Heart of Midlothian 2025 summer transfer thread - Penrice signs for AEK

[hereford_hearts]

Too soon? 

[hmfc1984]

 

1 minute ago, hereford_hearts said:

Too soon? 

As my wife always tells me. 

[tartofmidlothian]

Heard we're in for Chesnakov and Armstrong.

 

And Callum Paterson might be up for a move home.

[hereford_hearts]

Just now, tartofmidlothian said:

Heard we're in for Chesnakov and Armstrong.

 

And Callum Paterson might be up for a move home.

🤣

[Chuck Berry]

[Chuck Berry]

May as well kick it off with a list of the out of contracts come summer, as it stands

 

Craig Gordon

Barrie McKay

Lawrence Shankland

Jorge Grant

Elton Kabangu (end of loan)

Gerry Taylor (end of loan)

 

[jamboinglasgow]

3 minutes ago, Chuck Berry said:

May as well kick it off with a list of the out of contracts come summer, as it stands

 

Craig Gordon

Barrie McKay

Lawrence Shankland

Jorge Grant

Elton Kabangu (end of loan)

Gerry Taylor (end of loan)

 

 

If you add in youngsters it is 

 

First team
Craig Gordon
Jorge Grant
Elton Kabangu (loan)
Barrie McKay
Lawrence Shankland
Harry Stone 
Gerald Taylor (loan)

B team/U18
Gregor Burn
Bailey Dall
Ethan Drysdale
Ryan Duncan (with option of 1 additional year)
Matthew Gillies
Henry Lister
Jamie MacDonald
Owen Muirhead
Dom Plank
Szymon Plesiewicz
Luke Rathie
Louis Selfridge
Lucas Smith
Gus Stevenson
Coupar Wilkie
 

[Duos123]

4 minutes ago, Chuck Berry said:

May as well kick it off with a list of the out of contracts come summer, as it stands

 

Craig Gordon

Barrie McKay

Lawrence Shankland

Jorge Grant

Elton Kabangu (end of loan)

Gerry Taylor (end of loan)

 

Keep gordon (backup)

Keep Shankland

Keep Kabangu 

Keep Taylor

The others can go

[PaddysBar]

Social media users never disappoint in their utter lack of imagination. 

[JimmyCant]

1 hour ago, tartofmidlothian said:

Heard we're in for Chesnakov and Armstrong.

 

And Callum Paterson might be up for a move home.

Don’t forget Jason though

[chrisyboy7]

Every window will see us stronger.

[TheBigO]

I just can't wait for Barrie McKay to leave.  It'll be great to be able to sleep again, and hoping it stops me losing my shit at my family all the time.  I'm all cried out.

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

I think unless you are employed by Jamestown Analytics, the phrase "I think we should sign" should come with an automatic thread ban, to save us all a lot of pointless reading!

 

Expecting quite a few pre contracts to be announced. Getting Elton tied up is obvious, guessing we may sell more players, this window has shown its not the end of the world and we can improve by doing it.

[Jamboscanbevicius]

9 hours ago, Chuck Berry said:

May as well kick it off with a list of the out of contracts come summer, as it stands

 

Craig Gordon

Barrie McKay

Lawrence Shankland

Jorge Grant

Elton Kabangu (end of loan)

Gerry Taylor (end of loan)

 

Not greatly worried, but that list includes 4 of our current starting 11. 
 

Hopefully now that the window is closed we turn our attention to pre-contracts and extending any of our own that we’d like to hold onto.

[Turkishcap]

Could have waited till aftrer Easter😁

[cosanostra]

1 hour ago, TheBigO said:

I just can't wait for Barrie McKay to leave.  It'll be great to be able to sleep again, and hoping it stops me losing my shit at my family all the time.  I'm all cried out.

 

 

[Agentjambo]

12 out 10 in

[AlimOzturk]

Genuinely think Gordon extends his contract. 

[LarrysRightFoot]

This thread will be a barrel of laughs no doubt. 
 

I think the below will definitely leave in the summer as it stands - 

 

Oda

McKay

Grant

 

Possible exits - 

 

Gordon (retire)

Kent

Forrest

Shankland 

 

I also think (like this window) there may be a few sales. With the likes of Penrice and Kabangu (assuming we take up our option to buy) generating interest. 
 

I also think Halkett and Kingsley will see out their contracts (which isn’t a bad thing IMO) as I’m not sure anyone will take the risk on them. 

Edited February 4 by LarrysRightFoot

[boag1874]

Pretty obvious we’ll see a good few out. I’d be very surprised if any of

 

Grant

Forrest

McKay

Halkett

Kingsley

Oda
 

are still here come September. 
 

Going to be a very busy window, **** knows who we’ll bring in 

[indianajones]

Just now, boag1874 said:

Pretty obvious we’ll see a good few out. I’d be very surprised if any of

 

Grant

Forrest

McKay

Halkett

Kingsley

Oda
 

are still here come September. 
 

Going to be a very busy window, **** knows who we’ll bring in 

 

Kingsley would be the only one but now with JTA, he might very well be out too. 

