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Soapy Soutar

We need a experienced midfielder who is going to grab tge game by the scruff of the neck and control the midfield..to many games last season we lost the midfield battle and it cost us.It is a huge ask expecting a teenager to boss midfield,hickey is helped hugely by berra and souttar we have nobody in midfield to help a youngster through a match.

 

I would also like to see another striker

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I'd agree that another midfielder is not a necessity if we could trust that Haring would stay fully fit. Unfortunately it seems he is under quite an injury cloud and can't be 100% relied upon. Coupled with Lee on the way out this makes me think we need to sign a decent midfielder.

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Mr Levein stated only 2 days ago that we are actively looking for a midfielder. 

 

You'd have to assume the budget allows for this. 

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We had a young midfielder play in a closed doors game for us yesterday on trial. Eastern European is all I know. 

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Lord Beni of Gorgie
4 minutes ago, Who_put_the_ball_in... said:

We had a young midfielder play in a closed doors game for us yesterday on trial. Eastern European is all I know. 

Put Rangers to the sword, sadly the Brora version,  more likely a development player?

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From Keith Downie on Twitter -

 

Scottish trio Hearts, Hibs & Aberdeen all battling to sign Scotland international James Morrison. The midfielder is a free agent after leaving WBA

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TyphoonJambo

Maybe a double scarf above the head with Naismith on the 1st August? 

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Hopefully Aberdeen have spent all their cash on that boy hibs were after. CL should have some kind of relationship with him after the nationals gig 

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Morrison would be a top top signing 

 

Hopefully Leveins time with Scotland sways it for us and being the bigger off the 3 sides 

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On 12/07/2019 at 18:39, Doc Rob said:

 

Yes, you’re right. I remember now. I think most of us saw him as a mediocre ex-Hibs winger when he signed though! 😂

 

Was weird just prior to him signing. Remembered him as a shite Hibs winger, and many of the newspaper stories on the transfer to us were calling him a defender... then he arrived and became a brilliant central midfielder.

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13 hours ago, Pasquale for King said:

Definitely, needs to fill out and then use that strength to be more physical. Love a midfielder that can see a forward pass, he can also make it too. Being left footed will help him progress in the game. He, Mulraney and Hickey were causing real problems in the first half until Utd covered that side a bit more.

 

Wish I’d filled out like this at 19 y/o tbh

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1 hour ago, Bob Loblaw said:

Cochrane and Irving are ready to compete.  Smith is a bit younger, I wouldn't be adverse to him going on loan til January to see how he gets on.  

Smith is every bit as strong as cochrane if not stronger.

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43 minutes ago, His name is said:

Would take Morrison in a heartbeat. Woukd expect him to stay down south tho

Think would be a great singing - might be hard but never expected us to get Naismith when we did!

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Pasquale for King
1 hour ago, Icon of Symmetry said:

 

Wish I’d filled out like this at 19 y/o tbh

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The two in photo are quite slim and to progress in midfield and dominate or go to a stronger league they will need to get bigger, as Levein did as he got into his mid twenties. He clearly does his gym work so it looks like he will get there, he has a big future ahead of him.

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16 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

The two in photo are quite slim and to progress in midfield and dominate or go to a stronger league they will need to get bigger, as Levein did as he got into his mid twenties. He clearly does his gym work so it looks like he will get there, he has a big future ahead of him.

 

Yeah I agree, on another thread I made the point that we may not have access to the most talented of players, but the one thing that is entirely in their control is their physicality (I understand genetics play a role, you can't make yourself taller etc), they can eat right, bulk up via gym work, and do all the things that should put them physically in the same category as top players.

 

Irving tbf at 19 looks like he's doing all of that, but as a general role of thumb, I don't think we should be accepting our players physically speaking settling for 2nd best. 

 

Callum Paterson is one of my favourite players we've produced. Not good oodles of natural talent, but he took his physicality seriously and has managed to get a move to a top championship club. Obviously Paterson does have more to his game than just being a big lad, but you can't deny the benefit its brought him and the necessity of it to play at that level. 

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On 10/07/2019 at 12:10, Sir Gio said:

Sunday 

 

Month of

 

On 10/07/2019 at 12:01, DH1986 said:

 

Thursday 

 

On 10/07/2019 at 12:18, Leveins Battalion said:

After Josh Magennis and Bubbacar Trawally.

 

What position do you think bubbacar  trawally will play? 

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3 minutes ago, sac said:

THREE-WAY BATTLE 

Aberdeen, Hibs and Hearts ‘battling it out’ to land James Morrison after West Brom exit

 

33 year old. 

 

Whats his injury record like? If its abysmal then lets sign him up! 

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1 minute ago, indianajones said:

 

33 year old. 

 

Whats his injury record like? If its abysmal then lets sign him up! 

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/james-morrison/verletzungen/spieler/27614

 

Worst one was the 17/18 season, Achilles out for pretty much the whole season. 

