Tekel Towers » Defender on trial

Tangerine_Ultra · 08/7/2015 10:16 am

According to The Courier we have a defender lined up to come on trial to The Netherlands.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/football/dundee-united/deal-right-for-both-dundee-united-and-nadir-ciftci-says-boss-jackie-mcnamara-1.888664

Morphman · 08/7/2015 10:25 am

Jackie said last night on Azone that he we had the Italian boy on trial and were looking to add another defender. If there is a defender meeting us in Holland wonder what the chances are its one of Van Hooijdonks men.

Tangerine_Ultra · 08/7/2015 11:00 am

the trialist last night was decent. Would like to see him more of him.

Billy_Hainey · 08/7/2015 1:59 pm

Must be wanting to play for Smeltic.

Nin Hugen · 09/7/2015 2:55 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll_Donaldson

Apparently this is the defender thats off to Holland with the squad.

Tangerine_Ultra · 09/7/2015 2:58 pm

Nin Hugen wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll_Donaldson

Apparently this is the defender thats off to Holland with the squad.

wow a 20 year old defender.. shock. Although looked like he was highly rated when he was younger.

SGMilne · 09/7/2015 3:22 pm

It's inevitable that whoever we sign to provide depth and cover for the defence will be a young guy. But he has some experience.

arabugsy · 09/7/2015 8:54 pm

May need him, Cal Morris not fit for the trip.

Hope it's not a thigh injury or it could be the new Bilate hammy.

Pates not travelled either, some will be gutted.

GF80 · 09/7/2015 9:15 pm

Spoke to a guy I know from the Livi management team earlier, seems to rate him pretty highly.

GUNBOAT · 09/7/2015 9:52 pm

I would have thought with over 9 million pounds accrued through transfers in one year we should be in a position to sign some of the best out of contract players in this country.Its hard to take watching smaller clubs like Ross County and Dundee Fc signing loads of players and all we have done is sign 1 and take on a couple of trialists.

09/7/2015 10:06 pm

GUNBOAT wrote:
I would have thought with over 9 million pounds accrued through transfers in one year we should be in a position to sign some of the best out of contract players in this country.Its hard to take watching smaller clubs like Ross County and Dundee Fc signing loads of players and all we have done is sign 1 and take on a couple of trialists.

Assume the "one year" is a typo?

It's probably £8m in the last four/five years which unsurprisingly hasn't cleared the £10m loan debt we started the decade with.

Still if your keen on Ross County's signings maybe they could fork out some of the Ciftci fee and get Brian Graham back

GUNBOAT · 09/7/2015 10:57 pm

scarpia wrote:
GUNBOAT wrote:
I would have thought with over 9 million pounds accrued through transfers in one year we should be in a position to sign some of the best out of contract players in this country.Its hard to take watching smaller clubs like Ross County and Dundee Fc signing loads of players and all we have done is sign 1 and take on a couple of trialists.

Assume the "one year" is a typo?

It's probably £8m in the last four/five years which unsurprisingly hasn't cleared the £10m loan debt we started the decade with.

Still if your keen on Ross County's signings maybe they could fork out some of the Ciftci fee and get Brian Graham back

Its it just a bad dream or am i back on Mad?.Ross County have strengthened IMO and we are weaker by far and the last time i remember us playing them at Tannadice they played us off the park.

09/7/2015 11:04 pm

GUNBOAT wrote:
scarpia wrote:
GUNBOAT wrote:
I would have thought with over 9 million pounds accrued through transfers in one year we should be in a position to sign some of the best out of contract players in this country.Its hard to take watching smaller clubs like Ross County and Dundee Fc signing loads of players and all we have done is sign 1 and take on a couple of trialists.

Assume the "one year" is a typo?

It's probably £8m in the last four/five years which unsurprisingly hasn't cleared the £10m loan debt we started the decade with.

Still if your keen on Ross County's signings maybe they could fork out some of the Ciftci fee and get Brian Graham back
Its it just a bad dream or am i back on Mad?.Ross County have strengthened IMO and we are weaker by far and the last time i remember us playing them at Tannadice they played us off the park.

Just pulling your chain a wee bit with the Brian Graham thing - I was at the county match and yeah it was a pretty horrible afternoon and we were well beat.

More concerned with the transfer income bit of what you said (and have been banging on a bit on here on that topic so apologies to anyone who thinks the needles got stuck).

No probs with anyone criticising the board but it doesn't help when wildly inaccurate figures regarding transfer income and debt are being bandied about - especially as accurate info on the subject is available online.

Waffelz · 09/7/2015 11:29 pm

arabugsy wrote:
May need him, Cal Morris not fit for the trip.

Hope it's not a thigh injury or it could be the new Bilate hammy.

Pates not travelled either, some will be gutted.

