ascender

At least we're getting a decent price for him and can hopefully reinvest it on a younger player who actually wants to be here.

I knew I should have put some money on this happening

This deal has stunk from the start, just like the Boumsong one. OK, so if he leaves for 3M, it won't be the worst business we've done, but it'll be even better business for Cousin himself and of course his agent.

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Arrested Development

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Blackadder

Fawlty Towers

Father Ted

The Office

McKay said: "Daniel is under contract to Rangers and he's happy to be there.

 

"But his contract does contain a clause which means if a club was to bid �£3 million he would be free to speak to them.

 

"Despite what might have been claimed, that clause does not only apply at the end of the season.

 

"If a club bids �£3m now it will be activated and it will then be up to Daniel to decide what he wants to do."

If he wants to go and we get 3M then I think we should take it.

The difference is Cousin can control a ball and hold it up. Boyd needs about 15 yards of space to get the ball under control, which normally means the ball comes back just as quick as it was played up field.

I used to agree with this, but recent games have shown that Cousin can also have a pretty poor first touch. I'm not sure if its just when he loses concentration or something, but at times he's looked just as bad as Boyd when it comes to first touch.

And the rumour is there's a 3M release clause in his contract.

I can only assume his agent is heavily involved in all the current goings-on.

The system just doesn't suit him, so he's going to have to be patient.

FWIW I don't think the system suits any of our players at the moment apart from away in Europe, so I'd much rather we went back to a 4-4-2 anyway, but that's another thing not likely to happen any time soon.

2.5M apparently.

Straight from the horse's mouth....

"But we've got no business at the present moment. Unless something crops up that we feel will be of benefit to our squad, we'll go with what we have."

So WS confirmed the Hutton thing to Chick Dung today. Basically the Spurs offer is still on the table if Hutton wants to change his mind.

If, and its a big if, Smith and Webster make progress over the next few weeks, that could sort out our defensive problems. Smith coming back with Papac or Webster replacing Weir would be a big step in the right direction IMO, but knowing WS, I can't see him dropping Weir somehow.

I'm sure the initial reaction to us looking at this "sort" of player is always the same - I'm thinking of Berg and Weir for example.

Good stuff... Beyond our reach then...

Unlike Christian Dailly

I love how we spend most of the season slagging off the media in pretty much all respects, but then when they mention a story like this, forums go in to meltdown as if its the gospel truth. Very amusing.

At least we won last night. That's exactly the sort of game we'd have lost under PLG. Maybe its because there's some more team & fighting spirit amongst the lads or maybe we just have better players who can make the difference when the chips are down, but at least we got 3 points.

I think the problems are there for all to see, but I'd much rather we were top of the league while not playing well than trailing in second or even third place.

Interesting news Frankie. I think we're resigned to losing Hutton at some point and while we all like to think we'd pick our club over money, I think the reality might be a bit different if you had a young family and were actually in his shoes.

Going on the last few games I've seen, we really need to get our central defence sorted out. Whether that's done by us signing a new LB and moving Papac in to the centre, or signing a new CB, I think we need to address that urgently. I was hoping Webster would prove his fitness and come in to replace Weir, but that's looking less likely with every passing week.

Of course, signing a real creative and flair player would be a nice surprise too.

I thought Naismith had a great game tonight.

Don't panic Craig, I've just seen another link saying the deal is nearly complete.

Good luck to him, he did a job for us and scored THAT goal, but he's obviously not going to play again for us.

Its the same deal as Murray though, there's so much smoke & mirrors going on with their accounting that we might never know what's going on there. I'm sure there will be money and debt being moved between different UBIG companies in the same way that SDM does with us.

By the looks of that, the stadium is the least important part of the work and its the hotel and other buildings which are going to cost the most and I guess be relied on to bring the money back in.

Well at least they should be entertaining to watch. I still don't think they'll finish any higher than they would have under Allardyce, but I guess its a start if they play the attacking football that they did under him last time round.

Lol @ better knowledge!

I could quite easily be wrong, but i thought he was naturally right footed although he's been switching wings in games.

I thought Naismith was predominantly right sided when he's not playing through the middle, but can go on the left too?

I know this won't be a popular view, but I think we should sign him for the reasons Barry says basically. I think he's the sort of player we're missing.

Can't see it happening though as he's destined for the dark side! The only thing I could see in our favour is WS being in charge here.

To be fair though, there does seem to be a new willingness to offer the young Scots players who come through improved deals once they become regulars in the first team. I'm guessing that's either us protecting our investment now, just rewarding them and/or is part of the new strict wage structure that's been in place for the last while now.