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8 minutes ago, stumigoo said:
Someone had mentioned to me on Twitter that the players won't actually be wearing the new top before the Hearts game on the 12th of July so it might be that we are wearing training gear in the pre-season friendlies. Might still have a bit longer to wait for that elusive new kit.....
Must be waiting until the shop is fully finished and stocked.
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@stumigoo saw this on another forum and, to be fair, might be another reason why Ashgar has commented on it, Shanklands agent trying the get a higher profile club speaks to journalist and gives him story. Sun contact United and ask for comment. Sun tell United they are printing story anyway. Ashgar gives comment knowing they'll print what he says allowing a bit of control.
I suppose it does give him a bit of PR for the club as you say showing the fans that we are being serious, also gives Shankland's agent the column inches he was looking for for his client and gets pressure publicly placed in other interested parties.
Either way we all have something to talk about.
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10 hours ago, RawB93 said:
Your point? I know it was written while tired but...
I would like to think players would be on an incentive based wage with bonuses for
Winning the league (less for promotion through play off)
Trophies (unlikely but based on round reached)
Win bonus
Goals
So achievements will earn big rewards, not just a large wedge irrespective of effort.
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5 hours ago, Dele said:
Was there not rumours both Pawlett was on about £3k and Sow was on over that?
Not sure about that, but I'd question the sanity of anyone authorising that sort of wage in the Championship.
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I'd seriously doubt we'd be offering anything near £3000 a week. We did that sort of thing once & it all got messy. With bonuses, including promotion bonus be would get a fair whack but I doubt that a player who scores well at league 1 and1st half of Championship last season but failed miserably at Premiership level here would be paid close to that. Would imagine more like £1500 basic perweek but incentive based, so large bonuses for league win etc
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20 minutes ago, WATTOO said:
I heard Sunderland was more or less a done deal.
Was reading a bit about the current Sunderland situation last night. Seemingly withe take over and proposed changes, there may not be any signings made until thats all finalised, whenever that may happen.
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40 minutes ago, coppola said:
Can't believe social media has turned out to be populated by hyperbolic belters.
I assume you mean me by that. If not sorry misread you.
There have been posts here every other day about where are our signings.
There have been Twitter posts on United's tweets "we haven't even got strips yet".
Post on other forums,FB, Twitter etc. Complaining that we haven't signed at least a handful of players yet, but "team X,Y or Z have signed blah, blah, blah".
Patience, they are coming, we are.doing it right, trying to get the right attitude, not just ability. Our support is full of these "belters" though. We'll see what the following weeks bring.
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49 minutes ago, stewartyftd1 said:
Calm down eh. Would be good to get a wee bit excitement building. Thats the only point I was making.I am perfectly calm. No point building excitment for the sake of excitement.
A new season brings its own excitement,the unknown of how its going to go. We have preseason games coming up, then th BetFred.
It maybe because I'm older, and couldn't give two shits about the strip other than I hope it's not crap, maybe it's because I can't stand this cynical, all about the money, new strip every single year. Maybe its because I had the chance to grow up in an era that fans had more to judge teams by than how many players they signed irrespective of quality.
We started preseason today, our 1st competitive game is 18 days away, our first league game is 40 days away. The last 1 or 2 signings will come, we maybe having to wait on our 1st choices, better that than rush into a 2nd or 3rd choice as they could sign now.
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7 minutes ago, coppola said:
Slight overreaction to 1 (one) post moaning about a lack of signings.
Not just here. The Twitter comments and the idiots on Facebook are diabolical. There also have been comments over the last we while over no signings.
It was a general complaint, as a United fan I do not only see what is written here.
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Can't believe the negativity from our fans.
The constant "wheres a signing" comments are wearing thin. When did it become the norm that clubs must sign AND announce a bunch of players buy the 1st week in June or their peeing about? Bring back the days of 1988 when the ONLY pre season signings were Raphael Meade and Mio Krivocapic!
United will bring in 5 players (might be 4) we HAVE signed 3(Reynolds, Sporle and Smith).
This approach is to be welcomed, working quietly in the background to get the RIGHT players. No announcements until player signs.
