Tekel Towers » Summer Transfer Window 26/27

JerryDungle · 14/6/2026 10:59 pm

Apparently we’re also looking at Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen as well. That’s a risk for me, if we go with two young centre halves given we lacked experience and leadership at the back last season.
He is rapid though, as is Forbes apparently, so maybe he’s looking to play with a higher line next season.

Tek · 14/6/2026 11:38 pm

JerryDungle wrote:
Apparently we’re also looking at Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen as well. That’s a risk for me, if we go with two young centre halves given we lacked experience and leadership at the back last season.
He is rapid though, as is Forbes apparently, so maybe he’s looking to play with a higher line next season.

Surely we don't sign both.

Even allowing for Esselink departing that would still leave us with

Iovu
Graham
Forbes
Cleall-Harding
Sevelj
Agyei
Dewar

Who could all play CH if needed too.

We desperately need wingers and Strikers.

Tangy · 15/6/2026 12:39 am

A little out of the blue but rumoured to have an interest in henry fieldson - lb from Queens park

JerryDungle · 15/6/2026 7:14 am

Tangy wrote:
A little out of the blue but rumoured to have an interest in henry fieldson - lb from Queens park

That one’s been rumoured for a while. There’s Championship and League One teams down south interested too though.

Macho Man · 15/6/2026 7:59 am

JerryDungle wrote:
Apparently we’re also looking at Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen as well. That’s a risk for me, if we go with two young centre halves given we lacked experience and leadership at the back last season.
He is rapid though, as is Forbes apparently, so maybe he’s looking to play with a higher line next season.

Was about to say exactly the same about needing proper experience at the back. I think Ross Graham is a good player, but if I'm honest, I don't see him as being captain material as he needs to just concentrate on his own game. We need a big, hard, kick his own granny type player in the middle who is a leader and has hundreds of games experience at a good level of football.

Any time I've seen Chilokoa-Mullen he's looked a good solid player, but I just don' know if he is what we need just now.

I feel too much onus is being put on the 'player trading' model and not enough attention is being paid to the must have element of the team, if we want to have a go at winning a cup or getting European football.

RogerTheAlien · 15/6/2026 9:28 am

Tek wrote:
JerryDungle wrote:
Apparently we’re also looking at Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen as well. That’s a risk for me, if we go with two young centre halves given we lacked experience and leadership at the back last season.
He is rapid though, as is Forbes apparently, so maybe he’s looking to play with a higher line next season.
Surely we don't sign both.

Even allowing for Esselink departing that would still leave us with

Iovu
Graham
Forbes
Cleall-Harding
Sevelj
Agyei
Dewar

Who could all play CH if needed too.

We desperately need wingers and Strikers.

Will young Charlie Dewar be here next season? Also i wouldn’t be against big Sam getting loaned to the championship.

Tangy · 15/6/2026 9:37 am

Guess as well that sevelj and ageing are dms as opposed to centre backs and might be able to do a job but then it would hurt us in midiflef.... leaves us with

Graham
Forbes
Iovu

Bert (maybe off)

2 young lads who need football.

Agree with whoever said we still need a big jo nonsense, experienced cb. Whether we could have 5 near starting cos, I dont know.

I do think we are going to see more players go out which would increase what we need

Morphman · 15/6/2026 10:24 am

Macho Man wrote:
I feel too much onus is being put on the 'player trading' model and not enough attention is being paid to the must have element of the team, if we want to have a go at winning a cup or getting European football.

Agree with this. I'm not a total dinosaur that is against a bit of data and analytic driven recruitment but I do think when you use that approach you lose a lot of other things. Mentality just isn't something that you can quantify, the quintessential scottish football questions such as: will they go in to a 50/50 against Gogic on a freezing Wednesday night when it's pishing doon in Paisley? Will their bottle go in big matches? Do they have a winning mentality (how many points did we throw away from winning positions last year)?

Many of these sorts of questions you can at least have a decent idea of when you sign a 29 year old who's played 300 games, less so signing a West Ham youth player and a boy with 40 appearances for Dunfermline. Like you've said, the difference is the 29 year old probably can't be sold on for a few quid.

JerryDungle · 15/6/2026 10:29 am

Tek wrote:
JerryDungle wrote:
Apparently we’re also looking at Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen as well. That’s a risk for me, if we go with two young centre halves given we lacked experience and leadership at the back last season.
He is rapid though, as is Forbes apparently, so maybe he’s looking to play with a higher line next season.
Surely we don't sign both.

Even allowing for Esselink departing that would still leave us with

Iovu
Graham
Forbes
Cleall-Harding
Sevelj
Agyei
Dewar

Who could all play CH if needed too.

We desperately need wingers and Strikers.