That's a real shame regrading Pates ®

Tek · 09/7/2015 11:30 pm

Back on topic,here's a wee video interview of Harry Redknapp talking briefly about him (Donaldson) after he signed him for QPR last year.

(About 1 minute in)

GUNBOAT · 09/7/2015 11:32 pm

How wildy inaccurate is this then?,Dundee United have made more money in the transfer market than every other club in Scotland put together in the past year bar Celtic?.Since the season's end we have now lost 11 players brought in 1 and a couple of boys on trial.

Trap_6 · 09/7/2015 11:32 pm

scarpia wrote:
GUNBOAT wrote:
scarpia wrote:

Assume the "one year" is a typo?

It's probably £8m in the last four/five years which unsurprisingly hasn't cleared the £10m loan debt we started the decade with.

Still if your keen on Ross County's signings maybe they could fork out some of the Ciftci fee and get Brian Graham back
Its it just a bad dream or am i back on Mad?.Ross County have strengthened IMO and we are weaker by far and the last time i remember us playing them at Tannadice they played us off the park.

Just pulling your chain a wee bit with the Brian Graham thing - I was at the county match and yeah it was a pretty horrible afternoon and we were well beat.

More concerned with the transfer income bit of what you said (and have been banging on a bit on here on that topic so apologies to anyone who thinks the needles got stuck).

No probs with anyone criticising the board but it doesn't help when wildly inaccurate figures regarding transfer income and debt are being bandied about - especially as accurate info on the subject is available online.

Scarpia, you're doing a sterling job cutting through the myth and misinformation.

Keep it up!

09/7/2015 11:44 pm

GUNBOAT wrote:
How wildy inaccurate is this then?,Dundee United have made more money in the transfer market than every other club in Scotland put together in the past year bar Celtic?.Since the season's end we have now lost 11 players brought in 1 and a couple of boys on trial.

Gunboat, don't get me wrong, we need to get players in and there are areas of the side where we do need more experience, no argument from me there.

We'd be going well o/t on this thread though if we get into a back and forth on the finance though - hope to put something up on the transfer/debt thing shortly and no probe continuing discussion there or on a more appropriate thread.

Tek · 09/7/2015 11:53 pm

scarpia wrote:
We'd be going well o/t on this thread though if we get into a back and forth on the finance though - hope to put something up on the transfer/debt thing shortly and no probe continuing discussion there or on a more appropriate thread.

Good man.

Let's try and keep this thread just on the trialist please gents

Scarpia has a seperate thread were he has attempted to shed some light on the transfer income/s.

arabugsy · 10/7/2015 1:40 am

Waffelz wrote:
arabugsy wrote:
May need him, Cal Morris not fit for the trip.

Hope it's not a thigh injury or it could be the new Bilate hammy.

Pates not travelled either, some will be gutted.

That's a real shame regrading Pates ®

Expected more, despite the copywrite?

Waffelz · 10/7/2015 12:22 pm

Pates and Ranks are copywrited terms.

Tek · 10/7/2015 2:25 pm

Just this morning it's been announced Coll Donaldson's QPR contract has been ripped up by 'mutual consent'.

Looks very likely this could pave the way for him signing for Utd (assuming he shows up well in Holland).

arabugsy · 13/7/2015 1:33 pm

arabugsy wrote:
May need him, Cal Morris not fit for the trip.

Hope it's not a thigh injury or it could be the new Bilate hammy.

Pates not travelled either, some will be gutted.

Confirmed it's thigh, so Coll can step into the breach.

13/7/2015 8:41 pm

scarpia wrote:
GUNBOAT wrote:
scarpia wrote:

Assume the "one year" is a typo?

It's probably £8m in the last four/five years which unsurprisingly hasn't cleared the £10m loan debt we started the decade with.

Still if your keen on Ross County's signings maybe they could fork out some of the Ciftci fee and get Brian Graham back
Its it just a bad dream or am i back on Mad?.Ross County have strengthened IMO and we are weaker by far and the last time i remember us playing them at Tannadice they played us off the park.

Just pulling your chain a wee bit with the Brian Graham thing - I was at the county match and yeah it was a pretty horrible afternoon and we were well beat.

More concerned with the transfer income bit of what you said (and have been banging on a bit on here on that topic so apologies to anyone who thinks the needles got stuck).

No probs with anyone criticising the board but it doesn't help when wildly inaccurate figures regarding transfer income and debt are being bandied about - especially as accurate info on the subject is available online.

Ot but thread has died off and I need to correct something I said above.

I quoted a debt figure of £10m - this is wildly wrong and the correct figure at max is £6.5m.

Doubly embarrassing as I then went on to pontificate about the need for accuracy.

So a general apology to all and a personal one to Gunboat.