 

Wonder if thats why us, the hobos and Aberdeen are looking at him?

 

Also, getting a bit sick of literally every player we look at having Hibs to compete with. Its getting a bit tiresome. Do they not have ****ing scouts?

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4 minutes ago, indianajones said:

 

33 year old. 

 

Whats his injury record like? If its abysmal then lets sign him up! 

Is that what you came on to tell us?

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If we're chucking names out there how about Yohan Cabaye? Experienced, classy, dead ball specialist and out of contract so ticks a lot of boxes. Sadly is likely to be miles out of reach financially.

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I just don’t think Levein feels we need this playmaking midfielder. We never seem to be interested in signing them and it’s been this way since promotion and Robbies third season - we’ve gone with brawn, effort, hardworking physicality over twinkle toed wee magicians. Nippy - cause it is what’s needed. As ok as Friday was, and that’s all it was - ok, the midfield still looks way short of game controlling quality and against better teams we’ll struggle. 

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58 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

The two in photo are quite slim and to progress in midfield and dominate or go to a stronger league they will need to get bigger, as Levein did as he got into his mid twenties. He clearly does his gym work so it looks like he will get there, he has a big future ahead of him.

 

Irving is a big strong laddie, at 19 y/o. He’s a good bit more muscular than 23 y/o Sean Clare. Irving doesn’t really need to bulk up, it seems to be coming quite naturally for him. 

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13 minutes ago, OTT said:

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/james-morrison/verletzungen/spieler/27614

 

 

Also, getting a bit sick of literally every player we look at having Hibs to compete with. Its getting a bit tiresome. Do they not have ****ing scouts?

 

Much more likely his agent has been punting him around clubs. Us, them and Aberdeen operate in roughly the same area of the market so we're always going to have to compete with them for players we haven't gone out and found ourselves. 

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9 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

I just don’t think Levein feels we need this playmaking midfielder. We never seem to be interested in signing them and it’s been this way since promotion and Robbies third season - we’ve gone with brawn, effort, hardworking physicality over twinkle toed wee magicians. Nippy - cause it is what’s needed. As ok as Friday was, and that’s all it was - ok, the midfield still looks way short of game controlling quality and against better teams we’ll struggle. 

This.

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Alex Kintner
55 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

The two in photo are quite slim and to progress in midfield and dominate or go to a stronger league they will need to get bigger, as Levein did as he got into his mid twenties. He clearly does his gym work so it looks like he will get there, he has a big future ahead of him.

 

You can be slim but still strong and powerful:

 

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11 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

I just don’t think Levein feels we need this playmaking midfielder. We never seem to be interested in signing them and it’s been this way since promotion and Robbies third season - we’ve gone with brawn, effort, hardworking physicality over twinkle toed wee magicians. Nippy - cause it is what’s needed. As ok as Friday was, and that’s all it was - ok, the midfield still looks way short of game controlling quality and against better teams we’ll struggle. 

 

Really? Why did he put his faith in Harry Cochrane then?

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9 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

I just don’t think Levein feels we need this playmaking midfielder. We never seem to be interested in signing them and it’s been this way since promotion and Robbies third season - we’ve gone with brawn, effort, hardworking physicality over twinkle toed wee magicians. Nippy - cause it is what’s needed. As ok as Friday was, and that’s all it was - ok, the midfield still looks way short of game controlling quality and against better teams we’ll struggle. 

I just don't know where we are going to get them within our budget.  Like goalscorers they are seldom available at the right price and everybody else wants them too.  The twinkle-toed players we did sign like Martin and Swanson did not set Tynecastle alight and they invariably need someone else in the MF to create the platform for them.

For example if we had Naisy and Haring in the team on Friday the MF would have much more functional both collectively and individually

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1 minute ago, To Be Frank said:

 

Really? Why did he put his faith in Harry Cochrane then?

Because there was no one else to play as we hadn’t signed any ball playing midfielders after Hearts made a complete mess of the windows after Cathro came in and left it to long to appoint Levein in the next summer window. We just don’t appear to like this style of player. We should be all over Mulumbu for example but you know we’re not. 

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2 minutes ago, JamboAl said:

I just don't know where we are going to get them within our budget.  Like goalscorers they are seldom available at the right price and everybody else wants them too.  The twinkle-toed players we did sign like Martin and Swanson did not set Tynecastle alight and they invariably need someone else in the MF to create the platform for them.

For example if we had Naisy and Haring in the team on Friday the MF would have much more functional both collectively and individually

I agree to an extent but his cast iron refusal to even entertain Martin as a player says what his style is like. I’m not for a second saying that he would have been a game changer BTW but he would have been no worse than the awful football we’ve seen since last October. His treatment of Edwards too was baffling - ignored for a year and then deemed good enough for a cup final? Haphazard approach to team selection all last season and not helped by influence the coaching committee appear to have. 

