Transfer Rumours and Deals - Winter Window 2016/17

[der Berliner 3,820]

Hasn't set anything on fire for a couple of years either, this Jota chap. But I would assume that it is again more or less guesswork.

 

EDIT ... from FF

Was a player I watched play under Warburton at Brentford.

Very skilled player, a typical Spanish attacker.

He was touted to move to the EPL from Brentford but he wanted to move back to his homeland and thus a long-term loan move was arranged.

Interesting though we are linked again with a player that the manager has worked with previously.

Personally though, if we can get him fit (an issue we have had with several players recently) then he would certainly provide us with far greater creativity than we presently have.

 

He's on an 18-months loan!

Edited December 3, 2016 by der Berliner

[der Berliner 3,820]

Some early Sunday stuff ...

 

From jellybeans on FF - we've made an offer for Chris Cadden of Motherwell

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/chris-cadden/profil/spieler/277782

 

And the Scottish Sun/Mail thinks we are looking to the Far East and a chap playing in China: Rúben Micael

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ruben-micael/profil/spieler/84491

[ian1964 10,761]

[chilledbear 16]

This is a post from jellybeans on FF, I thought it was interesting.

 

 

Heres a list in no particular order of the team that Heart fielded last night. That's how you use a very low budget to bring in decent players outwith the inflated English Market.

 

 

 

Sutchuin-Djoum free transfer - Cameroon international

 

Don Cowie - Free Transfer - Ex Scotland international - Champsionship experience

 

Perry Kitchen - Free transfer - Usa international

 

Bjorn Johnsen - free transfer- Ex Litex Lovech II

 

Muirhead - free transfer - released by Dundee utd

 

Rossi - free transfer - Ex Maritimo

 

Faycal Rherras - free transfer - Morrocco international

 

Jamie Walker - Hearts youth - In Scotland youth set up.

 

John Souttar - undisclosed fee from Dundee Utd in Scotland youth setup

 

Callum Paterson - Heart youth - Scotland International.

 

Jack Hamilton - Hearts youth in Scotland youth set up.

Edited December 4, 2016 by chilledbear

[jhunter 0]

This is a post from jellybeans on FF, I thought it was interesting.

 

 

Heres a list in no particular order of the team that Heart fielded last night. That's how you use a very low budget to bring in decent players outwith the inflated English Market.

 

 

 

Sutchuin-Djoum free transfer - Cameroon international

 

Don Cowie - Free Transfer - Ex Scotland international - Champsionship experience

 

Perry Kitchen - Free transfer - Usa international

 

Bjorn Johnsen - free transfer- Ex Litex Lovech II

 

Muirhead - free transfer - released by Dundee utd

 

Rossi - free transfer - Ex Maritimo

 

Faycal Rherras - free transfer - Morrocco international

 

Jamie Walker - Hearts youth - In Scotland youth set up.

 

John Souttar - undisclosed fee from Dundee Utd in Scotland youth setup

 

Callum Paterson - Heart youth - Scotland International.

 

Jack Hamilton - Hearts youth in Scotland youth set up.

 

hearts are brutal

 

we were atrocious the other night, nothing to do with their ability.

[trublusince1982 243]

This is a post from jellybeans on FF, I thought it was interesting.

 

 

Heres a list in no particular order of the team that Heart fielded last night. That's how you use a very low budget to bring in decent players outwith the inflated English Market.

 

 

 

Sutchuin-Djoum free transfer - Cameroon international

 

Don Cowie - Free Transfer - Ex Scotland international - Champsionship experience

 

Perry Kitchen - Free transfer - Usa international

 

Bjorn Johnsen - free transfer- Ex Litex Lovech II

 

Muirhead - free transfer - released by Dundee utd

 

Rossi - free transfer - Ex Maritimo

 

Faycal Rherras - free transfer - Morrocco international

 

Jamie Walker - Hearts youth - In Scotland youth set up.

 

John Souttar - undisclosed fee from Dundee Utd in Scotland youth setup

 

Callum Paterson - Heart youth - Scotland International.

 

Jack Hamilton - Hearts youth in Scotland youth set up.

 

puts to bed the nonsense MW said about us not being able to attract International players. He had a poor record at Brentford with his signings ,that was largely glossed over by the return on gray. Quite a few of his signings never made it into the first team plus a few were moved on very quickly, deemed to be not good enough. MOst didnt make any real return or positive contribution. Said this back at the time but most wanted to just concentrate on the positives which was fair enough.

 

We need a proper scouting network in place to advise MW. If we don't get MW help with identifying players we will continue to sign dross and fling money we don't have away. Any manager who takes a 50/50 gamble on two out of his three top signings, when budget is a real issue shouldn't be the guiding force identifying targets.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

hearts are brutal

 

we were atrocious the other night, nothing to do with their ability.

They will really struggle without nielson

Edited December 4, 2016 by the gunslinger

[SteveC 150]

It is an interesting list but on the other hand they look exactly like that - a team made up of free transfers. That's the level of our opposition and why in Scotland second place is really no place. Scotland's league is just an Old Firm competition. The normal way of things has been disrupted by the illegal and cowardly attacks on our club, our demotion and near death. However, even before that both the OF themselves and all the other clubs were on a steady path of decline.

 

When I first started going to games (mid '60s) Scottish clubs could go toe to toe with Europe's finest - clubs like Dunfermline I mean! - and then there was that weird spell in the 80s when both the Arabs and the Sheep could at a time when we were dire as it happens. That spell in the 80s looks more an more like a total anomaly. Both them and us have since got to to Europa final I know but that's a very odd tournament. Big fish in little ponds get excited by it but teams with real European aspirations treat it as an embarrassment/waste of time/onerous duty until the semis (at the earliest!) Neither of us were amongst Europe's finest teams when we got to those finals, nowhere near them in fact. Whereas we were when I started going and we were playing teams with genuinely fine players.

 

Now though? Now we are, as a league, amongst the dregs of the continent and so a team of free transfers and cast offs is enough to get into Europe - and straight back out again. Or maybe there can be the odd run further in the same way Dundalk punched above their weight this year. It gets less and less likely though. Hearts are dire and will be wherever they end up in the SPL. The fact that they could be anywhere from 2nd downwards says a lot about where they are playing not how 'good' a team has been put together.

 

It's a dismal scenario that is not going to get any better any time soon.

Edited December 4, 2016 by SteveC

[Norris Cole 0]

Ha ha, the state of Sidemooth

[Gribz 919]

Ruben Micael would be an interesting one!