My big concern at the moment is Wingers and a Striker. We NEED to utilise Shankland more effectively this season and at the moment all we have is Chalmers and Sporle to supply him. Another big target man Striker, in the mould of Daly, to take away the attention of one of the central defenders is urgent and frees Shankland from the need  of dropping deep to pick up the ball.

I think our Defence is more than passable, and that includes Robson who I think sometimes gets a bit more stick than is fair. If we didn't add in this department to bring in a couple Wingers I would accept it.

Personally, I reckon our transfer window is on hold until the rumoured money for Benji comes in.

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I really can’t see where we are getting any wingers from. We went down the route of a loan deal with Bolton and all that did was hold up the development of one of our graduates. I’ve not seen much of our development squad but surely we have wingers in there who have as good a chance of making an impact as anyone we can afford to sign or more likely get on a free. I must admit it would be great to get a quality signing made as apart from Shanks I can’t remember the last time I got exited about a signing ( although Fuchs and Edwards have turned out to be good signings).

Conway11 wrote:

Siegrist to ipswich is off

 
Did you read this somewhere? Or just word on the pavey?

Daily Record has us signing JDH this week..

Snacks94 wrote:

If Doyle-Hayes signs then that’s two impressive signings for me. Obviously we need another 2 or 3, but it’s a good start.

Going to always be rumours of who’s signing and who’s leaving but let’s just see where we are come the start of August. I know we have the league cup starting next Friday but we’re not going to have all our business done by then.

The fact we've not really lost any of our big players yet (Benji, Edwards, Fuchs, Shanks) is encouraging and I'm hoping we can hold on to all 4 of them tbh. Adding Mulgrew and Doyle-Hayes to our current squad really does push it up in terms of quality. What we need now is 2 attack minded players that take us up another level. A left winger has to be our next target.

Strongest 11 at the moment assuming Doyle-Hayes signs?

Benji

Smith Edwards Mulgrew Robson

Fuchs Doyle-Hayes

Chalmers Clark Appere

Shankland

That's before you even start to look at the younger Academy guys like Mochrie/Glass/Meekison who could easily replace Clark in that team.

Like I said, bring in a left winger and another attacking option and we'll look a lot more threatening.

If we lose people like Benji, Robson which has been reported or even Edwards, Fuchs or Shanks, we'd really need able replacements for them too.

Double barrels won't be signing, I see. Wanted more time to get another team.

Makes you wonder why it was leaked to the press that a deal was all but done (and posters on here). It doesn't make Tam the bam look any better if it looks like we try to sign boys but they don't want to commit.

Also not great for whoever we sign in that position that they will know they are sloppy seconds.

Do Kelty have any good players? 🤔🤔🤔

Tangy wrote:

Double barrels won't be signing, I see. Wanted more time to get another team.

Makes you wonder why it was leaked to the press that a deal was all but done (and posters on here). It doesn't make Tam the bam look any better if it looks like we try to sign boys but they don't want to commit.

Also not great for whoever we sign in that position that they will know they are sloppy seconds.

Do Kelty have any good players? 🤔🤔🤔

A bit of a negative way to look at it but fair enough.

I think from reading about it seems pretty obvious that the deal was close to being done. And at the last minute his agent has asked for more time to decide as he maybe had other clubs interested. He did it with St Mirren too and their fans are furious the offer wasn't taken off the table sooner.

Good decision by the club if he's spent the last few days going back and forward. Plenty other players out there.
 

Every club in the world leaks their signings a couple of days before they happen. It is the way it works (not sure why). But constant questions about why the club are leaking things when everyone else does the exact same are not worth asking in my eyes.

Snacks94 wrote:

Doyle-Hayes signing for Hibs

Once again another embarrassment that we are leaking to Burns that someone is signing who turns out we haven't closed a deal on.  Would have thought Ashgar should know how agents work...
 

He's maybe not all that good anyway. He's been getting bummed-up on the forums cos he's been our only target. Hopefully we're not missing out on much.

OR

If there is a change of mind...Welcome JDH. Could transform our midfield. A marquee signing, no doubts.

Give there is only downside to Utd leaking a signing before it is done and 100% upside for the agent, it baffles me that so many people always assume it is the club that is the source of any leaks. Almost as baffled as if we did leak it.

I mean what can come out of it other than another club shows interest and so the deal falls through or the price goes up?

nomad wrote:

Give there is only downside to Utd leaking a signing before it is done and 100% upside for the agent, it baffles me that so many people always assume it is the club that is the source of any leaks. Almost as baffled as if we did leak it.

I mean what can come out of it other than another club shows interest and so the deal falls through or the price goes up?

But we leak to Burns - presumably part of that deal is he doesn't publish anybody else's stuff about us?  Of course, I'm assuming that the people involved have at least half a brain.
 

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LarsErikKjell wrote:

It was DCT who came out with the story first.

It may well have been, but we've gotten used to Burns being the official leak.  Until we'd heard from him you would have to have taken it with a pinch of salt.  You have to assume that his info is coming from Tannadice given recent history and that he doesn't put it up without some direction from Tannadice.  Of course, he may have jumped the gun and that might mean he falls out of favour, but I somehow doubt it.

It just continues to point to amateur hour.