Tekel Towers » Rebuilding United in the Championship

Arabdownsouth · 15/8/2023 11:56 am

GFL wrote:
MockChop wrote:
As we are travelling to Burnley for a game Friday night, surely we ask if there’s a possibility of a loan from them?

Worked when Man Utd used St Andrews..

I’m still waiting on a Fulham player appearing since our link was announced. 5 players loaned in since that link was made, none from them.

This has been explained many times. Our link up with Fulham had nothing to do with them loaning us players.

MockChop · 15/8/2023 1:18 pm

Rumour has it that the link up with Fulham did eventually benefit one man, who has landed a consultancy role with them.

Just a rumour, mind.

GFL · 15/8/2023 1:21 pm

Arabdownsouth wrote:
GFL wrote:
MockChop wrote:
As we are travelling to Burnley for a game Friday night, surely we ask if there’s a possibility of a loan from them?

Worked when Man Utd used St Andrews..

I’m still waiting on a Fulham player appearing since our link was announced. 5 players loaned in since that link was made, none from them.

This has been explained many times. Our link up with Fulham had nothing to do with them loaning us players.

I know, they just get to have first pick of youth prospects coming through and a former employee decides to act as agent.

CCX2 2010 · 15/8/2023 3:53 pm

And then there was one.

Niskanen gone to Exeter for an undisclosed fee but reports of around £150000 has exchanged hands.

Boys was dreadful imo, seemed a nice bloke all the same and the best of luck to him.

The fact that someone on our board has convinced Exeter to part with cash for this guy has given me renewed hope that it might be possible to shift Coco the clown on also.

Hopefully frees up another space to get some more additional players.

MockChop · 15/8/2023 3:54 pm

Sadly, I can only see the fee going into Birighitti’s bank account.

dufc2019 · 15/8/2023 4:03 pm

Thomson away to Montrose on loan

GFL · 15/8/2023 4:47 pm

MockChop wrote:
Sadly, I can only see the fee going into Birighitti’s bank account.

Happily at this point. Get him so far to fuck.
Then someone else in the United gaff.

Stillliving · 15/8/2023 5:00 pm

To get any fee for Niskanen is a great deal for UTD. He scored 2 goals in 61 games. Simply not good enough.

Morphman · 15/8/2023 5:18 pm

MockChop wrote:
Sadly, I can only see the fee going into Birighitti’s bank account.

Hopefully not. Definitely a game to see who's going to blink first on that one though.

He'll be wanting his contract paid in full, or close to, and we'll be offering a lower payout or training with the under 21's where he can see out his contract in a foreign country while docking his wages if he's doesn't show for thon training. Hope the club stand their ground, even if it is a rather nasty side to football. Business is business at the end of the day.

Snacks94 · 15/8/2023 6:22 pm

dufc2019 wrote:
Thomson away to Montrose on loan

Good move, hopefully gets loads of game time.

CCX2 2010 · 15/8/2023 6:39 pm

Morphman wrote:
MockChop wrote:
Sadly, I can only see the fee going into Birighitti’s bank account.
Hopefully not. Definitely a game to see who's going to blink first on that one though.

He'll be wanting his contract paid in full, or close to, and we'll be offering a lower payout or training with the under 21's where he can see out his contract in a foreign country while docking his wages if he's doesn't show for thon training. Hope the club stand their ground, even if it is a rather nasty side to football. Business is business at the end of the day.

Can't see Birighitti blinking first, he's not seen anything coming at him since he arrived.😀

In fairness to him, we offered him that deal and he's fully entitled to it, can't see him getting another deal to play professional football again so if I were him I would sit tight.

Tangy · 15/8/2023 7:51 pm

Stillliving wrote:
To get any fee for Niskanen is a great deal for UTD. He scored 2 goals in 61 games. Simply not good enough.

He was far from good but be fair. A lot of those games were as a substitute and playing at wingback.... comparable track record to tony watt who has always been played up top

JerryDungle · 15/8/2023 8:46 pm

Tangy wrote:
Stillliving wrote:
To get any fee for Niskanen is a great deal for UTD. He scored 2 goals in 61 games. Simply not good enough.

He was far from good but be fair. A lot of those games were as a substitute and playing at wingback.... comparable track record to tony watt who has always been played up top

That’s not true. He’s barely ever played up top for us. Played as an inverted left winger when he came in basically right up until he left for St. Mirren, and now he’s playing in the number 10. The only game I can remember him playing up front for us was at McDiarmid Park in January, and he scored the winner.

