trublusince1982 243 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 1 minute ago, buster. said: Thanks, I missed that. August is a busy, difficult and crucial month. It's a month when we could probably do with a 25 man sqaud now (potentially 9 games in 31 days). A successful August will see regular midweek fixtures throughout the first half of the season. However, we still have significant hurdles to get over, including Kilmarnock (A) in the League Cup. One major signing I would like to see made before those mentioned COUILLABLY!! get him signed!! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuGers 477 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 I’m actually really pleased we made a wee profit on John. Around £500k or something? in the past we would have been releasing him. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) £2.5 million is a superb piece of business for Windass. He's worth buttons. Previous regimes would have probably punted him for a tenth of that. Edited August 10, 2018 by Ser Barristan Selmy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trublusince1982 243 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Windass, John, o'halleron, waghorn, bates(dev fee), and possible small sell on for garner. All in looking at £4m brought in with add ons still to come. Spent £3m - £3.5 Goldson £1.5m katic £1.5m barna £600k-£800k Murphy Plus assorted loan and signing on fees Maybe a net spend of <£4m!!! 32 player turnaround that is impressive 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannochsidebear 2,406 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Happy enough to have let Windass go as he is not good enough for what we need, but the fee is garbage for an English player in the English market. I would also call into question his ambition - leaving Rangers for Wigan shows none whatsoever. Enjoy your ride into quiet obscurity Josh, what a waste. He has talent but clearly no heart, and very little desire to make it to the top, or to stand up when his side needed him to. Happy also to let John go, although under £1M for an international fullback is again dreadful business. We cant focus on their value to us, its their value to the buyer we have to fix the price around. The money down there means £2-£3M is not even a gamble, and for a full internationalist with experience, its nothing at all. Yet we rejoice at getting someone off the books for £800K. Will we never learn? On what we still need, it's still the same as it's pretty much always been, a creative midfield player to break down well organised defences. A number 10 for those who like to use the number system. It's what we need most in our domestic league over every other position. That is the one first team place I think we still lack for domestic success. Other than that it is depth and cover. Our keeper is sorted, the back 4 of Tav Goldson Katic and bandage-heid, Coulibaly, Jack & Arfield in midfield (with McCrorie, Rossiter, Ejaria etc as backup) and Morelos up front with Sadiq as cover. The 2 wide forward players can chop and change between Candieas, Murphy, Kent, Middleton - all seem pretty similar standard but offer different things - so could be rotated dependant on opponent. I'm probably forgetting some players as well, apologies if any of them are any good! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 6,008 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 John may be a Welsh international but he wasn’t a very good defender. No other club was interested in signing either him or Windass so if you want to sell, you have accept the price offered. The alternative is to keep them, pay their wages and because they aren’t good enough to play, see their value drop and sell for less next January. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigy1881 79 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 interesting during his interview Gerrard never denied the interest in Solanke just batted it away as speculation compared to the dismissal of the Bosnian guys earlier in the week. Read into that what you will. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,744 Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Quality-wise, we have sure strengthened the team. But we still need more depths with the centre-halfs and strikers. We have but 2 real CHs in Katic and Goldson, with Flanagan able to deputise (anywhere in defence). Only other option would be McCrorie or a youngster. Rightbacks are Tav and Hodson, leftbacks Barisic and Wallace. Halliday might be a stand-in there ... and given that Flanagan seemingly is suspended in Maribor, we might see Halliday or Hodson in there next week. As of now, we have but two real strikers and one would hope we plug that gap as well. When Coulibaly went down last night, I was fearing that within two games, we might have lost Jack and him and thus our steel in midfield. And the season is long and our injury record atrocious ... with Wallace, Rossiter and Dorrans still out. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 10,630 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Shall we rename this thread back to what it was? What was it called, "Transfer Rumours and Deals Thread"? Edit: Got the title from the OP 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trublusince1982 243 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 25 minutes ago, Rousseau said: Shall we rename this thread back to what it was? What was it called, "Transfer Rumours and Deals Thread"? Edit: Got the title from the OP How about the "Windass is finally gone thread" ?? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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