[johnking123]

Gordon retire

Kent

Kingsley 

Halkett 

Denholm 

Grant

McKay 

Shankland

Oda (could still leave soon)

Forrest 

Vargas

Dhanda 

 

Had this on winter. Think this all we will try to move on.

 

Could get intrest in Penrice, Wilson and Musa. 

Going to be a busy summer. 

[cosanostra]

I'd guess that it's highly unlikely Halkett or Kingsley will leave. 

Maybe CG will extend for a year and Zander takes over as first choice.

There's pretty much no chance that Shankland is staying. No way.

Oda, Grant, Forrest, Mackay will most likely leave.

I think we'll sell Kent to some no-mark English club for £400k / undisclosed fee.

I think we'll sell Dhanda for about the same to some 3rd rate European club.

 

[Polonia Gorgie]

10 hours ago, hereford_hearts said:

Too soon? 

It's a wee bit like Easter eggs on  shelves on boxing day 😄

 

I'm happy with our business that we done. I'm already looking forward to our partnership with Jamestown 

[iainmac]

10 hours ago, tartofmidlothian said:

Heard we're in for Chesnakov and Armstrong.

 

And Callum Paterson might be up for a move home.

You missed Callum Morrison coming in from Linfield. 

[gar jambo]

1 hour ago, TheBigO said:

I just can't wait for Barrie McKay to leave.  It'll be great to be able to sleep again, and hoping it stops me losing my shit at my family all the time.  I'm all cried out.

Mckay  had scored some good goals and been decent at times! But more of a luxury player! Under performed against the old firm especially Rangers! Quite lazy does not back track and can't tackle! Nothing to offer us! now I would consider him now as a man short! Along with grant! . Forrest a tryer vargas a tryer but come under the same department along with Oda! So they would deffo be the 4 I would bin in the summer! 

[LarrysRightFoot]

19 minutes ago, LarrysRightFoot said:

This thread will be a barrel of laughs no doubt. 
 

I think the below will definitely leave in the summer as it stands - 

 

Oda

McKay

Grant

 

Possible exits - 

 

Gordon (retire)

Kent

Forrest

Shankland 

Dhanda

Vargas

 

I also think there may be a few sales of players we would prefer to keep. With the likes of Penrice and Kabangu (assuming we take up our option to buy) generating interest. 
 

I also think Halkett and Kingsley will see out their contracts (which isn’t a bad thing IMO) as I’m not sure anyone will take the risk on them. 

 

[gar jambo]

Just now, gar jambo said:

Mckay  had scored some good goals and been decent at times! But more of a luxury player! Under performed against the old firm especially Rangers! Quite lazy does not back track and can't tackle! Nothing to offer us! now I would consider him now as a man short! Along with grant! . Forrest a tryer vargas a tryer but come under the same department along with Oda! So they would deffo be the 4 I would bin in the summer! 

5 sorry 

[Duos123]

28 minutes ago, LarrysRightFoot said:

This thread will be a barrel of laughs no doubt. 
 

I think the below will definitely leave in the summer as it stands - 

 

Oda

McKay

Grant

 

Possible exits - 

 

Gordon (retire)

Kent

Forrest

Shankland 

 

I also think (like this window) there may be a few sales. With the likes of Penrice and Kabangu (assuming we take up our option to buy) generating interest. 
 

I also think Halkett and Kingsley will see out their contracts (which isn’t a bad thing IMO) as I’m not sure anyone will take the risk on them. 

Correct me if I’m wrong but halkett has his contract expiring next summer and Kingsley is the year after? I’d keep them even if they aren’t going to play much they are good at providing cover and I suppose also provide experience within a younger less experienced group.

[AlimOzturk]

20 minutes ago, cosanostra said:

I'd guess that it's highly unlikely Halkett or Kingsley will leave. 

Maybe CG will extend for a year and Zander takes over as first choice.

There's pretty much no chance that Shankland is staying. No way.

Oda, Grant, Forrest, Mackay will most likely leave.

I think we'll sell Kent to some no-mark English club for £400k / undisclosed fee.

I think we'll sell Dhanda for about the same to some 3rd rate European club.

 

Gordon won’t extend his contract if he knows he will be number two. Not a chance. Wouldn’t want to watch his last year at the club sitting on the bench either. 
 

He either retires or continues as number one. 
 

Zander Clark must have been told what Gordon’s situation is and accepted it. 

[tartofmidlothian]

47 minutes ago, Jamboscanbevicius said:

Not greatly worried, but that list includes 4 of our current starting 11. 
 

Hopefully now that the window is closed we turn our attention to pre-contracts and extending any of our own that we’d like to hold onto.

 

Keeping Shankland and getting Devlin on a longer contract would do. Obviously signing Kabangu and Taylor if they show up well enough (one already has, I think). Aside from that, show us what you've got Jamestown.

[Percival King]

2 minutes ago, AlimOzturk said:

Gordon won’t extend his contract if he knows he will be number two. Not a chance. Wouldn’t want to watch his last year at the club sitting on the bench either. 
 

He either retires or continues as number one. 
 

Zander Clark must have been told what Gordon’s situation is and accepted it. 