Not defending Watt’s goal record, but to say he’s played up front the whole time he’s been here is utter shite.

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Tek · 15/8/2023 8:57 pm

Stillliving wrote:
To get any fee for Niskanen is a great deal for UTD. He scored 2 goals in 61 games. Simply not good enough.

Whilst i totally agree with you, Jim Goodwin is currently hedging his bets on an attacking player with 5 goals in 46 appearances and zero goals in any of the opening 6 lower league games (Watt).

Is he good enough?

Tek · 15/8/2023 9:01 pm

JerryDungle wrote:
Not defending Watt’s goal record, but to say he’s played up front the whole time he’s been here is utter shite.

You are kinda defending it though. He plays in attacking areas of the pitch, be it a No.9,10 or LW.

His goalscoring record therefore should be coming under scrutiny, and the simple question of whether we could do better an obvious one. Certainly given his big wage.

Tek · 15/8/2023 9:04 pm

Apparently Ross Docherty is out for a month and even worse still, Craig Sibbald has a suspected broken ankle.

Making just one more signing is not an option now.

Time for Ogren to open the purse strings a bit more, particularly given that that is the 4th player we have received a fee for this Summer (Eriksson, Levitt, Behich and Niskanen).

dufc2019 · 15/8/2023 9:11 pm

Tek wrote:
Apparently Ross Docherty is out for a month and even worse still, Craig Sibbald has a suspected broken ankle.

Making just one more signing is not an option now.

Time for Ogren to open the purse strings a bit more, particularly given that that is the 3rd player we have received a fee for this Summer.

Dock is expected to be back for the Ayr game, sibs has has a scan yes

CCX2 2010 · 15/8/2023 10:06 pm

Tek wrote:
Apparently Ross Docherty is out for a month and even worse still, Craig Sibbald has a suspected broken ankle.

Making just one more signing is not an option now.

Time for Ogren to open the purse strings a bit more, particularly given that that is the 4th player we have received a fee for this Summer (Eriksson, Levitt, Behich and Niskanen).

I hate when you post news like this☹️

Snacks94 · 15/8/2023 10:10 pm

Oh for actual f*** sake

SuperMario · 16/8/2023 7:22 am

Tek wrote:
Apparently Ross Docherty is out for a month and even worse still, Craig Sibbald has a suspected broken ankle.

Making just one more signing is not an option now.

Time for Ogren to open the purse strings a bit more, particularly given that that is the 4th player we have received a fee for this Summer (Eriksson, Levitt, Behich and Niskanen).

Watched a bit of training yesterday and seen sibbald going down, he was putting weight on his ankle so hopefully isn’t broken but he did look in a lot of pain

Billy_Hainey · 16/8/2023 12:18 pm

This is ah we need.

Arab87 · 16/8/2023 8:24 pm

Couple of options here for CM. We dip into the free agent market, couple of good options in there.

One player that I have seen a bit of is Robbie Burton. Welsh lad, came through Arsenal youth setup, left them to go and play first team football at Dinamo Zagreb.

He's now a free agent. Similar type of player to Levitt but has more dig about him and he's more built.

The other options we have is signing the lad Jack Thompson from Queens Park. Young, box to box midfielder, gets wired in and can chip in with a goal or two. Glass + Chalmers + small fee going the other way.

Or we offer Glass, Chalmers and small fee to Inverness for Cameron Harper who can play CM, LM and LB and has a wand of a left peg on him.

Tek · 17/8/2023 4:22 am

Kieran Freeman will now be out as well for 6 weeks (torn hammy).

All the stars are aligning for his only signing to be a RB. Which alone would be a disaster.

We need that and at least 2 others (CAM and Striker). We could also be doing with a LB tbh, seeing as he doesn't seem to rate Duffy.

Arabdownsouth · 17/8/2023 5:50 am

Tek wrote:
Kieran Freeman will now be out as well for 6 weeks (torn hammy).

All the stars are aligning for his only signing to be a RB. Which alone would be a disaster.

We need that and at least 2 others (CAM and Striker). We could also be doing with a LB tbh, seeing as he doesn't seem to rate Duffy.

Fucking hell! Did Jim run a fucking gypsy over or something? Absolutely shite luck

kiwiarab · 17/8/2023 6:20 am

I was thinking the same thing, horrific luck. We might be playing Birrigitti at right back if this continues......