OrangeRab

I’m a fan of spending big on players you’ve had on loan before and are confident of their ability. Even if it’s a slight premium. Spending 5-6 million guys like Tillman and Sima is higher odds of success than gambling similar funds on Dessers, Danilo, Lammers, Davies. If we have about 15 million a year to spend on transfers And you get 3 young starting quality players for it. Then you’ve built a young quality team in 3 years with plenty of sell on value. And you supplement that with a bit of experience, youth, loans and tactical free/cheap transfers. Rather than spending the same money on 7 gambles and 3 work out. Especially if they’re an older profile and you can’t move them on easily. You end up with a bloated squad of average players with no sell on value

Watched the highlights of the sheep game. If Tav was even half as bad as Taylor and Johnston were you’d hear about it on here for months. Taylor goes for a wander for the Scales penalty claim. The second and third goals are wide crosses where Johnston is out of position and doesn’t get close to blocking the cross. Taylor gets beat at the back post for two tap in headers. The ridiculous penalty that wasn’t given comes from Johnston missing a header. And they were sliced open a few times more down the channels. And neither come close to offering what Tav does offensively.

Interesting Clement acknowledging the fatigue in Goldson. 100% the right decision to play Balogun. Freshened things up and did well. Midfield balance better with Diomande. Lundstrum still doesn’t look at his best but did well for the second goal and looks better alongside an actual CM. Cantwell very good. Tav not getting forward as much but sets up the first and has a great goal line clearance and a clean sheet. Can’t afford Sima to be injured. Silva and McCausland won’t do it for us

Huge difference having an actual centre mid instead of Lawrence or Dowell in there. Massive blow having him out last few games

If you focus on only upgrading the guys not contributing then you have more money to spend on recruitment per player. Even if Tav etc are 10k a week more. That’s still going to be eclipsed by the costs of acquiring their replacements even if they’re on lower wages. And celtic are a terrible example. They’ve spent 10s of millions on a huge number of players. Again their hit rate is about 1 in 3. If we had a 50million kitty. We could finance an entire rebuild

Who said replace deadwood with squad players? We’re 3 points behind. If we’d had 3-4 starting quality players instead of Dowell, Roofe, Jack, Wright that could easily be enough to improve us to win the title. Especially if he’s able to rotate more and we have more luck with injuries. I think he’ll look at it like that. Rather than doing an entire first team overhaul and gambling on signing 7-8 players who all need to be starting quality. My money is Clement will want all 3 to be here next season. Let’s see though.

Because it’s a numbers game. Everyone makes the assumption that when we replace a player the replacement will automatically be better. When in reality our hit rate is about 1 Sima in 3. If every transfer was a Sima then sure. I can think of 7 starters I’d happily move on tomorrow. But it’s not realistic with our budget. So instead of focusing on getting rid of guys who start and contribute. I think Clement will focus on moving on the deadwood who aren’t good enough, aren’t fit enough or are injury prone.

100%. Think folk really overestimate how easy it is to sign 7-8 starters on a small budget. We spent 15 million on 8 transfers in the Summer. 3 are good enough to start. I can’t see us getting rid of Tav, Goldson and Lundstrum for nothing and trying to replace them on top of the positions that already need strengthened. We let Kent go and then have watched Wright and Silva combine on the wings for 2 g+a in 32 matches. Instead of the 10-15 Kent would have got which would see us comfortably top of the league. There’s players to move on like Jack, Roofe, Lawrence, Barasic, Dowell, Wright etc. who contribute nothing now. But I think Clement will view it that if he can supplement our best players with 4-5 quality young and athletic players then that’s the best shot of winning the league. Not getting rid of 2 players that made team of the season and trying to sign 7-8. Or at least it would be a big gamble.

Calling the player’s shitebags. Whilst being bigger shitebags themselves. Hoping Hearts go through to give celtic a better game is some mentality.. Team needs everyone behind them today.

Surely you see the irony here..

They’re going to drop points on the run in. They’re too exposed at the back. With Maeda out, their press is worse and with those two piss poor wingers they aren’t not going to blow teams away. Problem is we don’t look like we have enough to win in.

You’re saying he’s past it not me. I’m saying he was actually very good up until the last 5-6 matches. Because he’s been run into the ground.

Tbf I think as a club we’ve done terribly at moving on older players who are slowing down. Looking at how much younger the Sheep’s team was today than ours. It’s crap planning and squad management by us. But there’s one or two players in every team that are probably good enough that they’re worth keeping. And I think a better managed Tav is still a good player. But appreciate I’m in the minority on that one. Not reinventing the wheel here. Most clubs that compete in 4 competitions and go deep in them rotate their squad and key players. No need for him to be playing Dumbarton and Ayr Utd

Meanwhile McFadden is fumbling around trying to justify it wasn’t a penalty because of the Desser’s one (that wasn’t the same). Desperate to keep the conspiracy narrative going to ensure that everything goes celtic’s way.

Aye other than Miovski we should have higher quality players technically than all of them. But just shows you what a bit of youth and athleticism pressing can do over a bunch of crocked 30 year olds