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Every chance Celik will be deployed through the middle as a striker?

Wouldn't be surprised if I'm honest.

Sandaza has made his bed so he can lie in it. Clearly Lomas' greeting made him stay for now.

I also heard Bruins is good with a set piece and we are desperate for that.

Ally should give any potential buyers a deadline of say January 28th, and after that no bids will be accepted. They had enough time to evaluate him and we need time to get in able replacements (and the clubs we get them from will want to get some replacements too).

We should but we won't an EPL side will do the 31st gamble and leave us nowhere.

I'm equally excited by him but don't quite understand why a part Turkish player would be more likely to give 100% than a player of any other nationality?

 

I would suspect that he will start on the bench next week and come on for Wallace at some stage. Question is, will Ally start him ahead of Wallace and in these circumstances would Papac retain his place (my preference) or would Wallace go to LB?

 

If I was Gregg Wylde, I'd be thinking about going on loan somewhere.

If I was any of our midfielders bar Davis, Aluko, Edu, McCulloch () and Chelik then I would be looking for a loan, except Ness but he is always injured .

Aye, he looks a bit like a Weiss-style showboater at times, but he does look pretty talented with a football. Considering he's costing us next to nothing, we can't really go wrong!

I was thinking about Weiss when I saw him play and agreed next to nothing can't really go wrong.

From one of the videos I've seen he does like a stepover. I'm not going to judge until I see him play he could frustrate me, also could get a good kicking from the diddy club cloggers.

On SSN about Jelavic and West Ham.

 

Perhaps the reason for the Holt enquiry.

Ally says £6m nowhere near enough. I have seen West Ham bid for bids sake and usually are never near the price. Did it with Dorrans, Rhodes and now Jelavic.

Plus the fact Jelavic wants to play in the EPL not in the championship especially with the Euro's this summer.

I don't get the Grant Holt thing at all, just seems to be a bit of muscle and bit of a guy who could out muscle the defensive. Plus he is also their club captain and would be worth over £4m at least, baffling if I'm honest.

Hasn't McCoist already come out and said he isn't interested in signing Brozek? Sure it was a week or two ago.

I thought that was Stilic? Brozek has come out of the blue for me anyway.

Buddle is a big no for me, isn't he like 31 now?

Dont think so. He can sign and then the sporting tribunal sets the compensation - I think (probably wrong) that it is a somewhat formulaic calculation. I am sure I read somewhere that the training compensation would be between 100-300k.

In theory its better to avoid a tribunal if you are the club losing the player as its always below what they want.

Getting ahead of themselves usual wikipedia keenness, Taye Taiwo has apparently joined QPR according to Wikipedia and they have jumped the gun.

It wouldn't really be being "stripped" of the captaincy like Fergie was when it went to Weir though, it would just be getting asked if he'd be happy to hand over the armband to a more experienced captain in Boca. He might actually like the idea of handing it over if asked nicely....

As you say it might not be stripped but the player himself might actually see it as that.

Problem is Boca's only been at Ibrox for half a season. Has he earned the right to captain a club of this magnitude after such short service?

 

(btw, I'm a big Boca fan, probably Ally's best signing, I just don't know if he's earned the right - but I do agree Davis is not a good captain)

Boca has the knowledge of being a captain and it isn't affecting his game, he is an experienced international and captain of his country as well. Davis seems unable to play his game whilst being captain, too much pressure, maybe? Although is Davis NI's captain now, still that is a minimal number of internationals if true?

S_A the snub would probably make him quite annoyed if he was overlooked, would affect his morale if he was effectively stripped of the captaincy.

Does Davis just automatically assume the role when Weir leaves this week then?

Presumably, although most and I include myself would prefer Bocanegra as captain.

Approx £15,000 -£17,000 a week. Between Beattie, Weir and Healy, all of whom they tried to shift in the summer, the total was £50,000/week.

Thats ridiculous wages, no wonder we have been wanting wages dropped. Thought Weir wouldn't have been on no more than £12k a week. Beattie was a total waste and I thought he was close to £20k a week. Healy must be on a stupid wage as well that pisses me right off.

I'm sure that TBO/UB will have some appropriate banners.

 

Pedant Alert!

Unless I am blind, where is the number 10?

They probably don't even need to report on a closed doors game. They do it as a courtesy to the fans, if a trialist is involved then so be it.

Tbh with the squad we have now I wish the reserve league would come back, although the diddies probably don't have a large enough squad.

Yeah could bite the reporter/manager on the arse if they say such and such was technically brilliant, a superb pro, etc and then say we decided that there was better options available.

Great player for us even though I have been a critic of his because of his pace, but his reading of the game is top notch also helps out those beside him.

Shame he can't get a send off at the weekend if he is leaving on Friday.

Brian Laudrup.

6ft 8in? I wonder what sort of play that will be conducive to.....

Jamie Vardy tweeting he's in Glasgow.

 

Could be us could be them, can't see us paying 1 mill for a Fleetwood player.

Yeah Fleetwood are training in Glasgow.

Saw that, he's better away getting some games at a decent level than sitting on the bench, might just be the making of him.

As long as we don't sell him for penny only for him in the next 2 years to be sold for millions. I was disappointed he was not played yesterday, seems he only plays if there is no other choice available.

It's starting to get embarrassing. The club have either openly spoken about or leaked info about our interest in more players in the past 6 or 7 months than I've seen in years. I'm all for the new regime being slightly more transparent in certain areas, but not about players we're "interested" in bringing to the club. It's unprofessional bullshit.

Too transparent imo, need to stop being so open, could be classed as naive.