested in him, it would be some coup to get him.

Being linked with Ciaron Brown a left back/centre half from Oxford United and Timotej Jambor a striker from MSK Zilina overnight. 
 

Oxford saying they have turned down our bid for Brown but it seems we have at least moved on from Scales. 
 

Being linked with another striker seems odd unless someone is leaving. 

Striker sounds like he’d have good conditioning. 

2 hours ago, Slim said:

Striker sounds like he’d have good conditioning. 

Maybe we are looking for a hair apparent to Duk should we lose him.

43 minutes ago, OxfordDon said:

Maybe we are looking for a hair apparent to Duk should we lose him.

That could very well be the root of this.  

Is there a clip of his highlights somewhere.....

9 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

Is there a clip of his highlights somewhere.....

 

1 hour ago, Jute said:

 

Whoosh,.....and cheers 👍

More to come says DC... 

 

2 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Whoosh,.....and cheers 👍

I saw the joke but decided it was so bad to just ignore it and post his promo video instead.

So, Jamie McGrath then

Can't say it excites me and strikes me a a lazy signing, but I'll give him a chance as I do for anyone joining the famous.

Apologies about the source:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jamie-mcgrath-closes-aberdeen-transfer-30758515