Wonder if Gordon will become the goalkeeping coach at some point, but maybe still being registered yo play. Presumably Gallagher is on either a rolling contract or one with a fixed end date.

[tartofmidlothian]

5 minutes ago, AlimOzturk said:

Gordon won’t extend his contract if he knows he will be number two. Not a chance. Wouldn’t want to watch his last year at the club sitting on the bench either. 
 

He either retires or continues as number one. 
 

Zander Clark must have been told what Gordon’s situation is and accepted it. 

 

Surely the absolute maximum Gordon will go to is the World Cup, which means Clark will be our first choice from 2026/27. Long time for him to wait, but he must be ready to. They might even swap gloves earlier if Scotland don't qualify.

[boag1874]

47 minutes ago, indianajones said:

 

Kingsley would be the only one but now with JTA, he might very well be out too. 

Aye for me unfortunately he’s just a bit too injury prone, he’s a decent LCB but he can’t play LB any more & I think in a back 4 there’s better CB options

[Drylaw Hearts]

Oda will hopefully leave before the summer…..Japanese transfer window closes towards the end of March.

[wavydavy]

1 hour ago, cosanostra said:

I'd guess that it's highly unlikely Halkett or Kingsley will leave. 

Maybe CG will extend for a year and Zander takes over as first choice.

There's pretty much no chance that Shankland is staying. No way.

Oda, Grant, Forrest, Mackay will most likely leave.

I think we'll sell Kent to some no-mark English club for £400k / undisclosed fee.

I think we'll sell Dhanda for about the same to some 3rd rate European club.

 

 

Grant and MacKay are out of contract so most likely they will leave as they wont be offered new deals. Oda could be away in the next few weeks.

 

Agree with your other comments but would add to the list Denholm, Tait and Pollock as surplus to requirement.

[The Goalscoring Knee]

What page do we think we'll get to before something concrete actually happens? I'm going for somewhere in the low 400s.😃

[chrisyboy7]

1 hour ago, AlimOzturk said:

Genuinely think Gordon extends his contract. 

O would give him a 6 month contract if he's still fit come May. Coming up forc43 and you do blow down on many fronts. We need another goalie which i think we will get. 

[ManxandCapeTownJambo]

maybe Hleb’s plane will arrive by then?

[Chimp]

10 minutes ago, The Goalscoring Knee said:

What page do we think we'll get to before something concrete actually happens? I'm going for somewhere in the low 400s.😃

 

Well seeing as someone has started a thread about the summer one day after the winter window shut you might not be far off 🙃

[chaswasjambotillend]

1 hour ago, Duos123 said:

Correct me if I’m wrong but halkett has his contract expiring next summer and Kingsley is the year after? I’d keep them even if they aren’t going to play much they are good at providing cover and I suppose also provide experience within a younger less experienced group.

Only good as cover if they are not on treatment table. Kingsley has had an injury every season he has been here legs are going, Halkett will keep breaking down after what hes been through so big risk to keep them plus its money side. I'd pay them off personally at end of season.

[David McCaig]

2 hours ago, AlimOzturk said:

Genuinely think Gordon extends his contract. 

If Gordon is still the Scotland #1 at the end of the season, I dont understand why he would retire 12 months out from a potential World Cup?

[David McCaig]

54 minutes ago, The Goalscoring Knee said:

What page do we think we'll get to before something concrete actually happens? I'm going for somewhere in the low 400s.😃

News about pre-contracts drifted out fairly early last year, albeit without official confirmation.

[The Goalscoring Knee]

2 minutes ago, David McCaig said:

News about pre-contracts drifted out fairly early last year, albeit without official confirmation.

Fair. Probably should have added the proviso that there needed to be a string of posts within a few minutes of each other on the club WhatsApp channel, a la Harry Milne last night!

[Tour22]

Will we look at any out of contract players just now should be the main the question.

[tartofmidlothian]

1 hour ago, The Goalscoring Knee said:

What page do we think we'll get to before something concrete actually happens? I'm going for somewhere in the low 400s.😃

 

For the first concrete rumour to appear in the papers. Then about page 600 for the window to actually open.

[tartofmidlothian]

19 minutes ago, Tour22 said:

Will we look at any out of contract players just now should be the main the question.

 

Surely one for the Winter Transfer Thread until the end of this month.

[FarmerTweedy]

13 hours ago, hereford_hearts said:

Too soon? 

Never! 😃

[johnking123]

Well a striker is a big must again. When Shanks moves, big portion of any money must go on a striker to partner Elton. Assuming we take up the option to buy.

 

[Penrices left boot]

2 hours ago, AlimOzturk said:

Gordon won’t extend his contract if he knows he will be number two. Not a chance. Wouldn’t want to watch his last year at the club sitting on the bench either. 
 

He either retires or continues as number one. 
 

Zander Clark must have been told what Gordon’s situation is and accepted it. 

 

Not sure there is not a chance.

 

Player /coach is possible, with Gordon being available if required for a year.

Ofc, would depend if Gordon was interested in coaching and winding down a bit in terms of playing.

 

He's also got the status to be a pundit.