Tekel Towers » Summer Transfer Window

Shakey Isles Arab · 24/7/2022 10:23 am

Better start January window search Tony ..

Tangy · 24/7/2022 6:05 pm

Charles dunne and Martin Boyle at Aberdeenshire game today.... they are spending bigggg

I'd like to see another signing or two early this week

Danzaa · 25/7/2022 7:47 am

We really are slow in getting deals done and now I'm hearing murmurs of frustration from JR who wants to hit ground running but the best eleven at his disposal looks unbalanced and soft. McGrath and Middleton talks have stalled, we are chasing around looking at loan deals, there was even talk a few weeks back of McNulty playing off Fletcher which changed to Clark. Now it looks like we will have target man Fletcher on his own supported by midfield runners.

We need to get deals done now otherwise, by the time any newbies are in and up to speed, we'll be out of Europe and league cup, and going to Motherwell sitting with 2 or 3 points in the league at best.
No joke come October we may well have Pawlett, Harkes, Watt, Fletcher and Clark as starters. God knows who will be in defence as enquiries made for Graham and Edwards.
Dont know about you lot but I'm getting the fear here.
Cue the stay calm and see what happens brigade all telling me to top up my half empty glass

AlwaysUnited · 25/7/2022 8:02 am

All I would say is that if you look back on the forum 12 months to just before the Rangers game, you will see the same things being posted, almost verbatim.

*Not enough signings
*If we don't win next week it'll be a full on crisis
*Manager under threat already
*Team heading for relegation

Now I'm not saying we'll finish fourth again but I am saying take a deep breath, trust in the process, and at least withhold judgement until we've played some competitive games *.

Thank you.

*To the "eh will do and say what eh want" brigade, the above is merely a suggestion.

Last edited by AlwaysUnited (25/7/2022 8:05 am)

SlatefordArab · 25/7/2022 8:34 am

Tangy wrote:
Charles dunne and Martin Boyle at Aberdeenshire game today.... they are spending bigggg

I'd like to see another signing or two early this week

They will go to Celtic Park next week and get 4.

Danzaa · 25/7/2022 9:11 am

AlwaysUnited wrote:
All I would say is that if you look back on the forum 12 months to just before the Rangers game, you will see the same things being posted, almost verbatim.

*Not enough signings
*If we don't win next week it'll be a full on crisis
*Manager under threat already
*Team heading for relegation

Now I'm not saying we'll finish fourth again but I am saying take a deep breath, trust in the process, and at least withhold judgement until we've played some competitive games *.

Thank you.

*To the "eh will do and say what eh want" brigade, the above is merely a suggestion.

You keep banging the we finished 4th drum all you want, most knowledgeable fans recognise we could easily have finished bottom half.
Yes we got back up and we consolidated but based solely on the goalkeeper and defending for our lives.
I can accept that against the uglies but not against any others in this league. Truth be told we probably played better against them than the rest and that stinks of lacking on field leaders to boot asses.
Setting up to counter attack is in our dna, but we have no pace and we don't score enough goals. How can you trust a process thats not addressed that in the last 4 windows?

I hear you in that it might work out but at this stage it looks unlikely. I do think the majority of the fans who bought these season tickets expect to hit the ground running this season rather than watch the same old grind.
Surely in this league we are a big enough club to get the right players to be able to that?

Finn Seemann · 25/7/2022 10:09 am

It’s the United way. Whenever we look like growing the fanbase we f it up.

Business done hangs on the return of Levitt alone. If he doesn’t grab the league by the scruff of the neck. Which he can’t because we haven’t put the Infrastrucure around and in front of him. Then we are shafted. Our season probably now hanging on the loan market yet again unless these Ugandan laddies are somehow ready. Ashgar’s gambles have to end some time. What we need has been obvious for seasons. The iPads are using the wrong app.

Finn Seemann · 25/7/2022 10:10 am

…and 4th was jammy as f last season

Rocky Raccoon · 25/7/2022 10:12 am

Middleton has had two offers, one Scottish club and one English.

He has not stated if the Scottish club is United, he may not want to upset his impending in-laws who are Dundee daft.

Not seen anywhere else but apparently McNaulty was seemingly at Tannadice at the Sunderland game wearing United training gear.

SuperMario · 25/7/2022 10:40 am

If we resign mcnulty I’ll explode

Arabdownsouth · 25/7/2022 10:57 am

SuperMario wrote:
If we resign mcnulty I’ll explode

Make sure you have a tissue handy 😂

Tangy · 25/7/2022 11:41 am

Rocky Raccoon wrote:
Middleton has had two offers, one Scottish club and one English.

He has not stated if the Scottish club is United, he may not want to upset his impending in-laws who are Dundee daft.

Not seen anywhere else but apparently McNaulty was seemingly at Tannadice at the Sunderland game wearing United training gear.

Depends how you look at it. He could sign for united and his Mrs. Old be close to her family or he can move to the arse end of England and she never sees them.

AlwaysUnited · 25/7/2022 1:08 pm

This is a great read on the realities - both positive and negative, of player trading post Brexit in Scotland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62284560

CCX2 2010 · 25/7/2022 2:52 pm

Arabdownsouth wrote:
SuperMario wrote:
If we resign mcnulty I’ll explode

Make sure you have a tissue handy 😂

You have got to be on the wynd up.