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8 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

I agree to an extent but his cast iron refusal to even entertain Martin as a player says what his style is like. I’m not for a second saying that he would have been a game changer BTW but he would have been no worse than the awful football we’ve seen since last October. His treatment of Edwards too was baffling - ignored for a year and then deemed good enough for a cup final? Haphazard approach to team selection all last season and not helped by influence the coaching committee appear to have. 

Good points and Contrast that with his treatment of Uche. The club should have a warning sign in the Georgie stand that it’s dangerous to sit there when Uche is practising shots pre match.

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Alex Kintner
18 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

Because there was no one else to play as we hadn’t signed any ball playing midfielders after Hearts made a complete mess of the windows after Cathro came in and left it to long to appoint Levein in the next summer window. We just don’t appear to like this style of player. We should be all over Mulumbu for example but you know we’re not. 

 

He’s played Cochrane plenty of times ahead of more physical players and done it in some very big matches. Your argument makes no sense.

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16 minutes ago, Gavman81 said:

I agree to an extent but his cast iron refusal to even entertain Martin as a player says what his style is like. I’m not for a second saying that he would have been a game changer BTW but he would have been no worse than the awful football we’ve seen since last October. His treatment of Edwards too was baffling - ignored for a year and then deemed good enough for a cup final? Haphazard approach to team selection all last season and not helped by influence the coaching committee appear to have. 

Are you not slightly contradicting yourself with these highlighted points?

You then move to Edwards who I think we can agree is not that type of player, then to haphazard team selection and the coaching staff.

You appear to be on about the management and moving miles away from Summer transfers.

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Rocky jamboa
44 minutes ago, HoGwash said:

If we're chucking names out there how about Yohan Cabaye? Experienced, classy, dead ball specialist and out of contract so ticks a lot of boxes. Sadly is likely to be miles out of reach financially.

Would be a great signing - exactly the type of player we're crying out for in midfield - but likely to be well out our wage bracket.

 

Means we could sing this amazing song as well!! 😄

 

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John Findlay
1 hour ago, To Be Frank said:

 

Really? Why did he put his faith in Harry Cochrane then?

 

8 minutes ago, heartandsoul said:

This

Jamis Walker is all brawn right enough

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1 hour ago, JamboAl said:

Are you not slightly contradicting yourself with these highlighted points?

You then move to Edwards who I think we can agree is not that type of player, then to haphazard team selection and the coaching staff.

You appear to be on about the management and moving miles away from Summer transfers.

 

Don't see any contradiction in what he says and there is hardly a lot to talk about regarding summer signings at the moment.

How would we ever know as CL never gave Martin a run of games to see if he could fit in. He seemed to be the same with Edwards and then all of a sudden perhaps because he was running out of options he gave the guy a chance and he looked half decent and so far seems to be in his plans. That may well change of course if he ever makes any midfield signings.

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Was it not said earlier Naismith had been in contact with Morrison and attempting to ‘bend his ear’?

 

No idea where he’ll end up or whether we are even in for him but he would be a very good signing, imo.

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Saint Jambo
2 hours ago, Gavman81 said:

I just don’t think Levein feels we need this playmaking midfielder. We never seem to be interested in signing them and it’s been this way since promotion and Robbies third season - we’ve gone with brawn, effort, hardworking physicality over twinkle toed wee magicians. Nippy - cause it is what’s needed. As ok as Friday was, and that’s all it was - ok, the midfield still looks way short of game controlling quality and against better teams we’ll struggle. 

 

Clare, Walker, Lee. Hardly examples of players who's game is based around brawn and physicality.

 

Now Martin is the one that got away? Kickback really has jumped the shark this summer.

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26 minutes ago, wavydavy said:

 

Don't see any contradiction in what he says and there is hardly a lot to talk about regarding summer signings at the moment.

How would we ever know as CL never gave Martin a run of games to see if he could fit in. He seemed to be the same with Edwards and then all of a sudden perhaps because he was running out of options he gave the guy a chance and he looked half decent and so far seems to be in his plans. That may well change of course if he ever makes any midfield signings.

That's good if you don't see any contradictions, Davy.

He may have played Edwards because it was the right game to do so.  You need a pressing game against Celtic with players prepared and fit enough to keep running/harrying as we did against them when we beat them 4-0 and 1-0.  Edwards fits that bill and CL was proved right but you wouldn't be able to see anything CL does in a positive light.

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Lord Beni of Gorgie
39 minutes ago, Bongo 1874 said:

Think we might get Morrison tbh 👍

Levein has cronies,  Morrison could easily be one 

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Lord Beni of Gorgie
2 minutes ago, Barack said:

Morrison would only be guaranteed a game at either us, or Hibs. Wages aren't an issue for a millionaire. 

 

Naismith will be given the task of recruiting him. Expect to see him with us before the season starts.👍🏻

Think this is happening then.

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