I think we definitely need another right sided centre half. Esselink will be away, Sevelj is only for emergencies, and SCH won’t be first choice, so for me he needs to go on loan for the season to Championship and playe every week.

JerryDungle · 15/6/2026 11:51 am

Ethan Sutherland, a LWB from Wolves linked. Hearts also want him on a permanent but we can only afford a loan

redford_must_score · 16/6/2026 12:08 pm

Michael Forbes signs. Official.

RogerTheAlien · 16/6/2026 2:29 pm

redford_must_score wrote:
Michael Forbes signs. Official.

2 year deal with an option of a 3rd.

Macho Man · 16/6/2026 2:31 pm

The article in the Courier confirming this story is still linking us with the Belarussian striker German Barkovskiy (23), the Swedish Midfielder Hugo Ahl (24) and the Hungarian lad Bence Babos (22).

All could be exciting prospects, but like Forbes, all with limited first team experience and not exactly the type of players that you would want to form the spine of a team with, at face value.

We definitely need blood and snotters type players to add grit and dig to the team, especially at the back.

Why are all of Goodwins signings reported as being players that we've been looking at for a while?

Tek · 17/6/2026 11:41 pm

Tek wrote:
RogerTheAlien wrote:
A foreign twitter football page is saying we’re after Swedish midfielder Hugo Ahl, 24 years old who scored 11 goals and got 4 assists in Slovakia’s top flight last season.
Transfermrkt has him playing mostly right midfield/right wing.

Not sure how good or bad the Slovakian top flight is, but he looks good.

Great left foot on him.

The one potential Summer signing who really excited me.

Signs for Jablonec in Czechoslavakia.

Stillliving · 18/6/2026 7:46 am

Tek wrote:
Tek wrote:
RogerTheAlien wrote:
A foreign twitter football page is saying we’re after Swedish midfielder Hugo Ahl, 24 years old who scored 11 goals and got 4 assists in Slovakia’s top flight last season.
Transfermrkt has him playing mostly right midfield/right wing.

Not sure how good or bad the Slovakian top flight is, but he looks good.

Great left foot on him.

The one potential Summer signing who really excited me.

Signs for Jablonec in Czechoslavakia.

Sometimes it’s difficult to work out if your just being controversial to try and get a lot of traffic on the site or your just one of the most miserable and negative UTD fans there is.

Arabdownsouth · 18/6/2026 8:17 am

Stillliving wrote:
Tek wrote:
Tek wrote:

Transfermrkt has him playing mostly right midfield/right wing.

Not sure how good or bad the Slovakian top flight is, but he looks good.

Great left foot on him.

The one potential Summer signing who really excited me.

Signs for Jablonec in Czechoslavakia.

Sometimes it’s difficult to work out if your just being controversial to try and get a lot of traffic on the site or your just one of the most miserable and negative UTD fans there is.

I take it you've never been on EF then?

JerryDungle · 18/6/2026 1:42 pm

Not much of a surprise, but Eskesen must be on his way out, his squad number’s been given to Dylan Tait.

Tek · 18/6/2026 5:07 pm

Stillliving wrote:
Tek wrote:
Tek wrote:

Transfermrkt has him playing mostly right midfield/right wing.

Not sure how good or bad the Slovakian top flight is, but he looks good.

Great left foot on him.

The one potential Summer signing who really excited me.

Signs for Jablonec in Czechoslavakia.

Sometimes it’s difficult to work out if your just being controversial to try and get a lot of traffic on the site or your just one of the most miserable and negative UTD fans there is.

Because I say I'm disappointed we didn't sign an exciting looking prospect? 🤔

I'll leave you to work out the big mystery that is I.🥱

RogerTheAlien · 19/6/2026 9:03 pm

Ross Sinclair signing a new deal at Perth saints so he won’t be heading to us, not that we were absolutely desperate for a back up keeper.

SuperMario · 20/6/2026 10:41 am

Not seen any pics of sapsford 🧐

Shedtastic · 20/6/2026 12:56 pm

SuperMario wrote:
Not seen any pics of sapsford 🧐

Or Agyei.

David_Blunkett · 20/6/2026 1:18 pm

I suspect Sapsford might've been given an extra week or so off, talk last season from him and the club that we has knackered having hardly had a break and stepped up a level.

dufc5 · 20/6/2026 2:56 pm

Shedtastic wrote:
SuperMario wrote:
Not seen any pics of sapsford 🧐
Or Agyei.

He’ll be given an extra week as he was away on international duty after season finished.

lifesanocean · 20/6/2026 3:50 pm

Would imagine Nammo got some extra time off too.

MockChop · 20/6/2026 9:49 pm

experienced CH please, even just a rumour.