Also the complaints of "FFS United we haven't got a strip and first game is days away". We do, just because WE haven't seen it doesn't mean United haven't got it. It will be announced in due course. I believe it was delayed due to the deal being delayed in being signed due to the new regime.
In other words, calm down, save.the coronary for the first time this season's boo boy misses a pass by 5mm.
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2 hours ago, PartyFears2 said:
What was it Neilson said at the Q&A at the end of last season?
We had agreed deals with 4 players? Something like that..Neilson had said he wanted 5 players, might be 4 might be 6. Ashgar said they had agreed deals with 4 players. Now that may have been Reynolds, Smith and Sporle an a.n. other.
Might be that that a player has rejected the deal without promotion or might be holding off to see if they can get higher level since we didn't get promoted, might be they are waiting on contract finishing or pre season starting to announce.
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1 hour ago, PartyFears2 said:
was the Reynolds - plastic thing not just this season while he fully recovered from the injury he suffered at Aberdeen?
I think a LW is almost essential, we can’t just go with Robson.Yes. It has been publicly said by United that he can play on plastic. Did he not play at QOS?
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1 hour ago, Daydream said:
That the Dark Blue pound right there. You’re welcome.Nah, think it's more the "Yankee Dollar" 😉
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Nice piece of positivity for the upcoming new season. Tele reporting over 3000 season tickets so far, up 15% on this time last year. Hopefully keep rising until the season starts.
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1 hour ago, captainkev said:
I'm assuming that this mini-clamour for signings is somewhat tongue-in-cheek; but if not, there's no need to be getting antsy about lack of signings right now imo.
We signed a basically a new squad over January, and while we didn't close the gap on County, we did more or less keep pace with them in the season's second half. We've also already had a player signed on pre-contract for next year.
The only major addition to my mind we need is a replacement for Safranko, but we should take our time over that and get the right player in.
It's not as if the other teams in the league have done all their business and we're the only team scrabbling around to catch up.
There is still plenty of time for us to get the signings we need in.
True, Robbie, as he said at the Q&A, is only looking for 5 players. We've got Liam Smith already and from reports Adrian Sporle. That leaves only another 3 to come in. If I remember rightly, they want the players in by the BetFred Cup so they are all ready to go.
Wouldn't surprise me if they are just waiting on players (Sporle) getting sorted back at home and over here before official announcement. Not at all worried (honest). Would just be nice having some news and something to stimulate some discussion, the withdrawal symptoms are kicking in
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tbf [mention=75119]CaspianChris[/mention] just said expect a couple of surprises tomorrow so I just stated something that would surprise me, I didn’t actually want to sign him.
Not a go at you, not all. I agree it would be a surprise. I saw earlier mention of him, and I've seen him mentioned a few times on Twitter. Every year for past 3 years ( to be fair probably longer) someone seems to be calling for him. He was here, he won the cup, he had his time, lets move on and move the club forward.
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1 hour ago, NEFarab said:
Goodwillie will forever be a cup winning hero.
A tarnished one at that though.
Every year we get the Goodwillie talk, "we should sign Goodie", "bring Goodie home" etc. I' d love it put to bed. He wasn't a success when he came back has found his form playing at a far lower level than us, in fact lower than players that are considered to not be able to make the step up. One rule for Goodie one one rule for others.
Also far,far,far to much baggage. The type of baggage I don't want at the club, and I really don't want to hear the moronic element of our suppprt giving it "He does what he wants"
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27 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:
Is that right? It was a further two months after United signed McDonald before Shankland found a club. It he genuinely had been of interest to United (a team looking to challenge for/win the Championship) would he not have found another club more easily after United dropped their interest?I
I had assumed the truth was that Shankland's stock was pretty low after failing at Aberdeen before McCall decided to take a chance on him.
From what I understand he was at Tannadice with his dad at the time to sign. Willo's nagging at MacDonald had paid off and we got the OK from him. The choice was an internationalist who had played at a high level or the young kid with potential who had had a bad spell. So we pulled out. Probably everyone else would have done the same. If word had got round we had signed Shankland and knocked back MacDonald there would have been a lot of disquiet amongst the support and accusations of penny pinching at TBS.
