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As it stands we have Morelos and Roofe - two fine strikers when fit and available. Unfortunately, the latter is unreliable fitness wise and the former's future uncertain (as it has been for the last 3-4 summers). In an ideal world we'd extend Morelos' contract, sell Roofe and use those funds to buy a more reliable backup to Morelos and a third player to push them both. Unfortunately, that ideal world doesn't exist so we have the money we got for Itten and thus have to make the most of our scouting knowledge to source a replacement. Colak seems a reasonable choice at a reasonable price. At this moment in time, there's not much point in spending say £5m on a striker when we only usually play with one and Morelos is he.

And Katic too

COLAK sounds like something the doctor would prescribe antibiotics for

We currently have Goldson , Helander , Soutar , Bassey , King and if still here Simpson , think we have enough to be getting on with .

Well, if we do sign this Colak guy (sounds like a Doctor Who monster) he would have to work to underperform Itten IMO.

Might get a decent amount to eat then rather than pict😀ures on a plate.

If we go to a three at the back and 5 in midfield , we already have the best wide right player in Scotland ,our captain . We need players out before we bring any in , Colak only replaces Itten , someone from midfield needs to go .

(I know, its the exception) 😉

we pulled out as they were in breach of contract. They denied that grumbled some threats and then went away and did nothing.

Colak seems to be a fairly modest target to replace Itten and hopefully he'll be more effective when called upon than the Swiss lad. I doubt we'll want to pay more than around £1-1.5m on him. Other new first choice players will be dependent on the futures of Kamara, Aribo, Kent and Morelos in particular.

Giovanni likes Antonio. Forza Azzurri!

This is a great thread on the current state of the transfer market, if you have a few spare mins, give it a read... A lot of it is relevant to our situation

9th July at Sunderland first game you might say it's only a friendly but in my day we didn't play friendlies and if my old mind recalls we signed Soutar last season but couldn't af6to do it right and play him ,and dont forget little clubs like ours have to navigate qualifying for a champions league place because we couldn't win the annual two horse donkey derby.

The next few weeks are very big in terms of the financial playing field between us and them. We've been playing catch-up in recent years and have gradually eaten in to the gap. The end of last season saw an opportunity to finally bridge it and even edge in front. However, we lost the league and they took the direct entry to CLGS. We did wonderfully well to get to the EL Final but couldn't win it and reap the rewards on offer. - We still have a chance of making the CLGS - We need to have our player trading model produce significant money and not let the value we have created walk out the door for nothing. Then of course.... we need to be successful in bringing in the right players. Never an easy task but one where you can mitigate the effect of the financial gap, if successful. Their recruitment last summer was what led to them winning the title. We need to get it right to give ourselves a chance this upcoming season and we probably need to sell big before we can get the necessary quality to come to Ibrox. Why is this so important ? If our player trading model doesn't bear significant fruit, we don't make CLGS in August, nor win title 22/23.... The danger is getting left behind financially and then, on the park for the foreseeable. We need to have a good couple of months on various levels.