CCX2 2010 · 25/7/2022 2:53 pm

Danzaa wrote:
We really are slow in getting deals done and now I'm hearing murmurs of frustration from JR who wants to hit ground running but the best eleven at his disposal looks unbalanced and soft. McGrath and Middleton talks have stalled, we are chasing around looking at loan deals, there was even talk a few weeks back of McNulty playing off Fletcher which changed to Clark. Now it looks like we will have target man Fletcher on his own supported by midfield runners.

We need to get deals done now otherwise, by the time any newbies are in and up to speed, we'll be out of Europe and league cup, and going to Motherwell sitting with 2 or 3 points in the league at best.
No joke come October we may well have Pawlett, Harkes, Watt, Fletcher and Clark as starters. God knows who will be in defence as enquiries made for Graham and Edwards.
Dont know about you lot but I'm getting the fear here.
Cue the stay calm and see what happens brigade all telling me to top up my half empty glass

Good post.

Arabdownsouth · 25/7/2022 3:58 pm

CCX2 2010 wrote:
Danzaa wrote:
We really are slow in getting deals done and now I'm hearing murmurs of frustration from JR who wants to hit ground running but the best eleven at his disposal looks unbalanced and soft. McGrath and Middleton talks have stalled, we are chasing around looking at loan deals, there was even talk a few weeks back of McNulty playing off Fletcher which changed to Clark. Now it looks like we will have target man Fletcher on his own supported by midfield runners.

We need to get deals done now otherwise, by the time any newbies are in and up to speed, we'll be out of Europe and league cup, and going to Motherwell sitting with 2 or 3 points in the league at best.
No joke come October we may well have Pawlett, Harkes, Watt, Fletcher and Clark as starters. God knows who will be in defence as enquiries made for Graham and Edwards.
Dont know about you lot but I'm getting the fear here.
Cue the stay calm and see what happens brigade all telling me to top up my half empty glass

Good post.

Is it? Not in my opinion, just a lot of speculation really.

Tek · 25/7/2022 5:05 pm

Talk elsewhere of Mark Connolly going to Derry City and not Dundalk.

Arabdownsouth · 25/7/2022 7:11 pm

Aberdeen just signed an attacking midfielder from Notts County, hopefully this improves our chances of landing McGrath?

LarsErikKjell · 25/7/2022 7:46 pm

Arabdownsouth wrote:
CCX2 2010 wrote:
Danzaa wrote:
We really are slow in getting deals done and now I'm hearing murmurs of frustration from JR who wants to hit ground running but the best eleven at his disposal looks unbalanced and soft. McGrath and Middleton talks have stalled, we are chasing around looking at loan deals, there was even talk a few weeks back of McNulty playing off Fletcher which changed to Clark. Now it looks like we will have target man Fletcher on his own supported by midfield runners.

We need to get deals done now otherwise, by the time any newbies are in and up to speed, we'll be out of Europe and league cup, and going to Motherwell sitting with 2 or 3 points in the league at best.
No joke come October we may well have Pawlett, Harkes, Watt, Fletcher and Clark as starters. God knows who will be in defence as enquiries made for Graham and Edwards.
Dont know about you lot but I'm getting the fear here.
Cue the stay calm and see what happens brigade all telling me to top up my half empty glass

Good post.

Is it? Not in my opinion, just a lot of speculation really.

Agree ADS. Unless Danza(a) is actually suggesting this is fact, it is 100% just a guess of where we're at.

Stuff about Edwards/Graham - you canna control that. Its football and thats how it works. If you have good players, other clubs might want those players.

Must admit I want to see some signings pretty fucking quick though. But have to remember there is still over a month of the window to go. The example mentioned previously of "would you rather have a Levitt in the last seconds of the window or a McNulty on June 1st" really rings true. But hopefully we see movement asap.

MockChop · 25/7/2022 8:39 pm

At a time when rumours should be rife, there’s nothing. Absolutely nothing to talk about.

Someone make something up please

Tek · 25/7/2022 9:08 pm

Arabdownsouth wrote:
Aberdeen just signed an attacking midfielder from Notts County, hopefully this improves our chances of landing McGrath?

Think the boy is a left winger, is he not?

Tek · 25/7/2022 9:14 pm

MockChop wrote:
At a time when rumours should be rife, there’s nothing. Absolutely nothing to talk about.

Someone make something up please

Apparently signing an Australian Left back.

Aziz Behich.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3530230/dundee-united-set-to-sign-australian-international-left-back-aziz-behich/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

SuperMario · 25/7/2022 9:26 pm

Looks a extremely solid signing

Please I beg for some attacking players next though

LarsErikKjell · 25/7/2022 9:34 pm

SuperMario wrote:
Looks a extremely solid signing

Please I beg for some attacking players next though

Think this lad looks a very decent attacking threat himself! But I agree, attacking reinforcements needed ASAP

Danzaa · 25/7/2022 9:44 pm

Sorry to confuse, it was 100% meant as a summary of the collective posts from the last dozen or so pages.

However I stand by the getting the fear comment if we don't add steel and pace.