For Shankland probably was the best thing to happen. Lower level, no pressure (less pressure) and allowed him to build his confidence back up and enjoy playing again.
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1 hour ago, Robbo63 said:
Latest I heard today was that it would be one of three teams
Portsmouth, Sunderland and Dundee United , heard he would be announced at new club before middle of next week , as last week / this week was away on holiday
Ok, of the 3 there I would imagine best chance of 1st team would be us. I would have thought both English teams would be paying more than we will.
Would also be surprised after what happened two years ago when he was at Tannadice to sign before we pulled it last minute for MacDonald.
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1 minute ago, Poet of the Macabre said:
Can you name a few keepers, playing at this level or higher, that are *not* good shot stoppers?
It's the bare minimum skill a keeper should have.
Hamilton of the fun?
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1 minute ago, Granny Danger said:
I’m a bit surprised by that post; it’s like I suggested that I wanted to keep Aird. I didn’t. I have no reason to believe his work rate or attitude will improve.
Mind you we shouldn’t forget the amount of assists he put in first half of the season. If we’re going to have “one trick ponies” they’re the sort of tricks I like.
Sorry GD was not directed at you was more replying to the last comment to the subject. Badly worded at the start of my reply. I agree with your sentiments in the original quoted post.
I agree he had assists which were good, but where I'd disagree with you would be how many from open play? We can do without playing with 10 men hoping to get a free kick or a corner and hope the guy running about avoiding the ball puts i a good ball.
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19 minutes ago, CaspianChris said:
Someone is a bit late for an April Fools day joke. No chance in hell of this happening.
Thought he was off to Swansea, alledgedly all agreed prior to end of season
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1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:
Aye but the difference is that (at least in theory) it’s easier for Aird to stop being a lazy, disinterested b*****d than it is for McMullan to develop Aird’s footballing skills.
Sorry but I'd be happier if Aird was released. Couldn't give a shit if he can cross a ball or take a free kick as that is not what being a footballer or a team player is about, thats being a "one trick show pony"
He does absolutely nothing other than freekicks or corners. I have never seen a player run away from where he should be or where the ball may go as much as Aird ( to do it once is criminal, continually well....). And thats before you bring his attitude into it.
McMullan, for all the criticism I've sent his way and it has been a lot, appears to be attempting to fix that. Working hard in the pitch going past players and adding goals towards end of season. Is he perfect? No, his crossing, getting better, needs work but he gives opposition defences something to think about.
McMullan's attitude I have questioned especially during Laszlo's reign as it was shocking. Irrespective of whether you like your boss or not you at least try. That seems to have improved massively along with his general play and that has caused me, much to my surprise, to be happy with his extension.
Aird? Tell me where to drop him off and I'll drive him free of charge myself, as long as its not Tannadice or St Andrews
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4 hours ago, Big Shedboy said:
We can't go into next season hoping that the keeper might be ok. We need a proven, experienced keeper as No.1 Seigrist can play the Betfred group and challenge games.
I' m bot hoping he'll be OK, I'm looking at him and thinking he'll do fine. Criticism is over the top. As the defence has got more "predictable" and more likely to defend properly, he hasn't seen the need try and guess what the hell those in front will do and as such has been more confident in his position.
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Dundee United 2019/2020
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Don't know if anyone has heard any of this, but saw this from a poster on another forum...
"...we are the only club with a concrete offer to Shankland.
there is an offer in for Craig Conway.
second / third hand info that we are interested in Kyle Lafferty.
and Neilson would like Harry Cochrane in (likely a loan)."
If true that could be good regards Shankland, Conway, although 34, is still decent & was offered a contract at Blackburn. He rejected it to play more regularly, has highly thought of there, so could be a goo addition both on and off the field.
Lafferty seems to be less unlikeable than he used to be. Played well for Hearts, but thought the way he left was a bit poor to be honest. Could be decent in Championship but he would have to have a good start as I don't think he'd get much leeway off the support.
Cochrane is an interesting one. We were rumoured to be after him in January too. Seems a good player, has played well in Premiership, but will he continue to get games in Levien's massive squad or would a season with us be of more use in his progression?