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Mannus, Bain and Brill were all signed from diddy teams playing in diddy leagues. Neil Alexander was signed from The Best League in the World and is a Scottish international and UEFA Cup finalist.
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Nigerian football forum from last summer: http://forum.cybereagles.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=250073&hilit=Oshaniwa
Some highlights:
"today he shoved pies down some folks throat again"
"Oshaniwa has never put a foot wrong in any of the matches he has featured. Only opaks yarners who don't know much about the game that said he was poor against the USA."
"He's actually very educated and well-spoken but he has the look of a real agbero."
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I've never seen him play but Brian Easton would walk into the team ahead of him IMO.
Actually I just realised I must have seen him play three or four times. Even though I don't really remember the games and wasn't paying particular attention to him this definitely qualifies me to make an authoritative judgement.
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I've never seen him play but Brian Easton would walk into the team ahead of him IMO.
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I'd imagine so. I'll still be surprised if we get him but there certainly seems to be substance to it.
Amusingly, his side actually got relegated from the Israeli Premier League last season after finishing mid-table the two seasons previous. Still, Celtic, Hull and Sheffield Wednesday have all shown an interest in him over the past six months so he'd certainly fit the bill for us if we managed to pull it off.
Is there? Genuine question.
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Gomis will be one of the first names on the team sheet I suspect, but I share most peoples' concerns over his ability when pressed and his indiscipline at times.
I'm unconvinced we need another body for centre back, unless Ozturk or Augustyn get a long-term injury early in the season, or Levein finds us a great deal. As I've said before, I'd rather the budget was used primarily for another left back and a midfielder before another centre back.
Agree about Gomis, although I think Buaben also has a tendency to dwell on the ball too long. He might be a better foil for Pallardo, although I wouldn't rule out Anderson (or El Hassnaoui for that matter) playing a bigger role than expected.
Hasn't Augustyn done both his knees in the past? He's certainly had a history of injuries anyway. If he gets injured in September then we're left with Jordan McGhee as the only back-up with first team experience and he's not exactly proven at this level. He's probably first choice back-up to Paterson as well. I'd feel much safer if we had another body in there, wouldn't have to be a world-beater.
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Wouldn't say he looks like an "absolute player" based on that, a few nice finishes and bits of skill aside. There are also some bits where he looks quite cumbersome. Still, looks like he could do a job.
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Letting Eckersley go seemed like a strange one so it'll be interesting to see what Neilson has in mind.
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Juanma has officially signed: http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/news/4397
How do people think we're going to line up this season? Neilson seemed keen on using Sow out wide towards the end fo the season with Zeefuik through the middle so I suspect that's the way we'll go with Juanma instead of Zeefuik. I'm not sure that Sow's not wasted out wide but I can see the logic behind it.
Alexander
Paterson Ozturk Augustyn McHattie
Pallardo Gomis
King Walker Sow
Juanma
Subs: Hamilton, McGhee, Smith, Buaben, Nicholson, El Hassnaoui, Reilly.
We'll probably sign a left back to play ahead of McHattie and we need more cover at centre-back. Gomis was excellent for us last year but he struggled sometimes when teams pressed him, so based on that and his last season at Dundee United I wouldn't be too sure of his place in the team and I wouldn't mind if we signed another midfielder. I wouldn't be sure of King's place in the team either but aside from that I think it's pretty close.
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Doyle, you're better than lifting posts word for word from kickback.
He's been doing it for ages. A bit odd.
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Hopefully our new signings are just as pap.
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Will you lot never learn? You've seen Sow and Ozturk in a couple of friendly games and now they're "exceptional" signings? Just like you thought Ngoo was and every one of your new signings or youngsters that have played a couple of good games.
My money's on them being pap.
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^^^ idiot found.
2001 - Hibernian
2002 - Livingston
2003 - Hearts
2004 - Hearts
2005 - Hibernian
Hard lines, champ.
So we finished 5th, 3rd and 3rd in Levein's three full seasons at Hearts, which is exactly what he said.
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Yup - either he has really come on leaps and bounds over the past season (not entirely impossible tbf - think Greg Stewart) or.... whisper it..... the standard of last seasons Championship was lower than the season before consequently making him appear a better player.
That's pretty much unheard of for a young player.
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Anyway, here's Juanma scoring a delightful chip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDC3rg0bQc&feature=youtu.be
I expect he'll be doing this every other week.
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Robbie Neilson describes your new boy as being '6'2, strong and a real aerial threat'.
So, he's a foreign, more expensive, less prolific and less handsome version of John Sutton?
Ooft.
Unless he has severe arthritis then he should be more mobile than Sutton at the very least.
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Keatings is clever in the runs he makes and how he drags defenders out of position but I don't think he's particularly intelligent on the ball. He always seemed trigger happy to me - not necessarily a bad thing but he was hardly making defence splitting passes every week.
Carrick is far more cute a player. Some of his flick ons are majestic. He'll be brilliant up front with Sow if they can stay fit and develop an understanding.
Amazing how people see things differently. Still think you were wrong
I agree with you. Keatings is a good player for the Championship and he'll be good for about 15 goals if he's a regular starter. He's very good at getting into goalscoring positions and he's capable of finishing well, though he often needs 2/3 chances to score. Intelligent on the ball, though? I wouldn't say so. We were at our poorest this season when he was on his own up front. That's not his fault and he chipped in with a few goals at that time, but he's far more of a poacher than an all-round striker.
By contrast, Carrick did very well on his own up front in this division above in a pretty shite team. Once he'd bulked up he'd shown himself to be quite effective at holding the ball up as well having a decent scoring rate. He's barely featured this season so it's hard to tell whether that was just a purple patch/whether the injuries have affected his game but if I had to pick then I'd say Carrick is more likely to become an effective striker in the top league.
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Jamie MacDonald has always been prone to exactly that type of mistake.
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I thought the big clubs of Edinburgh and Dundee had a special relationship with one another?
I really hope not. How many children have Dundee United saved? Not very many, I'll bet.
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It must really stick in the craw for Hibs fans that, not only did they end up getting relegated in humiliating fashion before we walked the league ahead of them, but we're also now the most morally righteous club in Scotland as well as the best-run.
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Then again, he was - at times - a useful player at his first season at Groningen, although he never was a 'big' goal scorer. He got 7 goals from a total of 42 Groningen appearances. He mostly was of use as the target man in the passing game (hard to translate to English), which I think is a rather typical Dutch style of play and I wonder what he has to bring to table in that respect in Scotland.
The Scottish game in general is more physical challenging than the Dutch (not sure if that also goes for the Championship though), and although it seems he has a lot of physique, I doubt it will be the right kind.
We don't particularly need a goalscorer but we do really need someone who can hold the ball up to get us playing further up the pitch and bring our other attackers into play. If he can do that for us then he'll bring plenty to the table.
I'm not sure if this is what you're alluding to, but launching balls at head height is not generally part of our game plan (unless we've run out of ideas). None of our other strikers can jump anyway so it wouldn't be a particularly fruitful tactic.
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We have signed former PSV and Groningen striker Genero Zeefuik.
Ooft.
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Apparently we're signing Billy Sharp on loan in the most made-up sounding transfer rumour ever.
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Heart of Midlothian 2014-
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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I forgot to mention the Kirin Cup. Neil Alexander has also won the Kirin Cup.